AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
5d ago
Isn't this adjacent to how co-op operate? Co-op buildings or supermarkets.
AvocadoPanic
5d ago
No probably not.
I suspect some may draw a distinction between condoning or advocating for specific political violence domestically and general or specific military violence by a foreign state against their forever conflict opponent.
AvocadoPanic
6d ago
Reciprocal violence is still violence.
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
There are a number of Danube bike tours. I've heard positive 1st hand accounts.
AvocadoPanic
28d ago
Average Centrist Dad as an achievable example of pro-social masculinity
Shouldn't this be the minimum standard? I was thinking of something more aspirational.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
A lot of that still sounds like hope.
No I didn't read your comment as promoting menacing.
Our societies used to have solutions to the outdoor gay sex party problem. Buggery was illegal in many jurisdictions. Even after it was decriminalized public sex in parks or toilets was still criminal and there was a stigma still to participating in homosexual activities.
Now that buggery isn't a crime in the west. The stigma on homosex is largely gone, in the west. Policing and prosecuting public sex acts is virtually non-existent in the west, people are left to solve their own problems. In some areas I suspect this would look like armed neighborhood watch groups rousting those they suspect are up to public buggery.
I'm not sure this encounter rises to horrific.
How do you limit or reduce undesirable behavior by a determined cohort if it's not prosecuted or stigmatized? Vigilante groups have been a traditional answer.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I was not my intention to invert your meaning but to rebutt it by providing a counter example. I've updated the quoted text to avoid confusion.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
perversion of meaning itself
Some objected to gay 'marriage' on substantially similar grounds.
We're not about to see a kids rebel by being performatively right-wing
Aren't most of the 'Active Clubs' young men? I don't think I'd describe them as performative.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
masculinity as authority figures for young men
Isn't this why Andrew Tate and Daniel Bilzerian experience the popularity they have? They fill the vacuum of non-converged masculine authority figures, despite their apparent low quality.
Were you thinking of Audie Murphy types as pro-social masculinity? Do you have any examples?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I guess some have, sort of. Pairs of pederastic and pedophilic men can now abuse their victims together. Sometimes they even adopt their victims.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
outdoor public places turning into a summer-long gay sex party, but whatdya gonna do
It's possible that in this incident from last week the purported 'victims' were just walking at night in an area known for public sex between men, when they encounterd an armed homophobic gang. There are other scenarios that seem more likely.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
hope was that this would go away if homosexuality was normalised
What was the mechanism to accomplish this?
It's like hoping for less crime if we stop arresting and prosecuting criminals.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I know what you mean. I had a 1998 V40 I still miss.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
That's why I put it in ' '.
It's like retouching a photo to make them look nude. This or composting their head / face into porn feels a bit different to me than writing a prompt that would generate a similar appearing image.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
AI can 'remove' the clothing from photos. It can also composite supplied images into existing or generated scenes. It can generate 'original' images from descriptive text input.
Do we know in this instance how the boys generated the image? Does the particular method used make it better or worse?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
If instead of photo-realistic AI generation it was anime would you think the same?
If instead of AI it was hand drawn by one of the boys in the style of , 'I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.'? Is this better, worse or the same?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Could writing be classed as a hand gesture? I find that notes I've taken by hand are stickier than notes taken by typing.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
The peer group at the Russian School of Math is a benefit.
This was our first year homeschooling. My wife is happy with the progress they're making.
Before being a FT SAHM / homemaker, she was MD/PhD.
The lack of support for gifted kids is part of it. The lack of rigor in the curriculum in general is surprising. There are no letter grades. Seldom / rarely any homework. Spelling is typically not corrected on any submitted work, students are not expected to correct / revise their own work for resubmission. The concept of penmenship seems to have disappeared entirely. There's no copy work. No spelling / writing from dictation. Rarely any reading aloud. No deficiency notices. Yet there's still somehow less time for recess.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
they're paying low six figures at best and there's 10+ meetings a week
I've had this job. The 'meaningfulness' wears off. Now I look for meaning in myself and family, not my work.
At work I trade my time for money to fund the meaningful part of my life.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
The distracters aren't really effective if there's not a plausible argument for them. That's largely the point of distracters. The goal is to identify the best answer.
You are productive when you produce stuff. The question details 4 types of items and 2 crops that are produced. The crops are also produce.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Me too. Tech before / during the dot com bust. Finance / investment banking, managed services, defense.
I think I may be seeing some geographic selection effects too. It could be the median candidate in London, UK is better than the median candidate in the Boston suburbs.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to the religious schools unfortunately many are sponsored by denominations that have embraced idpol or alphabetism. Also my wife would likely need to return to work to pay the tuition.
We're supplementing homeschooling with weekly foreign language (my wife's native language) in a classroom environment and The Russian School of Math.
I was identified as gifted in elementary school, the GATE program in the district as kooky as it was made school much more engaging.
Church?
Many will have coffee or fellowship following service. People will likely make an effort to engage with someone new.
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