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[flakmaniak]

I've made approximately this post before, how the standardized-testing-nihilist faction, over the course of a given argument, shifts when pressed from nihilism about certain specific tests, to measurement-nihilist, to ability-nihilist...

Just slowly obliterating the notion that there could be anything one would want to measure, let alone that one could do it...

I think it's fair to call them education-nihilist! If one took their arguments seriously, one might give up on education entirely! Abolish it! Boko Haram!

But of course, they don't follow their arguments to their conclusions; selective nihilism is a tactic. Trying to drag people down the sophistry-hole and claim that you can't REALLY define X, and so you can't possibly make any real claims about X... Not that they themselves are willing to give up making claims about X, fully! But they really want you to stop doing so.

[argumate]

You’re on a date with an attractive girl. She’s wearing a tight dress and clearly put effort in.

Instead of: “You look amazing!” (which makes her feel secure)

Do this: ⬇️

sweep the leg then move in for the throw

I love twitter

[flakmaniak]

Men always playing grapplers, and asking to play games without throw-invuln on wakeup...

To say that women disproportionately play zoners is an offensive stereotype!

[mazzakr]

this frame from krusty krab training video is so underrated to me why does nobody talk about it

[ceausescue]

the kind of autism that makes you confucian

[yorickless]

confucius had this

[etirabys]

#LITERALLY though#all of the personal stuff in the analects is like#yeah he got really weird about straightening his mat before he sat#and he would always want his meat sliced really really thin#and he would get so absorbed in studying that he would forget to eat and sleep#and made an entire philosophy dedicated to understanding social roles and ritual propriety#which could mean anything! (@apricops)

[flakmaniak]

Muhammad our OCD king, Confucius the autist...

[flakmaniak]

So, big-ass anti-aircraft cannon in WWII, like the 88mm... How did you hit, with such single-shot weapons? I understand why automatic weapons pointed upwards make sense; you shoot a lot and hope to hit with some rounds, and planes don't have much armor.

But why do you need giant-cannon firepower, and how do you hit with such a gun, unless you can do some kind of airburst thing and trigger the round to explode merely near the target?

[flakmaniak]

Whenever I catch bits of well-known-ish political-operative-ish sorts discussing this Graham Platner stuff... It's really thematically similar to a lot of the previous Democratic-party disasters, the constant denial of agency, the somehow we're here but no one could have made any decisions differently kind of thinking...

[flakmaniak]

So, call it now, o ye oracles. Rep. Tom Kean Jr.: Is he dead?

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tumblr is a great website because you can report nazis and violence rape threats and people doxxing you. and you have to write an entire essay explaining exactly what rules in their own tos it broke and why breaking the rules is against the rules. and staff will have a <5% chance of getting back to you only to say "yeah sorry. even if we dont agree with the exact content in the post, it's not against the rules and doesn't violate our tos according to our own internal decision. so we wont remove it"

and then they nuke countless trans women's entire blogs for "any reason or no reason at all"

[rulimaquina]

If you get a bunch of ur friends to report a blog for spam enough times it gets deleted that's what I did with my stalker, thanks for coming to my TED talk

[isaacsapphire]

Aaaand that’s quite likely what is happening with countless trans women’s blogs. Thanks for the TED Talk.

[flakmaniak]

Democracy in individual moderation decisions is mob rule!

[femmenietzsche]

Look when I bet $100 on Kalshi that you "weren't gonna make it" I was merely hedging against how sad I would be in that case. If anything it's a sign of how much I care

[flakmaniak]

Right; you'd have placed a much-larger bet if you had inside information.

[flakmaniak]

If you really wanna increase the birth rate, what you gotta do is... Cause more crossover between conventions/events for the higher-percentage-male miniature modeling hobbies (wargaming of all kinds, various military scale modeling and so on), and the higher-percentage-female miniature modeling hobbies (the various dollhouse-y/BJD stuff), but actually...

What you gotta do is travel back in time and somehow cause there to be real scale-matches that cross over between these two worlds! Because it'd be such an easy sell if you could tell people "well sure, in subject matter that dollhouse convention isn't what you usually do, but it IS the same scale as all your armor, so..."!

And then it would be very natural for this crossover in conventions to occur; if you were both in 1/35 or 1/12 or whatever, then of course it would make sense to have a shared convention, with many vendors making products that are applicable for both!

Also, obviously the marriages that come about because of this will be extremely stable; none of that "well my wife doesn't like the Lego room" stuff, when you're sharing a modeling workshop because the fact you were both into it is what got you together!

...Anyway yeah my thesis is: Scale-crossover is important, for the future of humanity.

[flakmaniak]

Airbrush-primed a bunch of models today. Alexia and the Risen, Blackbane's Ghost Raiders, most of the Revenant Crew of the Atramentous and a couple odds and ends... And a couple Age of Sigmar models for a friend, who wanted 'em in white for bright color schemes.

Started with the white, the old Vallejo white primer I have lying around, and... It was disastrous. Near-clogs instantly every time, and actual full clogs pretty quickly. I got a LITTLE white onto one of them.

The VMS black worked fine. Primed all the undead with few and minor clogs. Did the two AoS models in black, then went back and put a warm brown on them, to make autumnal schemes easy.

And then hours later noticed that Damian Sperling needs a bit more primer on 'im, from some angles... But whatever; I have plenty more models that need to be primed. He can just go in the next batch.

The early parts of the priming session really were horrible... I was starting to doubt everything, and it was uncomfortably hot out (and way too bright really!), and I just wondered if I would actually get anything done... But no, it was just the old white primer disagreeing with the airbrush.

Also I don't know when (sometime between the end of last session, and some early point in this one when I noticed) the needle's tip got bent... I did get it mostly bent back with pliers, but it's still not totally straight... I mean, it wasn't perfect before, but it might be a little more imperfect now! And it's hard to say whether it's actually bad-enough that it's a big issue and needs replacement, or if it's well within bounds of "can perform acceptably"...

[flakmaniak]

I was browsing Scalemates earlier today... Why do some of these ancient Japanese model kits of the Jagdpanther (by Tamiya and Crown and yet-others) name it the "Rommel Tank"? Whence that name?

[garmbreak1]

Y'all heard about women?

[flakmaniak]

Yeah, they sure do get rave reviews...

[flakmaniak]

...So it's basically that if you spoke a Romance language, then your tanks were a laughingstock, but if you spoke a Germanic or a Slavic language, then you could participate fully in armored warfare.

[flakmaniak]

Everyone's ignoring the real scandal with Slay the Spire 2: Caltrops is no longer a normal card and can only be gotten in some cards-from-the-past event.

[flakmaniak]

John Blanche has died. He will be remembered fondly. Paint one of your minis today! He can't anymore, but you still can!

[flakmaniak]

The thing with rich-suburb NIMBYs is that... They will use any argument.

Well, first off, as I always say, NIMBYism is a political issue like racism: Everyone has to claim to be on the same side.

But the arguments... I mean, you get people arguing against big housing developments, saying they shouldn't go through, because "not enough of these units are affordable"...

And on its own that could sound (stupid but) noble, or inconsistent with the assumed rich-person values of not wanting the town's population to expand at all/not wanting the poors to move in...

But when you see the overall pattern of opposing basically every bit of upzoning and construction...

It's just, every possible argument will be used! Whatever they have to put in their heads to convince themselves to oppose a given bit of building, they'll do and say it!