BahRamYou
1d ago
For sure. The Negative Nancy/Debbie Downer types who are just constantly complaining can really poison a work environment. Even when their complaints are justified, chances are we all already know and don't need to be constantly reminded of it. As an adult I actually really appreciate the people who can put on a cheerful face and make the best of a bad situation.
BahRamYou
2d ago
I actually do think that a million Russian dead is clearly too high for the same reason that half a million dead Ukrainians is too high: we would see the evidence everywhere in both economies if that were true. For example, this interview with Russia's former deputy energy minister was a year ago but seems credible where he pushes back on Russia taking a million people out of the economy not being likely at that point
I wonder if we're seeing the sort of issue that historians have in assessing ancient wars, where a lot of people just stop being counted in the official population numbers. That doesn't necessarily mean they're dead. I imagine there's a lot of men, especially on the Ukrainian side but also in Russia, who would prefer to not let the state know that of their existence right now. Obviously it's better overall that not as many people are dying, but from the state's cynical view it's sort of the same whether they're actually dead or just unreachable.
BahRamYou
3d ago
In my experience, trans people tend to lead rather unusual lives, in many ways. That makes it hard to draw any clear chain of causality.
In particular, there's a type of "theater kid trans," who has an extremely extroverted personality and is constantly going out of their way to seek attention They can make a lot of friends that way, but also annoy people. I can see how that sort of person could end up getting murdered by someone they annoyed, and it's not directlly because they're trans, but it's not totally unrelated either. The fact that so many of your examples are black adds a whole other element to this of course.
BahRamYou
5d ago
the evidence is that Orientals and Ashkenazim have higher IQs than average gentile whites, and this explains much of their over-performance.
define "much". From what I've seen they have a slightly higher IQ, but also a much higher in-group preference and organization. It's the latter that seems to explain most of their success. This leads to the twitter meme of "check the early life section" where so-and-so famous person is always like "born into a jewish family, he attended an elite school and then quickly got promoted."
That was pretty much what happened to me. I remember going to cub scout meetings and mostly just being bored, doing a lot of cheesy arts and crafts project. All the den leaders were women. I looked forward to doing the cool outdoorsy stuff that I saw my older brother doing in the boy scouts, but then it collapsed before I was old enough to join because the Boy Scouts still insisted on having a male scout leader for that, and none of the men in my area wanted to do the job.
I will also say... Looking back, yeah, I can see how being an Eagle might have benefited my life in a lot of ways (like looking good on college applications). But as an 11 yr old kid I had absolutely no concept of any of that, I just wanted to have fun with my friends. So it's not surprising to me that a lot of the kids grinding Eagle Scout are just getting pushed by their parents to munchkin the merit badges.
edit- Probably a big factor in why no men wanted to do it, is that it was an after school program. That meant they had to be available from 3-5 PM on weekdays, and most of the men were busy working at that time. Also they probably wouldn't allow some random unemployed dude to do it, and it's not a paid position so... I don't know how they expected it to work.
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