Southkraut
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"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3mo ago
Can someone recommend sleeping pills (I assume pills are the conventional form) that work with a minimum of side effects and/or long-term damage?
Lately I've been alternating between nights of 12 hours of sleep, and others with pretty much none. Right now I'm at two all-nighters in a row. This is a little unusual for me, but I can't afford to be groggy all day long, so I'd like to get back on a solid schedule by any means necessary. Any advice appreciated.
It has come to this: Halfway through life, I must don glasses.
Please give me your best, least obvious or highest benefit-cost-ratio tips and advice for the newly bespectacled.
Edit: Context: Apparently I'm nearsighted and have Astigmatism. I already got a first pair of glasses; plastic lenses in a very simple frame. Not the sturdiest (I wanted it to be fairly light), but not exactly wireframe either. Cost me around 250€. My parents regularly shell out 1000€-2500€ for glasses, so this seemed an acceptable price. No extra features though.
Southkraut
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19d ago
That is rather the weakest part of his argument. Many people here absolutely do argue against video games, against pornography and in favor of marriage.
“non-feminist” woman
A biological woman, since there is no other kind of woman, who does not propagate an anti-men narrative or attempt to benefit from such a narrative.
Southkraut
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6mo ago
Is today's malaise just downstream of being unwilling to commit to things? The birthrate crisis, the military recruitment crisis- moderners just not wanting to burn their bridges and have no recourse but to see their commitment through?
Yes. Yes it is. I 100% believe this and have vaguely gestured at it before. It's what I observe IRL all the time, every day, in almost every interaction with young-ish urban-ish people. A complete inability to commit to a task, a schedule, a version of the truth, an agreement, a responsibility, a shared model of the world, or even eye contact.
No idea why though. What went wrong?
Southkraut
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1mo ago
No.
To some extent, when dealing with the topic of whoring, we must embrace the monstrous, one way or another. Here are our options:
- Tell the kids that whores are disrespectable they will ruin their lives if they whore themselves out, be it for money or attention, because they will be considered at least damaged goods if not somewhat subhuman by most people anywhere and ever. Also tell men with low sexual market value to shut up and stop complaining, they're not getting any and that's final. The shaming is ubiquitous and relentless.
- Tell the kids that whores may fulfill an important function, that their work is valuable and necessary to keep low-status men satisfied, but god damn if you become one you'll be disinherited and booted out of the house because whoring is still disrespectable and it's the lesser humanoids who should do it, not real people! The shaming is somewhat more limited, but still strictly in effect.
- Tell the kids that everything is permitted, you can do no wrong, fuck anything that moves, there are no consequences. They subsequently ruin their lives and cannot comprehend how this cruel world does not support them in their brave life choices. You don't shame, but others will do it for you, because not everyone lives in the anti-shame bubble.
- Tell the kids to do their whoring in style and with discretion, pragmatically and as befits mid- to high-status people. Do it by disguising it as serial monogamy, or "dating", or just do it in private and make sure none of it ever becomes public knowledge. Or just do it in the classic form of medium- to long-term monogamy, they wouldn't be the first trophy wives. You don't shame for the behavior itself, but for a lack of adroitness in engaging in it.
- You somehow brainwash / reeducate / social engineer all of humanity so they buy into the sexual liberation meme and fuck without a care. Abolish all categories of infames. Restructure the world so that nobody can ever do shamefully wrong because everything is right. Shame on you if you actually believe this to be viable.
- Abolish the deeply-ingrained, natural and timeless practice of shaming people and instead skip right ahead to capital punishment and damnatio memoriae, for whore as well as client. Nuke the entire institution from orbit. There is no shame when the would-be shamed party ceases to exist.
- Do it like most western societies do it at present, by mostly just looking the other way and pretending not to see anything. There is no shame when...hey, wait, why are you plastering your whoring all over social media!?
I'm sorry. I can't take the topic entirely seriously when it leads with one of the the least deserving examples possible. Aella, an ostensibly intelligent woman who decided to build her entire name and reputation on doing things that humanity at large considers shameful is surprised when large parts of humanity would rather shame her than praise her.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Assuming that you are a woman in the first place and that what you said is true, yes, that's what I just said, isn't it?
But I have doubts about those assumptions. You already identified as a feminist, so please do lay out what constitutes the core tenets of this feminism for you. I suspect we will find many elements that are plainly aiming to put men at a disadvantage.
Southkraut
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3mo ago
I agree with this mod action and I also agree with @SteveAgain's sentiment.
What would be a rules-compliant way of expressing violent disgust?
I'm currently enjoying something flu-like with a fever that's been recurring for three days (does it let off during daytime or am I just taking enough Ibuprofen? Not sure.), utterly stuffed nose and sinuses to the point where nasal spray doesn't even get through the snot anymore, alternatingly feeling too hot and too cold, the mother of all headaches, and resulting from all of this sleep that's far from restful.
Any tips? Meds that help, food that helps, methods that help? Activities to engage in while in this state?
It'll probably be over on its own soon either way, but maybe I'll look up your answers the next time.
Southkraut
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28d ago
I'm rather dissatisfied with the entire rational fiction genre, because it all seems to be fantasy that hinges on magic or "magic" systems that just so happen to be navigable by autists with a modicum of rules lawyering or vidya minmaxing skill.
Is there any rationalist fiction that takes place in a completely mundane setting without video game logic or outright ass-pull magic?
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Strange that an ideology of equality would be named after just one of the two parties it purports to equalize. Anyways.
