ArcaneSlime
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Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 9 hours ago:
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
Early Western travellers to Asia were inspired by its positive and ancient associations and started using it back home. By the beginning of the 20th Century there was a huge fad for the swastika as a benign good luck symbol.
“Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles. The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls’ Club of America called their magazine Swastika. They would even send out swastika badges to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the magazine,”
It was used by American military units during World War One and it could be seen on RAF planes as late as 1939. Most of these benign uses came to a halt in the 1930s as the Nazis rose to power in Germany.
The irony is that the swastika is more European in origin than most people realise. Archaeological finds have long demonstrated that the swastika is a very old symbol, but ancient examples are by no means limited to India. It was used by the Ancient Greeks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons and some of the oldest examples have been found in Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to the Balkans .
Single swastikas began to appear in the Neolithic Vinca culture across south-eastern Europe around 7,000 years ago. But it’s in the Bronze Age that they became more widespread across the whole of Europe. In the Museum’s collection there are clay pots with single swastikas encircling their upper half which date back to around 4,000 years ago. When the Nazis occupied Kiev in World War Two they were so convinced that these pots were evidence of their own Aryan ancestors that they took them back to Germany. (They were returned after the war.)
The Ancient Greeks also used single swastika motifs to decorate their pots and vases. One fragment in the collection from around 7th Century BCE shows a swastika with limbs like unfurling tendrils painted under the belly of a goat.
The swastika remained a popular embroidery motif in Eastern Europe and Russia right up to World War Two. A Russian author called Pavel Kutenkov has identified nearly 200 variations across the region.
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 10 hours ago:
Can’t tell if you’re saying the hindus/other cultures had used the swastika for years and so that’s why the nazis were able to steal it (which would seem to be applicable to the pride flag as well, also an established symbol,) or that the nazis were able to adopt the OK symbol because it wasn’t well established as a symbol for one group, but rather a general signal for “Ok” since like wwii.
In any case, I doubt it, if that were the reason why wouldn’t they have been successful in taking the swastika but not the pride flag, both established symbols? Much more likely that it didn’t work “because we didn’t let it” which kinda seems to be his entire point imo.
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 12 hours ago:
Tbf the fact that it failed kinda proves his point, and the fact that the ok symbol is “now a nazi dogwhistle” (or, like, that whole “swastika” thing. disproves your second point.)
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Thelonius Chipmonks
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 day ago:
Very carefully.
- Comment on Anon makes money 3 days ago:
Disclaimer: This post advises you to commit crimes. Do not take this post as fact.
Disclaimer pt.2: You may get away with it “in Texas, at night, and on your own property,” but you have to hit all 3/3 of those, if you have 0/3, 1/3, or 2/3, you are also going to be prosecuted.
- Comment on Anon makes money 3 days ago:
Which tbf self selects for “people who kinda deserve it” over “innocent people, at least ostensibly.”
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 6 days ago:
That would have line up with “dirty” but go off queen.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Lol I was just making a joke.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
That sounds like a key party lol idk about all that! Jk I’ll google what that is and if there are any near me, thanks!
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Find a hobby that often has some kind of social interaction and stereotypically attracts women in your age range." That is not D&D, my dude.
Sees post about woman complaining about her D&D group
“Women don’t play D&D!”
Bruh Crit Roll came out, your info is like 10yr out of date, women play TTRPGs now. Nerdy ones mostly but that’s cool.
Pottery class is a good idea though, I could get into that shit!
Cool plastic surgery it is lol. Nah ngl I think you’re wrong about the whole “you have to look like them steroid using celebs” but who knows.
Unfortunately I can’t ride my bike that long as I have a job. I’m 5’6" 130lbs no abs, they can take it or leave it at that point tbh, fuck em if they want to be shallow. I’m not going to completely change who I am and become a gym rat, I don’t think it’s as serious of an issue as you make it out to be.
Well too bad! Nightly it is, I’d rather sleep on clean sheets than get home greasy and sweaty from a 10hr shift of manual labour and pretend that getting into bed in that state is not disgusting as fuck, and I’m not taking 2 showers a day unless I need to.
Well cats gotta play, the laundry I can indees pick up but if they don’t want a dude with cats tbh I’m not the one.
