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Yeah, that makes sense. I’m not sure if I completely agree with her perspective either, but “stretchy-skinned weird smart queer” seems like a cluster. So too, these people seem to have a higher rate of autoimmune diseases.

What did that hypermobility look like?

Yeah. I don’t know if she’d compare herself to Joe Average, though…our puny hero from before compared himself to both Joe and Jane Average. The fact that most men are far stronger than most women didn’t sink in quite as much for this guy, due to his not personally experiencing that. The puny guy didn’t compare himself to exceptionally small/weak/scrawny women…

Premature baldness plus subpar facial appearance and 5’6” stature. Nothing that a medical professional would call a deformity, though I might benefit from jaw surgery.

Then you’ve got the autism to add to that. There have been studies that showed that neurotypicals (that’s normal people) judged autists as awkward based on two seconds of footage of them socially interacting, and even from snapshots of social interaction. That might not be a physical deformity, but it sure functions an awful lot like one, if people can be like “That guy’s awkward” after watching him talk to his friend across the room. For two seconds.

As such…I think a million a year sounds closer to what it would take to get someone who’s not morbidly obese, can work a full time job, not a danger to herself or others, and not addicted to hard drugs to endure that kind of disgust. I don’t blame people for that…I mean, it’d take a lot of convincing to get most people to be with someone they were viscerally disgusted by!

Here’s something to chew on:

Dr. Sharon Megalethery’s RCCX theory.

TL;DR chronically ill formerly high achieving doctor theorizes that epigenetic changes are responsible for (or greatly increase risk of) high-functioning autism, ADHD, mood disorders, eating disorders, autoimmune disorders, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and queerness. Also these people are more intelligent than average.

A disproportionate number of autistic and ADHD people are queer; same with being hypermobile. You’ve got a phenotype that is neurodivergent, less straight than average, and worse at manual labor, or at least more likely to be crippled by it. And it runs in families.

So your Red Tribe rural guy that leaves town at 18 to head for the Big City might well have had a father or uncle who had weird things happening with his joints and who’s a bit more fucked up than most from a life of manual labor. Maybe he’s not straight, either. Maybe he’s always been a bit different, and thinks he can find acceptance in the city. Yes, it’s a cliche…but some of that is due to straight-up physiological differences that mean that he’s playing with loaded dice with respect to chronic pain if he becomes a construction worker or something.

Let’s say that it is quite interesting that Tor relays seem to be located in Western, industrialized countries…and not Russia or China. It’s also true that Tor data can be deanonymized through certain types of attacks. The NSA and their counterparts in countries like France or Australia don’t bother catching puny small-fry dudes buying weed or something on the black market, just like the FBI doesn’t arrest these kinds of guys.

However, they can and do bust the owners and operators of large-scale darknet markets. You can go and buy weed (or even things like heroin or fentanyl) on the dark web fairly easily, but things like hiring competent reliable hitmen are considerably more difficult and may get you in trouble with law enforcement.

A site that ran a lucrative child-porn business would have a lot of motivated enemies. You’ve got to produce that shit somewhere. So too, consider the technical savvy of your average Joe. He’s no Satoshi Nakamoto; if there’s thousands of these sacks of shit a few will fuck up and become compromised by the alphabet soup gang.

Fighting out of the Red Corner: a bunch of dedicated hobbyists who are into evil things.

Fighting out of the Blue Corner: an agency full of competent professionals who make it their business to catch things like this, supported by the American people (at least here; I’d bet the average Joe on the street doesn’t give a fuck about illegal wiretapping if it’s being used to catch evil pedos sitting on piles of ill-gotten cash cryptocurrency)

I suppose this might work if it was all done overseas, in a country with lax laws and politicians that were amenable to bribery. Might. They’d still have issues with needing to produce this material and not get fucking killed.

My vote is for Insanely Sane. That seems like an interesting thought.

My first thoughts on it is that the sane have a lot to lose and are being served by the system; the insane have little in the way of personal resources and capital. Sometimes, there are exceptions, but not often.

I mean, sure, maybe that 5’4” scrawny dude would lose a one-on-one contest to freak of nature Brittney Griner. Maybe.

Yeah. I think there’s something to the idea that atrazine is making the frogs gay…and the humans queer. And trans.

Lots of confounders: but are trans people more likely to have grown up near like farms using lots of pesticides or plastic bottle factories or something?

You were an exceptionally small/weak male that drew the short straw in the genetic lottery.

I wonder what would happen if you got a freaking animal of a woman in here…6’2”, 200 pounds, national champion swimmer who could bench 225. I’m guessing this animal would be more likely to shrug and say that she wasn’t that much weaker than the guys…

I don’t know about (certain types of) shooting; famously the Soviets found that women could be good, even excellent snipers. This being said, I don’t know all that much about competition shooting. My guess is that there wouldn’t be much of an advantage for males in, say, thousand-yard rifle.

would it be a better world if no one other than Usain Bolt rain track or no one other than Elon Musk tried to start their own company

Hmm. I mean. Running track is fine, but 99 percent of people aren’t ever going to make a living at it. Most high-school sprinters, even hardworking ones, don’t even get college scholarships out of it. Track’s fine, but don’t hang your hat on it. As for starting companies…some people shouldn’t even try it, it’s risky and a bad idea for them.

