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  1. Hey Ian, not really a question but w/r/t your cornetto vid, it's great to see you making videos that you pretty obviously genuinely enjoyed creating.
    Your other stuff has been super super important to me and my worldview, but the subject matter of some of those is kind of miserable and I know they can't be a total joy to make, so, props to you for making time for stuff you want to do! Go you!

    this video was actually really grueling to make and involved three weeks of crunch while pushing through illness and multiple family/friend crises

  3. Tiities are also pretty horizontally oriented

    in response to Best boobs?

    statistically one is usually lower than the other

  4. Have you watched Steve McQueen?

    in response to Have you read Stephen King?

    the actor or the director?

    yes in both cases

  5. bruh u think gary should have accepted the aliens? they literally exterminated 97% of the town, they were space fascists. sure they can look a bit like the EU if you squint your eyes, but they’re also literally the forces of capitalism - genocide, starbuckification and soulless consumption - destroying people’s lives. and gary at the end continues punching nazis

    Gary got his mum killed and I think maybe she should've had a say in that decision

  6. Do you have a vegan cheat meal (a food thats not vegan but you love so much that you occasionally indulge yourself)?

    not exactly. there are some foods that many vegans boycott that I have gotten lax with. I don't buy honey, but I don't refuse to eat it. I couldn't see the logic for people refusing gelatin but continuing to eat refined sugar, so when I stopped avoiding the the latter I did the same for the former. and I sometimes eat Indian food I know is vegetarian and just cross my fingers it isn't made with ghee.

    but, like... your body CHANGES when you stop consuming animal products. it stops producing certain enzymes that used to help you break it down. I am extremely lactose intolerant and react very badly to eggs; even Impossible Meat, which is entirely vegan, gives me a stomachache, and I THINK it's the synthetic hemoglobin they use to make it convincingly "rare."

    in short: a cheat day would make me very, very sick. about 20% of the reason I went vegan is I was sick of spending a day in the bathroom every time I ate cheese.

  7. Why don’t you think we should be more worried about the growing influence of tankies?

    in response to Does the left do too much infighting?

    no one has actually demonstrated a growing influence. if you can show me that people doing actual organizing, mutual aid, and radical action are veering in a Marxist-Leninist direction, I will be worried. so far all I'm hearing is "there are more tankies in my feed than before."

    one of the pitfalls of social media is we tend to think whatever discourse we are exposed to is a representative sampling of The Discourse at large. it's not. it is heavily curated to what an algorithm thinks you pay attention to. people keep telling me about the dangerous opinions of YouTubers whose work has never once cracked my feeds. I'm not saying they don't matter or that their arguments aren't harmful; I don't know which of us is in a bubble here! maybe the fact that they AREN'T in my feeds is weird. but that's why I tend to ask "hey, is this person ACTUALLY influential, or are they just loud enough to appear that way?"

    I would actually be curious if anyone is studying the measurable impact of YouTubers and influencers on leftist movements, but, if that paper has been written, I haven't found the right phrase to punch into Google Scholar to turn it up. so, until then, just kinda have to check our experiences against each other, and judge whether a person is a problem for The Left and when they're just a thorn in your own paw.

  8. Does the left do too much infighting?

    I would say the Left's infighting is not particularly healthy. dissent and plurality of opinion is a good thing, and one of the Left's strengths in the grand scheme. but the way it gets performed on the internet these days is... yeeesh.

  9. You said that in regards to the people wearing the cosplays, not the characters they’re dressed as.

    in response to … even if it’s a canonically underage character like Asuka from Eva? 😅

    ah, fair point.

    age-play between consenting adults is ethical. as with any sex, there are unhealthy ways to do it, and ugly things it can be used to mask/indulge/justify. but the act, in and of itself, is morally neutral.

  10. Favorite quote?

    I come back to this one a lot:

    "We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
    - Kilgore Trout

  11. Best boobs?

    in response to Boobs?

    if there is one area to be a non-hierarchical anarcho-socialist, it's tiddies. all have something to offer the community.

