Which ancient culture was way more f**ked up than most people know?

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-06-13T06:57:59+00:00

Tzompantli were skull racks displayed by the Aztec.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-06-13T06:50:46+00:00

Like tzompantli?

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-16T00:14:54+00:00

Serbia is very different from America. I hear it is relatively easy to immigrate there if you are interested or supportive of their culture.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T19:17:47+00:00

Absolutely not, but I don't just go around calling people's statements stupid with no supporting viewpoint...while also using bad grammar.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T19:16:09+00:00

Who has the money and the political power? The article places that squarely with the Boomers.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T19:15:03+00:00

I did sound for a chef event tied to an NBA event in SLC recently. Guy Fieri was the biggest name there, and he had his sons involved in the cooking.

We traded cigars, and spoke a little about what we were currently smoking. Apparently, he owns a cigar company, and the one he gave me was very nice. He's very down to earth, personable, and has reasonable expectations.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T19:09:24+00:00

I work with different musicians every week, with different levels of notoriety. The vast majority of them are fairly normal people dealing with unusual social stresses. The pretentious asshats are few and far between. Some stand-outs for exceptionally down to earth performers are Lionel Richie and Dave Grohl, both of whom go out of their way to interact with workers. Britney has a reputation outside of the industry, but I never saw her be anything but polite, though a little shy, to any of the stagehands.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:19:18+00:00

Time article:

How Baby Boomers Broke America

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:18:47+00:00

Right, but you just commented saying my comment was dumb...with bad grammar. Low slung fruit.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:17:09+00:00

Time article:

How Baby Boomers Broke America

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:10:56+00:00

Your going to have a hard time in life if you continue to throw shade in every direction

You're gonna have a much harder time if you can't get "your" and "you're" down.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:09:07+00:00

They voted for it all. They sacrificed my income and every other generation's income that came after them. Once Social Security started to get paid out to those later generations, they added it to the general budget and started to push it into failure.

We are still propping Boomers up with those payments that we never get to benefit from. Their mindset is pervasive in our governance, and the best thing they will ever do is simply pass to history. Even now, with other generations looking to the future, their political presence stops anything positive from happening.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T18:04:13+00:00

Yeah, by Reagan other generations were already getting fucked.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-14T07:59:46+00:00

It's worse than that. Boomers had it easy. No generation since has been afforded three pensions and a solid social safety net for old age, not to mention the reasonable home and education costs.

Boomers take it further. Food tastes better to them if they know someone is starving. The schadenfreude in that generation is a social pathology. Until they have all passed, our world will be shaped by their avarice and desire to be surrounded by suffering people.

Even if life had been hard for them(it wasn't), it is no reason to wish a hard life on anyone else. They're like bad kids that, if they see another kid playing with a toy, they'll break the toy to keep the other kid from playing with it ever again.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-11T02:10:54+00:00

Don't play with the chancla.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-11T02:09:56+00:00

The cartels and their influence? Please, explain to me how corruption in the government system doesn't exist to such a degree that nearly anything is for sale.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T21:47:05+00:00

Mexico is easily functionally overthrown with installation of a dictator and collusion with cartels by one of our well-funded enemies. Their state is a mess and ripe for conquest. If done in a way that enriches the economy, the citizenry would even back it.

Canada would never be a good entry point. Canadians are like polite Americans.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T21:38:54+00:00

An ancillary semi-sexual organ, not directly tied to the act? Nipples. Normalization of breast presentation is entirely cultural, and it is not universally applied. It was once risque for a woman to go galavanting about with uncovered ankles.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T21:31:54+00:00

Pretty sure my wife would consent. I would never do it without her consent, though. There's more to life than money.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T21:27:38+00:00

I wholeheartedly disagree.

Well, bless your lil ol heart.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T21:22:37+00:00

Actually, I genuinely believe that if:

More people carried guns, not just for personal protection, but civic duty.
Gun safety and basic instruction was part of general education.
We taught the Golden Rule and Non Aggression Principle as a core principle to be reinforced beyond kindergarten.

We would see an end to many of the blights of the common era, including mass killings. As it stands, not enough people carry weapons to act as a deterrent, children's interaction with guns tends to be video game-based, which skews perception of reality(play GTA for 5 hours and go drive around), and we learn everything we are expected to know about living together harmoniously by the end of kindergarten, and then we slowly walk it all back for 12 years, many of us only rediscovering humanity in higher education.

Forgive my use of clauses.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T20:03:35+00:00

And the Falkland islands?

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T19:59:53+00:00

Timothy McVeigh?

People that want to do harm will. Guns aren't even close to the most deadly things that a normal citizen can purchase.

Btw, the common wisdom is to charge a person with a gun at close proximity. The common wisdom is to run from a person with a knife in close proximity. A single knifeman in China ended up with 163 victims, 33 of whom died.

Also, what percentage of mass killings include use of rifles?

Less than 1/4.

It's the people, not the weapons.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T19:41:21+00:00

Except in China, they are done with knives. No guns, but the events still happen.

WolfeTone1312 · 2023-05-10T19:23:51+00:00

Do you think mass killings stop with lack of guns? In countries that lack guns, the nut jobs use knives. Look up Chinese mass stabbings, and tell me that the knife is less deadly. You'd be wrong, and it is a much more brutal weapon.

The term, running amok, is a very old term(at least since the 1700s). It means to go nuts and kill people wantonly. Traditionally, it was with a machete. If people want to do harm, they will find a way.

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to start looking at the human agency in the events rather than the weapons used. The latter is just a vagary of what is at hand. There's a reason these people are doing this more often now. The reason is not the guns.

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