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India is a filthy shit hole full of a billion people who have black hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. There is nothing unique about them other than they are covered in trash and wallow in shit and piss. They are literally carbon copies of one another who yell “saar” and honk the horn on a moped 8 hours a day.
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So, Terry Pratchett was once asked what books aspiring fantasy novelists should read if they hope to write great fiction. His advice was telling. He encouraged authors to avoid reading much of what passes for contemporary fantasy (what he called “Extruded Fantasy Product,” derivative of Tolkien). “Do not write it,” he said, “and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees.”
Any great fantasy series you can name, from Star Wars to Narnia to Discworld, was written by authors who read voraciously, who read old books and loved old myths, whose minds were so steeped in history and folklore and obscure pulp fiction that they couldn’t have written derivative works if they had tried. We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era.
Any great fantasy series you can name, from Star Wars to Narnia to Discworld, was written by authors who read voraciously, who read old books and loved old myths, whose minds were so steeped in history and folklore and obscure pulp fiction that they couldn’t have written derivative works if they had tried. We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era.
Hayao Miyazaki on modern anime, via Roland Kelts the author of 'Japanamerica'
"Hayao Miyazaki said to me at one point: 'The problem with young anime artists today is that the only thing they study is anime. When we were young, we studied French literature, we studied Dostoevsky. We swallowed everything. And then we went and created original anime. But if you grow up and all you watch is anime, you're just regurgitating spinning wheels.'"
He also spoke about his work on the upcoming documentary 'Tezuka! God of Manga'
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I suppose Sasha Baron Cohen has made both sides upset with him, so there are no supporters left. 39% on Rotten Tomatoes and almost all comments I see on social media are critical. But it’s hilarious
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I’m being 100% serious. Everyone should stop by a book store and read like, 5 pages at random from any romantasy IP (ACOTAR, Fourth Wing).
The quality of the writing is legitimately so bad that it will make you pray for Russia to nuke the United States.
The quality of the writing is legitimately so bad that it will make you pray for Russia to nuke the United States.
It’s not about if boys want to read Hatchet. First of all, school reading lists are dominated by male authors and protagonists. Second of all, it’s the presenting books in a gendered binary that is the problem. Maybe your son could stand to read some romantasy idk!!!!
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It's funny that Kaczynski dedicated 10,000 words to shitting on libtards, while his criticism of conservatives was a single paragraph that read: "You guys are fools for thinking that you can maintain traditional values while radically altering the material conditions of society."
i got bored and decided to read the unabomber manifest and i cannot fucking believe that a guy who blew up mailboxes and killed 3 people clocked the fuck out of the leftist movement 40 years ago
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“Hello police? I was raped by a Muslim immigrant.”
“Don’t be racist, ma’am.”
“And he doesn’t believe in the Holocaust.”
“We’ll be right there.”
“Don’t be racist, ma’am.”
“And he doesn’t believe in the Holocaust.”
“We’ll be right there.”
NEW - German Chancellor Merz says Muslim immigrants who refuse to acknowledge Germany's historical responsibility for the Holocaust must leave the country.
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Can you believe how stupid birds are?
A cuckoo leaves its egg in their nest.
The cuckoo chick pushes the bird's own eggs out of the nest.
And the birds are so stupid, they feed and care for the cuckoo chick as if it were their own.
You'd never see people doing this. Right?
A cuckoo leaves its egg in their nest.
The cuckoo chick pushes the bird's own eggs out of the nest.
And the birds are so stupid, they feed and care for the cuckoo chick as if it were their own.
You'd never see people doing this. Right?
"Relax, they're just making it impossible to remove the invaders they already let in, and they're totally not going to let in more. Promise! Why are you worried about immigration?"
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America is not a success today because it “welcomed all immigrants”.
It’s a success because it gave Europeans immense open space, natural resources and strategic positioning.
If North Anerica’s population in 1800 was 95% Congolese it would be a disaster today.
It’s a success because it gave Europeans immense open space, natural resources and strategic positioning.
If North Anerica’s population in 1800 was 95% Congolese it would be a disaster today.
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A statistic that sounds fake but isn't: Not one single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
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The best part is half of these insane prices say “per month” and then right under that it’s like “for one month and then it doubles”
New X subscription pricing model releases the day after an election Elon Musk tried to rig with a nearly half-a-billion dollar expenditure, and it's completely apeshit.
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Yes! I agree. The condescending attitude towards the past that is so common these days really bugs me.
