Crowstep
3mo ago
Well no, you're well aware that they benefit from race discrimination in their favour.
You're also well aware that Jews are classified along with all other European ethnic groups as white. All that's happening is that the places being allocated to white students are being allocated to the most intelligent ones. This doesn't bother most people because most people don't hate Jews.
Crowstep
5mo ago
Sure, let's compare average wages to average house costs in Europe and see what we get.
The cheapest houses are in Denmark (TFR 1.46), Ireland (1.47), Sweden (1.42) and Spain (1.12), for a mean of 1.36. The most expensive houses are in Slovakia (1.45), Czechia (1.36), Slovenia (1.5) and Montenegro (1.79) for a mean of 1.53.
According to this article, the cheapest houses globally relative to wages are in Brazil (1.47), Poland (1.12) and Thailand (0.95!!).
Cheap housing does actually increase birth rates, as I mentioned in my post, but its effect is miniscule compared to the massive cultural effects of whether or not getting married young and having children is high status or not.
Crowstep
6mo ago
Well the developed world has also had dysgenic fertility since the 1800s, so it could well be a case that the two things balance out.
You have to also consider that the rest of the world also had famine, disease and pollution in 1800. You're comparing India now to (a rough outline of) Britain in 1800, as opposed to comparing India in 1800 to Britain in 1800.
India's average IQ is far too low to merely be a product of not having gone through the full Flynn Effect. Maybe once it's more developed it'll be 86 instead of 76, but India is not going to see IQ scores like we see in East Asia, the gap is too vast.
Crowstep
6mo ago
I've had what seem to be more colds than usual, but none of them particularly bad. That said, maybe its like this every year and it just doesn't stick in my memory.
Crowstep
8mo ago
Even at a meetup, you still have to ask her out and court her yourself. Just because she's in the same room, doesn't mean you're playing with cheat codes.
Crowstep
9mo ago
Well there are tons of weight loss groups full of women who do actually want to lose weight. Something like Weightwatchers comes to mind. And it's not as if fat women are turning down Ozempic and all these new drugs.
But I agree, there is something strange about approaching it like this. I would guess it's simply that most women in these groups have tried to lose weight and failed. Rather than simply resign themselves to a life of not being pretty, they'd rather try and enforce consensus in such a way that favours them.
Unfortunately, while the 'in this house we believe' approach may work with regards to public morality, it is puny in the face of human sexuality. Nobody, men or women, likes looking at fat people. And you can't shame men into finding you hot.
Crowstep
9mo ago
That answer is not even wrong.
The problem with using the CICO tautology as weight-loss advice is that an individual cannot control calories-out (if you exercise, the body will reduce your non-exercise caloric expenditure to compensate) and cannot control calories in either, at least over the long term. People eat because their appetites tell them to, and stop eating when their appetites tell them to stop.
Going outside of this is essentially impossible in the long term for 95% of the population, which is why Biggest Loser contestants, Minnesota Starvation Study subjects and prison weight gain study subjects returned back to their set-point eventually. This is also why the entire developed world is getting fatter. We're not deciding to eat more collectively, it's that something is messing with our lipostats. I personally think it's vegetable oil, but I wouldn't be too shocked if it was microplastics, xenoestrogens or some other environmental stressor.
CICO is either one of two things:
- A tautology that is axiomatically true
- A weight loss protocol that can be tested
If it's 1 then there's no point even discussing it, tautologies cannot be wrong, by definition. If it's 2, then we can test it. We have done so, and it has failed those tests completely.
What we usually see with CICO advocates is the fallacy that this site is named after. The bailey is telling fat people 'just to eat less', the motte is retreating to the tautology when someone points that that calorie-restricting diets don't actually work.
Crowstep
9mo ago
It may well be embraced by fat acceptance activists, but it is also embraced by most of the field of nutrition science.
CICO, meanwhile, is only popular with laymen (who very often pair it with moral condemnation of fat people).
I don't think it's possible to look at a chart like this and conclude that what's really going on is a linear increase in laziness starting in the mid-C20th for no reason. Pick any profession full of intelligent, hardworking people (medicine, law, programming, high-level business) and you'll see similar proportions of fat people to the general population. While there are entire premodern cultures where nobody is fat at all.
CICO feels better than set-point theory in the same way that complaining about greedy landlords feels better than campaigning for YIMBY zoning reform. Most people will choose righteous outrage over real explanations if given the choice.
Crowstep
10mo ago
I feel similarly when people tell me that HBD is obviously true, because "evolution didn't stop at the neck;" then are shocked Pikachu when people start dusting off the conniving greedy Jew stereotype and say "no no no we were just talking about IQ!" Maybe, but before iq tests were invented the differences you purport to notice existed, why can't other metrics exist even if we haven't found how to measure them yet?
How would you even measure 'greediness'? My experience has been that it's basically just a word used enviously. If I'm a tenant who can't afford rent, then landlords are greedy. If I'm a low-paid worker, then my boss is greedy. If inflation is making food more expensive, then supermarkets are greedy.
Antisemites don't think Jews are greedy because they've observed it, they think Jews are greedy because Jews are rich, and to the envious, rich=greedy.
By contrast, it's pretty easy to notice intelligence effects dispassionately. Even blank slatists notice that Asian kids do well in school.
Crowstep
10mo ago
I've thought the same thing, like ugly Zoomer fashion is just young women trying to act out a sexual counter-revolution without having to dress up like it's the 1950s.
But then I remember that young men have moustaches and mullets now, and I don't believe for a second that they are trying to desexualise themselves. Fashion is just arbitrary and weird (which, I suppose, seems pretty obvious when I look back at how some of my more fashionable friends dressed when we were teenagers).
