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Weird Things You've Noticed Recently
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Bing image creator doesn't allow anything with Fürst Bismarck any more. What a waste of software.
I was in a coffee shop today and noticed the exact same thing. You're the odd one out now if you aren't on a phone.
It's like being in a distopian movie.
That's actually even on the Wikipedia. At least when I last looked. People get hung up on the Khazar origin theory, but those people clearly mythologize it, just like they mythologize Hannibal because he was a Semite who brought down the Roman Empire and just the same way they mythologize the Arab conquerors. They idealize everybody who fights Christianity. The Muslim armies had battalions with Magen on their banners. Adam Königsberg himself said that he views the Church as more of an enemy than Islam, even though Muslims are supposedly such evil antisemites.
EDIT: I'll only call him Adam Königsberg from now on because his name should be reminiscent of the city that allowed him to stay out of mercy. He's not a king in the least and he has no right to bear that name. Königsberg allowed them to remain, and they paid for it hundredfold.
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I am not a huge fan of listening to music, but I have just truly realized how much better the songs released in 60s, 70s and 80s were compared to nowadays. These songs simply prove to me that we lived in an overall much healthier society.
A couple songs I have particularly enjoyed include 'Waiting for a Star to Fall' and 'Kyrie' by Mr. Mister. Both of these were released in the 80s and there is almost no way you can have anything but positive feelings whilst listening to these songs. Take the song 'Kyrie' for example, the lyrics include 'Kyrie Eleison down the road I must travel... Kyrie Eleison through the darkness of the night'.
Imagine having songs like these become top-hits again in this era, particularly the latter - no chance!
Listening to some of the songs by Elvis have also been an absolute pleasure.
Obviously the previous generations were not perfect, but I just cannot think of a song that has been released in the last 10 years' that I have truly liked. The only song I have liked recently was that 'I ain't worried' in the new Top Gun movie, but that is essentially a throwback to the 80s so it does not count in my opinion.
A couple songs I have particularly enjoyed include 'Waiting for a Star to Fall' and 'Kyrie' by Mr. Mister. Both of these were released in the 80s and there is almost no way you can have anything but positive feelings whilst listening to these songs. Take the song 'Kyrie' for example, the lyrics include 'Kyrie Eleison down the road I must travel... Kyrie Eleison through the darkness of the night'.
Imagine having songs like these become top-hits again in this era, particularly the latter - no chance!
Listening to some of the songs by Elvis have also been an absolute pleasure.
Obviously the previous generations were not perfect, but I just cannot think of a song that has been released in the last 10 years' that I have truly liked. The only song I have liked recently was that 'I ain't worried' in the new Top Gun movie, but that is essentially a throwback to the 80s so it does not count in my opinion.
I agree in terms of what is popular. There are a lot of newer bands from the last 10-15 years that make really good music that has a throwback vibe to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. A Canadian band called the Sheepdogs I really enjoy. Singer reminds my of Grand Funk Railroad and a lot of dualing guitar solos like Alman Bros. Most people know about Greta Van Fleet (almost a clone of Les zeppelin like). A band I went to see live recently that makes really good classic sounding heavy rock is Wolfmother (from Australia). If you like 80’s pop, a band called the Bleachers has some excellent songwriting and feels like their material could be used in a John Hughes teen movie. Another 80’s sounding lighter pop-rock band that is more modern is Vampire Weekend. Just a few recommendations to start with. They are few and far between but with a little work you can find some quality newer bands.
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The massive surge of single women with dog companions or service dogs who seem totally dead in the eyes and incapable of loving another human being. Strange phenomena, it seems when they give up on finding a man they just get animals because hey they can act however they want and the animal will still love them. The dog won’t care that she’s a whore.
Sometimes even the dog looks a little dead inside and doesn't love them the same as most dogs do. Poor dogs. The women with bigger dogs are a little better (not much), but the small ones are usually yapping and crapping in the house. Little bastards taking on the awful personality of their owners.
Is it me, or has the continuous burning down of food plants and distribution centers here in the states calmed down? For a while there it seemed like we were getting a lot. Did the oligarchs realize they might be hurting themselves doing that?
One weird thing I was recently thinking about was how girls tended to dominate the highest grades in STEM classes in high school, but then all of these smart girls decide against STEM in college, despite all of the efforts of administrators to push them into these career paths? All the kids who did the best in my math and science classes were girls. I grew up assuming girls were smarter, with the occasional boy genius. Many of them went into medicine, but everything else has seemed to be destitute of them. The only woman I know who went into computer science is a relative who is autistic.
It's mostly just physics and the engineering fields based on it that don't draw a lot of women. Plenty of women become chemists, biologists, mathematicians/statisticians, and some types of IT specialists. They really hate physical stuff requiring you to build things like electrical or mechanical engineering though.
Me too. The valedictorians in my school were all girls. I grew up in a small town so I knew most of the kids in my grade level from K-12. The girls that were top rank in the class at graduation were clearly the best students even in first grade.
I also grew up thinking girls were smarter, even though I ended up getting the highest ACT and SAT scores in the school. I was always a very poor student, and my grades were only average, often not even on the honor roll. The high achieving girls had near straight A's, and I think some had perfect straight A's.
I was surprised to learn in college that men are far more capable of high level academic work than women, or at least the smartest men greatly outdo the smartest women.
