BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
3mo ago
Oh I think Scott can still push out bangers when he wants to, his fiction is still just as good, it's more he doesn't want to agitate the powers that be much more, which makes sense once your public name is out there.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
prevent them from consensually putting substances in their own bodies
The west already prevents me from consuming whatever antibiotic whenever I want on threat of jail for both me and the people who supply the antibiotic to me.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
13d ago
They may not be property of Ukranian men but they very much are property of the Ukrainian state (to the same extent as Ukranian men are right now). In moden armies the tooth to tail ratio is about 1:6, meaning that for every frontline solider there are 6 support/logistics staff keeping him well fed and healthy. Many of these jobs don't require more physical strength than any office job and there is no reason why women can't do them. If the men are going to be conscripted into the military, the women can also be conscripted and made to work these jobs and thereby forbidden from leaving the country. This is not some cosmic injustice inflicted on the fairer sex.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
2mo ago
This is ahistorical. Back then they didn't have seedless watermelons.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
4mo ago
· Edited 4mo ago
Canada deserves all this. The rod of consequences is a very effective teacher for those on whom the voice of reason has no effect. Canada decided as a country to subsidize shitty behaviour by taking from the productive class and did not listen when they were told this would lead to fewer productive people (relative to the counterfactual) and more shitty behaviour and proceeded with their misguided idea regardless.
Now they are eating the consequences of their beliefs as they have fewer productive people (lower real GDP per capita) as well as more shitty behaviour (no citation needed) and I have nothing to say other than "You deserve it" and a sincere wish they get it given to them good and hard.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
4mo ago
Oh, absolutely. There was even a big post either here or on /r/SSC where a poster argued quite convincingly that a big part of the reason why there is a modern dating imbalance and women have so much power in the marketplace is precisely because there are too many 18-25 men today compared to even 1980. In 1980 the male:female ratio had equalised by age 20-24: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1980/ ; while today the imbalance is still almost as bad as at birth: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2023/ . Of course this 5% imbalance gives women a very disproportionate amount of power (it's not 5% more power, due to how strong the human male sex drive is, men will jump through a ton of hoops before enough of them drop out so that the market clears).
I can't seem to find the post though, even after a cursory google...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5mo ago
So so much of pop science is utter garbage that it is amazing it ever got the reach it did.
Another example is the "human brains don't mature until 25" BS, where even the authors of the original paper from where this statement comes from don't agree with it and are surprised that this, out of all the claims in the paper, was the takeaway which entered public consciousness...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5mo ago
People (including those from the same genetic population as those who take another route) can be destroyed by 'bad' memes and elevated by 'good' ones that are bestowed on them by other peoples
Best extant example of this is North vs South Korea, same people, same genetics, same language even, but one has the meme of capitalism and the other the meme of communism. See the massive difference it makes to living standards.
This is my go to example of the importance on environment on a person's/society's living standards, but the people who generally argue in favour of environment/against genes having a large impact don't seem to like it very much for some reason or the other...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Excellent. Since these drugs work by suppressing appetite the government should fund the creation of a related GLP-1 agonist that it owns the patent on then distribute them for free to everyone in the country on demand (cheap since gov owns patent). The people taking the drugs will be significantly better off, the savings on food stamps etc. will be enough to make up the few billion development costs in a few years and as a side effect there will be fewer ugly people on the street. Win win for everyone.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
“Women don’t need to be in long-term relationships. They don’t need to be married. They’d rather go to brunch with friends than have a horrible date,”
(bolding mine)
Ironic, considering that young women are by their own reports at 2x the rate in relationships compared to young men...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Gonna register a prediction that nothing big will come of the gas price hikes this Winter in Europe. Maybe some sporadic protests that eventually fizzle out but little more. EU storage facilities are nearly full, and gas/electricity prices are actually coming down at the moment due to windfall taxes being imposed on the producers and changing the mechanism through which electricity prices are set with any monies raised being used to subsidise households. Plus, riots don't really happen in winter time especially in conditions like this: if it gets really really cold the general population will be too frozen to do anything.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
21d ago
This is a direct consequence of having a culture that values weakness above strength. When the former is valued more than the latter is it any surprise people deliberately try and become weaker to gain status? In his society the status and utility gained by our young man from having two fewer fingers exceeds the amount of utility he would have gained from those two intact fingers so from his point of view what he did was completely rational: It isn't him who is diseased, it is the culture around him.
