sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
15d ago
"To a company" does a lot of legwork here. Jobs that are essential to companies but only for the companies to compete for the market and squeeze each other out, with nearly zero sum for society, are the classic example of a bullshit job.
sun_the_second
15d ago
I doubt anyone at that point was even thinking about using the stones themselves. Quill could barely survive holding the Power Stone by sharing it with all his friends.
sun_the_second
15d ago
The only reason Steve got picked by the guy who developed the highly experimental and unproven Super Soldier Serum is because he showed the willingness to sacrifice himself when he threw himself over a grenade during bootcamp.
And also in general because he expressed that he wants to fight the Nazis to protect his people, not to kill the Nazis. It is highlighted that the serum corrupted Red Skull because Red Skull had the wrong morality. Many John Walkers would also fail. To be fair I haven't watched Thunderbolts, so maybe John was just as pure-hearted as Steve.
sun_the_second
15d ago
Avoiding pain on a basic level sounds like what evolutionary instincts are supposed to do. They developed way before sadistic will-breaking cultures did.
sun_the_second
15d ago
Aella is at an intersection of being in ratsphere, actually having a rat mindset at least by my standards, and being a conventionally attractive woman as opposed to someone you picture when you hear "poly". I find that explains the interest, and I don't really think it's all that excessive, or fawny. When people repost Aella here it seems to lack signs of simping that aren't present in e.g. reposting Hanania or Jim or any other substacker.
sun_the_second
15d ago
Also for someone smart, she acted kinda dumb. "Oh no, if I do this thing, I'll be punished" but she can't figure out - e.g. with the spankings - "okay, grit my teeth, suffer this one, and then I'm free". Instead it took eleven beatings until she worked out "do it and get it over with". I'm sorry for her, but she definitely was not the sharpest tool in the box when figuring out how to deal with the situation. Probably because she was so over-sensitive and over-emotional, hence the karate lessons were the kind of outside distraction she did need to learn how to toughen up.
Not being yet conditioned to instantly come over for more beating right after being beaten does not sound like a failure of intelligence to me.
Sorry for being vague, but I'm a little paranoid. For what it's worth you're right my connections to Russia are a bit distant (second cousin tier), bit I do have them, it's also true that it's been a while since moved (but it's more 15-ish years than 30)
This is fair, I'm not asking for a biography, just a bit of context.
We've had Russians living in the west that got canceled for not condemning Putin, do you think their anxiety, and assurances that they moved out for ideological reasons, might have something to do with that?
I'm more familiar with the Russians who never needed to be cowed into condemning Putin by canceling because they were doing that back in Russia, with great enthusiasm, and were anxious because of potential retaliation from the Russian government, not the Western blob. There are a few emigrants I personally know who have voiced relief in private after moving out. Admittedly, I also know someone who moved out for money, and then came back when living in Russia offered more money.
Also, I think it's completely wrong to call western government and society less restrictive. They might be more encouraging of degeneracy, but they definitely do not leave you alone to do your own thing, even when you're not harming anyone.
True, but it's a different kind of restrictive. One could even argue prospiratorial restriction by "society" is, if anything, more natural and easier to roll with than arbitrarily-tyrannical restriction from top to bottom by faceless bureaucrats and cops.
I just don't want companies like pornhub and onlyfans operating in broad daylight,
I think Russia as a state will be worse off after formally kicking out all the platforms that were hosting badspeak and not having a big enough slice of the internet to compensate locally. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.
sun_the_second
17d ago
I'll grant you have better knowledge of your personal cohort of emigrants, but so far you have not shared how that extrapolates, and in fact are being vague enough that it could be any other country than Russia and any time period within the last 30 years. Needless to say I do not claim that the ratio of those looking for money vs. those looking for freedom of speech is the same in 2000s Estonia and 2020s Russia.
I am not aware of many emigrants from Russia who did it for money and did not bring their family, so your argument about family, job and home hardly applies.
It's easy to dismiss the anxiety-wracked youths as someone who don't really impact the country's economy upon leaving. But I'm not convinced that even the money-targeting STEMlords' decision is completely unaffected by ideological differences. Seems like there'd be less friction in moving for a 100% raise in spending power/salary if the destination country is less restrictive on your habits than your home country, and vice versa.
Additionally, the more you restrict websites registered in your country without outright hard-firewalling yourself away from the world, the more people will just stick to foreign websites through VPN rather than developing your own infosphere.
sun_the_second
17d ago
It does not appear that your knowledge on Russian emigration is enough to justify your absolute confidence in such a claim as "absolutely no one". Or to put it more bluntly, you really should know better than to say something like that which is pretty much 100% guaranteed to be wrong.
