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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4mo ago
They did not find him in a vacant house. The home owner had security cameras and says he didn't see anyone entering the house the day of the murder. The murderers first saw Arbery on a public street. In a town that's majority black. They assumed Arbery must be a burglar and murdered him.
Some people discussing this years ago added a lot of fictional information to the situation that would justify killing a burglar in self defense. But resisting that urge and sticking to what actually occurred makes this unjustifiable murder. As confirmed by criminal trials.
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4mo ago
Trump was impeached the first time for temporarily delaying aid to Ukraine. Or at least threatening to in a phone call. Congress shall determine what aid is sent to Ukraine.
Not every last penny is specifically earmarked and Trump has some latitude here. But his agency is quite limited.
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8mo ago
an expenditure
money or anything of value
Not under discussion by OP. Am I missing some obvious transfer of money or valuables here?
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9mo ago
Sure. And at that point we are discussing hypothetical scifi futures. Like in Accelerando when the Hello Kitty artificial intelligence explains to newly created people that things like monster trucks are free and they can have as many as they want.
But I'm not very concerned about all human labor being made irrelevant soon. Maybe some portion of it. And that won't be very conformable for some people. Like English clothing makers when machine looms were first made. A hard time, but society did not collapse or suffer permanent unemployment. They only had to slaughter a small number of people to stop them from destroying clothing factories. And clothes are now a tiny fraction of the cost. I'd say a clear net good. I'm hoping when HR drones are replaced with software we can figure out how to deal with them more peacefully than British soldiers dealt with Luddites. I have been told that Excel put most accountants out of business and we navigated that without bloodshed and social upheaval.
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11mo ago
I think the istphobes are a small and frankly irrelevant faction. They make a lot of "X is racist/white supremacist" articles. But I have as yet to see the consequences in real life. And I work for a woke corporation.
I may be lucky in some sense not being woke-policed too much. Or maybe the median working professional can say he likes going to the gym and practicing jiu-jitsu and no one has a negative word against it. I've never seen pushback outside of loony articles about how being fit is the fascist aesthetic.
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11mo ago
She can get a share also. I was responding to a financial abortion post, so my response was deadbeat-dad-focused.
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11mo ago
They never grappled with him. They shot him from a distance from their trucks. They were quite safe.
I take your larger point about the intent needed for the legal definition of muder. I don't much care to play mind reading games, other than noticing that for people not intending to kill him, they sure aggressively acted in a way that led to them shooting him. Riding someone down with trucks and brandished firearms is very aggressively manslaughtering then and I'd even say "hunting them down". Perhaps even murdering them depending on the jurisdiction.
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2mo ago
white liberals who unironically believe this is a railroading because their brains fell out.
They're the only group with significant outgroup bias. And they outnumber black Americans. Naively I would expect most donaters to be them.
[who] "a cabal of CIA and military leaders," ... would choose to install as their puppet
I would guess it would be a Pinochet situation. The cabal would rule and select one of their own to be the figurehead†. "Let's loop in Kamala" wouldn't cross their minds. Some public facing cabal member would be the new official leader. A Smedley Butler for 2025.
†Mild academic Pinochet of course seized control and his co-conspirators lived in fear of his wrath and never got the chance to co-rule with him. But I think Americans could pull off a ruling council that doesn't degenerate into helicopter rides and torture camps.
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5mo ago
Congress has enormous taxation and spending powers. Federal courts recognize this obvious fact.
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6mo ago
To be very excessively fair, they weren't unbanked, they just had business accounts closed. They still had access to regular personal banking. And Operation Choke Point equally targeted individuals selling porn and other vices. This wasn't anti-conservative but rather anti-whatever-Obama-and-his-staffers-and-Dem-appointees-didn't-personally-like. Which doesn't ease my libertarian heart.
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8mo ago
I was never much concerned with this kind of argument. Make a reasonable attempt to determine outcomes. That does not involve perfect knowledge or unbounded computational problems. Using a small bit of thought and your best understanding of the situation, you can make a reasonable approximation.
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8mo ago
I'm not advocating for it. But some people would. I'm saying Starlink and satellite internet aren't that and don't need my tax dollars.
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11mo ago
For general health and wellbeing yes. But for specifically a respiratory virus that's deadly to old people, no.
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6mo ago
1 in 3 girls age 11-17 in the affected cities
Sometimes people around here drop a statistic or other quantifiable statement and it is immediately and obviously wrong. Like it is not in the correct order of magnitude or similar gross error. This is one.
No, 1 in 3 anglo girls in some cities were not raped by gangs of Pakis. If you have convincing evidence otherwise please share it.
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11mo ago
He's jerking our chain for sure. But also, this is a good post in terms of thoughtfulness and laying out an argument.
Intentionally provocative and well reasoned in equal measure. This is his best work in my opinion. If only the median troll put this much thought into his posts.
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8mo ago
Okay. I was thinking about "the Jewish question" in the historical sense. As in: "Clearly Jews are not going to be allowed to exist moving forward. So, shall we integrate them so that they are no longer Jews, or just dispose of them like vermin?"
As best I know modern people who seek answers to the Jewish Question are not wondering how much more integration would improve Jews.
If Butlerian meant a broad reasonable question about their commitment to Israel, I didn't notice it in the historical reference to the Jewish Question.
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9mo ago
therefore longshoremen and railroad workers are much more disposable giving them less bargaining power
And so they shouldn't be allowed to form a labor cartel gifting themselves multi-hundred-thousand dollar incomes if they are actually low skilled replaceable labor. That's just them screwing all of society for their enormous benefit.
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10mo ago
several more who were implicated due to having ties with Russia but committed no actual crimes
So nothing at all for these ones? You are allowed to "have ties" with a country. And Russia being our enemy is a matter under some contention.
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6mo ago
These are private companies and they employ actuaries to do real work. Short of government mandates forcing them to discriminate against stereotypical conservative men, they won't proactively harm their business by dropping you as a customer without financial reasons or charging you wrong.
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8mo ago
The best way to understand people on the other side of a culture war issue is to start from the assumption that they really do genuinely believe what they say they believe.
We need a flashing banner along the lines of "Yes, your opponents actually think that. No, they aren't pretending to just to make you mad."
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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