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I don't know if it sounds stupid, but shouldn't the default idea just be "exactly as it looked like on Reddit, or a close approximation"? Then carefully develop it if there's something approximating a site consensus.

Yeah, I'd really like some stats on this one. Recent stats - for instance, am I remembering wrong or has the trend in the number of men going on without a sexual contact for a whole year been stalled or even slightly reversed in the most recent years?

I actually probably first started paying attention to Reddit due to this saga being covered in the Something Awful forums, with goons gunning hard for Violentacrez's removal.

Haven't the Swedish pollsters got pretty good at calibrating the polls to remove the "shy Tory effect" from SD vote estimates, or even overpredicting their share?

How many are thinking of deleting their Reddit accounts entirely once there's some confidence in this move succeeding reasonably well?

While I've occasionally commented on some other subs, chiefly SSC, I'm also a believer in pruning out the social medias you're not actually needing or using out of your life entirely, and the transfer would largely render Reddit into that category, for me.

Thanks, makes it a ton more readable.

There are American football teams in Europe. Like, it's not the most popular of sports, but it's there, and from what I've understood it's growing in popularity.

Halloween parties for adults have been a thing.

Bangladesh is currently sub-replacement fertility.

The popularity of "Mohammed" is not really a particularly good metric at all, since it's far and away more popular a name in Muslim communities than any single given name is in non-Muslim communities. Also, I've occasionally seen statistics like this treat all variations of "Mohammed" (Mohamed, Mahmud etc) as the same name but not do the same for, for instance, John, Jon, Ian, Johann, Jan, Jean, Sean, Ivan and Juan.

Bald celebrities barely exist (outside comedians and old men) anymore.

What counts as old? Vin Diesel at 55?

When I see a guy who has shaved their entire head bald and isn't, like, a skinhead or something like that, my automatic assumption is that they've started balding and have done the extremely typical move of just shaving it all off instead of having a bald spot. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the motivator for a fair few skinheads, as well.

mixed race families with a black father and a white mother

What's the opposite trope here? An all-white family? White father and black mother?

There are obviously plenty of white families in media and entertainment. When it comes to romantic pairings with a white male and a black female, well, the highest-grossing film (in US and globally) in 2021 was the new Spiderman. I haven't seen it, but still, Wikipedia shows that it has a white Spidey (Tom Holland) and black Mary Jane equivalent (Zendaya). The only movie I did see in a movie theater was Dune, which also did pretty good and got both critical appraisal and online appraisal, including from people who would dismiss Spiderman as capeshit; it had white Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and black Chani (again, Zendaya). If Villeneuve manages to film two more Dune movies, they're eventually going to become a family.

Maybe it really, really is the case that white guys tend to be more sensitive to the pairing you mentioned than the opposite way around? One source I've seen complaining about all these movies where a white guy gets the black girl is Tariq Nasheed; one might also gather he has his particular reasons for being sensitive about movie pairings that are that way round.

I don't remember the exact list, I think the Spiderman movie was mentioned. I also recall that either him or some other black nationalist activists made a lot of hay about this movie.

Who remembers that some time ago they made a remake of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner with Aston Kutchner coming to grips with his black girlfriend's dad?

Before AI, Computers also democratized art production. CGI that would blow the minds of every single person on Earth back when I was a kid, is reproducible by mildly talented teenagers, for basically no cost other than their time.

Yeah, but I was thinking just today how CGI, or the overuse of CGI, has just contributed to sameyness; current popular movie culture is just dominated by superhero movies that all blend aesthetically and thematically into each other, into the same weightless and meaningless soup. This is not just because of the overuse of CGI, but CGI is a part of it; it tends to allow for striving for lowest common denominator, easy ways to convey the impression of something that is wanted to be conveyed without the effort of the traditional film craft, perhaps acceptable by itself but, as a part of a larger culture, creating an effect that everything's just... this.

The AI art risk is that it just increases the sameyness of everything exponentially, eventually making all art, even things that are supposed to be in different styles, the same generic "AI style" that's easy and cheap to churn out by boatloads but which, instead of expanding culture, just freezes it to endless iterations of average values of what's been before. OTOH, it may also be unavoidable, barring Butlerian Jihad.

