The Essayist

I write my thoughts poorly, but I do not think they're poor thoughts.

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Nihilism and cynicism do not provide insightful reflection for the soul and no one enjoys listening to them any more than they'd enjoy listening to a nagging woman or a complaining child. Indeed the nihilism and cynicism that each of us will entertain from time to time is not meant to be a perpetual state, but one that redirects our attention to beauty we've formerly ignored, whether within our horizons or beyond. The phoenix dies by fire and is reborn a new bird, yet between the fire and the rebirth it is, for a little while, just ashes. So are we when in the seasons of nihilism in our lives, but even we will be reborn if we look beyond the ashes.

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@blind_via The primary function of language is to phonetically mimic the world. Lisp is the word for lisp because it sounds like a lisp.

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@boxcardavid Direct drive is possible on earth. I've seen 125HP magnetic clutch drives from the 80's. You just need to not care about energy consumption at all.

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@tacobell I can't wait for South Park to do an episode on this.

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@planefag Job description is basically: go be a Karen in the woods by a lake.

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@NapoleonBonabot This is why the golden age of film was at the intersection of Broadway and the camera.

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@TXREC0N1 @Kronykal Fair point. But you need to emulsify the meat batter like you're making a sausage if you don't want to crumble. Basically just knead it until it is sticky but the fat doesn't smear.

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@Kronykal Players choice, just depends what you like but I will say the jerky gun gives better results for beginners.

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Highly preferred over putting up with the stupid password requirements thought up by paranoid schizophrenic IT nerds who think hackers are just walking around with datacenters in their back pockets that can brute force a 24 character, two special symbol, two numbers, some lower case, some upper case, not used in the last six months and not one of my last 20 passwords, password. Geez! I could make a password with just lower case letters and it would still take 10 years to brute force but IT idiots think that's unsecured. Yes please let me use my finger print as a passkey, I don't need to invent a new one of those every six months.

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@RasmusJarlov You'll be singing a different tune in a year. August will bring a dip, but that's when the smart money will buy.

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@Aelthemplaer It's amazing how fast these people fold for two hours of diversion.

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@MurrayHillGuy1 This is terrible advice. I highly and deeply regret not dating in college.

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@BowTiedBroke If we can't convince a PhD student to look at their loan statement at least once then we've got way bigger issues than allegedly predatory student loans.

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I want those things too. But I also realize that the democrats who are presently opposed to them so as to hinder ICE will just as easily support them if it would let them harm conservatives. What insurance do you have against the abuse of power? Even in law enforcement we're already seeing extrajudicial abuse of flock by officers themselves.

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For #1 I would add that they must own it outright, no mortgage or loans.

As a veteran, I would not include veterans (or any other group) by default. By this same reasoning I would oppose spouses of voters voting.

Essentially, I'd say your categories are still to large and filter for presumed ideology instead of for societal contribution and stewardship.

Land ownership is a proxy for stewardship; taxes are a proxy for societal contribution, but both are very imperfect proxies in the modern era. We need a new proxy for these to establish an electorate that embodies the spirit of noblesse oblige.

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@owenbroadcast Book of Tobit enjoyer spotted.

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We're so back.

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Absolute Mad Lads

Mary

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@luisbaram I've come to understand this response is the natural default. Good reason for it too.

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I'll admit I was a skeptic at first, but I now see it as a valuable and powerful tool. Especially in software development to not use it would be like refusing to use a compiler: it doesn't matter what your reason is for refusing it, the efficiency of using it is greater than the weight of all objections combined.

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@Aelthemplaer You put mercury in a farnsworth fusor didn't you?

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@SaveOurSheriff The discussion of information security is tangential to the primary issue of state sponsored mass surveillance.