Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
14hr ago
"I totally support this thing that has happened before, is likely happening now, and some people want to increase to a horrendous degree. I also support this thing that has never happened before and the last time someone tried it got struck down by a judge despite being passed with nearly 60% of the votes."
You'll excuse me if I no longer give people like Caplan the benefit of the doubt.
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
It was origionally in relationship to clothing purchases in the modern age, but the core idea is, sadly, something that can be applied broadly to... well, anything. The phrase 'huge cognitive costs' encapsulates something not many consider as a negative, and a factor that I feel has increased in the modern days as we all drown under a rising tide of grey sludge of information.
Or, to shamelessly borrow from one of the replies, 'Huge cognitive costs is the through line of our times, which is kinda surprising, since we were promised the exact opposite'.
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
This turn-around became so famous it they actually coined a term for it.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
A wonderful example of a quote I've become rather fond of.
"With omnipresent sloppification you need to become an expert yourself before [...] anything. Huge cognitive costs."
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
For context, this is the first I've heard about it. As in, literally today.
Then again, I don't normally dip my toes into the Linux side of things, so that might explain it.
...still looks cool, though.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Omarchy Linux
Oh for fuck's sake. What in the absolute fuck. I casually read through this post, then go on a refreshing update/research on local-hosting LLMs a few hours later, only to stumble across the guy who did an old video I was double-checking having done a 'you need to switch to Linux RIGHT NOW' that was all about Omarchy Linux.
This is either a prime example of observation bias in action, or that we're all in a simulation.
(I will say that Omarchy Linux looks pretty cool, imho.)
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Less a straight arranged marriage and more weighting the dice as much as possible.
Also, if necessary, a brutal heart-to-heart talk along the lines of 'Bruh. You seriously think you're going to manage better? Get the fuck over yourself and marry that woman.'
I know of atleast one guy who got that from his dad. ... In the dad's defense, the lady in question was quite possibly the literal IRL example of a 10/10, angel descended from heaven, and the guy was... not. Knowing them both, the woman in question is an absolute sweetheart and the guy is insanely lucky. And, yes, they both have multiple kids by this point.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
I feel there is a non-zero group of very vocal women who's core argument against stuff like this basically boils down to that they hate the idea of men having to 'learn' to be 'chads'.
They don't want to find out that the man who managed to get with them used to be a socially messed up and worked hard to be charismatically smooth. They want a natural. The guy who just 'gets it'. Like, how the hell do they expect regular and/or awkward guys to learn this stuff? Yeah, I know socially extroverted people who make connections as easily as fucking breathing, but the rest of us have to put in the effort at it to atleast pretend to be normal, or atleast not an asocial retard.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
going abroad
This is hiding alot of assumptions; for one, you need to either be rich enough or have the right sort of job to be popular abroad. Not exactly an option for regular joe schmoes that are hurting in the dating market, so guys able to take advantage of this are still in the upper percentile range.
Second... Look, I'm not going to belabour passport bros thier options, but the idea that there exist places where I'd absolutely slay just because I'm white and American sounds absolutely ludicrious. I don't fucking beleive it. I suppose the only way to test this out would be to go over there, but, see point one.
Third, as faceh points out, it just exports the problem to that country.
Fourth, I'm a horrible racist and want my kids to look like me, so that nixes most Asian countries. I suppose, in theory, that means I should be going to the region of Eastern Europe, but, well... see points one and two.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
In my years of reading, the best way I can break it down is that male writing is more mechanistic, whereas female writing tends to be more intimate.
I’ve always struggled trying to find the best way to phrase it, and that’s what I keep coming back to.
The saddest moment in any serious, intelligent Libertarian's life is realizing they do not live in a world with zeppelins and talking monkies.
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