Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Typical-minded fallacy is the one fallacy I've noted with alot of Motte posters.
Hint: If you're posting on the Motte, you're very likely nowhere near mediocre.
(I'm exempting myself from this, I will point out. If we plotted every poster out on a bell curve measuring various factors, I'd definitely end up in the shallows, and not on the far end thereof.)
I think I've lost count regarding the number of posters who've made commentary over the years about their dating experiences, only to end with the commentary of 'It's not so hard!' All the while seemingly glossing over their blatant advantages as if they somehow don't count, to the point where I wonder if I'm being gaslit or they're so privileged that they've never stopped to think why their dating experience was so painless.
It's gotten just a little bit tiresome. But hey, that's life...
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Correlation does not equal causation.
Yes, yes, we've heard it all before. 'Just have the skills of a functioning adult and women will flock to you'. Barring all the cases we've seen of where this is... not the case, just because I can make a cheesecake and cook steak with ease doesn't mean the random spawn chance for 'eligible and interested girlfriend' is magically going to bump up in percentage.
You yourself stated that you're partially retirted(IE, have lots of money), academic(IE, likely have a large amount of social skills), likely had your own domicile, exotic factor(british accent), and probably a large number of other factors you haven't mentioned. Congrats, you were a sugar daddy! Older man, lots of money, lots of social catchet, and you're wondering in confusion as to why you were able to pull younger women compared to men thier age?
Man, take the beam out of your own eye before you try to remove the splinter from others.
Grant_us_eyes
2mo ago
For those unaware, this is reference to Vaush, a rather infamous Breadtuber who has been rather outspoken on both lowering the age of consent as well as loosening the taboo against bestiality, amoung a few other opinions.
He has also been rather vociferous against lolicon and how anime is a gateway to the alt-right.
Just recently, he was outed as a blatant hypocrite mid-stream when saving a file to his computer showing that he also had pron saved that was rather explicitly lolicon.
Take that for what you will.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
and it will revert as soon as the person goes back to eating naturally.
Amazing. If you go back to the diet that was making you fat, you will get fat again. Will wonders never cease.
Sorry. I should probably hold back on the sarcasm, given that this is the motte, but this is the one 'secret' about dieting that I rarely see people point out - you can't stop.
Dieting isn't an on-off switch - it needs to be a conscious decision to moderate your diet aimed at long-term goals and body improvement. Once you reach a certain age, you can't just shovel crap into your face and expect to walk it off.
Dieting is a permanent change to your life, and the sooner people acknowledge that, the better.
Conversely, if someone wants to enjoy themselves sucking down baconators and Dr Pepper by the bucket, well, I can't stop them. Maybe they'll get more enjoyment out of life doing that then I will, I dunno.
Grant_us_eyes
9mo ago
Is there a way?
There is not.
You can paint a picture all you want, but you can't ignore the canvas. Fiction nowadays trying to include such elements just come across as obnoxious political screeds that after a certain point makes me throw them in the trash.
Just because I can read Eclipse Phase doesn't mean I don't roll my eyes at some of the elements they include, and despite my initial interest in the webcomic 'O Human Star', once I realized the analogy they were going with some of the setting elements made me severely pull back in my interest in seeing where it was going to go.
I'm sick a tired of people trying to force obvious modern age propaganda down my throat, and it's gotten to the point with most modern fiction that I default assume they'll include it until I learn otherwise.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Truly, Nazi's and white supremacist are a very diverse and eclectic group.
My theory; Being hispanic means he can be racists as hell and never get called on it, hence the various online postings. With racism being keyed only to white people, everyone in the media makes the assumption that he's automatically white with no research on the matter.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
(I have 13B happily running on mine; it's... interesting)
You can't just casually drop that and expect someone not to beg for more information.
It's me. I'm begging for more information. Interesting howso?
Grant_us_eyes
3mo ago
Yeah, I remain persistently puzzled by how people making anything north of six-figures wind up broke.
I've seen literal brain surgeons be very financially clueless.
If you're not educated in how to manage and invest, that sort of thing can get away from you very quickly.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Fact checking
Have we gotten to the point where we're pretending now that TW wasn't having to produce active forgeries about the matter when Libs of TikTok expressed the exact criticism you're saying she didn't have?
I'd link to TW's post describing everything he did during that entire event, but for some odd reason, it was deleted. Funny, that.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Ah.
Cross that game off my list of things to look into, then.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
Huh.
Given the men to women ratio in Alaska, that wouldn't have been my first choice. A better option would probably be the Pacific Trail, but what do I know.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
Characters like Miles Morales generally have pretty high approval ratings because he is an interesting character in his own right and they didn't just make Peter Parker black.
People can repeat this as many times as they like, but I refuse to believe it. At best, it just feels like historical revisionism.
Miles was very much made as a black Spiderman, and only worked when they actually, y'know, killed Peter off. It's telling that the only way they made Miles work as a character when matching him up with the original was by changing the original completely - making him older, wiser, and a little more cynical.
No, Miles is just a bad collection of racial tropes pasted onto the original, and very much a racial takeover of the worst type - oh, and he has a hot blonde girlfriend, because that's what always happens with black characters in American comics, for some reason.
'Comic book popularity' is a worthless measure when the entirety of comic book sales in America are outshone by a single manga series. 'But the movies' are a worthless measure given all the sheer effort they had to do to make it work, and when people talk about 'Into the Spider-verse', all I hear is stuff about Miguel O'Hara.
