Lurker > averagejoel

SPE posted...

for the same reason that in the US you hear about marine dragon of the south kung fu, roaring ki tiger paw kung fu, electric bumblebee kung fu and other stuff like that, styles that only exist in the one dojo where a middle aged fat men with names like Scott Smith or Thomas Stone claims to be the top sifu who received these ancient secret deadly teachings from the shaolin abbot himself:

some things are not regulated in the US so everybody can open their own shingle and claim its the real deal and make business out of the people who dont truly know the history and technicalities of the subject matter (in other words no one at the shaolin abbot ever practiced electric bumblebee kung fu and if I tried to use my index finger as a stinger I would break it, now apply that to religion and you will get the idea)

tl;dr- lack of regulation

it's a little different in the case of kung fu -- basically any chinese martial art is a type of kung fu, so there are actually a bunch of different styles

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DoubleOSnake posted...

what was your favorite song by him?

Great Day
November Has Come (his feature on a Gorillaz song)
Accordion
Old School
Deep Fried Frenz

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EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

talk to me mac, i'm all for epiphanies

so, this sentence:

Appealing to base things like sex, alcohol, cigs, etc. for money is always going to involve taking advantage of people with issues.

is actually accurate. the "etc." is doing some pretty heavy lifting though -- it includes things like food and housing.

logical next step from that: it's not just sex work that involves taking advantage of people. it's the whole economic system

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CloneTheHero posted...

he looks like my childhood neighbor friend. dude loved eating pickles and playing genesis lmao

I think we all had a childhood neighbour friend who looked like that

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Smashingpmkns posted...

I kinda want to see a video of this

he's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ViC5rTJfU

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Mr_Rian posted...

I read what I could on ASAN site, but nothing specific was highlighted. Most I saw was just them saying they were against it.

it doesn't need to highlight specifics. it has a very succinct summary of what it does:

ABA uses rewards and punishments to train autistic people to act non-autistic.

ABA takes different forms, but ultimately that statement applies to all of them.

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Mr_Rian posted...

Wasn't using them as a source per se, more like asking if that is what ABA was. I'm not in the field or in the know, so for me ABA is American Basketball Association. And when I googled it American Bar Association were most of my search results. AMA Autism is what lead to this as the first result.

I didn't read what they wrote on it, and I don't care to. I do, however, highly recommend the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, which I linked in post 62

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and for the record, I never said that ABA was "torture", though it was invented by a eugenicist and involved heavy use of electroshock therapy.

it certainly is abusive though, even without the electroshock therapy part.

this page has some useful information on it

https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/position-statements/

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Mr_Rian posted...

https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis-aba-0

This?

Autism Speaks is not a reliable source on this. helping autistic people is not their goal

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ABA is abuse, and people who are subject to it have significantly higher rates of anxiety and other problems later in life

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King_Hutton posted...

its always COVxy trying to explain that we cant treat all autistic people as if theyre just quirky

jesus fucking christ dude

that is not the extent of what he says on the matter

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Socrawheeze posted...

You don't seem to actually wanna discuss anything right now

it's already too late for a legitimate discussion in this topic.

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King_Hutton posted...

Weve had the conversation before. Just stop.

I might consider stopping if you can provide some evidence for your claim.

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Socrawheeze posted...

can you explain what you meant then? because the implication behind your post is that you take issue with the statement that people on the spectrum can be developmentally delayed

what I meant is that covxy has extremely shitty, harmful opinions when it comes to autistic people, and that is why I blocked him

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King_Hutton posted...

Your entire reasoning against COVxy requires them to be a monolith to make any sense whatsoever.

no it doesn't

You act as if there arent developmentally challenged autistic people in order to talk shit about him and its fucking pathetic.

feel free to point out an instance where I did this.

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King_Hutton posted...

This is covxy hates autistic people because he acknowledges the reality of autism is one of the dumbest crusades youve ever been on. Autistic people arent a monolith. When you try to pretend that they are, you ignore a large amount of people who need help.

feel free to point out where I claimed that autistic people were a monolith

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Naysaspace posted...

jesus this is just blatant ignorance.

Its wrong btw.

even if it was accurate, kids... generally don't like being condescended to

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One_Day_Remains posted...

You just implied that people with autism have a lower "mental age". What kind of shit is that

topics like this are why I have covxy blocked. he legitimately hates autistic people and thinks it's okay because his girlfriend used to work with them

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Vyrulisse posted...

Understanding that they think differently than most of us do is not infantilizing. You cannot hold them to the same standards, social or otherwise, as everyone else.

neurotypicals also think differently from each other

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tc you might want to try unlearning some ideas about what beauty is

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EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

I'm all for legality, and people not being dicks about, but lately I'm starting to realize that the whole "destigmatizing" thing rubs me the wrong way because it runs on false premises, at least in this area. Appealing to base things like sex, alcohol, cigs, etc. for money is always going to involve taking advantage of people with issues. And I'm fine with that, because I recognize that there are always going to be people taken advantage of, but let's not pretend like they're actually good for everyone involved.

you're on the verge of an epiphany here

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I hooked up with two people on the same day in the first week of 2020. then I hooked up with someone else in either late january or early february.

so that's three.

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ClunkerSlim posted...

Episode 9 is bad because it had to simultaneously continue the train wreck storyline of TLJ and somehow undo it.

TLJ was bad because it had to simultaneously continue the train wreck storyline of episode 7 and somehow undo it

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CaptainMarvel95 posted...

Uh huh. It's just a coincidence that for both of them it happens to be the sequel that didn't pander to the whiny ass "fans".

