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3hr ago
But this is the exact point of disagreement – I don't think there's any correlation between being a "decent guy" (read: feminist) and getting laid. It's trivial to find examples of men who aren't decent guys and yet have no trouble attracting women. So the advice is worse than useless.
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5hr ago
I think self-driving cars will become a massive new culture war battleground. Industries that stand to benefit from human drivers (e.g. taxi drivers, Uber drivers etc.) will be relentlessly pushing every story they can find about how dangerous self-driving cars are, and we will see "scientific" "studies" with the headline finding that self-driving cars actually get into more accidents than human-driven cars per mile driven (and then you dig into it and you find that the severity of the accidents in the former case is vastly lower than in the latter). Meanwhile, Waymo et al. (along with car insurance providers) will be relentlessly touting the safety of their own vehicles and pushing stories about other kinds of dangers associated with human drivers (e.g. expect to see a lot of stories about women getting raped or sexually harassed by Uber drivers).
Eventually some city will experiment by rolling out self-driving taxis and refusing to issue any new taxi licenses for human drivers. This city will have a vastly reduced rate of automobile deaths and insurance payouts compared to peer cities, and the battleground will be ceded in self-driving cars' favour.
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5hr ago
the prevalence of GLP-1 products and will negate the unspoken reason that high-waisted mom jeans got popular.
Hey, you said no politics!
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6hr ago
In "Radicalising the Romanceless", Scott provided a prime example:
Step I. Consume More Art By Women – I think it’s a good idea to make a deliberate year-long project of it at this time in your life, when you are trying to figure out how to relate to women better…Use woman-created media to to remind yourself that the world isn’t only about you + men + women who have/have not rejected you as a romantic partner.
Sometimes I wonder if the person who wrote this actually believed that consuming art by female artists would make a man more desirable to women, or if she was just trying to line the pockets of her fellow female creatives.
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8hr ago
This is the correct answer. f1nn5ter, Avocado and Clavicular himself are all particularly morbid examples of the perils of audience capture.
Well, that's the thing. "Looking like a woman" is a heuristic, not a definition. It's reasonable to assume that something that walks like a duck and talks like a duck is a duck. But the existence of entities that resemble ducks but are not in fact ducks doesn't mean that our definition of the word "duck" is lacking: it just means that the heuristic we were using sometimes produces false positives, and that's okay. Heuristics by their very nature are imperfect. Definitions, by contrast, are supposed to be definitive. "Anyone who looks like a woman is a woman" is a bad definition by virtue of being circular, and it wouldn't even satisfy most trans activists as it makes trans identification contingent on passing. It also leads to absurd conclusions, like the idea that a man wearing makeup and a wig becomes a woman by so doing, but then reverts back to being a man once he takes them off.
Was the progressive claim really that misogynists find it impossible to get laid?
I'm old enough to remember when the stock piece of advice feminists offered to sexually frustrated straight men was "be more feminist" and "of course women like nice guys – that's why you can't get laid, because you're not one" and so on. "The reason Nice Guys™ can't get laid is because they don't Respecc Wahmen enough" was a core tenet of what Scott calls geek feminism, and still lives on in how progressives use the term "incel" as a term of abuse towards any man whose opinions are deemed insufficiently socially progressive. See this comment by a poster who expressly believes that any woman who dates a conservative man must be mentally ill and filled with unconscious self-loathing:
My subjective observation would be that that attitude - women are liars, women are picky, etc. - about women leaks out into interactions with them, and, understandably, they, or I supposed “we”, do not want to get romantically or sexually involved with someone who thinks so poorly of “us”... I would recommend that loveless men consider one solution to their lack of success in the dating market is to re-examine their overall attitude about women and see if that isn’t playing a part as to why women are not responding the way you want them to.
I devoted several comments to attempting to rebut this reasoning as facile.
Birth rates in socially conservative countries and communities clearly prove that to be incorrect regardless of what ‘Clavicular’ is doing.
In fairness, feminists might legitimately rebut that misogynists can only get laid in socially conservative countries where women are afforded very little freedom in their choice of sexual partners, and that in a free society no woman of sound mind would voluntarily choose to go to bed with a misogynist. They tend to get very defensive when you provide them with some examples of men with backwards attitudes to women who nevertheless have no trouble attracting them.
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9hr ago
It's just terrible optics for progressive gender values when a neurotic out-and-out misogynist influencer faces little trouble picking up young attractive women in Miami.
I've seen several compilation videos of him trying to pick up girls in assorted locales and striking out. Maybe it's a numbers game, but "little trouble" seems to be exactly what he's facing i.e. he's not effortlessly hoovering up pussy without a care.
When I worked in a hotel, rubber or gel insoles were a godsend.