This map, which I've relied on as a fairly neutral source for the duration of the war - not just because it's done by Finns, mind, but it helps - shows some Ukrainian advance towards Nova Kakhova, but the team behind it is still careful in their assessments of how much progress has been made. The crucial question is, at this point, how much the Ukrainians are advancing, but what happens when the Russians inevitably try to counterattack.

I've just copypasted all my Reddit posts (well, almost all, not the most recent ones) to a doc file, and am planning to categorize them and use them as grist for blog posts.

Probably? I'm just going through them one by one, though. It's kind of relaxing.

I wrote about this a bit ago, essentially one of the things is that this sort of thing is the traditional mode of environmentalism - "bodily purity environmentalism" - which simply has gone down in prestige compared to "catastrophe environmentalism" due to its association with, as said, hippies and other such low-status people.

Yeah, for some time I've wondered how the people throwing the "Left Can't Meme" thing around tend to be the sort of edgy contrarian young extremely online right-wingers who have created such a refined and self-referential meme culture it's actually fundamentally useless for anything expect getting yuks and reinforcement going on in small, extremely edgy contrarian young extremely online right-wing. At this point much of right-wing internal lingo seems about as incomprehensible to anyone outside of the bubble as anything equivalent leftist activist spaces have produced. On the other hand, the same people generally acknowledge that leftist memes (well, the ones that aren't wordy or otherwise too weird) spread around widely and have cultural cachet, ie. actually function as memes.

While this is not really a leftist meme - more like a centrist meme, in a Western context - I've been lately interested in the whole #NAFO ("North Atlantic Fellas Organization") thing. If you haven't encountered it before, it's basically an ongoing online fundraiser for the Georgian Legion, one of the foreign units fighting in the Russo-Ukrainian War on Ukrainian side. It's associated with "fellas", simplistic doge avatars that donators get after donating, and there's a lot of other memetic culture going around, basically based on recycled "NATOwave" slogans and the sort of phrases associated with doges back when doges were actually a fresh meme trend.

Of course I'm extremely online enough to find the whole thing extremely cringe, even if we don't account for the fact that the Georgian Legion might have committed war crimes. At the same time, it's obviously working; there's tons of people donating to this obscure military unit that they possibly might not have never heard of or even thought about otherwise, and it's giving a new identity to online Ukraine supporters. They've even got a clear signal that they're doing something right; the other side is making knockoffs (even when this sort of a thing is done ironically or as a parody, it always tends to strengthen the original meme, from what I've seen).

Currently NAFO is getting pumped by US congressmen and the Ukrainian government, which raises questions as to how organic it is, but it seemed to have a fair bit of organic spread even before this happened. Even if it's all some sort of an intelligence-originated OP, those still need some sort of a fertile soil online and some success in getting the memetics to work just right to get going.

Yeah, should add that I used camas.unddit to fetch my posts.

o/

But, as I mentioned there, eventually, at least in my country, catastrophe environmentalism has led to a genuine environmentalist movement advocating building nuclear power plants. Some of them might also support socialism, but there's nothing particularly conflicting between that and nuclear plants; our first nuclear plant was built with the help of Soviet Union, after all.

I wouldn't say that body purity environmentalism is strictly low-status, but it's status is lower than before. There are still wealthy (well, middle-class) women buying organic produce, but it's less important movement-wise than before.

Perhaps another analogy would be the current craze among (American, somewhat picked up by European) right-wingers at calling their opponents pedophiles (which "groomer" is at least heavily supposed to imply).

The GMO might just be the fact that it's a part and part of the whole "I-fucking-love-science" technologist mindset (along with nuclear power, vaccination and some other similar topics, also discussed here) that's shared by a lot of nerds, which would tend to form an oversized share of Redditors, as they might be expected to do on online longform debate forums generally. I mean, I generally support nuclear power and vaccination, as well as GMOs, but I also readily recognize there are people who go beyond supporting them to making them shibboleth cure-alls for a variety of global problems with pretty much zero possible downsides, and who also readily search for perceived anti-technology heretics (hippies, conspiracy theorists, other general "Luddites") to struggle with; much of the COVID vaccination debate was fuelled by this, and it was obvious a lot of people supporting vaccine mandates did so not only or even primarily because they thought it would help fight COVID but also because it was a good way to punish those fucking idiot antivaxxers, a convenient online punching bag for years and years before Covid.

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there were also GMO company bots shilling their products online, but the general pro-GMO online atmosphere also creates a fertile soil (pun not intended) for that shilling to succeed.