erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
10hr ago
This was an aside, but:
the film is a far better film than the book is a book (joining the likes of Jurassic Park
I wouldn't call the Jurassic Park movie much better than the book. They are pretty different (the movie has a much stronger sensawunda and plays like a typical summer blockbuster, while the book is more cynical and reads like a technothriller), but each is good in its own way. My 10th grade English teacher made us read the novel as a compare and contrast to Frankenstein, and I loved it. The little fractals at the start of each chapter were a nice touch, and I still remember Ian Malcolm's excellent introduction:
Shortly before midnight, be stepped on the plane at the Dallas airport, a tall, thin, balding man of thirty-five, dressed entirely in black: black shirt, black trousers, black socks, black sneakers.
...
Humid Dallas air drifted through the open door. Ellie said, "Isn't it a little warm for black?"
"You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler," he said. "I could look at your legs all day. But no, as a matter of fact, black is an excellent color for heat. If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat. Efficient radiation. In any case, I wear only two colors, black and gray."
Ellie was staring at him, her mouth open. "These colors are appropriate for any occasion," Malcolm continued, and they go well together, should I mistakenly put on a pair of gray socks with my black trousers."
"But don't you find it boring to wear only two colors?"
"Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing," Malcolm said. "I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports."
"Dr. Malcolm," Hammond explained, "is a man of strong opinions."
"And mad as a hatter," Malcolm said cheerfully.
A transhumanist Catholic?
That's not something you see everyday. Most transhumanists are atheists, and, if Christian, tend to be Mormon. Catholics usually share Pax Tube's opinion on transhumanism.
erwgv3g34
15hr ago
"Islam is right about women."
I dislike Islam for other reasons (polygamy, circumcision, etc.) but its take on the WQ is spot-on. Which is why Muslim countries have above-replacement TFR, and Western countries don't. We need a new religion, but Islam is the solution we do not want.
erwgv3g34
19hr ago
Except trans people act far more like their birth gender than their adopted gender. Autogynephilic trans women in particular usually led a ridiculously masculine life before transitioning (e.g. Bruce Jenner), and even trans women who are not good at sports and confidence still display typical male interests (programming, anime, porn, etc.).
erwgv3g34
2d ago
The women will tell you this themselves:
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971?
(sadly I can't find a non-paywalled version)
In Zhengzhou, a Foxconn worker told a researcher: “The groom’s family is expected to provide a car and a new apartment. That’s more than 200,000 yuan. Our average farming income is 5,000 yuan a year.” He paused. “Having two sons,” he said, “is considered bad luck. It means you have to provide two apartments.”
A quick Google search shows that 200,000 yuan is about 30,000 USD. I have more than that in my bank account. Great! So where do I go to find a Chinese bride? I can't, as far as I can tell. Or, rather, the process would be something ridiculous like learning Mandarin, applying for a visa, moving to China, courting local girls, and then paying for the car and apartment.
To understand why this is absurd, imagine if each time I wanted to buy a Chinese trinket, I had to move to China and haggle with the local shopkeeper in Cantonese on an open air market, instead of having merchants compete with each other to sell me Chinese gadgets every time I log onto Amazon or visit Walmart.
Libertarians economists write innumerable blog posts about the inefficiencies of the labor market caused by national borders, but much fewer posts about the inefficiencies in the dating market caused by the same. Though Bryan Caplan, at least, seems to have noticed.
Yes, I could just marry a Filipina, but Chinese women are more intelligent, and more beautiful.
The "blackpill" is that this factor doesn't get turned off if a woman gets married and has kids, so a guy is never fully safe from being supplanted if he loses status or a higher status male sets eyes on his woman. The high status males need to be reined in as well!
No, no, no! This is exactly wrong. You cannot solve this problem by placing additional restrictions on men. We have been trying that for decades. It doesn't work. High status males don't need to be reined in. Women need to be reined in. But this is so unthinkable, even your otherwise redpilled comment instinctively veers off from that conclusion.
A man needs to know, when he marries, that he owns his woman from that day forth, the same way a man needs to know, when he buys a car, that he owns that car from that day forth, and that he will be allowed to defend that car with deadly force if needed, and that the state and his community will back him up if Daquan tries to dispute the ownership of his car. And if he does not, do not be surprised when nobody buys a car. The arguments for secure rights over women are isomorphic to the arguments for secure rights over any other form of property.
For marriage to work, a man needs to be able to kill his wife when he finds her in bed with another man. Instead, she files for divorce and gets rewarded with cash and prizes.
From "Why We Need the Double Standard" by the Dread Jim:
Sperm is cheap, eggs are dear. Therefore we should guard eggs, not sperm. What this means is that it only needs a small number of badboys to render a very large number of women unmarriageable. Thus curtailing male badboy behavior is not going to succeed. And if we restrain prosocial well behaved upper class men from being badboys, the girls are going to get their kicks with Jeremy Meeks and Muslim rapeugees. Restraining male behavior results in upper class women fucking men low IQ men who live on towel folding jobs, petty burglary, drug dealing, and sponging off their numerous high IQ high socioeconomic status girlfriend, men whose careers are not going to be adversely affected by a few rape charges, underage sex charges, child support orders, and domestic violence restraint orders. The lawyerette does not fuck her fellow lawyers, she does not fuck judges, she fucks Jeremy Meeks. If we let upper class men be badboys, if we stopped afflicting judges with rape charges, underage sex charges, child support orders, and domestic violence restraining orders, at least she would be fucking judges.
