(Part 2) Best products from r/Harmontown

Here's Dan's Vulture article about his cultural references.

I think Dan is right about how difficult it is to address sexism. It is so ingrained in our culture, it is easy to take it absolutely for granted. I think there is just much more visibility with something like racism. Even if we have such a long way to go, it's out there on the table in a much more digestible fashion.

Dan mentions the gender composition of the Community writers room -- it's kind of crazy how big of a deal it was that Rick & Morty closed that gap in season 3.

Of all the foods Erin could've come up with on the spot ... Weetabix? Maybe that came from their Scottish holiday.

Womb blast ... yikes. That could use some rebranding.

Cinderella Ate My Daughter discusses some of these topics in depth -- especially where limited toys for girls are concerned.

My friend has a penis-shaped bottle opener he likes to display prominently at parties. It's good for making straight guys feel uncomfortable.

Kumail's story about showing his penis to his classmates is hilarious ... he just seemed so exuberant about it.

Tarragon of virtue, though.

Sessions since mention of skeleton army: |||| ||||

Like /u/spokeydokey said. A simple bidet seat is 30 bucks and totally worth it. We eventually replaced our cheap one with a bio bidet 1000 when the sprayer started leaking cause we loved it so much. It just makes sitting g on toilet with phone just that much more enjoyable.

Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy

This review sums it up well for me:

First of all Dean gives you his joke writing method. It is formulaic and unnatural. However it does have a number of virtues. In the first place it forces you, a neophyte, to begin to think analytically about what goes into making up a one-liner. This is a very important first step - it is not good enough to intuitively know when things are funny, you have to learn to analyze what the elements are which make it funny. In the second place Deane's method does something important, which I think any good writing method does, it forces you to ask questions about what you are writing, and the answers to these questions give you the seed for the ideas for the next thing you write, or for editing what you have already written. Again this is a bit unnatural, but if you've ever written anything and tried to seriously edit it, you will know what this is like. It involves taking a critical look at your own creation and crossing out the things that don't work or trying to improve them.

The downside for you is trying to count hits on a dozen and a half d6s. If you're running 5e, I have a trick for you though. It's about an hour or two of work and $20ish, but it'll help out a lot. Even the guests could count their dice if they had a table to roll on.

Step 1: Buy a bunch of d6 that are black with white pips.

Step 2: Use either black paint or a sharpie to black out the pips for the numbers 2, 3, and 4.

Step 3: Use either red paint or a red sharpie to color in the pips for the number 1.

Step 4: You now have dice that, when rolled, will look blank when they land on neutral numbers, show bright white for hits, and show nice and red for potential glitches.

Note: No, I'm not kidding. I have 200d6 modified this way purchased from the same store.

Another example of this is the book Accellerando by Charles Stross.
One of the main concepts in the first fifth of the book is a foundation of a reputation based economy, where people purchase stock in the ideas and honest views of individuals, which are then traded like a commodity.

And then the singularity happens.

I highly recommend that book.

Yes, I remember this! A guest was with him on stage and he complimented the guest by saying that was one of these exceptional few. I think it was called something like "The Gifted Child"

EDIT: I googled and it's The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller. Do you think that's the one you were thinking of?

First of all, social facts of stasis, like high static levels of trade integration, almost certainly do have peaceful consequences. This isn't my dispute.

For the record, though, this is an alternative network study of IR to your Jackson one (though I once took Jackson's online SNA module & it was pretty cool tbh)-- https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Nations-Evolution-International-Structural/dp/0521124573 --and they find either no significant relation between trade integration OR a small positive one. Again, this is a static metric though.

When considered over the long run and, more importantly, dynamic, i.e. rising trade as a component of other globalizing processes, THEN it is related.

Period of rapid or rising trade can be destabilizing and furthermore bring into interaction those who previously did not do so, a sure fire way to increase conflict.


Also, rather than war we should broaden the understanding to 'conflict' generally.

Also, the confounds here are interesting. So we all know the famous result that no two democracies have gone to war, which, in a strict sense, is false, with several violations BUT on the whole it does hold, democracies tend, very strongly, not to fight each other. But a paradox holds: while democracies do not fight each other, they tend to fight authoritarian states more and encourage authoritarian states to fight each other more--in other words, democracies don't fight democracies, but they do increase the rates of global conflict in aggregate. That democracy & trade openness are strongly related in a manner foreclosing a genuine ceteris paribus condition should be obvious & is troubling for both of our arguments.

WWI was at the height of global trade integration of its time--we didn't reach that level again until the 2000s. Furthermore, WWII caused the decline in trade, it was not the result of it.

Also, you oppose protectionism & free trade to each other, even though as absolutes they have never really truly existed. Developed nations always would say they practice free trade, but would not do so in practice, for example.

Also, if you don't consider things like the slave trade, closing of the commons, imperialism & colonialism to be forms of conflict and violence then I don't know what your definition is and those things are definitely correlated to trade integration.

Spencer needs to go get a play callers wristband like this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0069RE5PE/ref=pd_aw_sbs_4?pi=SY115&simLd=1

Then modify it so it works for Dan to write on.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Bluetooth-Headphones-Microphone-Splashproof/dp/B01KOE179Y

If anyone who might do shopping for Dan is looking for a cheaper alternative to the Airports (sp?), these are fantastic.

You can't sign up with seeso without a US credit card however you can get access via the free trial of Amazon prime

http://reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/4sqhmz/seeso_doesnt_work_with_a_vpn/d5bt9fm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I2BCY2K/

I bought this as a student, when I didn't have the maths to understand half of it, because the idea was so attractive. So speak for yourself.

Musk is literally attempting to save humanity.

cool, I found this on amazon

It's currently in back order purgatory, but you can get the very reasonably priced Shadowrun starter box set on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1936876922/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1421286556&sr=8-1&dpPl=1&dpID=51bhZrHeDAL&ref=plSrch&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

I own this exact model and it was worth every fuckin' penny.

https://www.amazon.com/TOTO-SW2044-01-Elongated-Washlet/dp/B00UCIOX2Q

Interesting. I've always assumed Dan drew his evolution rants from [Sapiens] (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095) Do you know if Harari uses Lamarckian ideas?

Slingshot Kumail:

https://www.amazon.com/Rochan-Slingshot-Professional-Slingshots-Replacement/dp/B07BT6WWJN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=laser+slingshot&qid=1555009957&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

I prefer this

Must be nice.
Some of us still have to buy off the rack.

and here is the book that was mentioned http://www.amazon.com/Boyfriend-Wrote-Book-About-Acquaintances/dp/1402799977

Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax

https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Edge-Finding-Freedom-Courage/dp/1250101344