Yeah I don’t reccomend it either which is why I say I don’t want to do it, logically.
Yeah that pottery class idea sounds like a good one.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Book clubs might be good, and tbh I could probably use cooking classes lol.
Thanks! Seems I need the luck lol.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Volunteering maybe. Church is crazy, you want me to join a whole ass religion just to meet a woman and then what, pretend to be christian for the rest of my life?! I’d sooner go back to the drink! Sports I’m not really into, and everyone keeps saying “don’t just do it to meet women” but like, that’s exactly what I’d be doing. Idk maybe like ping pong or something but idt we have a local ping pong league near me, I’ll look. Choirs are very churchy are they not? That’d be the same as either sports or church in either case, depending.
Yes, “where are the people” is essentially my question. Some insist “literally everywhere, just do the thing and let em complain, fuck em” which seems to be the leading suggestion. Another dude said his area has singles hikes and shit so I’m gonna check that out too if my area does.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Yeah, I have some hobbies. One is D&D. See OOP. Pretty sure she’s complaining about me (kidding, which I really wish I didn’t have to specify lol but I do.)
I’m not exactly in shape but I’m not exactly out of it either, I’m kinds standing in shape’s doorway letting all the AC out. Supposedly dad bods are in however. I don’t use macros I use linux (again, jk.) I do take showers nightly which oughta be close enough and jeans don’t get dirty enough to change every day, but the rest I do. Alright you got me, I have cat toys and laundry on my floor. I’ve seen worse though, and from women at that! I already am fairly up my own ass, I think I’m pretty fuckin’ neat, the issue is where can I talk to people (just something as simple as “hey I think you’re cool, you seeing anyone? Wanna drink some coffee?”) other than an app or bar?
There’s nothing wrong with dating at work per se, but you need to be very, very careful because it’s easy to quickly go from light flirting to “hostile work environment”, and I’ve known more than a few people that didn’t understand the difference.
Not a supervisor, but yeah it just seems like a whole can of worms I’d rather leave closed. Back in the restaurant days it was actively encouraged but this place is different. Not “corporate” but still not full of cool degenerates like my old haunts. Oh and the only woman there even near my age is married to a guy who also works there, so they’d have to hire someone or those two would have to divorce (and even then…)
I have thought about picking up a bullshit 1-2 days a week waiting shift literally just to meet women who work there, (not specific like I’m stalking some poor waitress, just “any restaurant,” most employ some women lol) but atm I’m working too much OT.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
I promise, women date men all the time!
You can’t prove that! Until I see evidence this is all conjecture! Hell for all I know all those supposed women who date those men met them in said bars or apps!
Lol kidding. I know, I have even dated a few myself, buuuut I did indeed meet them all in bars (or school.) I sorta was drinking way too much and spending way too much money though, and unfortunately covid happened, inflation went tits up, I couldn’t bar then because quarantine and I can’t really bar much now because my local grocer has decided all my money is his, besides the whole “drinking like 1 drink instead of 15+” thing, and I’ve kind of become disillusioned with that whole scene. The girl I was dating at the start of quarantine was even worse than me, like “a bottle of vodka a night” bad, and frankly I’d just like maybe something a little different, and even besides her, the four previous I also met at a bar, and they were also not much better off (though the last one was the worst by a mile the rest were just like “me then” not “me now.”)
Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be a slob. Learn how to cook and do chores and keep your place clean… if you don’t have a place, bust your ass until you get to a point where you can get one.
Only when I need to; I’m clean and shower I swear, I’m just a punk, the vest is just well seasoned; own my house (well…the bank does, for now, but whatever).
give positive body language
Oh did I mention I literally have a diagnosed “learning disability” that basically amounts to “this fucking moron misses a lot of social cues?” Lol 'cause that is kinda a thing.
No work because I like my job and don’t wish to cause any possible issues with it. Y’know, like if it doesn’t work out or whatever, I’d just like to avoid the possibility for awkwardness entirely.
I mean I’m not entirely ruling it out, shipping has fairly high turnover, so maybe we’ll hire a single person at some point and we vibe, and maybe she decides not to stick around, and I see if she wants to chill “now that she’s leaving and we can’t see each other here anymore,” but that’s a lot of “ifs” lol. I mean at the moment there’s just flat out no options at my work unless I want to try and cause a divorce lol.
