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5mo ago
CIA's heart attack gun, hard at work.
In case anything thinks I'm joking: that's supposedly a real thing. Air pressure handgun that shoots frozen toxin shards. There were senate hearings about it.
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5mo ago
Enjoy your free time and hobbies now. You won't have nearly as much with kids.
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5mo ago
I'm an American. Starting age 9 I had my own key. I biked from school to home. Sometimes took the bus. Got home a lot earlier than my parents.
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5mo ago
Chinese government could deny exit visas to family members of academics in the US. They have to apply for permission to leave
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5mo ago
He was convicted in 2021 of lying about his ties to China in connection with federally funded research.
Process crimes.
Yes. And this is perhaps the one kind of process crime I want enforced. You can work for a foreign government. You just have to truthfully report that. Some people refuse to do this, outing themselves as bad actors.
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5mo ago
no complaints about anorgasmia
You have specific detailed knowledge of their ability to orgasm? Other than myself and my wife I don't specifically know if anyone else can or cannot orgasm.
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5mo ago
Yes, the Cambodian genocide and the American Civil War are examples of a significant minority of society getting stamped out. But you can't do that easily. And that was a large majority crushing a relatively small minority.
If you tried to do that to a significant majority (around 70% support for first trimester abortion) maybe it is you that would be taken before a firing squad.
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5mo ago
No one gave a damn that Schwarzenegger posed nude for gay magazines. Beyond unimportant for a politician, much less a politician's trophy wife.
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5mo ago
half the future earnings
That's very much not what she was granted in the divorce. She received a minor portion of their marital assets. Bezos kept the vast majority.
I do not own a house. My wife and I own a house. If somehow we had to divide our assets, I can't rightfully say it is all mine, get bent woman.
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5mo ago
With this standard, you would need to firing squad a significant portion of society. I believe a majority. Most people support a limited "right" to abortion. You can't easily go against most people that hard.
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5mo ago
AIs are the perfect solution for exactly this type of laziness, and now have the capability to do this task without completely making up numbers
When I saw that I wondered why a token predictor was being presented as better than just guessing. Our brains are somewhat decent estimating machines. Not sure what value a LLM token predictor is adding to this.
He found a solution less trustworthy than "I made it up" (as reasonable back of the envelope order of magnitude estimates).
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5mo ago
Hunter gave "10% to the big guy". Biden was pocketing the bribes. It is not all Republican fantasies.
Reading your link, you sure you interpred this correctly?
There's a high peak at 2 previous partners, then a dip back down for 3 to 9. Then back up at 10 being maybe 3% higher than 2.
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5mo ago
So strange. I click it now and also see nice hat.
It was this when I copied it over, but on reddit rather than twitter.
Direct reddit image links are not persistent?
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5mo ago
I watched the video. His tight lipped grin is not a good look. Smarmy.
I thought he wears makeup, but google won't confirm. A guy born with natural eyeliner? Maybe? Some of the Indians I know have really dark regions around their eyes. That's just their DNA and not relevant to their trustworthiness. This guy is ethnically middle eastern and looks that way.
He is not worse than people of Walmart or the devil from Constantine. Not a great look, but not terrible. If his resting look was anything other than that tight grin he'd be fine.
I'm not saying you should go out of your way looking for hypothetically bisexual women. I'm saying bi shouldn't be an automatic deal breaker. If a woman is living a hetero life, it isn't much relevant that she (performatively?) identifies as bi. She's probably more announcing that she is a good progressive than that she would ever be in a relationship with another woman. I find such people annoying and would not date one. Young single men should evaluate them on a case by case basis. Those two I knew in high school and college had men in their lives who didn't seem to mind.
Doesn't this suggest there's some factor that makes her less suited for such a relationship?
I suppose. But that applies equally for these forever single young men. There's an opposite framing of modern dating issues in which young men are less and less going to college, getting good careers or even stable employment and more playing video games and watching porn. We have a loser young men epidemic.
There's some problem with unrealistic standards on both sides. I don't know how to fix this though. If only we could tell people "You are a 4 out of 10. Here's a list of single people in your area who are also 4s. You think they are too fat, too short, over 30, don't make enough, too many partners, lame hobbies, too woke, chuds, etc? Too bad, this is your level. This or single are your choices."
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5mo ago
I knew a girl in high school that self identified as bisexual. She was in a long term relationship with a guy.
Then in college in the dorms there was a very similar woman. Same exact personality and interests. For some reason also felt the need to inform people she meets that she is bisexual. Also in a long term relationship with a man. This is before social media, so it wasn't internet brainrot.
There's some portion of women that are hypothetically bisexual. Or we could frame it negatively and say they are performatively pretending to be "queer" as stolen valor from actual LGB people. Refusing to admit that they are regular straight people; "cishet".
That does not prevent them from pairing up with men. I found those two women annoying. I suppose I'd find a modern "demisexual" "pansexual" woman who got her identity from tumblr similarly annoying. But that shouldn't be a universal filter. Any man who can resist rolling his eyes while she recites her "actually it is a spectrum" speech can live a productive hetero life with her.
As for age: men's age preferences are well known The cowards at okcupid deleted their blog post that chart was taken from. If there is indeed such a desperate shortage of high quality 20-something women willing to date, then date women in their lower to mid 30s. Up to mid 30s they can have kids no problem.
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5mo ago
those ridiculous marker lines above the eyes make you look like a caricature of a woman
When I was young there was a trend among Mexican teenagers to pluck out their eyebrows and draw a brown mark approximately where the eyebrow should be. It looked horrible. Beyond forgivable. And the natural look of the Mexican girls is quite good. They were running their looks.
I don't see so much of it these days. The dark times have mostly passed.
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5mo ago
They had internal polling that adjusted for the longstanding bias in polls for overestimating Democratic performance. Given that adjustment, Romney would have won big in the electoral college.
That adjustment was not valid for Obama. Polls broadly correctly estimated Obama's performance. He is not the median Democrat and applying a "median Democratic candidate" correction factor was a bad idea.
Obviously Romney loses. But he and his staffers are blindsided. Supposedly he didn't even have a concession speech written, because he was certain he was going win Florida and a handful of swing states.
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5mo ago
Having never seen a photo of Richard Hanania, I just now googled him. I guess he looks kind of smarmy. But not even 10% as bad as you make him out.
I mean "Richard Hanania makes the Devil from the Constantine movie look like wholesome Brad Pitt." Come on man. No he doesn't.
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5mo ago
Ah yes, the personality assessment. In which the assessor looks at an applicant's race and marks them down as an unlikable unrespected coward if they are Asian.
The holistic interviews being originally invented to limit the number of Jews at Harvard, now easily repurposed for more modern racism.
The assertion in that senate hearing was that the toxin entry hole would be tiny like a mosquito bite and easily overlooked in an autopsy. These are ultra-potent shellfish toxins that kill from minute quantities.
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