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2yr ago
Honestly with Asian history there's a ton of hilarity if you expand the 'who's colonizing who' slightly further.
Most of Vietnam as we know it was carved out less than 500 years ago from a bunch of locals who were subjugated, eradicated and generally mollywhopped but ask them and they've been in charge since time immemorial.
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2yr ago
-- Learn to text well. The general advice to move to in person ASAP is good, but for various reasons I haven't followed it in years, I nearly always text extensively for days-weeks-months and the first time we meet up it is certainly to make love.
How the hell is this workable? I had a few extended (month+) texting sequences end in pretty immediate clunks in person, that admittedly I probably should have vetted better with selfie swapping and social media stalking, and the sheer palpable letdownery of those engagements scared me away from letting things go longer than a week or so without a first meeting in person.
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2yr ago
Had a recent longish stanza on dating apps and it always confused me a bit how many girls seemed to forever be on the more 'longterm relationshipy' ones.
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2yr ago
The Gaymaleification/Sex-in-the-city of single women hasn't really produced much in the way of longterm happiness, from what I can see.
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2yr ago
That's the principle issue of Holocaust Denial. I've never been super interested in the field but my very primitive understanding is that there are very few people who are doubting that there were Jews persecuted/killed etc etc.
It's more how it's been a cottage industry for almost a century now to come up with tales of torture, persecution and murder which have forged an unholy Holocaust Extended Suffering Universe in which it is difficult to refute individual claims even ones which violate a lot of logic.
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2yr ago
One of the marks of highly successful people that unites them with normies is being content with defaults. Sure, were I rich, I'd be able to afford a custom laptop for travels that ticks my every nerd fetish box – trackpoint, 3:2 touchscreen, 100Wh battery, mechanical keyboard, magnesium chassis, no thinness fetish… But I'd most likely just tell my secretary to get the newest lightweight Mac, and paying much attention to what you own would be as absurd to my eyes as tinkering with rooted Android firmware.
I mean this is something that occurred to me one day during COVID. All-hands meeting at the company I was working for, pretty big spectrum of income/wealth/countries of residence... and yet prettymuch everybody on the 100+-person call was essentially at a very similar table, with a very similar background, on a very similar device on this Zoom meeting. Testament to how increasingly flattened the curve is on lifestyle.
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2yr ago
Yeah. Knife/gun potential far bigger consideration than anything to do with his bare hands, IMO.
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2yr ago
Also, in absolute terms Fox sucked and all of Fox's wins are against nobodies, the only time Fox fought a UFC-caliber (but mediocre at best, by UFC standards) female fighter, Fox got TKO'd.
This has been a bit of a theme, in which it turns out an average man transitioning will go from a 50th percentile athlete as a male to a 95th percentile as a man but doesn't necessarily automatically win all the Olympic Golds ever compared to equivalent female outliers. Then again, the lack of elite athletes transitioning doesn't provide us with the opportunity to prove the rather obvious conclusion that MTF Lebron annihilates the WNBA.
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2yr ago
How much of that is the lack of equivalent success in the Men's game recently, though? I feel that a hypothetical Michael Raducanu on the same run gets lauded for longer.
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2yr ago
Is there something about the Asian physiognomy that makes it easier for them to pass?
I mean they've had literal generations of work on the practice + generally there's less curvature to SEA girls + I'd imagine if you were Thai born you'd probably be able to pick up on a host of micro-indicators that aren't evident as a foreigner.
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2yr ago
IMO this one's far more open-shut than the George Floyd thing.
I've done a lot of jiujitsu & grappling and I'd honestly not expect somebody I was restraining Chauvin-Floyd style to die of asphyxiation.
If I've got a tight Rear Naked Choke on somebody I'm expecting them to pass out within 10-20 seconds and then I'm categorically letting go.
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2yr ago
I've spent a lot of time in my life doing BJJ and it's very hard to strangle somebody to death without realizing something has gone wrong long before that. It's not even a George Floyd situation where the restraint wasn't a conventional choke and/or it was very potentially a stress heart attack. The Marine was capable of restraining the homeless guy in far less risky positions.
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2yr ago
Yeah. I feel men are more liable to reap the benefits of the 'chaos is a ladder' phenomenon but are also going to have the very bad outcomes.
Then again conquered men's genes and memories get wiped out. Conquered women are generally kept alive and reproducing.
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2yr ago
- The only way this theory would work is if either the smaller noses also means masks mitigate eyeglass fogging
You'd assume the preponderance of glasses wearing amidst Southeast Asians would pretty quickly mitigate any nose comfort in terms of mask convenience, too.
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2yr ago
In the particular context of programming, though.
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2yr ago
Maybe my hobbies and the hobbies I'm aware of happen to be outliers in COVID-cautiousness?
Having been a frequent PAX attendee in past I'd definitely say that group is on the fringes of COVID observation/some of the Enforcer chats I've been in have had some of the most hilarious 'this person has not been outside in their life prior to enforcing' reminders and questions.
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2yr ago
What exactly do you mean by dynamic v stagnant industry, though?
Winner of the current market cycle?
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2yr ago
Inbreeding does increase the risk of weird genetic stuff but it's not a certainty.
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2yr ago
The only remaining members of the COVID camp are incredibly alarmist 99th percentile concern types, some of whom have essentially built themselves into a corner like Eric Feigl-Ding.
It happened, it was a hilariously gigantic overreaction and it seems like society's preferred to just forget about the era as opposed to actually delivering any real comeuppance or punishment upon the ones who architected the ridiculous response.
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2yr ago
Very personal opinion-y, but I also generally feel that males have more of a reason to do this kind of a profile, especially in the rat-sphere.
They're more prone to having the lack of social awareness and/or dating options that'd lead to it seeming to be a good idea. There's plenty of males who flat-out cannot get laid therefore a hail mary makes more sense.
This woman can get laid. She likely knows candidates who would make for a broadly acceptable solution to her problem that she's either implicitly or explicitly rejected. She should know better in terms of social etiquette. The problems that currently result in her singleness are likely a combination of pickiness, filtering and refusal to compromise on the Polyamory thing.
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2yr ago
A lot of those guys aren't trying to lead with the wealth, though. They're trying to find whatever a 'love match' is as opposed to explicitly trading $ for companionship.
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2yr ago
I feel like in SV circles there will be some value placed on female accomplishments, but it's not gonna have the same primacy as it would amongst men.
Like give me a choice between an unemployed 7/10 and a doctor 7/10 and I'll take the Doctor every day. Give me the choice between a unemployed 7/10 and an accomplished 2/10 and vice-versa.
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2yr ago
Yeah. Honestly from my own experience of dating apps/modern market, being non-obese, non-ancient, non-hideous and having an actual somewhat sensible lifepath she's reasonably upper percentile.
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2yr ago
I do feel that this is a bit more complicated than it appears, though.
I've had a plethora of friends who've used the 'girls are more into me since I've got a relationship, I should try opening the relationship, oh wait it was all an illusion' kinda strategy for fucking themselves over. Girls are definitely more attentive when they're in a relationship, but a certain amount of that is being marked as 'safe for harmless flirtation/interest' which doesn't necessarily last when there's a actual outlet.
Feel like lockdowns/COVID meant there was a 2-or-so-year gap in a lot of travel content as well, along with generally encouraging homogenization as a phenomenon.
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