There is no fix to this problem either. The only way out is replacement by a new culture that doesn't do this. The prognosis is terminal.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7mo ago
Yeah. I feel like what we now call the homeless should be split up into two groups: "those down on their luck" and vagrants. People in the first group need help and helping them is the economically (forget morally) right thing to do. With some money these people will get back on their feet and continue contributing to society. I'd wager they make up 80%+ of the current homeless, but they're not very visible. Group 2 is the vagrants, no amount of money etc. will help them and they are the group that make the lives of ordinary citizens worse on a day to day basis. we should be a lot more strict and come down on their ass like a ton of bricks the moment they start doing stuff that makes society worse off.
Conflating the two groups helps nobody except these vagrants and those who want to virtue signal about how good they are to these vagrants.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
9mo ago
And this here is yet another example of strife caused by the crude mockery that Westerners have made of marriage by treating it as a contract between two individuals instead of as a bond between two families. What your future in-laws will be like makes up a big part of what your married life will be like unless you jettison those links, but even doing that has a cost on you and your spouse. Hence you need to select on this axis too when deciding on your long term life partner and your failure to do that here has meant unnecessary pain.
Now you might well say that you and your wife got married knowing about this fundamental difference and you accepted this as a negative but still believed the combined package of everything meant marriage was still worth it for you two, in which case fair enough but equally then you can hardly claim to be surprised when your in laws behave in ways concordant with the beliefs you knew they held. If you didn't take this into account and just thought that what extended family are like should have zero bearing on whether you and your wife should get married then you just got burned by having false beliefs about human relationships, no different to a dullard who entered a lion's den at the zoo getting ripped to shreds because he thought they were vegetarian.
And before you say that I have no idea about your relationship dynamic with your wife and thus am unqualified to comment about it know that I am not talking to you at all here. You are irrelevant, it is too late for you, you have already married into this household and now have to live with the consequences. My advice can do nothing for you. I am talking to the other readers here who are yet to make the plunge, they can easily save themselves from a lot of future anguish by just making sure the beliefs of their fiance's family are not too wildly divergent from their own instead of following the modern Western mantra of "you're marrying them, not their family".
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
The fact that she didn't just download some random dating app and wait 30 minutes for a match suggests that her expectations are at least high enough that she can't get the sort of man she wants from a dating app.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Not even illegal drug use, the west doesn't accept "my body, my choice" as being a valid reason for me to use whichever antibiotic whenever I want.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Sigh... Why do we need to do "It's the Jews!" literally every week? It's tedious and boring, given how much of a numerical minority they are if you don't like all the control they have then you should blame your own people for being weak, not them for their strengths.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5d ago
Yes, Ukraine should absolutely draft women and put them in non front line roles. Equality comes with responsibilities, not just rights and Ukranian women should go make the same blood sacrifice their brothers are doing.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1mo ago
Another valid solution is state sanctioned "beating the shit out of bad human beings until there is no more shitty behaviour left in them". This is surprisingly effective at getting those who are immune to reason to see sense. Operant conditioning works just as well on humans as it does on lower animals.
Six lashes for his rude behaviour followed by a solemn promise that he's going to get another sixty lashes if anything untoward was to happen to the woman afterwards would set him straight very quickly.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
2mo ago
During commute hours there might be almost as many office workers as cracked out addicts.
This is not the win you might think it is.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6mo ago
Killing the president does very little damage to the US military industrial global hegemon, which is what they are opposed to, that would just make the US population hunger for blood and go after them even harder. Plus, why would you even want to kill Biden? He's like the most milquetoast person you can get, any replacements will be worse for you.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10mo ago
Therefore, I submit that The Motte was created by Jesus Christ himself.
New Zorba origin story?
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
There's a think tank called Globalization and World Cities Research Network which basically ranks cities periodically based on how important to the global economy they are. They rank cities in terms of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Sufficincy where cities are less important as you go down the list. Also alpha,beta,gamma get +- signs based on where they fall in their category. You can find their most recent rankings here (naturally there is a lot of subjectivity):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network
And my bad, I misremembered London and NYC are alpha++ in their rankings, not alpha+.
Hollywood/LA don't have alpha?
LA is an alpha city in their rankings. SF is alpha-.
Other city ranking thinktanks do exist, but GaWC is one of the most used ones and they all have London+NYC at the top of the world.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Oh properly blind admissions would be great. Not only would they kill AA but also kill legacy and donor admissions (an even bigger travesty, at least AA has noble though misguided goals). The schadenfreude when Daddy finds out his $2 million donation led to zilch since anything on his children's applications that connected them to him got scrubbed out by a minimum wage worker before they even got delivered to the admissions officers is so great even imagining it fills my heart with warmth, pride and childlike joy.
Ah, I thought that joke is a bit played, didn't even notice that, and anyways if you want to play with that concept rdrama has me beat with:
Harvard Forcibly Outs Gay
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