I used to date at work sometimes back in my restaurant days, but that’s just what it is. I have considered picking up a little side waiting gig though just to try and meet someone single, then I can be the one who quits if it gets weird, and pick up some cash for the dates on the way. Working too much OT for that one right now though but I have it in my back pocket.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
That sounds like a good idea if it’s specifically for singles, sounds like exactly what I’m looking for! I’ll see if my area has anything, thanks!
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
I’m into it tbh, I’d join up! Sounds like a good idea.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Tbh some of the complaining was about pretty innocuous stuff, like not pushy or anything (well of course I wasn’t there but sometimes the stories just sound like “normal shooting your shot” stuff. And they likely trust me because I haven’t tried asking them out, at least in part. If I did I bet that’d change right quick haha.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
My friends have mostly moved, the ones that are still here we chill when we can but we’re all adults with lives and known each other for years, not many new faces usually.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
So is the bar “a place other than the bar or dating apps” though? You see my conundrum. Must I start drinking again simply to find a partner? Sobriety (well, weed, but whatever) is a married man’s game?
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
I mean, it was a little hyperbolically stated lol. I don’t mean actually be creepy of course.
But fair enough, “fuck it” it is! I don’t really want to start drinking again which seems like my only other option lol.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Not everyone can be a super cool playbooiiii like you I guess lol.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Frankly, same, with the difference that I’ve been around women both irl and online who complain about it constantly, so since I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable I stopped. Seems to be around the time the apps came out that it stopped being socially acceptable ime, though I’m not sure that’s the cause.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
The only rules are the ones you make playbooiiii
Is what I was making a joke about. There are, in fact, “rules,” being the crux of the joke.
But no I mean the fact that supposedly no woman wants men to say what’s up anywhere but the bar, which I do not frequent, or the dating apps, which are spyware.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Idk, but that’s a damn fine idea!
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Ehh not buying that. By your logic I can just take what I want. Pretty sure that’s called “crime” as it is against the “rules.”
But I’ll play along: Sure, and I’ve decided that as a rule I’d like to not be considered creepy, and as such am attempting to ask people out in a venue that won’t make women uncomfortable or scared or whatever other negative attributes one pins on those seeking romantic partnerships outside of tinder or the liquor hut.
Sure, I could throw caution to the wind, say fuck it, be scared, think I’m creepy, eventually someone will get coffee with me," and it frankly seems like I’m at this last resort, so I may start, but I will feel skeevy when some girl is obviously like “I’m just trying to enjoy my work/the gym/hobbies/the store/coffee shop/school/park/etc.”
I guess you may be right though at the end of the day, fuck em, a dude gotta eat. Them having negative feelings about it is a them problem I spose.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Ah, but can you profess burgeoning romantic interest in your fellow patrons at those or are we back at the original “no that isn’t appropriate to ask out a woman just trying to enjoy her coffee, either?”
At the 30 coffee shops near me it doesn’t exactly seem encouraged, but if you insist, I’m willing to try. Even makes “can I buy you a coffee” easier since we’re already there assuming it is appropriate.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
I’m done with the bars and their drunks, and the apps with the spying, out of school, and don’t date coworkers, the advice given to me every time I complain about the fact that there are no other “third places” to meet women romantically 100% of the time is “get a hobby.” Well, see above. There is no place, women do not want to be talked to anywhere but the bar or apps which ime have been bad places to find long-term companionship.
Can we do something about this? Can we maybe start “bars” where the focus isn’t alcohol but it is socially acceptable to say “hey I think you’re cute wanna go get some damn coffee?”
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Here’s an audio copy of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. Murray is basically the father of “right wing” libertarianism (insofar as right v left is individualism v collectivism, not “right=racism is good,”) he seems to fit the description you seek. Not saying you’ll agree or love him, but he isn’t some “lets kill the gays” nonsense.
Also try Milton Friedman, and Lysander Spooner. They’re more “anarchism” or “libertarianism” as well, from that same individualist, rather than collectivist, standpoint.
- Comment on Anon moves on 1 week ago:
Hate to be pedantic, but last week I borrowed my friend’s cart battery and lost it.