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1yr ago
OLD's kind of what you make of it.
I've met the mother of my children through it after a year grinding away. It's a good outcome for me.
I met about 50ish girls in person over the course of the year, and based on still having most on social media it's striking that the majority still haven't found a partner. I was mostly dating UMC, intelligent, educated girls with good jobs who allegedly want to have kids within 3-4 years and yet the majority of the cohort seem to be stuck in a purgatory of Icking and not meeting somebody good enough.
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1yr 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.
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1yr ago
Why don't we teach young women 'please never send mixed signals to men about your sexual interest as ambiguous coquettishness muddies the water around consent'? Why is it 'No means no and if you don't have a yes, it's a no' in the face of all observed human mating practices? All the responsibility for miscommunication around consent is placed onto the shoulders of men by the groups advocating 'education'.
A lot of female sexuality operates around plausible deniability and genuinely being a lot more 100-0 with potential romantic partners than the male mind can really conceive. I've got a lot of female friends, and the amount of times a prospective paramour has gone from 'I think he's my soulmate' to 'it icks me to even be somewhat near them, they are physically and spiritually repulsive' off a single tiny moment/misplay is way too high. Being a proactive communicator of sexual intent doesn't work when you're wired like that, as the light switch can flip at any moment
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1yr 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.
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1yr ago
Doesn't look like the right link?
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1yr ago
Is it the tattoos in an aesthetic vacuum, or is it the attribute signalling they convey?
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1yr ago
Still I think the suggestion of gold-digger comes with an implication that the girl is contributing next-to-nothing financially
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1yr ago
What do you mean, the gender identity ('born in the wrong body') is justifying the surgery. Also the gender identity stuff is an incoherent belief system that is being taught in schools and mandated in workplaces.
Is it, though? A world in which the gender surgery actually accomplished what was on the tin I'd agree, but as-is it's kind of a shambles
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1yr ago
From talking to girl friends/watching them swipe on dating apps, I'd beg to differ. Plenty of guys who are pretty stable, nerdy vibes get instantly dismissed for being boring.
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1yr ago
If you're bright enough to know what VC is but not inside baseball enough to know which firm is which you're more likely to reject all VC claims than to give credibility to every one of them because "Venture Capital" is also the job claimed by a hundred thousand morons online.
Similar for people claiming to be a trader, since 99.99% of the time it's somebody yeeting around their Robin Hood balance on memestocks for a few months before going broke
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1yr 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
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1yr ago
I feel like Writer has its own appeal, despite being associated with impoverishedness.
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1yr ago
The possibility made you put a bit more thought into where you were putting your genitals, especially with the threat of the half-decade go nowhere relationship.
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1yr 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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1yr ago
I mean you can, but it tends to unravel pretty quickly if you ever get behind the 8-ball
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1yr ago
Yeah. I think there's dodginess rife but it's likely to just about even out on the aggregate
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1yr ago
Were the 1960s Residential Schools subject to outbreaks of Cholera in a literal frontier?
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1yr ago
Honestly this is what perplexes me the most about indigenous culture war. I feel like one side reads the horrors of colonialism, but then doesn't engage with the horrors of general pre-modern human life.
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1yr ago
give native children a Westernised upbringing so they could fit into mainstream society and be lifted out of primitive superstition and squalour.
Honestly I'd love to get an unbiased, clinical review of what exactly the median life outcomes were of receiving a Westernized upbringing through 'the stolen generation' and/or other equivalents versus remaining in remote communities. I've yet to be convinced that the former strategy didn't actually do more good than harm, though it'd be absolute anathema to actually try publish that.
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1yr ago
I also think birth control/modern contraceptions allowing spontaneous, unplanned pregnancy to be massively minimized is a large factor, and the artificial womb doesn't really change that.
Couples are waiting till 'the time is right' to actually try and have a child, and the time is either never right or arrives at a point where the child is a lot harder to create due to fertility issues etc. The artificial womb doesn't do a ton to change that.
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1yr ago
Exactly. There's pretty huge economies of scale in managing young children, whether it's between siblings, cousins or general neighborhood factors. Families drifting apart from each other, and the reproductive rate dropping as a whole, have essentially killed a lot of the positive feedback loops
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1yr ago
Honestly I think the gameplay issue is that the engine works a lot more interestingly with the logic of Divinity than it does with DND 5e translation. Stuff like the armor/crowd control/floor systems in DOS2 just worked better, IMO.
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1yr ago
Character wise, it's fair to say most fat people have bad posture and less attention to hygiene and style, though you can imagine causality working either way.
Honestly having lost about 20 KG from 130~ KG to 110KG at 6'3 and going from 'I need to actively hunt for clothing in my size that isn't a tent' to actually being able to walk into a reasonable department store and buy clothing off the rack that is semi-fashionable, suddenly style became a lot easy to participate in.
Also Big Man's Stores rarely do discounts on their upsized nice clothing, whilst getting to the point of buying from a standard department store means I've suddenly got an ability to participate in deals, clearances and the like. Buying 'nice jeans' would previously have cost about $150 AUD per pair, now it's closer to $50 if I'm at all patient.
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1yr ago
King Von's shooting happened in Atlanta, but probably similar levels of care and ability
I definitely agree that's the case. Back when I was in my grinding OLD phase, I fairly quickly learned that generally if a girl isn't giving you a Yes by two attempts to secure an in-person meeting, you're about to embark on an exercise in frustration. Whether it be due to their disinterest in you, general flakiness, scheduling difficulties or whatever else.
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