ThenElection
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ThenElection
3hr ago
Unfalsifiable seems a bit strong, here: we just don't have the data collected to falsify the hypothesis. But that data isn't in principle uncollectible.
Though, it's an interesting question from a philosophy of science point of view: if data that no one will collect anytime soon is necessary to falsify a hypothesis, is that hypothesis unscientific?
ThenElection
3hr ago
Why should I pay attention to something that I have literally zero power over, as opposed to focusing on building a rich, fulfilling personal life? Does that make me stupid?
Men are expected to construct romance. It's a labor of love, but labor nonetheless. And part of that construction is hiding the labor, making it seem effortless and even magical.
To share that breaks the illusion. This reveals character traits about the man: either he is socially incompetent enough to not understand his role, or he understands it but resents it enough that he's nevertheless going to throw it in women's face. Both of those possibilities are unattractive, for different but very good reasons.
A third possibility is that he's just a deep systemizer and is looking for another deep systemizer and wants to fly his freaky systemizer flag wildly to filter out nonsystemizers. This is more sympathetic, but women who reject him for it are doing him a favor: they're incompatible, and he doesn't want to date a nonsystemizer anyway, so everyone wins.
And it's easy not to discuss it: it's a shared understanding of reality similar to "the sky is blue." If I'm dating a woman, obviously she already knows that e.g. women in general strongly prefer height. Bringing it up isn't going to lead to enlightenment on anyone's part, and that makes it come off as more begging for sympathy or validation than an interesting topic of conversation, which is obviously unattractive in a man.
ThenElection
5hr ago
I know some couples that qualify, but it tends to be an above average in attractiveness Indian guy who is reasonably professionally successful. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
ThenElection
5hr ago
I don't think the Motte is excluded. People here have done truesight tests with recent frontier models, and they're able to identify their handles.
ThenElection
12hr ago
The people who need to hear women are attracted to dominance aren't the ones beating their girlfriends. Typically, they are very passive and milquetoast in their interactions with women, leading to their failures in dating.
Hypothetically, you might imagine one of them wildly overshooting, but in practice that's not an issue: "dominance" isn't close to their default state, and even minimal movements in that direction are very uncomfortable.
ThenElection
3d ago
Make life socially a lot tougher for male children. This will result in 45th trimester self-abortions, concentrated among the bottom quintile of men.
ThenElection
4d ago
I would guess that Aboriginal Australians have a high percentage of genes from whatever hominid species was in Australia when Homo Sapiens showed up
Denisovans. IIRC the Denisovans were never actually in Australia, but Aboriginal Australians (along with Melanesians) picked up their genes in transit.
Her good poll numbers among Democrats is just name recognition: Trump bad, she anti-Trump, therefore Harris good. But, in practice, she has been an incredibly weak candidate in every election she's run in, for two decades. Whatever advantages she does have are matched and exceeded by Newsom in particular.
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