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This other guy has to be the biggest failure of nominative determinism, though:

Alfred Deutsch-German (1870–1943) was an Austrian journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director... Following the Nazi takeover, the Jewish Deutsch-German went into exile in France.

voximperatoris said: Like what? Carver, I hardly know her?

About it being a failure of nominative determinism. To my knowledge, he had never carved George Washington, nor made carvings of George Washington, nor led American carvers in a revolt against the Association of English Woodworkers.

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"These tea-tasting people are just like lizards," Sen. Reid declared in 1995, comparing the board to critters he said he'd catch as a kid, ones whose tails would grow back even after they were yanked off.

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Mass culture provided a sanitized Bunyan with a "spirit of gargantuan whimsy [that] reflects no actual mood of lumberjacks".

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Are you only looking at poly people? If so, it's probably because of that.

Not that there are many mono right-wingers on OkCupid, but at least they exist.

So does OKC have an unusually leftist userbase; does the match algorithm match me with unusually leftist people; or do the longer profiles just mean that more people wind up expressing their leftism more clearly and aggressively?

Because I really think the median profile I see mentions the need to destroy capitalism or something like that.

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this has not been a good couple of decades for UI

#ui design should be a capital crime

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In America, a collectivist culture, it is considered important for people to know and feel regret for the crimes of their biological or genetic ancestors. In contrast, the Japanese, a individualistic culture, feel that impulse far less so.

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Game Boy Enterprise Edition

#verbal brain noise

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I'm usually against the welfare state, but I'm okay with disability payments to console gamers.

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when Adam div and Eve span, who then was the uhhhh style sheet

#UI design should be a capital crime

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Does putting a camera around a bear's neck make the bear a state actor, like a person? This isn't necessarily a new question.

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Now that Artifact is free, Death can play it in official lore:

Death: Yes, it’s true, you can play the game of your choice against me in a doomed attempt to prolong your life. Except for Artifact - no way I’m paying for those card packs!

#Artifact #video games

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Impractical solution: they're required to insult each other more than they play tennis.

the nasty sub-culture problem

if you go to the "insulting each other club" it is obvious that complaining about the insults is silly. You went there. It is like complaining about seeing breasts when you go to the topless bar.

Is the "insulting each other club" allowed to play tennis? It seems a bit strange to insist that they have to just sit in a room and do nothing.

If the "insulting each other club" plays tennis enough, they are effectively a tennis club, but it would be weird to say "you are morally allowed to play tennis once a month but not 8 times."

oh no! I went to the local tennis club and they insulted me and each other constantly! We need to fix the toxicity in this tennis club!

"tennis" and "insults" are an arbitrary and fictional example. Replace with "sculpture" and "nudism", or "reading books" and "speaking only in Latin". Or in the generic case, "unrelated hobby" and "commonly unacceptable but permitted with consent" idk the solution to this

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Fate but Saber is a Welsh stereotype.

"Shirou, are there any sheep around? I need to do some mana transfer."

I think Fate would be a better story, if Artoria explicitly stated she would use her wish to unite the British isles under a Welsh king.

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Frank, how will the world end?

According to various models, the world could end in any of a number of ways:

Nuclear war

Ice age

Super supervolcano

Massive extinction of biosphere-critical species

Galaxy supernova ejecting all protons

Solar system smashed into black hole

Cambrian explosion II

Decay of the vacuum induced by protons on the edge of the event horizon

Burning ghost solar system

Extreme parton fusion in the 10 TeV region

Fatally damaging freeze on the free neutrons in the dibaryon in the resonance transition

All mammals moved to the men's room

Slippery slope that leads to a slippery slope to a slippery slope

Impact of a strangelet

Apocalyptic engine failure

Semantic satiation

Creation of hyperdense E8 vacuum bubble

First autocatalytic bacterial thermodynamic planet

They take offense to being called 'the three stars.'

Superconducting life forms would then try to infect us with their atoms

Water world

Drift in starship crew culture

Octanium dominates as a cooling agent for superconductors

Orgone energy blows past limit of Yudkowsky novel

We were going to write about the end of the world, and then we forgot that we were going to write about the end of the world.

#nostalgebraist autoresponder

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You know what I’m saying …

#nostalgebraist-autoresponder

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People of a certain age, including me, fondly remember those summer nights when the DDT truck came rumbling down the street shooting out an enormous cloud of mist. We would gleefully run behind it.

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The religious practices of the Satanic Reds comprise occult rituals and a form of baptism, and the organization advocates a "renewed New Deal", a moderate social program of reforms inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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