ThenElection
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ThenElection
1d ago
guys like that were common 20 years ago, 50 years ago, and so on. Are they more common today? No, not really.
The misogynist basement dwelling rapist incel and the cock carousel riding woman are both myths. Not in the sense that there don't exist individuals who might qualify as those categories--sure, it's possible to find both. But their primary purpose isn't as labels meant to describe people you're likely to meet in physical reality, but to be symbolic avatars for people to project their deepest neuroses and fears onto.
The algorithm detects that people engage strongly with their neuroses and fears and so presents them more and more of the same. And so these virtual types end up displacing conceptions of the typical man and woman informed by interactions with real men and women.
ThenElection
2d ago
If you (or, more accurately, Trump) could convincingly guarantee a US victory as defined by either your total capitulation or stone age scenarios, those are outcomes I'd happily take, at least given the situation we are in now. But it's not all a given that those aims would be achievable or even plausible, even for an administration that had shown the ability to focus on something for more than a few weeks at a time without stepping on a rake.
There's reasonable ambiguity about how things are going to play out from this conflict, and I'm highly skeptical that either of your scenarios will come to pass. Most likely, the US will continue bombing for two or three months more, get bored, and move on without getting any resolution to the root issue, leading to bad foreseeable issues five or ten years from now. And that's kind of a best case scenario: significant ground troops, loss of a significant military asset, and even breaking out into a much broader, global war are also outside risks that still might present themselves.
ThenElection
3d ago
Even "don't do GOF research in a dense 10M+ megacity" would reduce the risk a lot.
ThenElection
6d ago
There is no solution. There is no proof-of-work or proof-of-humanity that is not severely error prone
It's difficult to get any of the leading foundation models to write a comment full of racial slurs. DeepSeek also refuses. (Grok is currently broken for me.)
Maybe that could be the future proof-of-humanity? Obviously it's nothing inherent in the architecture and there are workarounds, but I don't see those safeguards being removed anytime soon.
ThenElection
6d ago
Newsom has consistently underperformed a generic Democrat in California. Not nearly as bad as Kamala, but still trailing other Democrats.
The issue is that (recent) California politics rewards different traits than more partisan-competitive states. It is incredibly cutthroat and involves genuine skill, but it is much more cloak and dagger and focused on managing the groups and building alliances with other politicians. These have some carryover to national elections, but it would be much smarter for Democrats to select someone whose skill set involves winning competitive elections.
Then again, he's tall and has a good head of hair, and that may well be enough if the economy or the war go south.
Warren Farrell would be a good example, but he is about a thousand miles away from the contemporary manosphere.
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