  13. Why didn't the GameCube controller have a second Z button?

    gamecube needs no extra z button

  14. Have you read Stephen King?

    no

  15. A little thought experiment: Pick an Immoral and/or Illegal thing to do, think up a non-moral, non-legal argument for Not Doing That.

    axe murder is unhygienic

  16. What do you do when Jehovah's Witnesses knock?

    has literally never happened to me

  18. Have you ever had a pet rock?

    all my pets rock

  19. Socialism and liberalism don't seem to be working out, should I just become a conservative?

    I have bad news about how that works out long-term

  20. (different anon) is there any problem with wanting to have sex with a gf while we wear cosplays of our waifus if the criteria you mentioned is fulfilled? Asking for a friend.

    in response to So it allows for male sexual expression, just in weird ways. With cat ears

    anything is fair game between enthusiastically consenting adults fam

  21. How about competetively ranked sex?

    in response to Even if this was true it's an incredibly patriarchal take that women can't be allowed to make their own mistakes and that you as a man should stop them from doing it for their own good. Not to mention I've had multiple men cry at me because I wasn't interested in a relationship with them after having casual sex.

    https://twitter.com/InnuendoStudios/status/1205872111404953601?t=VGLwHDQ0sH69MCtoz5rd4g&s=19

  22. Even if this was true it's an incredibly patriarchal take that women can't be allowed to make their own mistakes and that you as a man should stop them from doing it for their own good.

    Not to mention I've had multiple men cry at me because I wasn't interested in a relationship with them after having casual sex.

    in response to I think the vast, vast majority of women end up regretting casual sex. Not because it's inherently bad but because they always end up getting used by men. They either hate it and feel ashamed or disgusted or they love it but the man doesn't want a relationship so they feel sad. Communication my ass, you know you're in a position of power. If you were truly ethical you'd recognize this reality and stop having casual sex.

    yeah, I have known a lot of sexually active women who speak very frankly about their experience, and not a single one has expressed what OP is describing. though I AM flattered they think I have a lot of casual sex!

  23. Why be an atheist if it's causing you mental duress?

    in response to How are atheists supposed to cope with death?

    I get this question sometimes and I feel it paints religion in a strange light. "believe what feels good" is not how belief works for me. I tried very hard to convince myself there was an afterlife, and I could not find an argument that worked. do you just CHOOSE what you think is real? how does that work??

  25. You've mentioned a few times that while you're an atheist, you don't really have any hostility towards religion in general. How do you feel about US evangelical Christianity in particular?

    I have hostility towards them in specific

  26. If you were magically transported to an alternate universe where animal-related food products where somehow magically guaranteed to have no cruelty or mistreatment involved in any step of the process, would you be interested in trying non-vegan foods again?

    no

  27. I think the vast, vast majority of women end up regretting casual sex. Not because it's inherently bad but because they always end up getting used by men. They either hate it and feel ashamed or disgusted or they love it but the man doesn't want a relationship so they feel sad. Communication my ass, you know you're in a position of power. If you were truly ethical you'd recognize this reality and stop having casual sex.

    what is that belief based on? have you ever spoken to a woman?

  28. How are atheists supposed to cope with death?

    speaking from personal experience: poorly

  29. What don’t you like about Lenin?

    I don't beef with Lenin the way I do Stalin, but were I there at the time I would've been more of a Trotskyist

  32. Boob, singular?

    in response to Boobs?

    yeah

  35. https://twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1768408967493935198

    What do you think about this perspective of male sexuality?

    this is one of the dippiest things I've ever seen, thank you for sharing this nonsense

    "men are not allowed to exist as sexual beings" [lists ways men are freely existing as sexual beings in slightly less normative ways which therefore must be pathologies]

  36. My art history professor uses "Judeo-Christian values" a lot to describe Western civilization since that's what she's teaching about in class. Is this racist or apocryphal?

    it's both racist and apocryphal, yes

  37. Boobs?

    hell yeah

  38. Do you enjoy disagreeing with Kael because she acted like a contrarian?

    no, her opinions were sincere. I'd rather disagree with an interesting person than agree with a bland person.

  40. I want the top and bottom of the wealth pyramid to be squished down to about somewhere within the middle class (abolish the hierarchy, if you will) and my mom called that communism. Is it? And what's the difference between that and socialism's goals?

    in laypeople's terms, they're functionally synonyms. I'm sketchy on what the formal difference is. socialism is argued to be a transitional stage on the way to communism by some of the central theorists, I know that much. but either way, squashing down the hierarchy is the goal of both.

  42. I hear he's getting better

    in response to How does a worm play drums?

    but he can handle criticism

  44. Did you like it?

    in response to So...... you finally saw it.

    it passed the time

  45. Would Doctor Worm be guilty of impersonating a physician? Or would it only be a crime after committing medical malpractice of some kind? (ability as a drummer notwithstanding)

    he is very upfront that he is not a real doctor, it's just a stage name. I don't think anyone has asked Dr. Octagon for a pap smear.

