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[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

How would you like to grow up with a mom who looks at your face every morning and sees an enemy

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The US military does things that seem ridiculous until you understand why. The "tactical Burger King" is kind of a modern version of the ice cream barges of World War II. The most obvious purpose is to boost morale, but it also has a profound psychological effect on the enemy.

The thing that makes the US military so formidable is not weapons, training, tactics, or discipline, but logistics. When it comes to just being able to get things to where they need to be, there is no military on Earth that comes anywhere close to matching the US.

When the enemy is starving and worried that they're going to run out of ammo, then they see the US can roll out a fully functional Burger King and have it up and running within 24 hours, that's extremely demoralizing. It tells them, "the Americans can afford to waste resources on trivial comforts. They're not worried about anything."

It's also terrifying. When the Burger King goes up, that signals the Americans intend to stay for a while. They're not worried about being chased out, and they're making themselves at home. After they've killed you, they're going back to base to enjoy air conditioning and milkshakes.

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The party of "empathy", "decent human beings", and "we just want you to have healthcare" reacts the Hotdiggedydemon announcing his plan to get euthanized.

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Having a low executive function inhibits your ability to respond to unexpected challenges, regulate emotions, and control impulses.

A person with a high IQ but low executive function is indistinguishable from an idiot in most real world scenarios.

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Maybe the reason you're having such a hard time writing your story after doing so much worldbuilding is you've started at the wrong end. You came up with a bunch of ideas that sound cool in isolation and hoped to stitch them into something cohesive afterward, but you've really just walled yourself in with a bunch of ideas that don't fit together as well as you think they do, and now, when you try to write a story, you find that whatever ideas you come up with are incompatible with your existing worldbuilding elements.

In John Truby's book The Anatomy of Story, he describes something he calls the designing principle. He does kind of a bad job explaining it in the book, but basically, it defines a set of parameters within which your plot, character arcs, and themes all intersect.

For example, a young bird must leave his parents' nest and fly south for the winter. It's an arduous journey which takes him to exotic locations where he experiences various dangers and hardships. But in doing so, he learns life lessons that prepare him to become a parent himself when he returns home in the spring, and the cycle of life continues.

The seasonal loop mirrors the cycle of the bird's maturation from childhood dependence, surviving the wild, and birthing the next generation. Each step in the bird's journey is a step in his maturation. The natural climax of the story is not reaching the south, but his return home where he passes down his lessons to his children.

Thus, the designing principle of this story is this: track a bird's passage into adulthood by mirroring their internal growth against the unforgiving natural rhythm of seasonal migration.

Here's another example: a corporate executive who never makes time for his family lives through an alien invasion. As the city burns and the stock market ceases to exist, he realizes that spreadsheets and quarterly reports don't matter, and what's truly important to him is getting back to his family, and he must survive the chaos to do so.

The destruction of civilization as we know it is the destruction of the executive's worldview. When money becomes worthless and modern conveniences cease to exist, the only thing that matters is human connection, and he is forced to confront this reality during his journey through the apocalyptic landscape.

The designing principle here is: tear down the artificial structures of society through a world-ending event to force an executive obsessed with money and status into a state of pure survival so he realizes his family is the only asset worth protecting.

Once you know what your story's designing principle is, you will have a clear direction for your plot, themes, and character arcs. Instead of trying to bend the plot, themes, and characters to fit the world you've created, the world is built around serving the designing principle.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Some recent quotes from leftists:

“I am Guatemalan before I am American.” - Delia Ramirez

“America is a fucking disgrace.” - Darializa Avila Chevalier

“America is a shithole built on slavery and genocide and rape and oppression.” - Rashida Tlaib

- “I am ashamed of the U.S. Goddamn states.” - Ilhan Omar

“America deserved 9-11, dude. Fuck it. I’m saying it.” - Hasan Piker

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

No one believes this lie, least of all your own side.

[Kane @E33018140]

@iShowShitpost When my friend is under threat from a hypergamous foid so I snap her neck to save him

[Umamusume: Pretty Derby @umamusume_eng]

It is with heavy hearts that we share that Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi passed away on August 2.

The legendary racehorse's legacy serves as the inspiration for the character of the same name in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

We share our condolences to all the staff involved in Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi's care.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

The idea that all of the world's problems can be solved by simply throwing (other people's) money at them obfuscates the real causes and ensures those problems will never be solved.

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When they tell you who they are, believe them.

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About 30–42% of domestic violence victims in the Western world are men and boys. Domestic violence against males is severely underreported, and they don't have domestic violence shelters not because they don't need them, but because feminists have actively worked against, and have spent decades spreading false narratives about the nature of domestic violence. For example, you probably didn't know that more than 70% of all non-reciprocated intimate partner violence is committed by women, or that lesbians experience domestic violence at rates far higher than heterosexual women while gay men experience the least.

[Alyx @Alyxhoppe]

socialist be like: i hate monopolies

also socialists:

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The client was thinking in terms of, "The second one caught my attention, and that means it will also catch the attention of the people I want to see it."

Such is the power of ugliness.

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It's impossible to vape and not look like a douche bag.

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It's extremely difficult for a rapist to continue raping if they're dead.

[Maw @TheEbonyMaw]

@PostLeftWatch The fact that you’re still framing the guy’s shirt as something he ought to be badly punished for validates Shoe’s point. I’d want to make sure I avoid people like you in public.

[Romaic @RomanoGreek]

@ReviewsPossum Racism and sexism are great:

Once you finally embrace the world for what it is, it's so liberating and keeps me out of danger

[Alex @verytiredalex]

@ReviewsPossum The Nazis and Italian Fascists were left wing and the most honest form of socialism. They only portray them as right-wing because they don't include gay race theory and don't want to be associated with 'le bad thing'

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Before police, if your village found out you stole a horse, they would just hang you.