KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
6d ago
The popularity of Replika et al makes me worry your final claim is less secure than you might think.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
I think being mentally off is the cause of both the systems engineering skill and the trans.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
If most women out-earn men, and women have a well-documented desire to only date men who earn more than them, how do we expect anyone to form relationships and start families?
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
Are they, though? It seems like Rust has more of 'em than many other languages and they're at every level from solo projects to people involved with the foundation.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Yeah as MUD users go I'm pretty normie. Played the Iron Realms MUDs on and off over the years. Building zones and implementing servers were more interesting than playing, for a while, but eventually I stopped tinkering too.
Much as I hate the endless wave of AI slop, it's almost a shame the text-only LLM era didn't stretch for longer than it did. If we hadn't got image generation as soon as we did, we might have seen a mini-renaissance of LLM-boosted MUDding.
KingOfTheBailey
17d ago
An Old Town stabbing case ended in defeat for Multnomah County prosecutors once jurors learned the wounded man had been videoed uttering a racist slur in the struggle’s aftermath.
So the jury accepted that saying a slur can justifiably provoke aggression backwards in time? Incredible.
I believe that the ugliness forced on us everywhere we turn (architecture, modern "art", etc.) is deliberately done in an attempt to break us, using the method C.S. Lewis wrote about in That Hideous Strength. The extreme version in the Cheka Vallmajor cannot yet be fully replicated in public, but already we have seats that we can't sit on, public spaces that intentionally play unappealing music to get people to move along, and the various other elements of "hostile architecture" made by people who hate us and try to break us. (As always, the sensible solution — imprison/institutionalize/rehouse the people that make "hostile architecture" "necessary" — remains steadfastly untried.)
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
Probably because the "E-Meter" (aka "electropsychometer", "Hubbard Electrometer") is used in Scientology's "auditing" process.
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
I think the idea is plausible, I just also think that my screenshot of half a twitter thread and one old tech talk is not the strongest evidence in favor of it.
KingOfTheBailey
24d ago
Best? How about worst? Here's a weirdo on X claiming that Google was to online trans social contagion what the Wuhan Institute was to covid. The account has been banned, so all I have is this screenshot and a link to Ogi Ogas' Google Tech Talk, A Billion Wicked Thoughts:
And what we found from our research is that there are four parts of the body that men are interested in universally, in every country we looked at including preliterate, unwired countries as well. Four body parts that all heterosexual men are interested in — it's breasts, butts, feet, and the fourth body part was a big surprise to us, something we completely didn't anticipate. It turns out that the fourth body part that heretosexual men are very interested in looking at is the penis.
Ogi then talks about "shemale porn" (as well as Edward Cullen; remember, this is 2011) as an "erotical illusion":
An erotical illusion combines different sexual cues in new combinations to trick out the sexual brain. So let me talk about shemale porn. Again, this is very popular among heterosexual men; gay men are not interested in shemale porn. This was a surprise, when we went into this we had no idea that shemale porn was going to be so popular. Obviously this is something that men aren't comfortable talking about but the data is quite overwhelming about that this is universally popular, immensely popular. So why are straight men so interested in shemale porn?
I don't know if it's as clear a smoking gun as the departed poaster says, but the talk is certainly interesting, and I could imagine impressionable young men rewiring themselves if they jerked it to enough shemale porn during their formative years. Ogi also talks about paranormal romance as a way for authors to manipulate the cues that trigger female erotical illusions in new ways. Someone should do an effortpost on the line from paranormal romance to romantasy and the women that wirehead themselves on it ("we saw many women in their mid to late 40s who are just absolutely sexually obsessed with Edward Cullen"), but I'll stay on today's topic.
It's probably also worth trying to untangle why, despite all the rhetoric around passing, some trans-identifying men seem to put effort into specifically not passing, despite claiming the exact opposite. If you're that worried about passing, a trans pride flag on your laptop or a trans tattoo is really not going to make it easier. The only thing I can think of is that for this class of trans-identifying man, it's less about passing as a woman and more about forcing other people to interact with him as a woman.
Also don't forget the things that Strangio said to SCOTUS during Skrmetti: it's been known for some time that "there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates".
Can you name it? This sounds interesting.
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