Throwaway05
1d ago
I've updated my opinion of Elon considerably downward over the past few years. This isn't motivated reasoning or tribal updating, I think his early work genuinely represented some of the most impressive entrepreneurial achievement of the century, and I weighted that heavily for a long time. It's just that the account has been drawn down pretty substantially at this point.
It does credibly seem like he's become the victim of (wealth induced) substance abuse generated personality change.
That's a hard thing to deal with.
Throwaway05
1d ago
People who used to just die are now morbidly obese with access to cheap entertainment and drugs.
If you get sick we treat you regardless of ability to pay instead of just throwing you onto the street.
This is the society that the billionaires built!
Being poor in America or Western Europe is probably the best now that it has ever been.
Throwaway05
2d ago
From what I can tell these days most male doctors come into med school already attached, meet another doctor in school, or end up getting scooped randomly on the apps (if they don't suck) or flounder on the apps (if they do suck).
People avoid the work drama of the past because of woke stuff, although the mid to late career physicians still get up to that sometimes.
Female doctors seem to hold out for someone on the apps of ultra high quality and succeed or fail, with some going for much lower social class/success boy toys.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I understand many people haven't interacted with much of the Iranian diaspora, like always that's a self selecting group but they resemble Asians or Jews in many ways - strong family ties, a focus on education, and lots of involvement in successful industries and business. This is world class elite human capital with a lot of national pride who would be willing to go back, should the situation change.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Absolutely, we have a millions reasons why getting involved is a bad idea.
This isn't one of them - but it has gotten some of the most play on social media.
It's a shallow emotional appeal that makes no logical sense, but that is where the population is at right now. It's embarrassing.
Throwaway05
4d ago
People die in war and conflict. Iran is a country actively engaged in killing its own people and those abroad (civilian and otherwise). People are arguing about the alleged death of some school children as if this event means that Iran should be allowed to go back to killing whoever they want.
That is stupid.
Throwaway05
4d ago
(2) A disinformation war is happening in regards to whether a school in Iran was hit, and if it were hit, whether its destruction was caused by Iran, Israel, or America. 100+ Iranian girls were killed.
I find it tremendously frustrating that Iran can be indirectly and directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians over decades and decades but suddenly this is a huge problem.
I think it's a sign that most westerners are fundamentally unprepared to defend their societies from aggression and stagnation.
Throwaway05
7d ago
As usual you aren't hating the media enough - this was a pre-planned official trip to discuss security arrangements where he was going to pay the extra costs (at least that's what 2Way reported).
Throwaway05
11d ago
(2a) Women (whose sentiment has a huge impact on societal values) object to these relationships since it reminds them of a significant disadvantage they have in comparison to men: Female sexual attractiveness inevitably and steeply declines relatively early in life. Since women tend to compare themselves to the most elite men, they get the frustrating impression that society has made life extremely unfair for them. Perhaps women have always felt this way and what's changed is that they have more of a voice.
I have to imagine something like this is the largest factor, after being told they can have everything women become upset when men aren't interested in them for economic success and they find themselves in their late 30s with no partner or prospects.
They will (maybe rightly?) complain.
Throwaway05
14d ago
Exactly, I feel more impacted by crime in comparison to twenty years ago, even if the really bad stuff was quite a bit more likely back in the day.
Throwaway05
17d ago
I mean this is where taste comes in - you'll note that she doesn't look at all like your other examples.
That said she's literally famous for being beautiful in an industry that the most beautiful people in the world go into. If getting paid millions of dollars a year to be beautiful isn't a sign of being a 10/10 then I don't know what is.
You are allowed to find her not attractive. Many people don't like um ethnic women, or women who are low on curves. That's preference, but if we are looking objectively...
Throwaway05
18d ago
Dying to understand the significance of the three question marks.
Gossiping with your girlies about men's performance is very female coded. A spreadsheet (or document) with detailed stats is very male coded.
So am I. The spreadsheet stays.😁
I like my balls attached, thanks.