Crowstep
7d ago
Is there a secret to being able to actually understand what's going on in those books?
I'm as big a wordcel as you would expect someone who hangs out on this forum to be, but I cannot for the life of me finish Master and Commander. It feels like I'm a teenager being forced to read Shakespeare and not understanding the Early Modern English.
Do I need to persevere until my brain just gets it? Get ChatGPT to summarise the chapters for me? Re-read every sentence? Is there any trick beyond 'be less dumb'?
Crowstep
22d ago
Holocaust denial censorship is best understood as part and parcel of bans on Nazi symbols. Holocaust deniers aren't disinterested historians searching for truth. They're Jew-haters who are threatened by the idea of a genocide of Jews because it undermines their beliefs that Jews rule the world.
Fortunately, I live in a country which bans neither Holocaust denial (our vibrant Muslim underclass are very grateful) nor Nazi symbolism. The Holocaust deniers have failed to win in the free marketplace of ideas because they are wrong (and motivated by transparent ethnic animosity), not because the government won't let them post on the internet.
Crowstep
1mo ago
How does one both have the opportunity to go on 60 first dates in a year and also none of them go well enough to terminate the process?
My guess would be that women on the apps always have a better option than you. Unless you're obviously her Prince Charming on the first date, why would she bother on a second date if she's matched with five other guys in the last hour?
In my dating days I used the apps and had lots of first dates but far fewer second dates. It's possible that I was just a bad date, but then I didn't have the same issue with girls I met in real life.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Reminds me of Ross' wordless sound poems.
Crowstep
2mo ago
I'm not sure how true (being better at learning foreign languages) is, and how much of it is a reflection of interest rather than aptitude.
Interest is a prerequisite to being good at something, at least if that something requires you to put in the hours, as is the case for language learning. But it actually does look like there are differences in how men and women's brains process language, not just a difference in interest.
multi-tasking/task-switching
See my other comment. This has been shown empirically.
Are women faster typists? I think I type faster than every single woman I know.
You may well be. It wouldn't shock me if typing speed was affected by greater male variance. But nonetheless, 82.5% of court stenographers are women. When typist was a job, it was a woman's job. Secretaries (who do/did lots of typing) are almost all women. I don't think these are coincidences.
Crowstep
3mo ago
And one that could genuinely change in the UK. Starmer clearly doesn't like quangos dictating policy (e.g. the Sentencing Council deciding that everybody except white men should get reduced sentences) so I can't imagine he'd be sympathetic to an employment tribunal casually bankrupting the UK's second city.
Crowstep
5mo ago
A bachelor/spinster tax wouldn't necessarily be a cruel punishment on the ugly, because it would encourage them to couple up with eachother. A punishment on the shy, maybe.
Crowstep
5mo ago
Ah, I think the bit I was referencing was below the paywall. Here's what I was quoting:
- The Palestine protests
I recently wrote a post about the Palestine protests that sums up much of what I think here: Palestine is the end of the line for the New Left
Basically, I think that although Israel’s war in Gaza is unpopular, the Palestine protesters are earning few friends in the U.S., thanks to their support for even the most violent and savage armed resistance, their desire to forcibly and bloodily redraw national maps in the name of “decolonization”, their aggressive protest tactics, and the whiff of antisemitism around their movement.
But there’s another important effect of the Palestine protests besides boring and annoying the American populace. Leftists have attempted to subsume every progressive cause — climate change, racial justice, abortion rights, gender equality, trans rights, even affordable housing — into the Palestine issue. Many have started to call this the “omnicause”.
And because Palestinian revanchism is an unpopular cause, and because the protesters have generally acquitted themselves badly, Palestine threatens to drag down all the other progressive activist causes into an abyss of unpopularity. Climate activism, trans rights activism, etc. will now have a whiff of radicalism about them that they didn’t possess before — there will be a general understanding that folks like Greta Thunberg ultimately aim not at the redress of individual problems in the framework of our existing society, but at the violent overthrow of that society in the name of “decolonization”.
Most progressives are not leftists. Most thought Thunberg was cute when she was a kid shouting at old men about her stolen future, but will be less impressed by her keffiyeh-wearing incarnation. But leftist activists hurt the progressive cause, by giving a movement that should seem staid and responsible the whiff of 70s-style radicalism. Progressives are far more institutionally powerful than they were in the 70s — they command the majority of the professional and managerial classes, and they occupy positions of power in corporations, academia, and the government. But when leftist activists are out there setting the tone on national news night after night, it makes progressivism seems like a movement that will never stop, never be satisfied, and never settle down.
That perception will drive a lot of Americans in a conservative direction.
Crowstep
7mo ago
Was there ever a survey of the users on here, like the Slatestarcodex survey?
Very arbitrary. A 26-year-old woman who became sexually active at 16 and slept with one guy every two years would exceed it.
It's much more likely to reflect the reality of serial monogamy than bad decision making.
Not unreasonable to include, but remember that obesity is an equal opportunities offender. Most non-overweight men aren't going to want a fat wife, but then most men are fat too.
This is also true, to a lesser extent, with mental illness. Women have more mental illness than men (or at least they say they do) but the numbers for men aren't zero.
In fact, we can really apply this filter to most things you've listed. Men have high levels of obesity, student loan debt, mental illness, existing paternity and STIs. We can't apply it to everything of course. Men want a woman below 30 for obvious biological reasons that don't apply exactly to women, but broadly the way you've framed the question implies an average eligible man and an average ineligible woman. Whereas in reality, most of these things affect the numerator as well as the denominator. Loads of women are fat, but so are an equal number of men, which reduces the competion for the slim women.
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