So, no, I disagree. I place Miles alongside all the other race-swaps - worse, because people keep trotting him out as 'one of the good ones', when he really, really isn't.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
There's a documentary I watched recently regarding Japanese longevity, and one of the people they interview remarks on how the introduction of western diet is having an effect on young Japanese people, making them more obese.
Genetics can play a part, but there's a point where we need to at least consider that there's something whonky going on, here.
Grant_us_eyes
2mo ago
That still boils down to diversity, hence my critique and criticism of the movie as a whole.
And yes, the Fremen should have been Arabic.
Grant_us_eyes
2mo ago
There was some bad casting in the first movie for characters that don't appear in this installment.
Their switch-over of Liet-Kynes to a random black woman for diversity points alone shows how badly the Director's understanding of the Dune universe works; a very wide but shallow puddle that completely misses the mark.
I didn't see the first one, won't see the second one. Don't even get me started on them showing off the Sardaukar homeworld.
Fun aside; None of the movies ever get the Padishah Emperor right. In the books he's described as a youthful, thirty-something redhead. Yet they always have him as an old man past his prime. Pity.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
IVF
One element I feel gets ignored and/or glossed over is the cost. IVF procedures in America cost anywhere from 10k to 30k - there seems to be a wide gap involved, and IIRC, the cost a friend of mine paid was much, much more.
There's also no guarantee the procedure will take, and the longer a woman puts it off, the longer possible existing complications can remain undiscovered(again, this is what happened to the same friend.)
Thankfully, they were able to go oversees to have the procedure done again, but staying a month in Turkey is abit beyond the means of most people.
I wish people were taught better about this, but I worry we've moved to the point where the majority just assumes medical science is basically a magic wand that automatically fixes everything.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
You're underestimating the national divide that existed post-Civil War.
Up until World War 1, there was an honest question among those that considered such on wether or not any of the Southern states would actually fight for America, period. (Instead, they turned out in droves that carried a consistent trend... up until very recently. Funny, that.) Most statues were put up as a meager act of concession, allowing pride to a defeated foe who nevertheless gave a good fight.
It's not as if the South had anything else in the aftermath.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Yeah. And if this had been in the main thread(or even it's own thread), I'd probably just minimize and go about my way.
Here, though? I don't mind pointing out how tone-deaf posting this comes across for where it's at.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Chickens are raging assholes that go everywhere they're not supposed to and refuse to die when their time is up.
Ducks are much easier to manage. The eggs are tastier, too.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
There is value to be had in chilling the room and creating a false consensus in an overall community.
Grant_us_eyes
5mo ago
These quotes were supposedly attributed asides to no-name ambassadors outside of the great powers of the time.
If he was trying to intimidate people, he picked the wrong targets to do so.
Mao saw combat during WW2 in China. I imagine he had a very different view of death and permissive causalities. While per capita China's deaths were not the worst, they were certainly up there. I don't think it's wise to underestimate just how this shaped his outlook.
Grant_us_eyes
5mo ago
My experience with the DKE can basically be translated as 'I am knowledgeable and skilled at one thing, therefor, I am knowledgeable and skilled at everything.'
Often with lawyers.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
And part of it is just that Southern primary education more or less lies to its own people about this part of history.
Ah, yes. This old canard.
Sorry, but I had to take 400-level history courses on Southern history before the notion that 'Well, the Civil War may have had other factors beyond slavery that caused it' even got brought up.
I'll believe my own eyes and experience, thanks.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
The purpose of sports is to win. It is, at it's core, a competition. And the goal of competition is to be the victor.
There is no high-minded 'pushing the physical limitations' involved here. I assure you, the last thing you want is to have transhuman philosophy applied by people that, while not insane, are atleast slightly off kilter from the rest of humanity.
You have to be. Consider; These are the people that literally and metaphorically torture themselves just for... what, five minutes of glory? If that? You have the apex, the celebrities, yes, but that's some long odds to bet with chancy return on that investment.
And you don't find reasonable men at the top of mountains.
Sports and competition are the last places I'd be applying transhumanism.
Keeping in mind, I'm familiar with this second-hand due to family working for Miller at one point, which is a different company, but...
Local sales - to grocery stores, gas stations, and the like - are effectively handled by sales reps who manage them. Once stocked, the stock in question(IE, Beer) is basically one and done and can only be removed from the store in question by being sold.
So, thanks to this PR kerfuffle, you've got alot of beer that's basically sitting around in stores not doing anything that the stores in question can't get rid off and the sales reps can't replace with other things that would sell.
Plus, you've got local stores thinking to themselves 'Do I really want to deal with this?' when it comes time to see what's going to get prominence in their liquor area and who's going to get permission to do those stupid, big displays for when the game day comes along.
All these metrics are tracked by software. (And this was several years ago, keep in mind, who knows what they're doing now). If stores are under-performing, the head distribution offices know about it. Often times, what's stocked in choosen through a combination of the sales rep and what the local store manager allows. Which means this can get messed up and stores can under-perform very easily, because you've got stock sitting there no one wants to buy and you can't stock what's being sold more because you have limited shelf space you're allowed and this crap that won't move is just sitting there and you can't do anything with it...
I haven't talked to anyone in the business in a long time, but if I had to guess, there's alot of people that are very, very cranky right now.
So, to answer your question; Yes, I have a feeling they instantly saw a tank in sales and are quietly panicking, because the guys who've got skin in the game are probably screaming their heads off, from the sales reps to the distribution centers.
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