Primaprimaprima
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Primaprimaprima
1d ago
I personally can't see much difference between indigenous Americans and heavily tanned Europeans, so all Hispanics look basically white to me.
Just curious, where did you grow up?
If someone said they couldn’t see any difference between Slavs and Germanics I could forgive them. I especially understand not being able to tell Japanese and Chinese and Koreans apart, since I can’t really do that either, although I’m told that people from those countries have little issue with it. But not being able to tell the difference between South American mestizos and Europeans (even heavily tanned Europeans) is just wild to me. Like, bordering on willfully obtuse.
Primaprimaprima
2d ago
This is just completely and utterly incorrect. I’ll refrain from linking to any specific hentai examples but you’re free to browse the /h/ and /e/ boards on 4chan for a representative sample.
Primaprimaprima
2d ago
Most "girl pretty" outside the Asian sphere of influences make female faces more masculine, not less.
Pretty much, yeah. Unfortunately.
I'm sure you've noticed this on anime porn sites, by the way- 80% of it seems to be hyperinflation with no attention paid to the face (or the face actively looks male) because of this.
…what?
Are you saying that anime women look like men?
Primaprimaprima
2d ago
My vascular system doesn’t count them as white, if you catch my drift.
Primaprimaprima
2d ago
Everyone’s got different tastes and thus everyone has their own “average”. I’m really only into whites and Asians so they’re both starting with a significant handicap.
AOC is like, kinda cute, maybe. She’s not UNattractive.
Zendaya on the other hand is about as sexually attractive to me as a bowl of fruit. I think “girl pretty” might just be a way for women to sabotage and confuse each other.
Primaprimaprima
4d ago
I think we're partially making the same point. Regardless of how you want to frame it, we don't live in a pure free market, so defending X or Y or Z by saying "that's just the free market doing its thing" is frequently disingenuous.
I would extend it however and claim that there's no such thing as a "pure free market" even in principle. Even if we can imagine a complete absence of government interference, private individuals could still collude and engage in social engineering; to the extent that they don't, it's because there are cultural prohibitions against doing so. And if we were to make such social engineering formally illegal, then that would simply be government interference in the market. You're always going to have some sort of culture, and it's going to influence your economics; you can't escape to a pure realm of abstract rational agents untainted by culture and politics.
Primaprimaprima
4d ago
It's easy to point fingers at woke or DEI, but I think the cause is really just prosaic capitalism.
Capitalism and DEI are inseparable. Culture and politics and economics are unified as one.
If women have greater purchasing power due to a confluence of social factors (getting railroaded into higher paying and more prestigious positions due to DEI initiatives, having more disposable income due to delaying childbirth, etc), then the invisible and perfectly just hand of the free market will just so happen to start catering to women's preferences more.
Primaprimaprima
4d ago
And the /r/books people made me take out all the links and remove the part where I used AI for a relatively unbiased analysis of manuscript wish list profiles so I wanted to repost this version to a place that would appreciate it.
Well, it's not exactly appreciated here either. If I wanted to hear Claude's "unbiased" analysis, I would direct my browser to claude.ai instead of themotte.org.
Anyway.
Isn't this just a genderswapped version of the SJW complaints about representation from a decade ago? And all the same retorts apply. Why can't people of all genders enjoy stories about plucky young women with magical powers drawing the obsessive affections of foreboding but ultimately caring men? What's stopping you? Don't we value literature precisely for its capacity to let us explore subjectivities and settings that are not our own? Men can always write their own stories that suit their own proclivities if it means that much to them.
The novel form is historically bound; it had a beginning in time and space, and it will likely have an end in time and space as well. There's nothing intrinsically ennobling or salutary about the novel as opposed to say, the film, the video game, or the comic book (all of which involve copious volumes of text, some of which is even "read" via the eyes, if you're into that sort of thing).
I'm kinda with the feminists on this one: why don't they deserve a turn at being catered to for a while? You still have anime/manga, and a backlog of decades worth of Western and Japanese material that could fill multiple lifetimes, so I think the whole thing is rather a moot point anyway (except for the writers who are getting shafted by the current political winds in the publishing industry, in which case, you do have my genuine sympathy).
