The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
You can't, if they have the social standing, "they'll kick you and they'll beat you and they'll tell you it’s fair", and everyone will believe them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Women also get btfo'd in hand-eye coordination contests
Yeah, it's pretty much a meme that if you see a female name on an e-sports leaderboard, the person attached still has a Y chromosome.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
And if massive fraud by and benefiting their client groups is discovered.... move to cover it up
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
The easiest win is probably to re-normalize families with 3 - 4 kids.
Nobody wants to lower the cost of that. Not just child seats as suggested above, but all the non-delegable (or extremely costly to delegate) labor that attitudes of child safety and enrichment has brought upon us. You can't just wish the K-selection spiral away.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Communists to the left, communitarians to the right, pretty much no place for an individualist in this fallen world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
There was an old 4chan post about how if you need to consciously devise and work towards a strategy to “get women”, you’re already fucked. Normal men don’t have to do that. They just go about their lives and socialize with people naturally and meet women who are attracted to them. I think that’s basically true.
You're supposed to let women believe this, even if it's not true, and even if it is obviously not true. And it's usually not true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If it were 30, I could almost believe they reversed the gender-coding. But at 40.. naa, that's just BS.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The original way of doing this was to draw from your own peer group.
This is now considered a form of shitting where you eat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That applies to all of Russia's allies and most allies in general. Doesn't make them not allies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The only thing that is new is that Trump is doing it on the Republican side, rather than this being a one-party thing due to the control of major cities.
Yes, and that he's doing it with no real fig leaf at all. Rov_Scam above described how the Democrats could get revenge ("settling by paying a large amount of their meagure fortune to the Preschooler's Trans Education Fund")... by just doing the thing they do anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Eventually the Dems will be back in power and all of these people (and especially the Trump family, and lol if they think a pardon will save them) are going to be the subject of extreme, unrestricted nuclear lawfare, whether or not it’s justified.
Thus, if they are going to get the penalty, they may as well commit the offense.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There's always that feminist argument that medications are not sufficiently tested on women. Probably because there is too much variability on hormonal profiles and so on
More likely that if the woman later gets pregnant, or turns out to be pregnant despite you not allowing pregnant women in your study, the child, who signed no waivers, has an unlimited right to sue.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
One finance bro can fund an artist. Probably multiple. In fact, there may be any number of wealthy people actually doing so. But that art would be lost in the sea of utter shit that is the art world. If you wanted to make a visible movement, you'd need a lot more money and you'd need marketing bros.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There is so little of "better" arts because the finance bros and other medium-to-super rich have a revealed preference of complaining about modern art on Xitter rather than patronizing the arts they supposedly like.
Who claims finance bros have any sort of taste for "better" arts?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Over on X, someone pointed out that they bought perpetual rights to all the songs involved, and this would cost a fortune. Meaning there's a lot of money behind the game. So those 10/10s may simply be purchased (as is traditional).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I'm suggesting that the most likely reason someone is calling out writing as AI "when it's not" is that the person saying it is not is not telling the truth. How many times has one particular poster here been accused of using AI, denying it, and then sheepishly admitting that he "polished" it with AI? And yes, I'm making a little joke by doing it with one of the most obvious AI patterns.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I meant if they were the only people in the world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Literally everyone is dependent on the people around them not ganging up on them.
Every individual is. But, e.g., the United States is not dependent on that the way the Amish are.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The aesthetics of the Empire in SW:ANH were definitely Nazi; of course, that was (and remains) an American's conception of "generic evil". What they didn't have is the Nazi's signature Jew thing; the Empire was human-supremacist but they didn't really play that up.
Democracy isn't really a big thing in ANH either. We hear the Empire dissolved the Senate, but the Senate contains aristocrats and royalty (like Princess Leia). The whole elective royalty thing in the prequels is a total retcon.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I would have to disagree, I think traditionalism is working reasonably well among groups such as the Amish and the ultra-orthodox Jews.
Not really, no. Both groups are dependent on being embedded in modern cultures which tolerate (and in some cases, support) them. Yes, the Amish would do fine if they were the only ones around, but the fact is they are not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
There are multiple ways of getting the human eye to see yellow. Cadmium yellow and chrome yellow (which Monet used) are yellow mostly because they absorb strongly in the shorter (bluer) wavelengths. Natural yellow pigments have a more complicated multi-peak spectrum. So cataracts (which also absorb strongly in the shorter wavelengths) wouldn't much change the appearance of his paints, but would change the appearance of the flowers much more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It's not just art, people are very quick to call out writing as AI when it's not.
People are quick to call out writing as AI when the writer won't admit it is AI. This isn't apophenia — it's distrust.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The gay marriage people were part of the juggernaut that held the institutions. The Second Amendment people do not; in fact, the institutions oppose them. Even conservative institutions (aside from specifically 2nd amendment ones) aren't pro-gun.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
This is because of our MADD DUI thresholds. Get someone to 0.08 and maybe they're a little less alert and a little less cautious, but not really out of the range of sober drivers. Most fatal alcohol-involved collisions are at twice that, though.
The caricature of stoned drivers is they wait for the stop sign to turn green. Based on the drivers I've seen in cars stinking of weed (that I could smell from my own car), they drive very erratically but not fast. I wouldn't be surprised if their most common accident was just driving off the road with no or minor injuries, but I'm not aware of any studies.
It's very painful, and it's not likely to actually work; more likely it'll just make you look like you got the shit beat out of you. If you want to reshape your jawline to be more chaddish, find an actual plastic surgeon.
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