5434a
3d ago
I have a really crazy classmate name that I can't share without doxing myself but every time I tell people irl they think it's wild.
Same here. I remember telling my friend to stop wasting his time on his blatant attempt at pulling my leg when he told me that the new kid's name was [equivalent to] Hand Job.
Fair play to the kid, at least he didn't misrepresent himself by adopting an ill-fitting Anglo name like some of the other foreign kids did. We all know your parents don't call you Dennis.
5434a
5d ago
I guess that from the local government point of view a large business paying <100% of the standard local taxes after tax breaks looks a lot better than a large business paying 0% because they found a better offer somewhere else.
The question is whether the taxes raised are going to be a net benefit after fully accounting for the costs of hosting these businesses. At some point it tips over into a net loss, and the closer it is to that point the less worthwhile it is. Given that one side has billions of investment capital and a fleet of corporate professionals dedicated to getting a datacentre built at the optimal cost while their opposition are a set of competitors each consisting of a bunch of minor league politicians and their under-funded, under-paid, under-experienced and under-qualified admin staff who also have to manage their other various duties it's a safe bet that a deal will favour the business.
5434a
8d ago
You could try to find a better balance between too much and too little, but it sounds like you're already there. It will always be a trade-off between the distracting thoughts that accrue during abstention and the relative sexual lethargy that follows relief. You might as well get used to it, it doesn't go away and there's no practical way to merely dial it down to the perfect level and keep it there. It would be like trying to keep your bladder half full, only more challenging.
The psychological approach would be to sublimate the drive and direct it into other activities but I think that's misleading. Exercising or competing for status or what have you might be more personally productive but you'll come out the other end just as horny as you went in, probably more so. This is not a phenomenon that originates within the mind. You can't meditate your way around it. You can either find a sex partner, masturbate, or endure until it resolves spontaneously.
5434a
8d ago
Tangent: there was actually a study going around recently about what faces people find attractive, but I tried it last night and I was generally unimpressed with it because age effects dominated and there weren't many younger-looking pictures, even with the question at the beginning about age preferences.
Agreed. I'm interested in this idea but that study was underwhelming. I'm more interested in the differences in what particular types/shapes, or sub-types, of faces other people give their top rating to, not the more basic elements that study seemed to be measuring (sex/age/race/weight). Those are definitely factors, but I'm more interested in isolating the variations and variety of judgements within those categories. I don't need a survey to tell me that I don't rate gingers, black women, or men, but the survey seemingly totally missed that I strongly prefer dark hair over blonde.
5434a
10d ago
Distribution of state benefits and law enforcement priorities are details of state policy.
5434a
11d ago
I don't think it's that complex. I think the primary reasons immigrants choose the UK is because they are familiar with the English language, they have some cultural awareness of Britain that they don't have of, say, Denmark, and those two things have generated a pre-existing community of past immigrants and the associated social infrastructure that they can tap into. Details of state policies are a UK native's lens.
"Let's go to Britain, my cousin can get us a job that pays 10x what we're making here and then we can see Arsenal play at home" versus "Let's go to Britain, the 2004 EU expansion and post-WW2 welfare state means we can slip in undetected and rape schoolgirls while they pay us to do it. Lol."
It's the same way ex-pats choose to go to Spain instead of Slovenia.
5434a
11d ago
Libido is a natural hormonal prompt. You can put it in remission the same way you'd put other natural hormonal prompts like hunger in remission by eating or put tiredness in remission by sleeping.
If you're worried about ethical aspects, again, just treat it like hunger or sleep. Eating a simple balanced meal when you're hungry is healthy. Eating two pints of peanut butter ice cream topped with deep fried M&Ms because you're bored is unhealthy. Likewise taking five minutes to rub one out so that you can wrest back the capacity to think about something else is beneficial, but gooning to niche internet porn for six hours a day isn't.
5434a
12d ago
Because HBDers don't want to eat the whole bullet. If being inferior on some axis is justification for unequal treatment then you might find your gander being sauced when it turns out that your own demographic isn't as high IQ as Jews or next generation chatbots, or as strong and capable as a younger demographic. Men are superior to women? Okay big man, the same thing goes for your own wife and daughter.
Let's look at why HBD is called Human Biological Diversity. The premise of the argument - borrowed from progressives - is that diversity is good, but that blending different cultures/races via mass immigration reduces diversity where they successfully mix and introduces conflict as a result of racial differences where they don't (remember: diversity depends on differences, meaning they can't retreat to colour blindness), and so to maintain the biological diversity of humanity the various genotypes should be kept apart. At it's base its anti-immigration/anti-integration rhetoric, not a racial supremacy theory.
The argument leans on and gestures at a blindspot or element of hypocrisy in the worldview of progressives who will happily support and defend diversity in every other context but clam up when faced with the diversity of human communities where the progressive's own politics are the only acceptable course. It's a convoluted gotcha - "You like diversity, don't you? Well ackshually you're harming the same diversity you claim to defend. Checkmate."
You can make an intellectual rebuttal to HBD by taking it seriously, analysing the means and ends of it, illustrating the implications of applying it consistently across all demographic axes, and contrasting that against the selective applications that HBD fans usually suggest and checking for inconsistencies. I'm not saying that's the perfect rebuttal, I'd hope that others can do better, but it's a start. Getting angry only leads to a "you rage you lose" forfeit.
I watched Nice Guys after it was mentioned here recently in the same breath as KKBB. I can see where the comparison comes from but KKBB is much sharper and funnier. KKBB is a favourite I can happily rewatch while I can't see myself watching Nice Guys a second time.
Under The Silver Lake is another good one in a similar comedy-noir vein.
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