QuoProQuid

HHH in 1960: my rival, john f KKKennedy is a son of a nazi who runs his operation with fascist efficiency. he possesses no values, no principles. he’s scum

HHH in 1976: you know, i think governor wallace raises many solid points.

hubert humphrey did the “either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” thing but instead of becoming cool and edgy he just became emaciated, whinier, and more shameless

"[Men] anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language."

sorry but the guy who is sitting in the audience of Chicago telling the camera that "i didn't know it was in prison! i thought it was all in a nightclub!" is performing for your entertainment and his comments are probably not even an accurate representation of his own opinion.

a lot of reaction videos are not so much actual reactions but people trying to find a bit that will be funny for the camera and, thus, exaggerating their take to extremes and pretending not to understand basic elements of what they're watching.

i still don’t think it feels quite like texas, but maybe that’s because the entire country is texas now and every texan issue is just a national issue.

still not entirely feeling adult Bobby, who often feels weirdly placed, but the writing on Hank and Peggy is really sharp.

Peggy in particular becomes a very fun character where she still has the same flaws and huge ego but loosened up a bit over the years.

okay, after the third episode i think it starts to find a better footing. still not the same show but a lot less reflexively concerned with justifying its existence and obsessing over lost time

i might be off base but a couple of the points of reference also seem out of date and contribute to a weird sense of dislocation.

the college kids that bobby hangs out with read as more millennials than zoomers. there's jokes about COVID masking and background characters dressed very 2010s.

i suppose i just see hank hill's day-to-day life focusing a lot more on, say, TGI Friday's than Japanese-German fusion restaurants

i've only just started watching the king of the hill revival, but it feels a lot less specific to small-town texas and much more of a grab bag of miscellaneous, national anxieties

but maybe that's because so much of the action keeps returning to dallas instead of keeping the characters in arlen.

i recall the courts being warned about this exact tit-for-tat and race to the bottom around gerrymandering around the time of Gill v. Whitford in 2017

just saw a very strange adult having a temper tantrum but in a kind of attention-seeking sitcom way where they were stomping down the block, stopping at each freestanding street sign, and throwing them aside as they passed

oh quite a lot yes

yeah, yeah. new model army. republicanism. i get it. i'm having difficulty divorcing that from the butchery in ireland.

sorry to be the one friend that's too woke but any time i see you folks memeing about your admiration of oliver cromwell, i go "yeah, idk about that one, dawg"

an algorithm is an algorithm and no amount of money can get you a better algorithm than the one the bum on the corner is getting.

i may be too online

one thousand charts about "the christian dark ages" brought us to this moment

the world exists as a series of inefficiencies that no one else has recognized before. our protagonist is defined by his belief in his own objectivity and rationality and willingness to bring a hammer to these systems, not in a way that changes power dynamics but allows him to become an elite

farritor is indicative of a mindset in tech that views "intelligence" (questionably defined) as the essential attribute. it sees itself not owing a debt to society but being its rightful guardians—uplifting proles from their backwardness

which is to say he's downstream of the Methods of Rationality

with each passing day i come to believe more fully in the necessity of butlerian jihad

From a discussion some friends and I had about if Harry would be able to survive Silent Hill

i am trying to decide right now how mean i want to be when it comes to the discussion

regretfully

new book club has picked the methods of rationality as this month’s read so I may actually just kms

writing this one down

final_final_update based on requests. didn't add anything i wasn't familiar with or wasn't too sure of.