NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Maybe we've had quite a cultural shift in the past ten years, but the most recent data I could dig up shows the median number of partners for a man is about 6, and men are probably inclined to inflate that number.
About 20% of men have had 15+ partners, and about 70% 40+, so 25 being 90th percentile feels about right.
See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795598/ and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/n.htm#numberlifetime
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Consider dating women from more traditional societies with marriage and children as your goal, and adopt some more traditionally male traits, especially the kind that would make a woman feel as if you can provide for and protect her and your future children.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
It's a somewhat well known view popularized by Arnold Kling that liberals are against markets, and conservatives are against liberals.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I forgot that top tier schools have interviews. My state schools did not.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Not that you're likely to get punished for lying in your essay, but if you were a white man who wanted to take advantage of this signaling without lying, you could just refer to yourself as a disadvantaged minority.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I've always wondered how corporations are able to get away with setting goals to hire a certain number of female/black/latino people and then publicly celebrate meeting those goals.
Perhaps they could say that it's the result of outreach efforts and not discrimination in the hiring decision itself, but would that fly if a business decided they wanted to conduct outreach efforts exclusively to white men?
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Most urgently, abandon the idea that perfect representation in education or employment is a desirable goal. Populations have diverse interests and abilities, and that makes the dream of perfect representation a never-ending battle to offset those differing interests and abilities.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I don't know what convincing you're referring to, I don't know if the problem was actually solved.
I just can't recall any American politician admitting that there's a problem, getting into the details on use-it-or-lose budget rules, saying that this is an instance of a more general failure case, and then admitting the constraints of what the state can achieve.
Even admitting the existence of a problem that happened on your watch is vanishingly rare.
And this was just a random scroll.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
If you really want your bubble burst on Putin, read some of his Valdai speeches and chats. I don't agree with all of his politics or his war, but he's refreshingly direct and erudite. I can't recall seeing an American President speaking in such a way since Eisenhower.
I just randomly scrolled through this 2018 appearance and landed on this, a response to a question on mismanagement of government funds in hospice care:
Firstly, I completely agree with you that our discussions, our internal discussions should be centred on our problems, domestic problems, our people’s lives, which is actually a major part of our work. And as you said, the fact that we are discussing war – and not just war but terrorism and other similar issues – is due to the way our host Mr Lukyaunov organised the discussion, I am not the one who organises it, it is done by the host, so let us put all the blame on him.
As to the problem you raised, it is obviously very sensitive, demanding special attention and tact from the state. Ultimately – you said it yourself – the state allocated the funds. The fact that only 12 or 16 percent were used means the work was poorly organised. I assure you that it does not mean that I will say to you, “The money was allocated and you did not use it, so that’s it, good-bye.” Do not worry, this will never happen.
I know the way money is spent, and very often, funds allocated by the state to handle certain matters of absolute priority do not reach the end receiver. If they are returned to the budget, it does not mean that they will stay there for good and the necessary funds will never be allocated again. We will certainly keep doing it.
Yet we have to admit that whatever the state might do, it is impossible to completely solve any problem 100 percent. Life is more complicated and keeps throwing in more and more of new problems for us. Of course, efforts by the state are very important, as are those by society and religious organisations, by the way. It is religious organisations, and I mean our traditional faiths, that create the internal strength and internal basis for any person to feel secure in this fast-changing and fairly dangerous world.
The state will definitely pursue all the tasks in the context you have just mentioned. Do not worry. I will take your documents, of course. It does not mean we will wrap up the topic just because someone underused the funds. Have no doubt. I will see why such a small percentage was spent. It looks strange.
Maybe he's actually a bumbling fool and the English transcripts are a poor representation of what he's said, but I've never seen anyone assert that.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
"Prigozhin accepted CIA bribe, coordinated with Putin to put on a good show until the bribe was paid, then turned back" is apparently popular on the Chinese internet, and fits what we do know pretty well. Russia letting its men be sacrificed in the ruse seems brutal, but it's not unheard of. Also possible that the helos could have have been destroyed without killing anyone, and the deaths manufactured as part of the ruse.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The legitimately elected leader of the country was chased away by men with guns. How is it not a coup?