  48. What's your perspective on the possibility that Duchamp stole credit for Fountain from a female friend? Is this common knowledge for artists yet?

    Also, what's your favorite Duchamp readymade? I think Bottle Rack slaps, personally

    I have heard it but not looked it up, so it is at least common rumor

  49. What makes an immersive sim? Most I hear is that it's about the game's systems, but isn't that what all games do?

    it's more that the systems are very open-ended, allowing the player to find solutions to problems the designers couldn't have anticipated.

    https://youtu.be/kbyTOAlhRHk?si=Vj1O59JyVcKZ-wk2

  50. What do you think of Roger Ebert?

    in response to Who is the greatest film critic?

    I like the way he thought and cared about movies, but I found his taste mostly boring and did not enjoy disagreeing with him the way I do Kael.

  53. Honest opinion of Bakura? (Yugioh)

    in response to Honest opinoon of Bakugan?

    you can't fool me, that's from Star Wars

  55. Who is the greatest film critic?

    Kael

  57. What do you think of Macbeth?

    I like the part where he gets invaded by a forest

  58. Do you actually think women have it better/easier in certain walks of life, or is being born a woman like playing on hard mode with no added buffs and rewards?

    in response to Why is sex talked about in this competitive, zero-sum frame? Sex is (meant to be) a win-win thing, right?

    I mean, sure, in a handful of ways? higher pain tolerance, lower rates of suicide, better car insurance rates. nothing to make up for the shit they go through.

  60. Are you going to watch the sequel when it comes out?

    in response to So...... you finally saw it.

    if I'm babysitting a kid who likes it, sure

  62. Could we remove "wrong" and still have a true statement? "Will Smith did nothing" true?

    in response to Was Will Smith’s 10 year ban from the Oscars excessive?

    no, he did all kinds of things. he bounced wit' you and got jiggy and nodded his head.

  63. Three more Ancestries and I can Nibiru you.

    in response to Diff Anon: I like your spirit wrt giving the benefits of privilege to everyone, but I think there's a flip-side to receiving Whiteness. In the process of gaining Whiteness, whatever made you not-White is expected to be obliterated. You are expected to be "one of the good ones" until such a time as the expectation that say... Italians are all poor and Catholic is not widely held. If you were poor, you'd better come into money. If you were Catholic, you'd better convert (or have a Vatican 2 or something). Being White and Italian is only "forgiven" if Whiteness needs to forgive the difference in order to persist. To Ian: Last hired - first fired wrt Whiteness is only true insofar as recently "enWhitened" groups are easier to create consensus expulsion for than Germans. If there was an equally convenient method by which to expel Germans from Whiteness, they would be. Whiteness is a political tool, and while there are definitely some folks out there working hard to maintain and define Whiteness, no one is actually protected from having their Whiteness cancelled.

    whoa buddy buy me dinner first

  65. Wrong, it's pronounced Greg.

    in response to Is it pronounced gif or gif?

    jreg

  66. Once I was looking up a tumblr meme to show to this woman I was on a date with, and it was that meme about settling the gif debate by splitting the difference and pronouncing it as "yiff", but I couldn't find the meme because all I put into the search bar was "tumblr yiff" and I did not find what I was looking for.

    in response to Is it pronounced gif or gif?

    zhaif 4 laif

  67. diff anon, coincidentally decided to watch emily the criminal tonight before reading this post. i thought it was fantastic, got any other neo-noirs with relatively low stakes slowly boiling over and spilling onto the protagonist?

    in response to What's the neo-noir film that best counters classic noirs' problematic aspects?

    Lone Star

  68. ghoti

    in response to Is it pronounced gif or gif?

    I showed that to my aunt when I was in middle school and now every time I see her she asks me to explain it again, she thinks it's the greatest thing ever, it's been 25 years

  69. Do you know that she’s Israeli?

    in response to Is Gal Gadot a monster to you?

    yes

  71. Communative property then, should journalism have a reality bias?

    in response to Should journalism have a left-wing bias?

    I think that's definitionally what journalism is supposed to be

  73. Honest opinoon of Bakugan?

    in response to Honest opinion of Bakunin?

    the kid who gives you a quarter to play with your Bakugan believes he is buying your Bakugan, make sure it is explicit that he has to give it back

  74. What if they discovered a secret Z chromosome? Thoughts?

    gender is not a binary, it's a spectrum

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    the ZX Spectrum

  75. just finished the sopranos for the first time and was trying to find the video where you talked about the end of the sopranos. which one was it? having a hard time finding it. thx!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6y6LEwsKc

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