And the idea that improved technology makes movies better is ludicrous. It's like saying that Mozart's music was good for its time but would have been better if he'd been able to use synthesisers and drum machines and electric guitars.
And the idea that improved technology makes movies better is ludicrous. It's like saying that Mozart's music was good for its time but would have been better if he'd been able to use synthesisers and drum machines and electric guitars.
I tried to gently explain to someone who is not a film person why the "good for its time" stuff rankles so much--her eyes glazed over *instantly*. If we were taking about books or music, this asinine line of thinking (which 99% of people believe) would fall apart right away.
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This is the same argument as always. Been going on for 30 years. Frontend easy, backend hard.
A backender could never write frontend.
Backend is easy.
Systems and ops are hard.
A backender could never write frontend.
Backend is easy.
Systems and ops are hard.
This is a very very bad take 😭😭😭
All the teams I talk to are very certain that:
- they vibecode the sh*t out of frontend and no issues come from it, even CEOs can vibecode that.
- slop is causing issues in backend prod, and they don’t know how to solve it because they have no idea how to reason about it.
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Matthew Perry had what most people spend their whole lives chasing. The hit show, the money, the house with the pool.
He says he loved it for about six months. Then one day he walked into that house and realized none of it had touched the problem he actually had.
The part that aig Bierko story. Bierko turned down the role, watched Friends become a massive hit, and didn’t speak to Perry for two years. When he finally came over to apologize, Perry told him the truth at 24: it doesn’t do what we all thought it would do.
Bierko didn’t believe him. Almost nobody does when the warning comes from someone who already has the thing.
Success is great at fixing outside problems. It does very little for the inside ones, and it can make them harder to deal with, because now nobody thinks you’re allowed to struggle.
This is from November 2022, less than a year before he died. It lands much heavier now.
He says he loved it for about six months. Then one day he walked into that house and realized none of it had touched the problem he actually had.
The part that aig Bierko story. Bierko turned down the role, watched Friends become a massive hit, and didn’t speak to Perry for two years. When he finally came over to apologize, Perry told him the truth at 24: it doesn’t do what we all thought it would do.
Bierko didn’t believe him. Almost nobody does when the warning comes from someone who already has the thing.
Success is great at fixing outside problems. It does very little for the inside ones, and it can make them harder to deal with, because now nobody thinks you’re allowed to struggle.
This is from November 2022, less than a year before he died. It lands much heavier now.
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I wish people would stop gesturing towards the judgement of future historians. It’s far more dire than that. What civilization do you suppose created the discipline of history? There will be no history in the future.
A millennia from now, someone will write a book on the disappearance of the Anglosphere, how the civilisation that shaped the world for 4 centuries washed away under a flood of migrants, lost confidence & succumbed to self-hatred & self-destruction, & crushed itself with debt.
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The entire point of dating apps is to ensure that monogamy never exists again and to subliminally seduce men and women into the idea of cuckoldry. You match with a girl who just got fucked yesterday, and you’re excited?
You match with a girl who’s married, sleeps next to her husband, smells his farts, swallows his cum, and you fuck her one time when she’s mad or in a marital 304 phase. You’re excited?
You match with a girl who is chatting with and sending nudes to 20 other dudes. How do people not understand why “modern dating” is so “fucked up” and how the end result of this will NOT be Chad with a harem of bitches but instead a generation of women who’s new standard of relationship will become one sided non monogamy/cuckoldry? Nobody sees how this is happening right before our eyes?
You match with a girl who’s married, sleeps next to her husband, smells his farts, swallows his cum, and you fuck her one time when she’s mad or in a marital 304 phase. You’re excited?
You match with a girl who is chatting with and sending nudes to 20 other dudes. How do people not understand why “modern dating” is so “fucked up” and how the end result of this will NOT be Chad with a harem of bitches but instead a generation of women who’s new standard of relationship will become one sided non monogamy/cuckoldry? Nobody sees how this is happening right before our eyes?
I think the problem is when you’re dating on apps you’re only selecting for one thing:
Am I attracted to this person?
Easy right?
Sure on the surface. Until you decide you would like to be done with dating, and “settle down”.
Now you want someone attractive,
with all the extras.
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this post has so much wisdom in it i thought naval wrote it
and i don't think the author even realizes why
if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today
you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards.
the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve.
they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences
clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world
you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right
and i don't think the author even realizes why
if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today
you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards.
the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve.
they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences
clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world
you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right
"Être de gauche c'est d'abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi.
Etre de droite c'est l'inverse."
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