There’s a lot of variation in ‘relationship outcomes’ and I think there are a sizable number of people who simply do not make good partners. It’s like…the US Army doesn’t take people in the bottom 15 percent of IQ, because they can’t even make them into good cooks or something. There’s a similar phenomenon for relationships…something like social IQ or something like this.

Some say Chris McCandless was a hero.

Yeah. Given that tubing of the correct diameter can be acquired/made, all that’s necessary is a set of basic machine tools for the rest. As for powder and cartridge production…that seems like it would be a bit harder and riskier, but potentially doable. Dangerous, perhaps, but possible. These things take preparation and know-how to produce, though…this guy had to roll his own ammunition, for one. Maybe you (or someone you know) could’ve built a better gun (or at least, better gunpowder and primers).

Organized groups would definitely have the ability to make 5.56 cartridge factories in the woods/desert/jungle/clandestine location, however.

Got it. They just need to expand/widen a hole in .25 inch tubing to get it to be .308 inches or something like that.

Yeah...clandestine gun manufacturers could do pretty well IF they put some thought and preparation, as well as a decent amount of resources, into it. I'd think it'd cost...roughly as much as a used car to get what you need to build a good gun and decent ammunition.

Think, however, about the crude gun that was used to assassinate Shinzo Abe. It was essentially a crappy homemade shotgun. That is about what your lone wolf criminals are working with; larger, more organized groups could get better tools.

Is there a problem with building the tubes themselves? If gunmakers can get those barrels drilled to the right precision...

That is an interesting one. There's a lot of friendless mass shooters that wouldn't have been able to get two people to vouch for them. On the other hand, some of those guys used guns that were owned by relatives. Ballpark? Maybe a quarter of mass shooters wouldn't have been able to fulfill those criteria.

3D printers

Printing what? They may make it easier to build certain types of guns, or better guns. But what you want to build clandestine guns is a machine shop; the hardest part of a gun to build is the barrel. Especially if you are talking about rifles. Yes, dedicated clandestine gun manufacturers can and have overcome these difficulties. But barrels are the bottleneck. Not easy at all to drill a straight, centered hole through a bar of steel with a tolerance of a thousandth of an inch or better. Nor is it easy to then rifle that barrel.

This is amusing. It seems to be like some kind of zombie Christianity or something. Yes, secular humanism is Christianity with the serial numbers filed off, but this is an interesting thing indeed.

I suspect should I be in the market I could probably parlay this into a dating strategy.

I am not sure about that...I would suspect that this is only a viable option for people who are neurotypical and at least average-looking. Anything less than that seems likely to get unceremoniously booted at best and tarred and feathered at worst. Good luck finding work as an engineer if you've got a reputation for harassment or something...

Not that there is anything wrong as such with this; the idea that awkward or unattractive men people need to "know their place" and never express interest in sex or romance in exchange for ordinary social inclusion isn't exactly new or terrible.

Perhaps: significantly, these guys more or less signed up for it. That is probably fairly significant. They weren't (as in Vietnam, or Korea, or WWII) ordinary Joes that got a draft notice in the mail one day.

Still: does it sound at all cool? Man vs. wild, trying to freeze the weakness off your soul in the Alaskan bush.

Huh - 'almost dying' doesn't make you more attractive? Thought it did: I've seen PTSD-afflicted combat vets that were goddamn near dead of alcohol-induced liver failure with girlfriends. Guys that were addicted to (and dealing) heroin and Xanax that were full of shame about what they did in Iraq...that had girlfriends. If being a battle-hardened combat veteran is that powerful...I suspect that being in the woods would be a less powerful and less damaging version.

Also keep in mind that unless you write a bestselling memoir about your experience or are profiled on national TV

I suppose that this might be an interesting memoir, assuming I survive: guy dumps himself into wilderness, walks out.

I think the most attractive thing to be is the martial aristocrat: the man that is strong, tall, powerful...but most of all has the ability to lead men into battle. Men he's grown up with, who trust him with their lives and whom he has the personal loyalty of.

Of course, this doesn't work if you're short; I knew a Special Forces colonel that didn't do well at all dating because he was only 5'4".

And I'm too tired to mention all the ways that you've already demonstrated so little knowledge of what you're suggesting that you'd almost certainly die if you were to attempt this undertaking

I've camped in the woods in winter several times before. Once down to 0 degrees F.

Does it grant you the spirit and soul of the true Chad?

Hmm. I don't know if 'being a combat veteran' allows you to have a girlfriend while acutely dying from alcoholism-induced liver failure. I don't know. I suspect that that sort of thing does change a person for life; I think it makes them more attractive, but it is expensive: you might die. You might get maimed. This is the point.

I'd call it a 'winter backpacking trip' or something like that.

I can hear it now: "And this crazy dumb fuck dumped himself in fuckin' Alaska for some reason. Dude survived, but he's fucking nuts." Some might respect it. Others might think it was idiotic. I've spoken to people that admired Chris McCandless (RIP).

I’m not going to live in the woods. I should be out of the woods in a week, two at most.