Hotspur

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

‘He apparently told brother Bobby, not exactly a monk himself, "I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day."1

That’s JFK talking to Bobby about his sexual needs—or maybe we should call them his sexual pathologies, since he apparently requires novel sex in order to prevent brain malfunction and pain.

Note the bit about how Bobby was “not exactly a monk himself”

So personally, I see RFK Jr’s rapacious sexuality as him proudly carrying on an old family tradition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I’m still slowly working my way… think I’m in book 7 maybe? I sometimes find it hard with series where they change focuses and stories a lot, and malazan does that every book (the whole changing location every other book thing) and I also sometimes have trouble keeping track or who all the characters are, and who is dead, alive, or only sorta dead. But they are very high quality, even if I don’t always understand what is going on. Anyhow there’s so much of it I just dip in and out and will read other stuff for a while—definitely a marathon series haha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Richard k. Morgan’s foray into to fantasy “the steel remains” trilogy might meet that requirement. He’s the guy who wrote the altered carbon books, so it’s basically hard-boiled pulp fiction applied to swords and sorcery fantasy. Similarly Joe Abercrombie’s books operate similarly. Genre is… Grimdark I think.

Steven Erickson’s “Malazan book of the fallen” series also would meet the definition, but watch out—there’s a ton of them, and they can be a bit narratively challenging sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

CI hadn’t realized this was Clay Higgins. If you haven’t heard what this clown sounds like, you’re in for a treat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah those are the strongest part, but very well supported by the shiny dome, gray stubble and classic Hugo boss grey of his jacket.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He really does. I’d say coincidence… but the probability is that it’s more intentional than accidental.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Haha at the moment, her car lol. I work from home and she drives to the train station.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was gonna say “wait until this guy hears my wife and I SHARE a car… oh, the humanity!”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Thank you for saving my time clicking through—I always check the comments on these kinds of articles to see if someone else has taken the bullet and decided to warn the rest of us. o7

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

If only someone could do something, anything… to stop this horrible tragedy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No I didn’t know that, would be interesting to see more of them try it, just for curiositys sake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It makes me wonder—would the dynamic change if there was only an upvote? So you could choose not to upvote, but the default action would be a neutral one, and if you liked/wanted to support/etc you could signal that.

I see tons of posts on here now that are downvoted to oblivion, because they are a legitimate article that says something a group doesn’t like. There won’t even be comments on the post. So like a Reuter article that discusses Palestinian casualties and no comments and like -20. This doesn’t seem like a super useful mechanism. Or at least, it’s just functioning today as a content preference “I don’t want to see this typed content” as opposed to “this is bad info, out of line with the community, etc.”

And despite ranking my list by either hot, or top day/six hours, I still see the downvoted posts regularly so the mechanic doesn’t even really do anything in terms of visibility. Or possibly there’s just too little content on a given community for it to get filtered out.

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