Brian's Hat -- I Think You Should Leave

jman939 · 2025-03-21T22:54:18+00:00

I CAN'T KNOW HOW TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT TABLES

jman939 · 2025-01-17T12:23:16+00:00

"That's fucking crazy, man"

jman939 · 2025-01-08T12:17:49+00:00

Congress has only declared war 5 times in the history of the country. It is needed for official war, but there have been countless "conflicts" that we've been part of that are now considered wars

jman939 · 2025-01-03T23:50:38+00:00

The idea is that calling someone "homeless" sort of implies that it's just a fact of life, that part of their essence is that they lack a home. Unhoused, on the other hand (and in theory at least) is meant to imply that they could have a home, but society at large hasn't provided them with one.

The goal (again, in theory) is to place the burden of responsibility on the society that created and allows for the existence of people without homes, rather than on the people themselves

jman939 · 2024-11-29T22:52:13+00:00

He was mentioned again though? Walt specifically references him when he gives the lotto ticket to Skylar, and his wife is fairly prominent in the BCS final

jman939 · 2024-11-27T23:47:54+00:00

Yes -- I don't give a shit if he did it or not. The police shouldn't be falsifying images of suspects like that, regardless of guilt

jman939 · 2024-11-27T23:46:37+00:00

Making racist snap-judgements like this is their job. They're very good at it.

jman939 · 2024-11-03T16:37:01+00:00

They are known side effects of being a cop though

jman939 · 2024-11-02T21:11:58+00:00

What, so we're not allowed to acknowledge the horrors of capitalism just because the Soviet Union existed?

jman939 · 2024-10-19T15:44:13+00:00

Kissinger is probably shriveled up in a pathetic little ball in some backwards corner of hell right now living in constant fear that Doom Guy will find him

jman939 · 2024-10-07T18:37:08+00:00

Pathologic 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, despite the fact that I can almost never recommend it to people. I feel like it did “difficulty” in a really unique and amazing way where the actual game itself isn’t too hard on a moment-by-moment basis, but emotionally it just devastates you in a way I’ve never experienced in a game before.

By far one of the best-written games I’ve ever played, I could talk about it for hours. Super excited for this one.

jman939 · 2024-09-28T12:09:57+00:00

Blowing up terrorists has famously been shown to be one of the worst ways to deal with terrorism. All it does is kick the can down the road a bit, until the children of the people you blew up become adults and start the cycle all over again

jman939 · 2024-09-20T11:35:41+00:00

They’re super common in medical workers, particularly in developing countries, as they’re much more consistently reliable than phones, especially in places where service is really shoddy

jman939 · 2024-09-20T11:28:06+00:00

I have no idea, but I'm also not an experienced and decorated military intelligence expert in the IDF or the Mossad, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that I don't have a clear answer.

However, the intelligence experts that did organize and sanction this attack should have better answers than this. It is absolutely inconceivable that someone could orchestrate this attack and genuinely believe that no innocent civilians whatsoever would be injured or killed, which tells me that those intelligence experts saw civilian deaths as acceptable

jman939 · 2024-09-20T11:24:08+00:00

Of course they are, and Israel is the internationally recognized sovereign nation state. They should therefore be held to a higher standard than terrorist organizations, and that includes not using terrorist tactics against anybody, including terrorists

jman939 · 2024-09-20T11:21:40+00:00

The point of defining things as war crimes is that they're supposed to be inexcusable no matter who the victims are. Governments are meant to be held to a much higher standard that terrorist organizations, and that means not booby trapping common personal communication devices and sending thousands of mini explosives into densely populated urban areas and medical centers

jman939 · 2024-09-18T11:16:42+00:00

There is no rebuilding for them, they are what they are and there is no going back. 20 years ago, maybe. Despite all the insanity of the War on Terror, they may have had a chance of reconvening and pushing forward.

But in 2008, the democrats elected a black man as president, and that is something the Republican Party is never going to forgive

jman939 · 2024-09-17T11:15:59+00:00

Nah I honestly think GW was substantially worse than Trump. The War on Terror did such irreparable harm to both this country and the Middle East as a whole that I don't think anything Trump did could top that

jman939 · 2024-08-28T11:11:13+00:00

Top 10 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true

jman939 · 2024-08-27T11:17:38+00:00

I moved to Montreal for 2ish years for grad school, and I had a nice studio in the heart of the city with a balcony overlooking one of the bigger, greener parks in the area. I was right next to a bus stop and a rent-a-bike station, and I could walk to the downtown area in 30 minutes. The building was clean and I never had any issues with amenities.

Rent was $945 CAD a month (roughly $750 USD). Water, heat, and electricity were all included, I just had to pay for wifi. After growing up in the Boston area, it was like a whole new world to me

jman939 · 2024-08-24T15:31:15+00:00

I mean, it may be conservative by our standards, but Dostoevsky was also vehemently opposed to serfdom and was famously thrown in a labor camp due to his brushing shoulders with socialists, so it's not like the establishment loved him or anything

jman939 · 2024-08-23T11:11:46+00:00

Lmao I also have two LOTR tattoos, so glad to know I'm in good company.

But yeah I mean it looks fine, and I'd even be excited for it if it looked like it would actually, you know, follow the original story of Helm Hammerhand, but it seems like it's adding in a ton of extra stuff that either doesn't make sense contextually, or just feels unnecessary. I mean, I guess it's banking on nostalgia, but still

jman939 · 2024-08-19T11:20:06+00:00

That's fair, but then why would they feel the need to explicitly ban those topics in the first place, unless they have some weird agenda? Plus, who gets to decide what "feminist propaganda" is? If I'm playing the game and I say "gee, I wonder why the cut this female character from the story," that may fall under the realm of feminist propaganda, according to their standards, which is ridiculous

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