hydroacetylene
No bio...
User ID: 128
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
It also has a system in place that prevents people (adults!) from voluntarily buying the drugs for themselves that they want.
Unless they're 'for your dog'. Or a doctor takes the word of your chiropractor that he heard you say you needed them. Or you have money. Or...
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Nothing Iran has done thus far indicates that they care about making money compared to their Wadiya-like anti-Israel and anti-Western views.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Just because parents don't know what a collective action problem is doesn't mean they can't identify one. Not everyone works off of formal logic, parents can recognize that instagram is bad for kids at the same time as kids being socially isolated by being the only one not on instagram is bad for kids.
I have a previous thread about very conservative parents being better at their jobs, and my sources overemphasized discipline as a factor. Lots of the commentary was basically about how 'discipline' meant setting limits on social media. Plausibly your theory about parents feeling disempowered is supported therein; but short of spreading the folkways of the rightmost 10-20% or so of the population more broadly(and I have another thread about that), the best way to solve this specific problem of teen social media use is to make a law against it. They won't follow it voluntarily but it will let their parents enforce it.
Of course, I would prefer to be a selective libertarian and empower the rightmost 10-20% of the population by not doing anything to prevent the rest of it from self destructing. This is not out of a general commitment to freedom. But it's entirely understandable to me why social media bans that nobody knows how to enforce would be welcomed by parents.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Hijra aren't trans, though, they're a weird localized form of fake gender who exist by public embarrassment(somehow they don't get beaten up? I thought India was a third world country with weak rule of law?) enabling their begging schtick.
I will acknowledge that in general, we don't have reliable numbers from large parts of the world. Trans seems a WEIRD phenomenon to me, but it's possible that I'm wrong. 'Millions and millions of trans people' is a legitimate possibility, even if I lean towards 'there's less than ten millions in the world'.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
The US is way on the high end for transgenderism population prevalence, for one thing.
And for another, does that .5% include non-binary, genderqueer, etc things that are different phenomena, and which would dominate the numbers if included? Most statistics that I see show a ‘not male or female identifying’ category, when in reality MTF’s, FtM’s, agendered weirdos/fake genders, and intersex(rare birth defects) are four essentially unrelated things. To the best of my knowledge intersex and fake genders are much more common than FtM which is much more common than MtF.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I don't like Mohammedanism either, but how do you determine what cultural difference is too great?
Like in 1850, we knew that Catholics weren't incapable of running a society to then-modern current standards, because France existed. But Malaysia seems to be at least on par with the better parts of Latin America, the gulf countries are fairly nice places to live, and Turkey is a modern developed country.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Of course it's a bit racist to insist your children marry within race. That's fine- not that racism is good, but that this is specifically a fairly harmless way of going about it. Everyone has preferences for who their children marry- and as far as I know nobody(except maybe the hare krishnas) adopts Indian culture from the outside.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Are there millions and millions of trans people? They're a pretty small minority that's simply absent from large parts of the world. And there seems to be multiple phenomena involved, with most of these people specifically being MTFs, which isn't even the biggest group.
I'm getting flashbacks to the Catcher in the Rye obsession among prominent murderers, for some reason. No doubt there are many people who like Catcher in the Rye, but it seems overrepresented among murderers.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I’m wondering what you’re basing this off, because most informed speculation is that ‘white’ as a social category underestimates thé percentage of phenotypically European cultural Americans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But starvation isn't a real problem in the modern west. People who can't afford food will be taken care of- possibly by food waste, but more often by charity- either private, government, or informal(eg the donut shop worker giving unsold product to the homeless at close instead of throwing it out for raccoons).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Actually a century ago Catholic immigrants mostly only married within their own little niche ethnic group. Irish-Polish Catholic marriages were more encouraged by the Church, but not by the immigrant communities themselves.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But given fertility rates, that's the case for people too- essentially voluntarily.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The true robot apocalypse where we all lose our jobs will only come when Clippy returns at the head of his AI army. It's a millenarian cult now and I'm going to treat it like one.
I'm sorry but the constant 'but AI is gaining in capabilities' ignores one thing- yes, yes it is, but those capabilities don't actually correspond to anything. Yes, it can reduce secretarial workload, and that will over time drastically reduce the number of secretaries, but mostly through not replacing retirees. Good thing the population's shrinking! In the meantime, I get a raise because AI hardware raises the wages for people that work on cooling systems(and electricians, too). The lower working class, that could theoretically be replaced by trained monkeys(but training the monkeys is not cost-competitive with $15/hr), yeah, a computer that knows how to flip burgers was possible in, like, 1982- still hasn't happened, because hands, you know, Claude doesn't have them. McDonald's uses lots of robots in their kitchen. None of them have hands, they're not a replacement for local teenagers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
All of these shootings were motivated by the spiders in the shooters' brains. Trans plausibly, but it can't be proven after the fact, made those spiders worse or pushed them over the edge, sure, but these people did it because they were crazy- and that applies to both the shootings and the becoming trans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How is anime not normie-adjacent? It's extremely popular almost everywhere.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Trans communities do seem to pathologically validate, even when they're clearly wrong. That's what 'self ID' is.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, unemployed, uneducated men with poor social skills are losers though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, China meets all of your criteria while being poor.
It’s quite common for communist countries to have good public transportation, urban infrastructure, etc while having very low PPP.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You know I am not a tech worker, right?
Affording a mail order bride/passport bro wife(I don’t quite know the difference between the two, and I suspect there isn’t one) is doable for a man earning mildly above median(which is a very reasonable expectation in a high opportunity society), because there are many such men who have done it. And most men don’t have to, thé average 35 year old man is married. The point is that unmarried western men who are genuinely above average in desirability are unmarried because they choose to be, perhaps by priority- not because there are no options.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I’m not disputing that something is broken in a system where guys who round to average and aren’t doing anything wrong need to go to foreignstan to find a wife often enough for it to be a discussed phenomenon(to be perfectly fair, this system isn’t great for women either). Just saying that ‘incels’ aren’t an actual thing- they don’t ’just Want a wife’, those are available assuming these guys aren’t just, giant losers, and basement dwellers wouldn’t have been married in 1955 either(there were just fewer of them). The craving for validation from a specific kind of woman is a different phenomenon entirely, and while it’s not entirely unprecedented it’s also… look, these guys want to be rock stars. It’s not a totally natural response to circumstances, thé history of loveless men is pretty long and it tends to look like broadening thé search pool, not like endless public whining about the need to restructure society completely.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
So have the government arrange marriages for the conscientious.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
American rents are higher, but you do get more for your money- IDK how much it cancels out, but a lot of ways in which America is more expensive(mostly not groceries though) are like that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm glad to see I have some followers around here.
In practice, a truly no-fault divorce free marriage in the modern world requires a subculture in which every single one of your friends and acquaintances testifies against the spouse who wanted the divorce. The only successful ones so far have been religious.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are no non-loser first world men who are involuntarily celibate, you can passport bro if it comes down to it(and even if you have strong ethnic preferences, very poor countries with lots of white women exist)- but it usually doesn't. I don't know if it'll stay at that point forever, but most men can get themselves into a long term relationship, even if they're pretty average(and average is a broad term). Yes, this might entail lowering your standards, you're probably not that much of a catch either.
I'm going to push back on this- circumcision is yes bad but not as bad as FGM, and and one meets the threshold for child abuse while the other one doesn't.
My son isn't circumcised, my future ones won't be either, you don't need to convince me it's bad. But, as a circumcised guy, it's nowhere near as bad as FGM is supposed to be. There's a major difference in severity.
More options
Context Copy link