I mean, TLJ is bad. but it's much better than episodes 7 and 9

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it's about damn time

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lilORANG posted...

That movie was entertaining solely because of Craig's super hammy performance. None of the supporting cast did anything. The big reveal makes no sense, and don't forget "the world's dumbest car chase." Writing is not Johnson's strong suit

this doesn't equate to the script being "a mess"

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lilORANG posted...

the script of Knives Out is a mess.

Knives Out is many things, but "a mess" is not one of them

I'm not saying the film is beyond criticism, but this is just flat-out incorrect


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TLJ is a mess, I'll give you that. but honestly it's way better than the Star Wars mainline films on either side of it.

Rian Johnson is an excellent filmmaker when he can just do what he wants though. Knives Out and Brothers Bloom are both fantastic.

also, Knives Out came out after TLJ. so his foray into Star Wars was more like a blip than anything else

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nice

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to the extent that hippies have a coherent ideology, it's one of hyper-individualism. it's very much in line with conservative ways of thinking

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Thatguyonthebus posted...

Tulsi stayed until the very end, brah

I couldn't remember exactly who it was, but there were at least 3 major establishment candidates that all dropped out and endorsed Biden immediately before Super Tuesday

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DeadBankerDream posted...

I remember Bernie making no effort to gain votes among Southern democrats and being crushed on super tuesday for it.

do you think the extremely blatant collusion on the part of the other Dem candidates (i.e. Buttigieg, Harris, Gabbard all dropping out at once and endorsing Biden, while Warren stayed in to split the progressive vote) might have contributed to Bernie's loss on super tuesday?

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yep, those are some very tight dresses

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Solid Snake07 posted...

It could if they decide to do it themselves. Or they could outsource it. Aka, create a job

because there are landlords that do not do this, it cannot be an inherent part of the position.

this means that performing labour is not an inherent part of the position of a landlord.

therefore, as I said initially:
averagejoel posted...

the position of a landlord does not require time and labour

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Solid Snake07 posted...

In other words, renting out a property requires time and labor. Glad you finally came around

but it doesn't require time and labour on the part of the person who owns the property (i.e. the landlord)

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Ryan__Leaf posted...

What's weird to me is how 10 years ago, anti-vax conspiracies were associated with liberal hippie types. Now it's an alt-right conservative thing and I have no idea when that flip happened.

to the extent that hippies follow a coherent ideology, it's one of hyper-individualism. it's very much in line with conservative ways of thinking

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Solid Snake07 posted...

No shit sherlock, that's not what I said. It's called exchange and commerce. People pay management companies to manage their properties for them. Do you think they just don't want 10% of their rent payment every month? Or do you think maybe, just maybe managing property is a job, which is why there's a whole industry surrounding it

I'm well aware that managing a property is a job. but I'm also aware that it isn't an inherent part of the position of a landlord.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

They earned they're money through their time and labor.

this is not inherently true, and it's also irrelevant to whether the position itself requires time and labour

Exchanging that capital to someone to do something you don't want to or cant do on your own is the same thing as exchanging the time and labor you had to put into acquiring that captial.

this is incorrect. paying someone to do something is not the same as doing that thing yourself

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Property requires upkeep. Shit breaks, roofs have to be replaced. If they don't do it personally they're gonna have to pay someone to do it for them.

and paying someone to do labour is not the same as the landlord putting in time and labour.

in other words, you agree that performing labour is not an inherent part of the position of a landlord, which is that's exactly what I've been saying.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

They put their capital up to purchase the property from those who did. Capital they most likely earned with their time and labor. And that's assuming they didn't build it and bought it.

sure, they may have had to put in some time and labour to attain the position. but the position itself still does not require time and labour. it only requires that they own the building.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

How can you have a "right" to someone else's time and labor?

the position of a landlord does not require time and labour

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Luffy vs Kaido is very similar to Luffy vs Crocodile -- first time he gets obliterated, second time he's able to put up a fight

but they're not going to win yet. there are still 2 more acts in Wano after this

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FrankJaegr posted...

The entire premise is skewed because the ONLY reason why people even argue landlords shouldn't exist is because they hate paying rent lol

not sure where you got this idea, but it certainly was not from listening to people who take issue with landlords as a concept

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

If one person own the property they are more likely to take good care of it than if everyone owns it, is Aristotle's argument

generally speaking, people do take care of the place where they live, even if they don't own it. there's no reason to believe this would change very much, if at all, in a collective ownership situation

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what would be the functional difference between that and public housing? I very much support those ideas, but I'm not sure what purpose would be served by having a landlord in that case

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saspa posted...

Who are you talking about, and what even is this movie?

it's a terrible 80s nostalgia trip

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harley2280 posted...

I fucking love old Kung fu movies. You got some suggestions?

note: this is Canadian netflix. I don't know how many of these are available where you are

I recently watched The Flying Guillotine and The Flying Guillotine 2. both are fantastic. they're much more plot-heavy than typical kung fu movies, and the story is very atypical. it has intrigue and deception and all that good stuff. the second one doesn't feature the titular weapon as heavily, but there are still some glorious beheadings.

Five Elements Ninjas (yes, despite the title, it's still a Chinese Kung Fu movie) is also great. the fight against the Earth ninjas at the end is one of my all-time favourite fight scenes.

Return to the 36th Chamber is another one that stands out in my mind, since a sizable chunk (maybe most?) of the movie is a training montage. if you like the training montage in Rocky, you'll probably like it

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really? that's all that netflix has?

I've watched a ton of 70s kung fu movies on there, and I'm always getting recommendations for like Charlie Chaplin movies

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