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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 16-02-2017

Feb 16, 2017 12:00

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danieldwilliam February 16 2017, 12:07:47 UTC

I did not know about White Castle and Valentines Day until I saw Nate Silver joking about it.

andrewducker February 16 2017, 12:08:34 UTC

That's how I found it too!

alitheapipkin February 16 2017, 12:59:46 UTC

Ah, that hayfever study is interesting - I suffered through last summer with no treatment because of side effects from everything I've tried so I might well try pollen pills instead. I wonder if they are still as cheap as they used to be, I'm wishing I'd stuck with them the year I tried them as a teenager now!

mlknchz February 16 2017, 16:14:43 UTC

Racist and anti-Semite doesn't necessarily mean "neo-Nazi". I'm not supporting the women in question, or her beliefs, but the OP to that might want to take a poli-sci class

octopoid_horror February 16 2017, 18:28:51 UTC

Yeah, I hate being that #notallfascists guy but being a nazi, neo-nazi, fascist (I'd disagree that fascism is inherently bad in theory, but in practice it is certainly very often a direct route to far-right unpleasantness and there aren't actually many examples of it not being terrible in the last century) or a right wing anti-semitic conspiracy theorist are all different things. They're bad, but they're absolutely not the same thing. The first two have distinct connotations of organisation and ideological connection to Hitler that in many ways make it more unpleasant. And of course, thus a more useful tabloid headline or pejorative for people to use.

mlknchz February 16 2017, 19:26:42 UTC

In my experience, "basically a neo-Nazi" runs the gamut from people who don't recycle to actual neo-Nazis. It's as over-used as "Commie" was back in the day

octopoid_horror February 16 2017, 19:42:24 UTC

Agreed. I have been quite taken aback on the occasions when I have seen people sporting actual Nazi insignia or neo-nazi logos on things. Normally usage of the term is indeed a right-of centre to far right catch-all

fub February 17 2017, 12:28:44 UTC

Wow, that will be the fourth Judge Dredd RPG. I still have the hardcovers of the Games Workshop version, along with some photocopies of scenarios that were printed in the White Dwarf. The RPG club I was a member of back then had a subscription to White Dwarf, and I loaned the issues for a week to make those copies.
I'm really curious: are they going to graft multiple settings onto the same rules system, making all the characters sort-of compatible? Or are they going to create a single, unified setting? Because I'd think mixing, say, Mega City One with Slaine would be hard to pull off in any coherent manner.