The problem is that law and society strengthens shit tests against well behaved, respectable, affluent men, but has limited success in strengthening shit tests against Jeremy Meeks. She fucks men against whom rape charges, underage sex charges, child support orders, and domestic violence restraining orders have limited effect, because they can pass her shit tests, and you, even if you have a nicer car and a nicer hotel room than Jeremy Meeks, cannot. Plus the police and the courts just don’t seem to be pursuing rape charges against rapeugees, perhaps because of disparate impact.
All these laws have the effect of holding men responsible for female bad behavior. It is a lot more effective to hold women responsible for male bad behavior, because women, not men are the gate keepers to sex, romance, and reproduction. If you stop some men from behaving badly, women will just find men you cannot or dare not deter.
The problem is that we need to guard what is precious, guard eggs, not sperm. We need to restrain female sexual behavior, not male sexual behavior.
First, we need to change the social order so that the lawyerette fucks the judge instead of Jeremy Meeks. Then we can address the much harder problem of preventing her from fucking either one.
From the comments of "The Reactionary Program" by the same:
One pin can pop a hundred balloons. We have to control female sexuality, not male sexuality.
If you try to control male sexuality, that just means that uncontrollable anti social males father a large proportion of the children.
Eggs are precious, sperm is cheap. You guard what precious, not what is cheap.
And from the comments of "COVID Public Service Announcement", idem:
If a thirteen year old is permitted to wander where she pleases, she is going to be pleased to wander where someone can “rape” her. It is not the janitor that is the problem, it is the thirteen year old girl unsupervised. One pin can pop any number of baloons. We need balloon control, not pin control.
If you execute or castrate ninety-nine fuckboys, but miss fuckboy number one hundred, he gets to spoil a hundred nice girls.
Whereas if you lock up and marry off ninety-nine girls, but fail to control girl number one hundred, you get ninety-nine happily married wives and one fallen woman.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Yes, over here it's a vocab word; something you would expect to see in Shakespeare, like "wherefore" or "betwixt".
erwgv3g34
4d ago
I've never seen fortnight used like that.
What's wrong with bimonthly? Okay, it means something slightly different, but it's close enough for practical purposes.
erwgv3g34
6d ago
Replayability (or replay value) is not new; it's been used to judge games for decades. It makes a lot of sense if you are time-rich and money-poor, like a student; you buy a new title every few months and hope it keeps you entertained as long as possible. For full-time working adults, it makes a lot less sense.
erwgv3g34
8d ago
Please bring back the—
No, we are not going to bring back the link roundup. That is not what this place is for.
...oh.
PAs probably fit the role designed better. Nurse practitioners have more variety in the standards of their training programs and can operate totally independently in many states which seems to be going to far to me.
It's worth noting that PAs do get a somewhat condensed version of the physician curriculum, but NPs do not actually learn regular medicine.
That sounds ridiculous and it is. It should also stress you out and if it does, good.
It doesn't. I would much rather have half a doctor than no doctor. Specially when I am not legally allowed to buy any useful medicine without a prescription.
The day when MDs and PAs are so numerous that they are working for minimum wage and you can find a clinic on every street corner is the day when I agree that NPs should be held to a higher standard. Until then, I am in favor of anything that increases the supply of healthcare.
erwgv3g34
10d ago
Yes, this would add four years of practice per doctor without lowering quality.
erwgv3g34
10d ago
According to Scott, the real bottleneck is residency slots, not med school. He himself spent a year without practicing because he could not find a residency after graduation. Residency is expensive for the hospital, so it depends on government subsidies, and the government doesn't subsidize enough residency slots to keep up with demand.
As I understand it, one common workaround has been to give more power to nurses and other assistants, while having the actual doctors simply look over and sign their names after the fact, effectively turning them into managers. For example, whenever I go to the local community health center, the person who sees me and prescribes my medicines is always an APRN or a PA, never an MD.
Of course, would be easier to abolish residency.
Back in my day, the big three of the Manosphere were Roissy, Roosh, and Rollo (Dalrock was a distant fourth). But those were bloggers, and it seems like the new meta is streaming? Yet, when I think of big manosphere streamers I think of Andrew Tate, Kevin Samuels, or Richard Cooper. I've never heard of the guys in this documentary.
erwgv3g34
10d ago
Social pressure was one of the ways women were coerced into marrying nice guys, along with religious indoctrination, the threat of economic privation, and physical force as a last resort. But you really need all of them.
You can't change girls. What you can do is force them to be with non-assholes. Which we did, for a very long time. Until we suddenly decided that we are too good for that. And now we are going extinct.
His protagonists are all the same; Jazz is Mark Watney with tits, and Ryland Grace is Mark Watney as a teacher. But I like Mark Watney, and characters have always been a secondary concern in hard science-fiction, so it's alright. It's no different from Heinlein self-inserting as Lazarus Long/Jubal Harshaw/Hugh Farnham.
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