I can barely understand why someone would choose to be fat

in terms of harm: cigarettes > pipe / cigars > gum / vape / patch

Snus is probably in that last category, or not far from it

As is snuff

I mistyped a band name in a web search and the devil tarot card appeared as a result

Telan Devik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zuQsVsyoMA

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=talon+devik

Mormon temples look so **nice**

give examples

MGTOW see some legitimate problems but then just give up

I know a guy in Manitoba

ever wonder if the people around you are real?
real people who can think?
people who have a sense of self that can make judgements and chose a path towards understanding?
people who don't need to ask the Internet for scientific studies about things they can find out for themselves at home with their bathroom scale?
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/78xinz/what_of_my_weight_am_i_actually_lifting_when/

@Parasite I think it's like that everywhere

at least, every major urban area

"Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents, or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-population-soars-to-6-8-million-1.1308179

maybe that would work, but it would require at least some level of community support

or else the backlash from virtue signallers would be hard and fast

NYC, 8, urbanites, Uzbek Muslim

boring

can't even make some pithy cynical comment like "a small price to pay for diversity", because that's cliched by now too

huh, unironic praise of diversity training

from someone who isn't in HR

> Pedophile ≠ molester
Being human ≠ justification for continued existance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hko1TNkgUUE

This formula of a continuous stream of morphing themes isn't the greatest way of organizing music, but this one is really good at it

one of my math professors used to complain about students always asking him "can we see an example?"
I think in his experience students focusing on just examples didn't develop an actual understanding of the underlying concepts, but were effectively mentally lazy and picked out patterns that they thought encapsulated them but wasn't complete
But examples are of course necessary when the more difficult task of accurately and accessibly describing in words the full idea is not done well enough
He was probably also frustrated at them for not understanding his description because of the implication that his description was inadequate, and he may have resented that

PewDiePie reviews Beyond Good and Evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7u-xAWWyK4

I put Excalibur on the list to watch after seeing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt8Dt9rXl3I

The Last King is good

Why make lab-grown human meat when we have vast reserves of the real thing taking up space?

perfect amino-acid profile too

it wouldn't even be noticed in hot dog form

do it @devolved

do it

good question

https://i.imgur.com/ZttC4yw.gifv

THE UK

one of the more trying aspects of work is listening to coworkers talk about their boat cruise vacations

Seems as though the most likely scenario in a few decades is general collapse to some degree of most of what was Western civilization, but with a couple spots where competent Westerners coalesce

using the heritability of intelligence to further egalitarianism and socialism
https://www.economist.com/news/international/21739144-new-research-suggests-new-ways-nurture-gifted-children-how-and-why-search-young

Reposting this because it's the perfect leftist wet dream
It's the World Peace sketch that was too real for World Peace
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/mlk-s-granddaughter-i-have-a-dream-that-enough-is-enough-1194251843918

further in the article they talk about how poor kids and minorities are not doing as well as IQ would predict, so it's an imperative that the state must help them become equal

they also point out that other traits than IQ matter, and therefore it's mperative that the state helps people become equal

notice the pattern?

It's a pleasant bubble of delusion for them

So much drama

I made the mistake today of being curious about some Baked Alaska/Metokur spat, and watched some of the recorded stream

Huge waste of everything

Yeah, he does have worthwhile things to say

It seems like every alt-right or related public figure has either made a serious acusation against another, or has been the subject of one, and there is an interlocking network of acusations such that there's no way to disentangle it and even pick a "side", because within any subset of alt-right figures there is some animosity between at least two of them

I suppose some degree of this is to be expected; normal people don't talk about these taboo topics, so it's left to the real weridos

I don't mean to be dismissive of weev's article, maybe he's right, but I'm just going to sidestep the whole issue by not "trusting" Internet celebrities or pretending they're leaders and instead I'll support and promote the good things they say when they say them

There should be a distinction between thought leaders, movement leaders, and organizational leaders

And they should be held to high standards, but specifically standards that are relevant to their position

Everyone is flawed, but some flaws are bigger vulnerabilities and hindrances than others, and some are more critical in some roles than others

I feel the same thing, but we don't have an ethnostate to purge them from

So what would they be purged from?

Right, but how?

My personal preference would be that Serious Acusations should be to the point and mostly just expositions of the clear evidence to back them up

Saying someone is an FBI informant is a specific claim and the reasons for the claim can be given

That's different from, for example, the vague accusations I've seen leveled at Spencer, where a photo of him with two asian girls is presented as somehow discrediting him

Right, and why do we need to trust them? Even if they say good things, why does agreeing with them require trusting them?

Are internet celebrities leading anything?

Some of the Internet celebritites have value in that they may help others come to truths. I don't see any attempts at leadership from them except in the sense of having many people who listen to them and read what they write, which doesn't require trust.

Something like Charlottesville last year did require trust though.

Sometimes tents get too big

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/civilizations-is-the-most-ambitious-story-about-art-ever-told-on-television/2018/04/16/0f3480da-417c-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.011457812690

they're making a globalist replacement for Kenneth Clark's doc

"If the expanded view makes the ensuing narrative necessarily amorphous, it’s also exciting, and compulsory viewing for a new generation"

haha, that's also a description of multiculturalism

"And some will complain that the series, despite the wider parameters, is still too biased in favor of Europe and America."

"The theme of what “civilization” actually is, or entails, is examined from different perspectives throughout the series. Is it always aligned with city-states? Is it a term that necessarily implies an assumption of superiority over so-called barbarians?"

guys, are barbarians really that bad? c'mon let's just open the gates

@diversity_is_racism very strange coincidence, I was just thinking about Blessed are the Sick / Leading the Rats this morning

interesting

I had also intended to come here and ask if anyone had any thoughts on why they put a pied piper reference onto the song

This is what made me think of the Pied Piper; it includes shots from a claymation film of the story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTRVKsBiSU

it's good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RFLm5eZuHM

could be

The aspect of the story that sticks out to me is they way the new generation is led out of a corrupt society (infested with parasites; greedy dishonest elites)

In the versions I know about the Pied Piper leads the children away as punishment to the town for not paying him

could be

I don't think it's the town sacrificing the children though, unless you mean through their complacency

ah, boomer style

what I was also thinking is that guys like today's birthday boy can be compared to the pied piper

In many versions of the story he leads the kids to start a new colony, a fresh start

So generally positive, but it's not fully clear, and there's negative aspects to it

like Hitler

it also makes me think of Plato's Republic, where Socrates concludes that the only real way to create the republic they've described would be to run off with a group of young children who have not yet had corruption impressed upon them

And I must not omit to say
That in Transylvania there's a tribe
Of alien people that ascribe
The outlandish ways and dress
On which their neighbors lay such stress,
To their fathers and mothers having risen
Out of some subterraneous prison
Into which they were trepanned
Long time ago in a mighty band
Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,
But how or why, they don't understand.
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#browning

as a bonus, "The Ratcatcher", which is an alternate name for the story, sounds like a description of our uncle Adolf

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