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1d ago
I think term limits for senators and congresspeople would mitigate this effect substantially.
But is that downstream of natal biology, or of assumed gender during childhood and adolescence?
Congratulations, your hypothesis is unfalsifiable.
If a trans-identified male behaves in a conventionally feminine manner or has conventionally feminine interests, that's proof that he's a woman trapped in a man's body. If a trans-identified male behaves in a conventionally masculine manner or has conventionally masculine interests, that's proof that he was socialised as male against his will. Under this rubric, there is literally nothing a trans-identified male can do that might reasonably lead one to question his trans identification.
You're constantly gushing about Eliezer Yudkowsky and the Sequences, but seem to have failed to internalise a message he hammered home a lot therein: if a theory explains everything, it explains nothing.
You'll also notice that many gay men have conventionally feminine interests in spite of their gender being (correctly) assumed to be male throughout childhood and adolescence.
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1d ago
I do think penises are ugly and weird
Some and some.
I don't think that all trans-identified males are entitled pornsick men, and have a certain amount of sympathy for the homosexual variety (per Blanchard's typology). But plenty of them are, and aren't even being discreet about it.
is this a Kafka-trap wherein the mere fact of Alice claiming to be a woman while being AMAB is proof of her being 'an entitled and pornsick man'?
A Kafkatrap is when denying an accusation of X is taken as evidence that the accusation is well-founded. I have never claimed that anyone who denies being pornsick therefore is pornsick. Even the claim "any man who claims to be trans is entitled and pornsick" wouldn't be an example of a Kafkatrap, although that isn't the claim I made. I don't believe all trans-identified males are pornsick, nor all pornsick men trans. I believe this was abundantly obvious from my original comment.
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1d ago
The loathsome worm whose idealised conception of himself is grossly at odds with the reality is a stock comic figure. When an adult male insists that he is a woman, but behaves in a manner entirely consistent with an entitled and pornsick man, that's funny to me in the same way that I find it funny when Michael Scott from The Office thinks (contrary to all evidence) that he's a great screenwriter, or Joey Tribbiani from Friends thinks he's a talented actor. Our conception of ourselves can never (perhaps should never) be entirely accurate, and yet extreme examples (wherein a person's self-conception is enormously out of step with the objective reality) are intrinsically funny.
There are certain varieties of loserdom which are compatible with being extremely dangerous. Riad Bouchaker was both a loser (his stated reason for his violent outburst was that his social welfare application was denied) and extremely dangerous to the young girls he permanently maimed. Likewise Vickrum Digwa, Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. or any school shooter you care to mention. Just about any able-bodied person with a knife or a gun can pose a legitimate threat, no matter how ineffectual or pathetic they otherwise are.
However, being dangerous by virtue of being such a compelling and seductive public speaker that you can persuade an army of anonymous footsoldiers to do violence against your enemies through words alone is not compatible with being an insignificant loser. Anyone charismatic and persuasive enough to amass an army of thousands (whom they've never even met) willing and able to do violence on their behalf is definitionally not a worthless loser. It takes considerably more skill and intelligence to persuade someone you've never met to stab someone than to stab them yourself.
I saw a post (I think on Substack) making the point that the way progressives talk about Kirk parallels Umberto Eco's observation that, in fascism, the enemy must be seen to be both strong and weak. When Trump wants to name a street after Charlie Kirk, progressives tend to roll their eyes and say that he's undeserving of the accolade because he was just some guy with a YouTube channel. But when people are saying that it was bad that Kirk was assassinated, progressives will turn around and say that it was justified, because he was a powerful and dangerous demagogue who used his platform to incite violence against [minority du jour].
Obviously, it cannot be the case that Kirk was both an insignificant YouTuber and an influential demagogue: only one of these things can be true.
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4d ago
New Year's resolution check-in:
- Still on holiday and so haven't been to the gym. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.28x for 6 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st. Nearly at the halfway mark.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
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4d ago
If they are different difficulty modes, then these expansion packs give the player the option of making the game easier and faster to complete. I'm talking about a hypothetical expansion pack which, upon installation, immediately removes five missions from the base campaign.
These are fair points. Typically, when I read a claim that a game contains "20 hours of gameplay", I interpret that to mean "the average player on their first playthrough will take 20 hours to complete the main quest and all the sidequests". It would be churlish to claim that e.g. Half-Life "only" contains half an hour of gameplay, even though it can be beaten in that time. While expansions which change the base game's mechanics in such a way as to facilitate speedrunning could technically be said to have "contracted" the game, speedrunners are such a noncentral example of players that they hardly seem relevant.
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4d ago
One of many ways British English is superior to English (Simplified) is that we do actually say "I couldn't care less".
just plainly stated as basically a "consent accident"
The article is literally called "All the Dating Advice, Again".
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