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Forgotpassword
8mo ago
I mean you can, but it tends to unravel pretty quickly if you ever get behind the 8-ball
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11mo 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.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Yeah. The Voice seems very unlikely to do anything productive for full-blooded indigenous in remote areas due to their plight being a gigantic stack of interwoven issues, but will do wonders for a bunch of 1/16th-types who naturally gravitate towards Left wing politics anyway.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
For white guys, you can probably add 2 or 3 points to your 10 scale appearance rating. Then factor in that the average woman is also 2 or 3 points higher than in the United States. It doesn't seem unreasonable to be dating 9's.
How much of this is just the relatively tiny rate of obesity? I have always felt Asian girls tend to have a higher median but smaller standard deviation in terms of attractiveness. Even here in the West I'll tend to date majority Asian girls, but it's more due to the fact that they're less likely to hit a hard disqualifying factor for a first date than due to an actual preference.
I'm trying to hard filter for single mothers, obesity, complete lack of career/life-seriousness and overly alt tattoos/piercings/whatnot. Those criteria knock out like 3-4% of Asian girls and like what feels like a majority of white women on the apps. Which I think also contributes to a lot of the 'Asian women are most favorable on dating apps' studies since I feel like a lot of men are going to be swiping similar to me (albeit probably not as hard on 3 & 4 but just as hard on 1 & 2) and Asian girls who are fundamentally ineligible tend to be a lot rarer.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
In my experience of current dating culture, having gone from a 2/10 to a 8/10 through a combination of aesthetic considerations and income improvements, I'm definitely of the opinion that the reluctance of women to date sideways/settle is the defining characteristic of the age. The attractive men that women complain about tend to act as they do due to being oversubscribed.
I'm also fairly confident the average guy would be more able to pick/actually date with what he'd consider 'wife material' characteristics than a girl trying to pick for maximal stable marital harmony in her partners.
Forgotpassword
4mo ago
Yup. It's uncomfortable for either side to admit this, but wokism is a Western value.
There's plenty of random Affirmative Action in the developing world, but a lot of the ones who end up in the West tend not to think highly of it since they're the successful Market Minorities getting screwed over in their own countries.
Forgotpassword
9mo ago
Yeah but these standards aren't upheld for tragic losers of other vanquished nations. Sitting Bull's vision for America likely falls far short of the current USA on practically every metric, but he gets a monument as a vainglorious upstart who fought for what he believed in.
Forgotpassword
10mo ago
Sarah is correct that the modern alliance between liberal progressives and Muslims was a marriage of convenience that took advantage of some unusual culture war circumstances, but it's a tryst that was bound to fray apart given the fundamental policy disagreements. One of the efforts to keep the bandwagon held together comes from what Sarah terms Muslims in Name Only (MINOs):
Honestly this is the case for the vast majority of allegiances between immigrant/refugee groups and Liberalism. It is quickly forgotten by the Western Left that practically everybody from a progressive-tinged first world nation is about 5 jumps to the left socially on most issues, and that whilst the recent imports from wherever else are briefly aligned whilst it's in their financial interests to have a leg up, they are going to revert to form on social issues the second they're established.
Forgotpassword
1yr 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.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
I feel like your point holds through till about 30ish, then they realize the biological window on having children is shutting rapidly (since they'd always wanted them, just assumed it'd be in some sort of nebulous '5 years from now when I'm more settled and met Mr. Right) and then it gets dramatic.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
How much of that is the very idea of traditional retirement being kind of absurd in the modern era?
Retiring at 65 when there was a reasonable expectation of death by early-mid 70s after a life of actual hard labor and there wasn't obscene amounts of money poured into extending out the last 2-3 years of life was sustainable. The modern conception of retiring from a laptop or deskwork at 65 to just kind of aimlessly dodder around for 20-30 years has upset the whole system.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Honestly Black Panther is a narrative mess anyway since like even ceding 'they were noninterventionalist' means that they've happily twiddled their thumbs through a boatload of fucked up happenings on the continent.
Without even getting into the whole 'Yes, Compton is the greatest scene of African suffering in the world' hilarity.
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.
Forgotpassword
7mo ago
Are the people running factory machines inside of Ford and GM (or starbucks, or a hollywood writers room) really that highly skilled?
Switching costs are high, unions will generally make attempts to increase the difficulty of procuring 'scab'/temporary replacement labor and historically there was less ability to just move a factory international or procure international workers.
Do agree that the Writers' strike seems pretty fangless when it's not only a job with a fairly arbitrary marker of skill/ability to function, but it's also one that's an actual desired, targeted role for a lot of people without a real credentialist barrier to entry. Writer compensation should, logistically, have a pretty severe pareto principle.
Forgotpassword
10mo ago
I’ve been fascinated by the fact that even the richest among us are only surviving because Mother Earth decided not to crush them today. Seems like these people just had their luck run out, and maybe made a really stupid decision?
Honestly having hung out with a bunch of HNW individuals in Startup & Trading spheres, having low impulse control and the urge to go all-in on hare-brained schemes is one of the chief paths to being outlier rich... though obviously leads to a bunch of collapses along the wayside that nobody particularly cares for.
Forgotpassword
1yr 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.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Basically the right is doing the same thing the left did in 2020-2021.
Yeah. It's kinda hilarious how things have pivoted from 'random deaths/medical issues pinned on LONG COVID' to 'random deaths/medical issues pinned on VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS'.
Honestly personally I think the effects of 'Long Lockdown' in terms of weight gain, exercise disrupted, habits picked up, mental issues are probably going to present a greater specter than either COVID or the vaccine.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Yeah. My dad was from a very poor corner of the North of England in a very large family and a bath was a weekly phenomenon in which the water'd be shared between the extended family.
People are generally unaware of how staggeringly modern a lot of expected current conveniences are.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Disrupting the exercise habits and diets of millions of people likely would cause an increase in heart disease, as well.
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23d ago
I feel like terrible stories in older games were easier to ignore/part of the appeal, too. Plenty of games where if you ignored a few pages in the manual and got down to Rip & Tearing it was a lot easier to just play. Compared to today's unskippable cutscenes.
Forgotpassword
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.
I'm fairly sure black women generally score the lowest for interracial appeal in dating app data, which might be part of it.
Then again there's generally strong correlations between being a black woman and a bunch of things the dating market isn't a fan of such as Obesity, dependents etc. which might mean that the antipathy towards Black Women is overstated on account of the correlated factors.
Like I found in my personal dating I tended to end up pursuing more Asian girls than anything else, but that was more due to a preference for 'My partner ideally has graduated university, isn't overweight, hasn't got somebody else's kids etcetera' than necessary a strong preference in isolation.
Forgotpassword
10mo ago
I'd guess you've got a lot more visibility of food service workers doing their jobs than you do of white collar workers doing their jobs. I do agree that there's a significant level of wandering away from the point with the visas, but I'd imagine the majority of food service workers you're seeing are in the country on educational visas (even if there are a lot of shambolic nothing institutions springing up as glorified visa mills) and supporting themselves that way.
I've never understood why the guillotine isn't the most humane way. Big enough/fast enough pneumatic press with a big enough blade and there's few things plausibly more consistent.
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