You can argue that it was a good and necessary coup, but I can't see how you escape framing the undemocratic and disorderly ouster of Yanukovych as anything other than a coup.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The feds have already said that via Title IX they'll strip funding from schools that don't treat transgender kids as their self-identified gender.
So, if you don't want your kid in a mixed-sex locker room, you either have to pull them from P.E., or pull them from the public schools. You're not legally prohibited from doing that, but it's costly. You either take on the burden of home schooling or have to pay tuition to a private school.
The feds have a sneaky way of using money to get their way. They held highway funding hostage to get states to raise their drinking ages. Maybe they'll threaten to withhold medicaid funding unless states adopt laws allowing CPS to treat non-affirming parents as abusers.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Excepting the death penalty, I've also taken a wholesale shift rightward. I used to hold a statewide elected office in the youth wing of the Democratic Party. The riots of 2020 and Democratic responses to them, COVID, gender ideology, racial politics, and a few other things have completely shifted my political outlook.
I used to be an atheist and now I'm on the path to Catholic baptism. The last few years have been an absolutely wild ride.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I think I would be putting my career at risk if I made loud enough anti-gender-ideology in public schools statements. And my career has nothing to do with public schools.
Catholic schools were supposed to be my escape hatch for my kids, but apparently not even they are safe from this nonsense.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
If the controllers are 99.9% reliable, just bring a couple of backups. The chance of losing all three of them is 1 in 1,000,000,000. That's one of the benefits of standardization and mass production.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I saw some tweets saying that a cable would buckle under its own weight, but some quick math shows that not to be much of a problem. Amazon shows 100ft coax cables are about 2.5 pounds. A 4km version would be roughly 330 pounds. And that's in water, where bouyant force is going to reduce the apparent weight by quite a lot, especially if you jacket the cable with something not so dense.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The Wrights were looking to sell Wright Flyers. They sold training as well.
Some people also died on Wright Flyers, including one man who was a passenger on a flight piloted by Orville, Thomas Selfridge. He was an Army officer being trained to fly, and was the first ever airplane fatality. That didn't kill the company, but it did prompt the Army to put its training program on hold, and prompted the Wrights to put greater focus on safety.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Phalloplasty is an absolute horror show. Deformed donor sites, high potential for infection and even gangrene, the need for erectile appliances. And certainly no sexual sensation. Even reading about phalloplasty is revolting to me.
I'm a man, and if by some unfortunate circumstance I found myself dickless, I would certainly not attempt phalloplasty. It would just be making a bad situation far, far worse.
I cannot fathom the state of mind of the people that have a desire for phalloplasty. I have to wonder if it's ever been attempted on a man who lost his penis.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
From the decision maker’s point of view the difficulty is the same, just telling someone else to do it. It’s the outcomes that are less certain with physical removal.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I think you’re mistaking rudderless inertia for responsibility.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Maybe Putin was biding his time for the past twenty years, waiting for a plausible excuse to pursue a war in Ukraine.
Or maybe he saw Biden’s Ukraine strategy as the end of any hope for the Minsk accords to work.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
No, but the foreign policy establishment seems to have missed its end in 1991.
War being mostly a young man’s game, most of those fighting now were born after the end of the Cold War.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
What do we get from reneging on the One China Policy?
In my view we got the best side of that deal, by far. We get to treat Taiwan as its own country in everything but name and state visits. We even get to have visa-free travel agreements, and embassies, though they're not called embassies. China gets to save face with Taiwan being "part of China" in name only.
Had we gone another way and ended up with hostilities the RoC would have certainly lost its "outlying islands" which are accessible by bridge from the mainland.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
It's enemy-of-my-enemy thinking, though Russia as enemy is relatively recent and arguably America's doing. From 2009 to 2014 NATO troops were transiting through Russia in support of the war in Afghanistan: https://usrussiarelations.org/3/geopolitics/map/northern-distribution-network
I saw on observation on Twitter that even the worst riots have about a five day lifespan. Watts, Newark, Rodney King, and so forth would all burn out as the rioters basically got tired of rioting. Something with staying power beyond that would be something worth worrying may become more than a riot.
That casts the 2020 riots in a different light. While most of the individual riots didn't have staying power, a few did. The assaults on the federal courthouse in Portland happened every night for about three months. CHAZ/CHOP lasted about three weeks.
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