The primary active ingredient in traditional ayahuasca is DMT, which is certainly an extremely potent drug that can have long-lasting effects; but most people who have tried both agree that salvia is on another level, just for the sheer range of potential effects it can have.
Most people tolerate weed very well, but some can have very poor reactions to it, especially if they happen to have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia or similar issues.
Primaprimaprima
22d ago
Apropos of last week's conversation, I'd like to propose that our good friend @self_made_human try dropping some salvia. It has a penchant for revealing the truth of things. Although, you might also get trapped in an alternate reality for 8 years and come out the other end with radical permanent belief/personality changes, so, maybe it's not worth the risk...
Primaprimaprima
24d ago
I think we've literally just had it too good for too long and people have gotten soft. You'd need WW2-style mass mobilization conditions to knock some sense into people.
Last night they were showing Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg, which neither I nor my fiancée had seen, but she wanted to go. The movie was incomprehensible nonsense
It's a solid film. Not my favorite or anything, but worth seeing.
the real validation came from seeing the other people in attendance. The obese; the gender-confused male attending solo, with breasts that I honestly couldn't tell if they were the product of HRT, gynaecomastia, or both; the man wearing makeup and a headscarf like fucking Professor Quirrell; the couple who smelled so bad we moved a few seats further down the aisle; and of course a gender-confused female (I think?) with a cane she obviously didn't need and which she wasn't even pretending to rely on for support.* These people truly are the dregs of society
Let's hear a few words of wisdom from the man himself:
224: Ennoblement through degeneration. - History teaches that the branch of a nation that preserves itself best is the one in which most men have, as a consequence of sharing habitual and undiscussable principles, that is to say as a consequence of their common belief, a living sense of community. Here good, sound custom grows strong, here the subordination of the individual is learned and firmness imparted to character as a gift at birth and subsequently augmented. The danger facing these strong communities founded on similarly constituted, firm-charactered individuals is that of the gradually increasing inherited stupidity such as haunts all stability like its shadow. It is the more unfettered, uncertain and morally weaker individuals upon whom spiritual progress depends in such communities: it is the men who attempt new things and, in general, many things. Countless numbers of this kind perish on account of their weakness without producing any very visible effect; but in general, and especially when they leave posterity, they effect a loosening up and from time to time inflict an injury on the stable element of a community. It is precisely at this injured and weakened spot that the whole body is as it were innoculated with something new; its strength must, however, be as a whole sufficient to receive this new thing into its blood and to assimilate it. Degenerate natures are of the highest significance wherever progress is to be effected. [emphasis mine] Every progress of the whole has to be preceded by a partial weakening. The strongest natures preserve the type, the weaker help it to evolve. - Something similar occurs in the case of the individual human being; rarely is a degeneration, a mutilation, even a vice and physical or moral damage in general without an advantage in some other direction. The more sickly man, for example, will if he belongs to a warlike and restless race perhaps have more inducement to stay by himself and thereby acquire more repose and wisdom, the one-eyed will have one stronger eye, the blind will see more deeply within themselves and in any event possess sharper hearing. To this extent the celebrated struggle for existence does not seem to me to be the only theory by which the progress or strengthening of a man or a race can be explained. Two things, rather, must come together: firstly the augmentation of the stabilizing force through the union of minds in belief and communal feeling; then the possibility of the attainment of higher goals through the occurrence of degenerate natures and, as a consequence of them, partial weakenings and injurings of the stabilizing force; it is precisely the weaker nature, as the tenderer and more refined, that makes any progress possible at all.
Primaprimaprima
28d ago
I had the same thought lol. Modern AI has ruined a lot of sci-fi stories.
Primaprimaprima
28d ago
Military remote viewer who not only discovered that aliens have bases here on earth that are used as repair centers for UFOs, but also discovered (via remote viewing) an entire planet of Bigfoot-like creatures. The Bigfoots are being harvested as slave labor by a more advanced alien race. This is important stuff.
The Morales guy has very obviously nonwhite facial features. I would never confuse him for white. Even just restricting ourselves to physical appearance, race is more than just skin tone.
Jay Leno is borderline and on the edge of what comfortably reads as white imo. I thought he might be Ashkenazi. Wikipedia says he has Italian ancestry, i.e. significantly higher MENA and SSA ancestry than average for a European, so that explains it.
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