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Forgotpassword
2yr ago
...How is this different than (((Triple Parentheses)))?
I feel like the lack of an assumed/densely-correlated genetic component alters the calculus a little bit.
Forgotpassword
2yr ago
How much crime does one have to commit to be arrested six separate times? Dozens or hundreds of incidents
I mean I'd imagine there's few private citizens who haven't committed 100s of what could be charged as misdemeanors if they were observed by a sufficiently disgruntled law enforcement officer.
Forgotpassword
2yr ago
I feel like the vast majority of people are going to conceal the true extent of their politically incorrect beliefs since it's socially advantageous.
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
I'm white and far enough off the beaten tourist track that I've literally been questioned about why I'm going where I'm going by Grab Drivers a few times. I wouldn't say I get stared at perse but have had like Mamak workers come and be very curious a few times. The family's super accommodating, which helps. Generally everybody KL-adjacent will have some English, though I'm not a huge fan of KL itself (It's fine but generic SEA capital).
Food is great, my main personal limitation is I can't really train my preferred combat sports since I'm 99th percentile for size in the West.
Forgotpassword
2yr 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
Forgotpassword
2yr ago
The social convention is essentially that a story is a short-lived Facebook status where you can reply to it via DM. There's a huge social machinery now built around that artifice but it's much easier to generate conversation off 'oh that looks nice, where'd you get it' than just straight up cold DMing people.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Yeah. I think there's dodginess rife but it's likely to just about even out on the aggregate
Forgotpassword
2yr ago
Realistically I think there’s an incredibly small percent of the population that some hormone thing went wrong and really have gender confusion.
I mean the base idea here is that Gender Dysphoria is definitely a real thing that exists.
Meanwhile the whole trans movement is more about 'how does society decide that these people should be treated and what is appropriate in regards to them' then it's far more a matter of conjecture and debate.
Forgotpassword
9mo ago
Yeah. The real and constant threat of firearms in US Policing means the dynamic is fundamentally different to most other nations.
Forgotpassword
10mo ago
I genuinely think that Khelif's opponent here worked herself into a bit of hysteria since there's ample proof that Khelif isn't some world-ending super hitter with her 11% KO rate in amateurs.
Forgotpassword
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.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Fairly big difference between 'maybe relax the restrictions on building new dwellings a bit' and 'to reduce the housing shortage, we're moving three more people in with every domicile since 'cause'. I'd say your vibe is more against the latter.
Forgotpassword
2yr ago
I'd say today the pure non-working housewife role is increasingly economically unviable, which doesn't necessarily mean 'a wife needs a degree', but generally professional roles that work around a maternity schedule will lean that way.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
If anything I'd expect Trans-related violence to have a lot more to do with Trans individuals insufficiently communicating their status and individuals reacting poorly when surprised in person, as opposed to it being especially MtF Trans-perpetrator.
Especially in multicultural societies in which there's a whole spectrum of attitudes to, and awareness of trans people, in which non-clear communication can lead to... friction.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
I do agree that an interested woman will make efforts to meet, but I also feel that dynamic is better expressed after an in-person meeting. Before an in-person meeting, if you're in any sort of metro online dating marketplace, you are one of a cast of 1000s in the inbox of anything female presenting.
The whole interaction really begins after/during the first in-person meeting
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
Exactly. The 5 people left who still care about COVID are also likely fervently blue tribe so it is completely pointless for Trump to try and appeal to them.
Forgotpassword
5mo ago
Personally I'd rather take longer on the Train (assuming no random homeless enemy encounters) than driving for a commute at a reasonable ratio, since the former means I can use my various devices and don't have to deal with parking/the continued existence of my vehicle when returning home
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
Yeah. I was raised in a family with pleasant pet dogs and I'm broadly pro-dog, but having been to parts of the world where dogs are either working animals or mangy strays I can understand why there's an aversion.
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
I like dogs but I perfectly understand why people would not like dogs, and therefore my dogs remain in classically dog-appropriate spaces. Also insane when people try to equivocate this issue with children/babies when one is a stage of development that literally everybody went through.
Forgotpassword
6mo ago
Yeah but once you're in charge of such a large organism it's just as much macroeconomic trends and the work of 1000s of random cogs than it is straight up 'Guy A is a great CEO since company did well, Guy B is bad CEO since company did poorly' when they're likely unable to meaningfully steer the ship. My personal experience with Indian skilled immigrants is that the main advantage they have over other groups is being superduper willing and proficient at 'playing the corporate game'. Aggressively gaming KPIs, driving to tick every box and get every possible ingroup referral when applying for roles and generally showing a great savvy at the game of bureaucracy. I was kind of amazed in University seeing how my overseas Indian friends would go about applying for graduateships/internships versus people from other cultures, in how it was systematized and how collaborative a front there seemed to be even from Indians of vastly different geographic origins.
Like corporate entryism is mostly bullshit fugazi busywork for HR so I'm not against the hustle, but I think that relentless targeting of the rules of engagement is the main reason for Indian success as immigrants. Moreso than 'brilliance at the task at hand' and like should it particularly offend me that some person who is a 9.5/10 at leetcode and resume optimization but a 6/10 coder gets the Google graduateship over a 7/10 coder who didn't ruthlessly squeeze out every edge to get their butt on the seat when the job's likely to be pointless floundering busywork anyways?
Forgotpassword
9mo ago
Yeah but the tribe that's generally pro-abortion also tends to be pro public healthcare spending and bottomless purse spending on life extension for the elderly and/or their pets.
Which is the confusing issue here since based on all other Blue Tribe beliefs you'd think they'd really be the pro-lifers and vice-versa for the Conservatives. The whole script gets flipped essentially for this one issue.
Forgotpassword
1yr ago
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Forgotpassword
1yr ago
I just don't think Islam is particularly viable to run a successful modern economy/society unless you happen to be sitting on a large oil deposit.
Yeah. I feel the majority of Right wing antisemites might feel that Jewish influence is way larger than their population share should facilitate, but would also take Jewish neighbors in their suburb over other outgroup neighbors all day, every day.
Likewise with Israel-Palestine I get a sentiment of 'Israel are probably breaking international norms/active unethically, but also Palestine being Lebanon 5.0 would be a negative for all involved compared to illegitimate Jewish occupation'
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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