I'm not the best representation of the best men but what I observe in myself corresponds to what I've heard others say: A man's strength is in his single-mindedness. Women are better are multi-tasking, but when a man sets his mind to one thing he gives his heart and soul to it. That can be good or bad, depending on what it is.
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Schools are more designed for girls than boys if you think about it. Which gender struggles more to sit down for long amounts of time? Which gender is more inclined to be a "teacher's pet"? Why is it even considered a normal demand on a boy to sit down and be interested in things to do with your mind rather than your hands for 8 hours a day starting from early childhood? Which gender is better at just following orders and going with flow? Which gender is generally better at playing the kind of social games that constitute "office politics"?
It always seemed obvious to me that school is just not for everyone and boys will struggle more with the format. School is not designed to create critical thinkers with skills. It is designed for creating malleable, compliant corporate worker drones.
As an aside, I found it rather edifying to learn that the bell curve of intelligence is also wider for men than it is for women. Basically if you have a room full of 100 adults, 50 men, 50 women, you will be able to bet that the dumbest person in that room is a man. You will also be able to bet that the smartest person in that room is a man.
Boys arguably have a greater range of aptitude for certain skills than girls as well, and this imparts greater strengths in some areas and greater weaknesses in others to them. Just another reason girls will look smarter in school, but once we need someone who's specialized, everyone (at least secretly) wants a smart, capable, and handsome man to do it. Unless it's housework. Sexist, I know. But my two cents.
It always seemed obvious to me that school is just not for everyone and boys will struggle more with the format. School is not designed to create critical thinkers with skills. It is designed for creating malleable, compliant corporate worker drones.
As an aside, I found it rather edifying to learn that the bell curve of intelligence is also wider for men than it is for women. Basically if you have a room full of 100 adults, 50 men, 50 women, you will be able to bet that the dumbest person in that room is a man. You will also be able to bet that the smartest person in that room is a man.
Boys arguably have a greater range of aptitude for certain skills than girls as well, and this imparts greater strengths in some areas and greater weaknesses in others to them. Just another reason girls will look smarter in school, but once we need someone who's specialized, everyone (at least secretly) wants a smart, capable, and handsome man to do it. Unless it's housework. Sexist, I know. But my two cents.
High school was torture. Incredibly boring and going over the same things every year (except for math and science). And sitting down all day really was hell. Plus all the brainwashing about college, college, college. You were apparently a loser if you didn't go. It translated to the working world too. I tried a couple office jobs and would get depressed going into work. One hour staring at that damn computer felt like five hours.
Education, and especially public school, really needs to change. I've actually met a lot of younger people that are homeschooled, or go to private schools that are a lot more flexible than the npc public system. They seem much happier. And lots of younger people, especially boys, not going to college. It was unfortunately much different 15 years ago.
College is a joke too with all the useless gen eds and electives. Even the useful degrees like engineering and accounting are full of useless classes that don't translate to the working world. It's designed to scam money out of students and create nonsensical barriers to entry in the working world.
Education, and especially public school, really needs to change. I've actually met a lot of younger people that are homeschooled, or go to private schools that are a lot more flexible than the npc public system. They seem much happier. And lots of younger people, especially boys, not going to college. It was unfortunately much different 15 years ago.
College is a joke too with all the useless gen eds and electives. Even the useful degrees like engineering and accounting are full of useless classes that don't translate to the working world. It's designed to scam money out of students and create nonsensical barriers to entry in the working world.
Possibly related...men obsess over certain things that women don't...like music.
Men geek out on guitar riffs, what kind of instrument a certain musician uses, and what music influenced other musical styles throughout the years.
Women just want to hear the music and feel something. And while there are plenty of women who play instruments, you rarely hear of one who is a virtuoso.
Something that I'm seeing more and more, namely, people driving below the speed limit. In built up areas (30mph) it's now often 20 - 25 mph, and 40 - 45 mph on the open road, where the limit is 60mph. No speed cameras, and the roads are always easily driveable. My guess is that it's down to enrichment, although I've never seen any of the drivers.
I've decided to go into the cinema tonight and it made me want to kill myself. Not only is Dune 2 a boring a pretentious pile of garbage with zero content, what's more is that they keep trying to sell Zendaya as a Hollywood starlet, which is Kalergi levels of surreal. Her forehead is literally smaller than her nose is broad. She looks like the missing link, and I'm not even strict when it comes to beauty standards. There was one really short scene where she really tried to act and it made me laugh out loud.
If she was a good actress, I'd look beyond it I guess, but this was just really offensive to me. Oh and in the trailers they teasered a prequel to Charlize Theron's dumb tomboy character from the Mad Max reboot, as if it was in any way iconic.
Imagine me with the West has Fallen meme face right now, because that's how I feel.
I hate pop culture so much, I could never eat as much as I want to throw up right now.
If she was a good actress, I'd look beyond it I guess, but this was just really offensive to me. Oh and in the trailers they teasered a prequel to Charlize Theron's dumb tomboy character from the Mad Max reboot, as if it was in any way iconic.
Imagine me with the West has Fallen meme face right now, because that's how I feel.
I hate pop culture so much, I could never eat as much as I want to throw up right now.
Well said!
Seriously, there were 6-8 great lines in here, not to mention the very solid general point you were making.
My guess is a lot more people are trying to text or fool around with their phone while driving and this are driving slower to be safer. I know when I’m trying to dial up a new song or podcast, I tend to be driving under the speed limit.