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11mo 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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11mo 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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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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11mo 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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11mo 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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11mo 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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11mo ago
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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11mo ago
You can predict that an account that follows a college subreddit, the NFL subreddit, the Tinder subreddit and some videogame subreddits is a young, single, college-age male, but that’s nowhere close to the data that Meta has on that person’s account.
Honestly in my experience as an advertiser/buyer-of-ads I've found a lot more productive use out of interest data/short-funnel than demographic stuff. Vast majority of people I know who interface with Facebook as an advertiser privately admit that it doesn't seem to accomplish anything, and the only time it does is when you let Facebook run its own attribution model/targeting (and essentially mark its own homework), in which it will forensically, passionately, accurately locate your existing customers and preach to the choir
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11mo ago
This is not how N95 masks work. Their filtering efficiency is better for very small and very large particles than for medium ones. This is why people wear N95s (or better) when dealing with much more serious diseases than covid.
Yeah but they're wearing them with utmost attention to hygiene, regular replacements and full mask discipline for short periods of time
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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
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10mo ago
Yeah but the amount of people who'd outwardly self-identify as Socialist/Marxist influenced is far greater than the amount of people who'd outwardly self-identify as fascist.
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10mo ago
Exactly. Transmen pass a lot easier since nobody's taking huge efforts to tell the difference between petite, scrawny (or frankly in a lot of cases, rubenesque-but-short) guys and girls if they're signaling to the world they're a male through outfit or grooming choices.
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10mo ago
Surely a big chunk of that has to be the whole 'broken home to begin with' correlation moreso than the specific malignance of step-parents.
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10mo ago
The Motte's peak was a lot lower than Donald/WatchPeopleDie, though
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10mo ago
Castrati were famously very tall back in the day, for a comparable group of individuals
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10mo ago
Poverty's shit but there's severe diminishing returns past upper-middle class affluence seems pretty coherent to me
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10mo ago
“Asian romantic preferences are morally permissible.” Pro
As in preferring Asian women? I feel like there's a lot to unpack here in which men may prefer Asian women for certain attributes that aren't necessarily racial.
Most of my dating has been WMAF and it's more due to wanting a petite, intelligent, agreeable socially-conservative woman without somebody else's kids. 90% of that stock in my area happens to be Asian and therefore I date a lot of Asian girls.
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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.
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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.
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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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10mo ago
Wouldn't say so much tutors, but recruiting tours with this kind of stuff are very common.
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10mo ago
Potentially lockdown conditions caused more of a pentup energy/less access to other activities that'd otherwise serve as a natural distraction.
Also my understanding of 2020 was that a lot of rioters weren't even necessarily local to the areas they were rioting in, which surely would contribute to the ability to stay focused.
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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.
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10mo ago
There hasn't been a single invasion going out from India in recorded history
Feels like pretty obvious geographic barriers unless they'd like to invade... Sri Lanka? It's either desert, the Himalayas or deepest darkest jungles.
Yeah. Knife/gun potential far bigger consideration than anything to do with his bare hands, IMO.
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