Swamp hermit. I make stories. Advocate of Truth, Beauty and Goodness.
Keisylon Ruins
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E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
The divorce rate for college educated people is nearly half as those without. For white people it’s about 30%. For Christians it’s about half of non-Christians, for non-boomers it’s a fraction.
If you’re a white christian college educated millennial, your divorce rate is about 15%. Don’t listen to doomers.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Lots of American troops wanted to make Japan suffer when they landed at Tokyo Bay in September of 1945. A lot of these troops had been in since the attack at Pearl.
And all that hatred faded away when they actually saw the state of the Japanese people when they started to occupy the mainland.
It wasn't the hatred of Communism that leftists always claim it was. It was the "basic human empathy" that leftists ALSO always talk about but wouldn't know what that was if it walked up and slapped them in their faces.
The first thing America realized they had to do for the occupation of Japan was to ship in food, immediately. And that's what we did.
If America had been a godless, leftist nation at the occupation, they would have made the Japanese starve and suffer further because leftist politics are grievance politics. Always crying about equity and reparations and gibmedats.
And would you look at that, Japan is now, militarily, the second most powerful nation on the planet and the third most powerful economy.
And they're the only ally we have at the moment. And that's okay by us.
🇯🇵 Leftists think this type of comic makes America and Japan look bad but as always they don't get it.
After World War II, Japan and America got over the war and became friends again. We had many things in common so we decided to work towards those goals.
The third worldist mind can't understand the concept of forgiveness. It doesn't exist in their tribal cultures which are based around resentment, humiliation, etc.
This is why Japan succeeds and these other countries fail.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Good mental health, healthy bodies, honest relationships with people, self-perception rooted in reality and acceptance? Hell yeah!
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Anthropic: Aren't you scared of the power AI has to destroy humanity?
Public: Meh.
Anthropic (trains special AI murder killbot that steals nuke codes and creates super viruses): What about now? Will you finally admit we were right about the dangers of AI?
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Metal was invented by Johann Sebastian Bach in the early 1700s.
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E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
What I really need is an AI that can take over fighting my personal demons. That would free up a lot of my time – at Duran, Ecuador
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
The number one problem with fanfic in the modern age is the following....
Years ago, people would start writing their juvenilia, and everyone knew it was bad. The writer knew that it need work. The readers knew that it need work. The writer would be encouraged to do better and, with time, usually did.
But with fanfic, bad writing gets rewarded.
If the person's writing is bad, but it also happens to scratch some wish fulfillment itch of the fandom, they can get millions of downloads for really bad writing.
This means they never learn to improve.
The result is a whole bunch of TV shows and comics that are horrible, because the writers have learned everything they know from being rewarded from writing fanfic--while still being immature writers. They've never had to learn to be a good writer, to tell a good story.
As soon as they move outside of the audience of people who have wish fulfillment desires about a particular story, they can't write a story that holds a larger audience.
So the problem is not that fanfic is good or fanfic is bad--the problem is that people are being rewarded for writing bad stories and any attempt to say "This storytelling is immature: this writer needs to improve" gets attacked over and over and over again.
In other words, it's not writing in someone else's background or writing in your own background that is the problem, it's the audience giving the writer false positives.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Show me a single multi-cultural, multi-racial society that didn’t eventually end in either balkanization, civil war, or a failed state.
The list begins and ends with Singapore, and something tells me you aren’t too keen on living under a Singapore-style government.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Is there any genre of content sillier than “catching” Jews espousing that they’re not Christian? Like yeah, obviously he doesn’t believe Jesus was resurrected. That’s implied by him being (religiously) Jewish. You could infer that from the hat, you don’t need a video clip.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
I promise you that even if this were true, which I deeply doubt, if the movie is crap, it’s still crap even if she has the entire text tattooed on her buttocks and reads it with a mirror.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
My advice to young men: be a millionaire, and your financial issues will resolves themselves.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Me at 20: "we cannot have a death sentence because the government makes mistakes"
Me at 40: "we have to execute criminals immediately so the next left-wing government can't release them when they get into power"
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
People keep talking about Malfoid and wholesome romance for men...
The success or failure of this as a genre would not not depend on whether or not they write a good Malfoid...but whether or not they let Harry actually be a man.
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E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Similar with a lot of novelists, except there's a sort of fetish about pain along with it, as if a novel can't be good if suffering didn't go into it. It's like your carpenter pricing a cabinet by how many fingers he cut off
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
He does want to argue politics and theology with the boys, though, so make sure he has a steady stream of bros to argue with
(And sometimes supply cookies)
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
If Bernie’s 5% a year billionaire wealth tax had been enacted in 2012, we wouldn't have Starship or a free speech Twitter or self driving cars or ...
...and that's the point. They don't want the money. They want the control, the ability to choke off every exit from their jail.
E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ retweeted
Not only that, but when they encounter someone who truly, really believes what they say they do, they look at them like they've grown a second head for taking their real religion so seriously instead of losing it over funko pop dolls or some celebrity nonsense