Throwaway05
18d ago
Fair dinkum - my standard for what a 9 or a 10 is is something like "is a model" "could be a model" "if you told your friends she was a model they would believe it." With a 10 being more of a get drunk with your bros and sass each other and they won't disagree she is a 10 even though that is a big brag.
I don't think I've thought of it the terms you describe but it's an interesting thought. If a 10 means 99.9th percentile then it really means something, but I suspect you'd run into taste issues. Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, and Lisa (Blackpink) are all probably 10s by any objective standard but if you go by 99.9th percentile for an individual man's interest then at least one of those three is likely to get thrown out most of the time (see: the hate for Zendaya here).
Throwaway05
18d ago
I am an adult in a committed relationship now. For legal reasons any spreadsheet would have been deleted looooong ago.
I did have a (female???) friend who kept detailed information on her phone with phallus stats, which should would whip out at parties from time to time.
That was always horrifying and amusing.
Throwaway05
18d ago
As a contra anecdote - I've also slept with lots of women, and I've found my level of attractiveness varying quite a bit over the course of my life so I've done a decent range.
I've found this meme to be an exaggeration but mostly true. Plenty of mid women are mid in bed, but the gorgeous women were way more likely to be bad, especially 9s and 10s. Being bad in bed doesn't always mean unenthusiastic, but plenty of 9s and 10s just didn't know how to do anything. Importantly this sometimes included what they liked - since they knew they could count on a man trying as hard as possible they never put much effort into figuring themselves out either, much less a dick.
Might be enthusiastic, but technical skills were rare.
Women have a meme about men with big dicks being bad in bed, and similarly it's not universally true but really does seem to capture the heart of it.
Throwaway05
20d ago
Of all my time on the motte and its predecessors it is this thread that most makes me feel like i'm living in a different world from some of you.
Throwaway05
23d ago
I'm like do people like this stuff?
Compare Biggie to modern rap or Livin' la Vida Loca to whatever this is.... like damn we've gone down hill.
Throwaway05
24d ago
The choreography was great! The themes and story telling and politics was clever as hell even if I don't agree with it.
I could barely tell that all of his stuff was supposed to be separate songs, and it didn't translate to a live performance well.
But I hear other people talk about it and I feel like I'm missing something.
Throwaway05
24d ago
I enjoy bright lights and catchy music.
What catchy music? The guy mumbled in Spanish for 14 minutes.
The 3 seconds of Gasolina and the bit of Ricky Martin was way more catchy than the whole rest of the show.
Throwaway05
25d ago
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
The real world is complicated and messy.
Pacifism is good until you run into an African Warlord or Cartel.
Free exchange of knowledge is good until everyone has a matter printer and can destroy the planet.
Don't lie, cheat, or steal is great until you are an Oskar Schindler trying to save lives.
Sometimes your principles are worth dying for, but making other people die for them isn't really right either.
Shit is complicated.
Throwaway05
25d ago
Horror themed LITRPG - much less level up slop (which I love!) and more "your skills are horror movie tropes and you level up by using them."
The characters are trying to solve an overarching horror mystery by "playing" movies - your class might be Final Girl, or Jock and the Jock can make sure he gets in a fight with the monster and lets everyone get away for one scene but dies (and then comes back at the end if someone in the party makes it).
Creative idea done much better than normal for the genre.
Throwaway05
25d ago
I mean principles erode in war time and the culture war is a war - I'm very free speech, live and let live etc but I see what the woke have done and feel it is toxic to society etc.
Throwaway05
25d ago
Discharges and summaries that would take half a day or more get done in ten minutes, and senior doctors have been blown away by the efficiency and quality gains.
Charting is not supposed to be the majority of the job and is more or less a recent invention (in the US at least).
I find OpenEvidence and other similar tools to be relatively unhelpful, especially since I generally have to cross reference.
Throwaway05
25d ago
This included a pair of high-waisted grandpa trousers.
My understanding is that these exist for men with no hips after their ass shrinks from old age.
cough
It's coming up in my reading backlog, can you elevator pitch it so I can building anticipation?
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