Maybe they should check height? I can’t think of any way kids could fake that.

Fastest draw in the West

What did I say? “Can’t watch the whole thing right now…”

If it’s just “people used to drink alcohol,” people used to do lots of things, that doesn’t mean much.

Beangust.

Can’t watch the whole thing right now but I disagree with what I saw.

If we want to talk about ancient Eastern philosophy, the fifth precept in Buddhism specifically advises against intoxicating drinks and drugs. While plenty of Buddhists deviate from that in practice, I think they got it right as a general advisory.

People really love the idea of having a “shortcut” or “hack” to reaching a particular state of consciousness, but that kind of defeats the point. It’s cliche, but the journey is more important than the destination. Real personal development is not about reaching some special state of consciousness, it’s more about reflecting and being able to face yourself in the mirror, “warts and all,” and face your demons without turning away.

I drink alcohol sometimes. I happen to be a happy drunk, who can keep it in moderation. But it rubs me wrong when people try to promote some substance as a path to “enlightenment” or “spiritual fulfillment” or whatever. Like, do drugs, drink alcohol, whatever, have fun, but if you’re just having fun, be honest with yourself about that. Not everything you do has to have a moral component, and trying to add that to an activity reads as insecurity to me, and it’s better to face that insecurity rather than rationalizing it away. Like, I play video games, but you don’t see me trying to assign some kind of moral virtue to it.

Promoting alcohol as this “path to enlightenment” is also problematic because alcohol addiction is a real, observable thing. Is it worth causing harm to people who do have issues with it by promoting it? “Screw alcoholics, I need to reach an enlightenment!” is not how anything works.

I like the implication that “spirit” was deemed too complex for modern audiences, but “phenomenology” wasn’t.

Peak American.

Even that feels kinda optimistic to me.

“Goddamn antifa bucket brigades stealing all our water to try and trick us into thinking climate change is real! You know what’d really show them, putting in another golf course!”

At this point I expect that once we reach the point of water wars, acknowledging that climate change brought us there will be considered a capital offense tantamount to treason.

Hoisted on my own Picard

On it

We’re doing good work with that MrKaplan alt we all collectively manage, but if people start leaving .world we need to make sure we have our fake Zionist accounts in charge of whatever community they go to, so we can keep having those accounts abuse their power and turn people against Israel.

The takeover should be smooth sailing, but the one thing that could foil our plots would be if they started purging all the Zionist accounts (which we secretly control). Just imagine the look on Putin’s face if we had to report to him that Zionist accounts were getting banned across the fediverse. He’d probably shut down Hexbear and then balkanize Russia out of shame.

That’s it, I’m declaring force majeure on force majeure.

Save scumming until you activate your “special move ;)”

A defensive war would have it’s own problems because of the Confederacy’s organizational structure and ideology. Send a bunch of small, diversionary forces to go around the south setting things on fire (note that this strategy depends on Union commanders being willing to set things on fire) and wait for the governors to recall their armies to protect the plantations, and pretty soon there won’t be a central army to fight at all, and you can easily overwhelm strategic objectives and then pick the states off one by one. Are you telling me that the “states’ rights” people are going to sacrifice for the sake of a collective, centralized war effort? It’s a wonder they had any coordination to start with. And you can’t exactly do guerilla warfare when you’re fighting to keep a significant portion of the populace enslaved. That’s to say nothing of the north’s superior production capacity and the supply shortages in the south that only became worse the longer things went on.

The south was bound to lose any long term, defensive conflict because of those fundamentals, so imo it does make sense to try to end it quickly, even if it’s a longshot.

Joseph E Brown, governor of Georgia. They were their own worst enemies.

genetically-optimal breeding combinations

Playing Fire Emblem like

I prefer vodka on my socks.

You could’ve at least said they’re going to take the ships underwater.