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🕑 Added 2023-10-20 01:36:20 +0000 UTC

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The Bruenigs

Yeah but the word non combatant suffers from the same problem in that people can argue over who is truly a combatant. For instance people who work at gun factories are regarded as combatants in that you can drop a bomb on them.

Caitlin Still

Catholic stuff makes for great horror. Saint Maud is possibly the scariest horror movie I’ve ever seen.

Caitlin Still

If you’re into the intersection between cookies and chocolate bars, I hope there is some Aussie in your life who has loved you enough to introduce you to the Australian delicacy that is Tim Tams. If Vegemite is polarising, Tim Tams are the opposite thing.

Guy Giberson

I am hoping my daughter who hates spiders tremendously will now start listening when I tell her about your in-ep podventure.

Christopher McCann

I don't think 'innocent civilians' is the correct term. Everyone is guilty of participation at some level - paying taxes, etc. It's 'non-combatants' that are off the table. Surrendering soldiers are non-combatants as are government personnel. If you are shooting back, you're fair game.

William Kay

Isn't it a war crime to hit another country's soldiers if they're fleeing or surrendering? Isn't attacking civilians analogous to that? Maybe still arbitrary but it's an alternative argument to the "representative" thing. Another angle would be to argue that it is only justified to hit those citizens who voted for whatever party initiated the war.

Dan

More spooky movie recs plssss

Caleb H

Thanks for answering the "giftedness" question. FWIW, my main concern wasn't pull-out programs, or whether the programs optimize the skills of kids in the program. I agree that for the most part, those skills can be met outside school. (In some cases, anyway. Lots of parents are probably either not also gifted, or are resource burdened etc.) At least some part of the arg behind the folks pushing for "gifted" training was that people who are "gifted" e.g., in math often also have other struggles that come with the giftedness e.g., their experience of boredom might be a difference in kind rather than degree. So the question about gifted programs is more along the lines of "do these kids need accommodations" than it is "would these kids be more skilled in their gifted areas if they were separated from normies." On the one hand it sounds plausible, if you've ever been around bright kids who also seem to have asynchronous development (e.g., 5yo w/8 yo vocabulary, but tantrums like a 2yo), or overexcitabilities ("hyperactive," can't handle excessive or chaotic noise), or intensities (whatever emotion is being felt is 10/10 at all times). On the other hand, it also sounds like pseudo-science bullshit for parents who want to "optimize" their kids to get behind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

KMB24

Reminds me of the tiktok trend about how to marry a rich man and one of the suggestions was “work at his kids school” please bffr right now

KMB24

The calculator also presupposes that any of those men are interested in any other woman. There is a small number of men who are “marriageable” age who make over $200k but they’re not going to marry just any woman. They’re going to marry women of their age and social class. It’s a smaller pool but presumably somewhat gender balanced and concentrated in locations where those people will meet each other.

Porphyrogénnētos

Liz: would buy a book on love & forgiveness in a heartbeat (even if it’s “just” a collection of previously published essays, and/or a long-form write up of your u chicago talk)

Andi Livia

Would absolutely be up for a book on forgiveness. I'm always sharing your university of Chicago talk with people.

TC

People who say The Exorcist didn't scare them on first watch are either lying or operating on an ontology so far removed from Christendom it isn't even funny.

TC

I'm just saying it's foolish to pin an obsession with the legal mechanism of war on liberals when dsa types have been crying about it nonstop this past week. It's a bad framework and everyone would be better off excising it from their args.

Femi Agbabiaka

Knowing there are people who have never been scared by a movie shakes me to my core

ABD

“there’s a spider” “he’ll be alright” “NO.” r e l a t a b l e “I believe that human existence is all about perfecting love” *flame throws a spider to hell* also relatable

Martin Ross

Very upset with the Bruenigs right now for recommending the movie Skinamarkink because I watched it and now I'm real scared.

Stinky Pete

The other thing about the percentages of men thing is that you're then computing the chance of a single draw from the bucket, but people also encounter hundreds of other people in their lives where there's a possibility of starting a Romance Sequence (stage 3 of the Success Sequence (is that success?)). To even get a stat close to what they're claiming, it has to be a competition model like college admissions or the labor market, where you have to know how many other women are looking for the same subset of men relative to how many men are in that subset. And probably have to weight the "competition" by how much or how little their preferences overlap, and if *they* have less competition outside of the overlap, making them less likely to actually function as competition for the subject. And as mentioned the mens' preferences mirror this too, so at that point the analysis needs something like PageRank but with more dimensions. It would be funny if they added "lives within N miles of my location" as another filter, but I guess that would make the misdirection too obvious

Christian Hunt

Buddy, I do not know what your issue is or what axe you have to grind. Please do not include me.

Blake

I respect trad but my wife is cool too and doesn’t care that I don’t want ring shit on my finger. Still not sure if I’m right but it’s working so far (15 years)

TC

And how many times has the left referred to the "illegal" Iraq War or the "illegal" Israeli "occupation"? You're right about the absurdity of liberalist international law, but everyone loves to cite it when it reinforces their prios.

Christian Hunt

Liberals are obsessed with the legal mechanism of war. Thus the constant reference to Russia's invasion of Ukraine being an "illegal" war. Just tying ourselves in knots over this stuff is absurd.