Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith

  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    up here we heard that Nigeria had offered to send election observers to the US i heard it was the norks, but i can't find any reference to it online...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    and then that big ol' hero's funeral in jerusalem...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Heteromeles' "fantasy" makes Romeo older in order to create a modern day morality tale should've just called him "groomeo" to save time...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    And I think most of us are justifiably cynical about how long those will last. i think someone here mentioned microsoft's project silica, which sounds promising, though there may be room for cynicism about how long our ability to read...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Anyone her know about the current debate about naming newborns in Japan? Apparently there are cultural rules. And for a while now some new parents aren't following them. And as the kids grow up not all places that require a...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I read that it was pretty nice back when the city was known as Tenochtitlan. i hear some of the religious festivals could get a little overdramatic...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    my brain needs junk food content to displace the urge towards [REDACTED TOPIC] flame wars yeah we gotta stop giving charlie reasons to shut the blog down really, plus what must qntm think i think it's here: https://flarerpg.org/download/...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    where it looks to have been a harsh and unpleasant reality check on Xi's ambition to forcibly re-take Taiwan i mean he could take it but it would be a bit killing-the-goose-that-laid-etc, those fabs and their staff are unlikely to...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    I was going to suggest the main difference was that Finland didn't have a similar role in the formation of Russian identity to that played by Kyivan Rus, i'm still finding myself seduced by the simplicity of the explanation that...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    no, i'm more or less on top of the background to the ukraine invasion, i'm just wondering why anyone thinks it's likely to be the prelude to having a go at somewhere like finland, let alone sundry nato members even...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    I was also pretty convinced that Finland had good enough defense that Russia would realize that attacking us would be a no-go because of the costs involved, but the Ukraine war makes me doubt that there is enough sense in...
  • Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
    it's basically mastermind (if u remember that) with words instead of sets of colors...
  • Commented on WTF
    More from Umair Haque: Britain’s Finally Figuring Out Brexit (Really) Was the Biggest Mistake in Modern History dude is given to hyperventilation, my family are in the uk and they're not visibly sidling up to the question of whether they...
  • Commented on WTF
    there were indeed Buddhist temples with attached Shinto shrines. I have photos, too. were they staffed? i think u can put a small unattended shrine anywhere u like (there was one in my old house) but staffing it is a...
  • Commented on WTF
    And then there's the routine colocation of Shinto shrines in the grounds of Buddhist temples afaict this was true during the edo period but at the beginning of the meiji era the buddhists (who had been supporting the shoguns) took...
  • Commented on WTF
    No, largely it was his reward for not agreeing with everything the Bush administrations* did. Such as suggesting our National interest had little to do with Iraq. good on him *Still waiting to hear of an intimate hair care business...
  • Commented on WTF
    Jerry Pournelle was not considered conservative enough late in his life. wasn't that mainly by the sad puppies tho...
  • Commented on WTF
    She reported him to HR she "felt threatened" when he "attacked her beliefs" and he was interviewed by them. loathsome bit of entitlement, that perhaps supplying a reason was unwise tho...
  • Commented on WTF
    to infer(r) is human...
  • Commented on WTF
    maybe ideology and religion are on a spectrum...
  • Commented on WTF
    Economic theories are the religion. Capitalism is just ONE of the sectarian branches. i think faith in progress is the religion science fiction is presumably part of the support system...
  • Commented on WTF
    the underpants are a bit weird too...
  • Commented on WTF
    I barely tolerated the first show, which badly violated Addam's canon he did set up the characters for the original tv show, but i think he might have been flexible about canon seeing as this show was focusing on one...
  • Commented on WTF
    watched a couple before i was distracted by something shiny, seemed like harmless burton gothic fare for millennials, and the lass is tolerably easy on the eye did it go off-message somehow after that...
  • Commented on WTF
    the Yankee supremacism there's no denying that u can occasionally stumble over levels of self-fondling which are unseemly for adults i enjoyed twain's book, though at an age when my critical faculties may not have been fully developed...
  • Commented on WTF
    Covid has been released in China. or perhaps re-released...
  • Commented on WTF
    and u try telling the young people that...
  • Commented on WTF
    The argument that making addictive drugs legal and widely available will lead to less use of them seems odd to me. thought it was more that it would make most of the harms resulting from them more manageable i have...
  • Commented on WTF
    But I AM determined that now that I'm the old guy on the block that I won't be the asshole here. do not struggle against ur destiny (jk)...
  • Commented on WTF
    hey, i'm not out here trying to pick fights (other than about nato/ukraine) thanks for the links...
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