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The project of Western civilization seems to be largely oriented around diminishing how many steps people take. Not merely as an energy-efficiency thing, but as something that indulges the human capacity for laziness.

It’s backwards to think about “getting your steps in” when the whole society is structured around stopping you from walking places, by either bringing every resource right under your nose, or positioning it so far away that it would take several hours to walk there.

It started with domestication of equines, progressed with the emergence of an underclass who could serve as porters or rickshaw operators, and went into overdrive with modern technology that hooked us on every last indolence through the power of ecological overshoot and resource depletion, concealing our connections to this through the opacity of the market.

We tell ourselves histories about people having to go seek things out on foot, like it’s an unthinkable horror story.

Walking is one of the most fundamental things to being human. You can think and talk and perceive and process the world while you walk. You form a real, internalized, unalienated connection with your world and the people in it when you walk. When we are unable or disincentivized to walk places, we end up with all kinds of health problems, which ironically then get trotted out as reasons why we shouldn’t walk places, and the spiral deepens.

Smash the asphalt, send up the gas stations in a cloud of smoke, retvrn to communal living in the longhouse, and for the love of all that is holy, allow a pedestrian radius of more than 20 steps for major daily functions. A society that is sprawled out in the interest of bringing convenience to everyone right in their portioned-off space is not a society worth living under. A wise society has everyone (besides the critically infirm) walking at least 2 kilometers a day.

America esse delendam
Europa esse delendam
Occidentum esse delendam

the people who own the Fallout IP deeply resent anyone who thinks that humans may be able to come together and achieve things after a disaster

Cf. The Walking Dead and TLOU for starters, each to some extent.

We see famous media pessimistically portraying human prospects in disaster scenarios as far back as the mid 20-th century, where just 11 years after Lord of the Flies was published, a small group of boys ran away from a boarding school and lived on a deserted island without murdering or splitting from each other.

Expat is part of an extensive lexicon of chauvinist words which are selectively appended to people solely based on their place in the world order.

You switched countries either under your own volition, or under someone else’s. If you were in control of it, you’re an immigrant. If you weren’t, you’re a human trafficking victim.

No one has an agency of “Expatriation” that they go through, you go through the Immigration agency in the destination country.

Poached pears were one of my favorite homemade side dishes growing up. There were never leftovers.

Kinda hope there’s some “No Shahs” momentum building in Iran. It would make such a great pairing across continents and imperial divisions.

@Alaskaball posted a master reference to it some time ago.

Carnivore bingo: puma, cougar, mountain lion, catamount…

At age 11 you will put behind childish things like running, jumping, crawling, rolling, and holding more than one hand above chest height. You will replace them with gender performance so as to improve your Darwinian fitness, and you will enlist cars and other motorized components to move your body, which you will keep in a narrow photogenic posture at all times. Your only sanctioned experience of a childlike state will be through alcohol.

I enjoyed watching the show because I was introduced to it by friends with a healthy gender balance, it had a quirky and sophisticated humor to it, and every 3-minute span passed the Bechdel test.

Others liked it because hell if I know, but we are not the same.

What if they replaced the Allah emblem with a Sikh khanda and no one noticed

Or a Juche emblem, for that matter

Long enough to be able to pay delinquent child support, that’s for sure.

Lining up behind the Democrats is a much closer point of cognitive stability than actively opposing both main parties, unfortunately.

The united states in its death spiral is really going to take out every government with social programs in the entire hemisphere, isn’t it?

The twist at the end is that this is the 11th of 15 head-to-head minigames.

It’s funny to see the German comments right after the video was posted, and then English comments popping up 7 years later when it got rediscovered on TikTok. Maybe they should have made a whole game show out of this.

Part of the context for this is that there is a narrative over a few chapters in Genesis of Sodom and Gomorrah being the people everybody hates, objectionable both to their peers and to the divine observer. Abraham is the figure showing mercy and haggles with God to spare them if 50 (or 20, or even 10) righteous people can be found), and it is implied that not a single one is found.

The ultimatums and threats made to Lot can more accurately be seen as sexual assault, as well as a violation of the cultural norm of hospitality to guests. Relevant to part of your question is that Lot, as the protagonist, does not see it as transgressive to give his already-betrothed (!) daughters over to his neighbors. To keep the story concise it would have made sense to give just one last particularly shocking offense before the resolution.

Like with the rest of the Torah, the story was crafted in a certain social/historical context, passed down orally for generations, and then written down by multiple people trying to portray it coherently for the ages. It works nicely as an origin and identity story, but it breaks down if you nit-pick it, especially if you’re reading it in a modern Indo-European language. And vernacular nit-picking is what a lot of Protestants have made it their business to do.

They are lowkey making this a POV Human Trafficker ad.

They’ll manufacture that anyway by taking a Fort Bragg veteran to pull off a hit on an underachieving or uncompliant ICE agent, and spinning up a story about it being a “radical leftist”.

Good-faith does not exist in America today, it was abandoned so long ago.

“I’m jerkin’ their chains!”

A guy named Peniston is writing about a real dick move.

each one getting increasingly rage filled.

Make sure he is nudged toward general strikes and a moratorium on consumption, rather than potentially toward lone wolf stuff.