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4mo ago
Filipinos are the second highest income group? That seems off.
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4mo ago
Northern Ireland was closer to a settler-colony and has similar issues.
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5mo ago
Yeah. My interpretation was that he was diving/trying for some moderate rough play and landed the proverbial critical hit.
I don't think there was any intent of it ending as it did, but he also clearly made an abnormal movement for the sport
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
Yeah. Failure case in most Western democracies right now is not that earthshatteringly bad. It's definitely tight, but it's not like he'd be forced to go homeless 48 hours after declaring bankruptcy. Especially when he's got the contact network he ostensibly seems to have had, surely there'd be a 6-figure sinecure of some sort available somewhere as a consultant or middle manager that'd allow him to be atleast medium competitive.
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
Is this really a dunk? Both photos still substantially more attractive than the other woman, even if she's less presented in the one you've just linked.
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7mo ago
Doesn't look like the right link?
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8mo ago
I feel like gold digger is the wrong angle to come into. I've been in a similar position dating, managed to date a bunch of professional high-flyers I met through various apps, and it's more of a 'I want a partner who's a financial equal' thing than a 'I expect my lifestyle to be subsidized' thing in a lot of cases
Forgotpassword
11mo 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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1yr ago
Exactly. People don't realize exactly how frequent early deaths were in prior eras, especially in hardscrabble frontier areas.
Even with the reservation schools, shouldn't the important mark of success be '% of a child entering the reservation school making it to adulthood v % of a child staying with the native population making it to adulthood'. It's frustrating how consistently historical inequality is compared to a benchmark of 2020 health & educational outcomes instead of actually doing some sort of historical apples to apples. Australia's Stolen Generation is very similar where, yes, it was a brutal practice but also the life outcomes of the 'stolen' were better than those who remained in the bush.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Also female approaches are very much built in a couched 'plausible deniability' sort of a framing. I've been a spectator of enough of my female friends' flirtations that they're trying to actually take lead on, and the whole artifice tends to be built in such a manner as for an initial approach to be made with genuine interest but the whole thing can be retconned/denied if for whatever reason there's any icks.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Anecdotally, detransitioning does seem to be more common among ex-transmen than ex-transwomen
Completely spurious reasoning but I feel like a lot of this would be down to transmen having more to lose by opting to be a male and thereby losing out on 'the sisterhood'/social connections versus low-status men essentially going from nobody giving a fuck to a built-in social network when they opt to transition. I also feel like men are more likely to actually achieve something approaching what they want out of the transition, whilst in my own experience of Transmen there's a lot of very garbled logic about essentially wanting to be a top 1% guy to experience those perceived advantages without realizing they're renouncing female privilege and moving onto... petite feminine male non-privilege.
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1yr ago
Immunity debt is a possibility but needs more studies.
The whole COVID debacle illustrated pretty profoundly how much public health academica is a circlejerk of people who called for lockdowns then marking their own homework. Honestly the way that the period has killed a lot of trust in science & politicans will be one of the bigger legacies.
Forgotpassword
25d ago
Yeah but for a male the process of going from the computer lifestyle to adequately interfacing with dating is likely going to equate to making a bunch of lifestyle changes and grinding away at social experience to be anywhere near competitive in the market. For a girl, you create a dating app profile and you can be awash in suitors within 3 hours unless you are like bottom 2 percentile attractive.
I spent about a year on the dating app grind recently enroute to finding a longterm partner, and to get to the point where I was getting consistent positive attention took about 6 month of self improvement between weight loss, social learnings etc and that's as a 6'4, high-earning white guy with low-moderate aspergers tendency. The NEET version of myself is likely still floundering around. I ended up going on about 70 first dates during that year (50~ of which came after I was 'reasonably attractive'), and it's pretty striking to me how many of the women I met who I didn't end up with seem to be still stuck in an endless singleton rut years after the event. Most of these women are attractive, intelligent, had good jobs, 25-30 years old, reasonable educations and ostensibly want kids/commitment yet I believe they are their own worst enemies in a lot of ways.
Forgotpassword
25d ago
I think games have just scaled as a project to the point that there's too many cooks in the kitchen. Also credentialism likely trends more formulaic compared to when even majorish projects would prettymuch be 'somebody's cousin + moderate drug use = Elder Scrolls mythos'
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Personally I don't take much umbrage at somebody choosing to identify as another sex/change their pronouns, but I feel that gender confirmation surgery is a crude facisimile that's 99% likely to be considered Lobotomesque in a generation or two. Whether that's due to the whole transgenderism thing falling out of vogue, or the evolution of something (whether digital avatars or genetic remixing) that actually accomplishes the goal.
Forgotpassword
4mo ago
I do feel like it's tricky for CFB since, aside from the perennial bluebloods with infinity $'s, the transitory nature of college players means that promotion & relegation could mean a lot of awkward yo-yoing.
If some random no-hoper team happens to get a super prospect for a few years and gets promoted 2 or 3x times due to having that incredible player... then the next decade of the team's existence is likely gonna be depressing and downward focused.
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4mo ago
According to my Chinese wife accumulating a big list of churches you’ve attended is a strategy for claiming religious refugee status.
You can just list off different churches you've attended and pattern-match to somebody else's semi-recent claim of repression?
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4mo ago
Staking is a pretty frequent phenomenon where people will essentially commit a bankroll to a great player in exchange for a cut of winnings, though even that circles back to 'the hourly is pretty terrible' since even if you're winning 2k an hour, if you've committed 90% of your profits to the person who's staked you you end up in the same hole.
Forgotpassword
7mo ago
Same.
I've experienced dating apps as an unattractive male and experienced them as a reasonably-attractive male, and it's night & day. Having all the game in the world wouldn't have saved me with my initial profile, but once you've optimized yourself a bit it's not super difficult
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7mo ago
Incest Porn's a weird one, since arguably a lot of the stepcest stuff has come out of it being exceedingly affordable and practical to create versus other content of a similar level of taboo. A standard porn shoot can become an incest shoot with the addition of 5 lines of dialogue, without requiring sourcing actors who are either physically outliers or willing to do dangerous and/or weird acts.
Forgotpassword
8mo ago
IMO it's a birth control issue as much as anything. Back in the days of spontaneous unwanted pregnancies, these things were a bit more self-resolving.
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9mo ago
Left wing by far
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10mo ago
Which groups are you using as a proxy? Every major demographic started as a downtrodden immigrant group. Practically the only lasting pro-left successful immigrant group I can think of is the Asian diaspora, though they've been psyopped into some sort of 'despite the fact that you're the most successful and affluent demographic ever, you're victims' mix
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11mo ago
It's important to not spread made up facts to counter made up facts. It's true both that some masks work and that most mask wearing is theater.
Some masks work*
- if applied by a medical hygienist with utmost attention to following our simple 50-point guideline on how to best utilize your N95
I feel like this is generally an issue with miniseries. There's this relentless need to take the half of the show that's about an interesting topic (Mindhunter particularly galling for this) and then wedge it against the protagonist's personal relationship issues, especially if it's a period piece with period vibes for the main concept and yet the protagonist is living their personal problems through 2020 norms and cultural memes. I understand the actual core stuff is what costs money and is hard to write, but the amount of shows where it has to be wild pingponging between 'here is the thing the show is about' and 'here is his girlfriend feeling neglected' is ridiculous.
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