Can you go into more detail on what you mean by equality? Purely equal treatment before the law? Equal outcomes by specific metrics? A complete eradication of the concept of differences between the sexes? Men and women already have the vote, so I guess that's not what you mean.
Southkraut
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2mo ago
Related to @IGI-111 's post: https://www.themotte.org/post/1754/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/310065?context=8#context.
This is why I've always thought "party switch" arguments to be sophomoric. Politics is about coalitions. Any glance at any country's political history would tell you that political positions are driven by the expediencies of retaining a coalition that can maintain power, and literally nothing else.
After the recent federal elections, the victorious conservative CDU are looking to give themselves financial leeway by undoing the the so-called "debt brake", written into the constitution, which strictly limits how much debt the government can build up to balance its budget. In order to do so, they called upon the old parliament to quickly push through a slew of constitutional changes including the relaxation of the debt rules. In order to collect the required two-thirds majority, the CDU has given the Greens a constitutional commitment to climate neutrality by 2045.
In order to govern, the CDU aims to form a coalition with the Social-Democrats. And those have now announced their demand: Unconditionally legalize abortion. A trifle compared to what the greens got, who will not even be part of the coalition.
During the election the CDU played the part of the culture-warriors standing up for conservative Germans. They broke taboos to demand a crackdown on immigration, painted the Greens as agents of deindustrialization and poverty, and made a stand on balancing the budget without further debt. But that was then, and now it's time to jettison the drama in favor of getting along with everyone except the nationalist AfD who, I remind you, received the second-largest share of votes.
This is pretty much telling the stupid neo-nazi tinfoil hats that yes, they were right, the establishment is entirely willing to conspire against the people, democracy is a sham and the constitution is a worthless piece of paper.
Looking forward to a great four years.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
What would your personal favorite style be?
On the one hand, you'd want public buildings to be agreeable to look at from the inside and outside. Possibly even as an architectural example.
On the other hand, you know that any such building project will be an extravagant waste of taxpayer money every step of the way.
So I have no favorite. Anything the state builds for its own sake and that of its servants will be a horrible insult to the people.
Federal elections are over, results as following (630 seats total):
- CDU ("conservative"): 28.5%, 208 seats
- AfD (nationalist): 20.8%, 152 seats
- SPD (social-democrats): 16.4%, 120 seats
- Greens (green, yeah): 11.6%, 85 seats
- Left (leftist, seriously): 8.7%, 64 seats
All the other parties didn't make past the 5% minimum and thus aren't allowed to play in this term.
So we'll get another Great Coalition, as they call themselves - CDU and SPD giving us four years of Weiter So: more of the same.
The CDU campaigned on a tough-on-migration platform. They correctly judged that this would allow them to appeal to voters who consider migration the top issue but still find the AfD unacceptable. I for one don't find it at all credible. The party sat by and let Merkel do her thing or even supported her as she welcomed the mass migrations of 2015 and onward, and a bit of electoral campaign rhetoric isn't much convincing evidence that they actually changed their minds. This was a successful tactical move, and the next step is to backpedal and form a coalition with the SPD who are still married to the old idea of "German bad, foreigner good".
Someone please tell me I'm wrong.
The only other coalition that would have a parliamentary majority would be CDU + AFD, and the CDU reaffirmed their categorical adherence to the anti-AFD zero-cooperation "firewall" policy.
Where exactly does your society not grant equal rights to men and women, then?
Southkraut
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1mo ago
I keep getting accidentally kicked in the balls by my child. It hurts, alright, but it's nowhere near the most painful thing I endure for the kid's sake.
Frankly, I keep getting kicked, smacked and elbowed in absolutely all my bodily parts. I think that's normal. Right? It's normal for every day to be an MMA cage fight against a little monkey.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
“women should have the same political, economic, and social rights as men”
This right here. Please specify where it applies. Where and in what way do women not have the same political, economic and social rights as men? What the hell does "feminism" as you define it even do? Or is it simply a maximally slim and slippery definition designed to minimize attack surface?
Seems like a breakup is overdue. Marriage without physical attraction in that age bracket seems pretty miserable - don't do it. Especially not out of habit. I know what I'm talking about.
FWIW, you made a pretty big mistake, but it takes two. As long as you didn't intentionally misdirect her, you can share the blame equally.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Well fair enough, I was thinking more of Germany. I should probably preface all my posts with "Meanwhile, in the land of the Germans...". And our best and most beautiful buildings are usually survivors from the late middle ages, or baroque, and you can't exactly build that way anymore. Our immediately-post-war architecture is offensively ugly and our later buildings are so expensive that it makes you wonder how they could achieve such price tags without making the roofs out of solid gold.
Looking at those, they are all somewhat pompous. Maybe that's appropriate though? Not that ours are any better, mind you. The predominant style there just doesn't appeal much to me personally.
Southkraut
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8mo ago
So why are you doing this yourself?
Southkraut
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3mo ago
literally there is NOTHING more important than a country deciding for itself who to let in and who to expel
Citation needed. I mean, I would agree that it is very important, but vast swathes of the Western populace would not.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Man, nudity. Not necessarily something you want to see from everyone, but surely some billionaire's wife is easy enough on the eyes. And even if she isn't, we just return to the default case of "well that's just what people look like under their clothes". I don't understand the American War On Nudity, though I shall tolerate your prudish culture.
Southkraut
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7mo ago
What even is the message?
Is there an actual justification for this anywhere or is this just "women can do no wrong" crystallizing into law?
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