I really think this country is too crazy to really determine a motive. Why do people shoot up elementary schools? It seems so easy to think it’s politically motivated, but I’m not convinced he hated trump, really.

Well, I think he was recently on the 700 Club saying that Roddy Piper called him from beyond the grave. So, he seems to be doing really well these days.

Did they play Real American for his entrance music?

I don’t play games, but I recently tried to get this one going for my wife on steam. I ended up getting it to work, but not through steam. She really likes the game, even just the base model that’s free.

I think there is also a lot of modding that’s done, so you could put those in.

The issue I hit was that it also requires the EA app, and I got frustrated putting it on Linux so I just got a cracked version, which came with a ton of the DLC’s. Like, some 74 of them and every expansion.

She says it’s a lot of options to choose from, but works fine after some tweaking.

Interesting, hard to tell from this, but was this racialized or most focused on the “loss of citizenship and therefore national heritage” part? Wonder what their feelings would have been on some Italian that was born in Germany. It’s hard for me to imagine caring about my own national heritage that much, but I guess it’s possible someone did.

What a stark contrast this draws with something like Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question:

“But this is not the case with an organization on the basis of nationalities. When the workers are organized according to nationality they isolate themselves within their national shells, fenced off from each other by organizational barriers. The stress is laid not on what is common to the workers but on what distinguishes them from each other. In this type of organization the worker is primarily a member of his nation: a Jew, a Pole, and so on. It is not surprising that national federalism in organization inculcates in the workers a spirit of national seclusion.”

And that’s people that drug their asses out in negative temps to caucus. I’m assuming turnout was very low. I had very little knowledge that they were still really doing a Republican primary.

So this is probably just the strangest subset of people that felt compelled to do this.

My interview for an internship that became my first developer job, for sure. It wasn’t a traditionally “technical” interview, meaning it wasn’t the latest trivia ever. They looked over my resume, and asked me technical questions about what I had done, decisions I made for projects, etc. The team just didn’t believe in staring at people trying to code on a whiteboard.

Got the offer within about an hour and didn’t have to interview to sign on permanently. I have subsequently always refused interviews where salary range wasn’t disclosed up front, and if I talk to a recruiter, I have always asked for contact information for a dev on the team.

But, that’s the advantage of having a job I don’t need to leave, and having experience. I’ve heard much worse from others.

Violating zoning laws, is the charge I guess? What a cruel thing. The churches around me (tiny, tiny town, no shelters) operate as unofficial overnight warming and cooling places, as they call it. There is nowhere else for miles and miles.

It’s probably useful to differentiate between Amish and Mennonite here. Mennonites I know use mad technology for business, including planes. The Mennonite homes I’ve been in (not many, but a couple), did not have electricity in them, and had root cellars, oil lamps, etc.

An Amish dude did some windows for me and I didn’t see any vehicles at his home, and used hand tools, near as I could tell. But idk, this probably changes so much between different communities and shit. Every time I go to town to get groceries, I see Mennonites in aldi. I don’t believe I’ve seen Amish there. The only interactions I’ve had with the Amish I had to drive to them.

Always slightly uncomfortable.

Well said. I live close to some Amish and a ton of old order Mennonites. I’ve seen one too many children’s stools in front of rocket stoves and suspiciously young girls with babies.

Generally seem to provide for the other members of their community, but the organization of that community isn’t great. And that’s what I know about them, which is little given how insular they are.

I did have a sit down meeting with a Mennonite business owner about doing a website for his company, which was one of the strangest encounters of my life.

No electricity in their homes, but I guess for businesses they break that rule?

My father is a massive ex-convict hillbilly. He basically looks like a pro wrestling bad guy in the presteroids era, although he’s certainly not a stranger to steroids. But he’s a rough person.

One thing I find really endearing about him is that he gets such a kick out of those like really funny flamboyant gay guys. Like, he asked me one time, “you ever seen that drag queen show? It’s hilarious.”

I guess just the archetypes make it funnier, always a surprise.

So unfortunate. Sorry, comrade. Hopefully you still have fun holidays.

Kind of fascinating, but I suppose it makes sense. I’m not very up to date, but I think the ufc still has pretty shitty pay and total compensation, in a way other pro us sports don’t.

So, I guess most stellar athletic talent in this country goes on to some other higher paid sport, like how so many talented heavyweight wrestlers just go to the NFL.

As a way to leverage this, you train your lesser athletic talent for promos to generate some heat and sell tickets. Makes sense from a business point of view.

I had no clue the wwf and ufc merged under an umbrella. I think vince even said during the xfl shit that if there wasn’t locker room drama they’d create it. This shit is definitely heel material.

“leave it or come deal with me”

Why would those possibly be lebrons only two options, lmao? I guess this is just some weird clout chasing. No one has ever heard of this fighter guy, and I guess you do this to rile up your fans or try to piggyback on LeBron’s fame?

I hate seeing things like, “the royal court: words are sharper than daggers here and you must be more alert than on any battlefield.” I like political intrigue, so I get it. But I’m 90% certain most aristocracy was people with seven toes on each foot from decades of inbreeding going to court to decide which son was going to marry their 13 year old first cousin.

I’d like to see it subverted from a left wing perspective.

Beautiful. Reminds me of former libertarian candidate for Illinois governor, Kash Jackson. Brave family court warrior eventually sentenced to prison for threatening to kill the family court judges.

Yeah, that sounds pretty normal, I guess. The time-frame part is probably based on how new you are as well as the nature of the task. I did quite a bit of that type of thing when I started, basically fixing tech debt, and small stuff.

If it’s something you want to bring up, I think you expressed yourself pretty clearly. You could schedule some time with your boss to talk about it.

What would frustrate me would be the rework I was doing. If you could maybe even set up a short weekly meeting? Show your boss what you’re doing and they could tell you if it’s the right track or not.

Men are not good enough for Communism, but are they good enough for Capitalism? If all men were good-hearted, kind, and just, they would never exploit one another, although possessing the means of doing so. With such men the private ownership of capital would be no danger. The capitalist would hasten to share his profits with the workers, and the best remunerated workers with those suffering from occasional causes. If men were provident they would not produce velvet and articles of luxury while food is wanted in cottages: they would not build palaces as long as there are slums.

I don’t think it’s beating a dead horse, tiny tank. I was just talking to someone I know about this who was on my ass when I said the whole uyghur genocide narrative was fabrication.

It’s pretty obvious that had China been genociding Muslims, the US state department would have been supportive of it. I don’t see how weird libs whose political identity is wanting to smugly be correct and good don’t see how their opinions are always directly in line with the US state.

I do hope it’s a radicalizing moment for people,and maybe it is. I don’t have a good enough handle on popular sentiment for that.

Total abstinence, yeah, it’s probably a little strange. I know plenty of non smokers who drink rarely, but I don’t know many people who never drink at all.

Really the people I know who fit this are sober, meaning like conscious choice after alcohol abuse.