and not even just-barely-good-enough for *you*, just-barely-good-enough for the population as a whole

horseshoe theory remains fucking invincible

dude you can't just go around inflicting pyschic damage like that

According to the bluesky poster, the Stancil is both ultra powerful and very weak

you guys have ways to report issues to Bluesky?

(I haven't been able to delete carriage returns for several weeks now)

anyone who uses incognito mode for porn is either a peasant (doesn't have their own computer), a coward (afraid of seeing their own porn history) or a freak (uses bookmarks instead of history to keep track of recent-term browsing)

the average human's lifetime medical history constitutes irrefutable proof that transhumanism is simply the morally correct position

"GOP defending Jan 6"-ass argument

"what do you mean it's bad faith to defend my actions by cherry-picking the least objectionable aspects and pretending those are the only things I did"

"It let me mock the deaths of people in a category I dislike! Why would the details matter?"

the kind that was only interested because it let them dunk on their preferred dunking targets

friendship ended with Oust The Geriatric Incumbents, now Put Septuagenarians In Charge Of Everything is my new favorite age-related political brainworm

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

the septuagenarians are alright

ah yes but have you considered that I am much much darker and edgier than my pussy-hat wearing grandma, whom I hate, and who once told me to log off in the middle of a very important Discord chat to help her put away the groceries

no, no, that would be sexist, and True Leftists never do sexism. it is complete coincidence that the only people who True Leftists judge to Have What It Takes also have penises.

because she really, really, wants it to not be true

*Hewkii/Macku shippers poke their heads out from under a rock*

Well, not in a civilian capacity, at least. He did work for Blackwater.

we should have amnesty for Dumb Kid Shit so that we don't apply grown-up punishment rules, but we should also have Dumb Kid Punishments that we can apply instead

2/ an army of 80,000 armed warriors roughly a short jog away.

Without their massive advantage in outside-context technology (AKA "steel," for those of us who like staying within character limits), the Spaniards would have all died. With that advantage, they won. That's why it was decisive.

> no one was even armed at Cajamarca

This is true only in the most trivial sense, and if that "at" is one of the most load-bearing prepositions in the history of language. Atahualpa's personal retinue may have been unarmed (aside from ceremonial weapons), but there were 7,000 of them, and he had 1/

4/ "lucky" to have brought the diseases that killed Huayna Capac in the first place. Which is to say: they're "lucky" only insofar as they're showing up with a laundry list of advantages that the Inca lack. And this is the entire point of Diamond's theory.

3/ European diseases. The details of the complicated factional politics are largely irrelevant – only that they *were* complicated and factionalized.

So none of this chain of events that you described constitutes the Spaniards getting "lucky" in any meaningful sense, except insofar as they're 3/

2/ For another, I don't see how "luck" comes into this. If Atahualpa &/or Huascar had died instead of Ninan Cuyuchi, Pizarro would have been just as "lucky": he would still have been able to exploit factional divisions instead of facing a united empire, which would still have been the result of 2/