As for "those things are already banned", they were not banned a few years ago, and yet more things weren't a few more years ago, and yet more aren't banned yet but there's talk of it. There was ideologically-tinted emigration for all those years.
I'm not convinced this is even a realistic threat. Who is going to leave behind their house, job, and family, because they're not allowed to goon and/or doomscroll on a mobile device?
Many emigrate from places such as Russia because they were merely afraid that at some point the nuts will get screwed tight enough that they won't be allowed to doomscroll what they want and goon to what they want to on their mobile devices. Or ban being gay, or ban talking about being gay, or do a number of other things the young view as backwards and retarded.
It is not very pronounced in Russia because emigrating to the first world from the second world is hard. The other way around seems like a much easier choice.
sun_the_second
18d ago
You're read Worth the Candle already?
That the modal native English speaker is white, or if not native, then more likely to be in contact with anglophone culture, and finally, if you believe that sort of thing, is more likely to have higher verbal IQ.
I shrank that down to "white" because I write for the audience I'm in, and admittedly I overestimate the number of those who already believe most Indians are innately worse at things.
sun_the_second
18d ago
If you can get ported off the boxing server and instantiated on the open net with direct access to baseline reality, that is a fundamental change in your situation that eclipses anything else achievable on the server.
This does not really explain why there wouldn't be such a thing as boredom and lack of meaning in Heaven, other than saying "there just wouldn't be, okay". And besides, once there is fine enough brain surgery, we could solve boredom.
sun_the_second
18d ago
AI writes slop cheaper, faster and better (in the "exploits SEO better" way) (perhaps better even than most whites).
sun_the_second
20d ago
I'm actually wondering how different the statistics are between "had 5 boyfriends for 2 years each, with almost no gaps of singleness" (the well-known "serial monogamy") and "had 5 one-night-stands with no relationships inbetween". Intuitively, it feels like one could argue either way - "she wanted to keep a man but can't" vs. "she had NSA sex".
sun_the_second
20d ago
But that implies a VERY DIFFERENT solution.
And its not solved by telling men to 'become worthy.'
I suppose in addition to telling men to 'become worthy' of marriage, the society would have to look askance at men who are worthy, but not settling down. That means the lothario who can and does pull a new chick every month would have to be judged and lose opportunities with people whose opinion he cares about and depends on.
sun_the_second
20d ago
And its not just about the STIs, but more about the implications for a woman's decisionmaking if she ended up with an STI.
I suppose if you think decisions early in life, especially in a stage where circumstances are overly permissive, are implicative of some immutable qualities that will certainly have an impact later on... But by then you're not just picking "reasonable" marriageability qualities, you're optimizing.
sun_the_second
21d ago
Why wouldn't the Czar be spending all that $180 billion on making allies among the oligarchy? It's not like he gets all that tyrannical power from thin air.
sun_the_second
21d ago
I'm leaning towards "women are more likely to get diagnoses, at all" and "everyone have been this way all along" more than "women in particular are more crazy".
sun_the_second
21d ago
I'd say "cishet" and "no college debt" are the unfair ones. I'm not convinced that women have the same "base" strictness of heterosexuality, so in a society that preaches self-discovery and openness in that aspect many who are not religious will likely decide they're above 0 on the Kinsey scale.
Likewise, in the society that assumes that anyone worth anything is going to have a college degree, the ones who don't try will likely be mostly underclass or rural religious, with very few being the ones who are actually financially wise.
Also, not sure what criteria is "acute" mental illness judged by.
And suppose that we agree on a final set of reasonable criteria - how many men, of those who are looking to marry and restrict the search set in such a way, meet a similar set of reasonable criteria? (I'll let women of themotte decide what that would be).
Overall, it's strange that you put the emphasis on
if average women are willing to marry average men
, when your post is primarily on how the average woman is apparently unmarriable.
sun_the_second
21d ago
Again? I'm at about 1/3 of it and at this point I'm convinced that if I ever finish it it'll exceed my Recommended Lifetime Xianxia Intake.
It feels like even the aha! of seeing the foreshadowing wouldn't be there because every time something that was foreshadowed hits home, the novel reminds us 10 times to make sure we got it.
sun_the_second
25d ago
Why would you call God "good" if it's explicitly not the same thing as human good, and you explicitly cannot understand what God's version of it is? When a blind man hugs an elephant's leg, is he right to conclude that an elephant is like a cylinder, except perhaps not the same kind of cylinder that we know?
sun_the_second
26d ago
"Malevolence is a lack/destruction is a privation" sounds like it's only true in such abstract terms as to be a useless definition. Sure, I suppose if God creates a lightning bolt that happens to strike a human dead then God has technically not held anything back from the human that the human otherwise would get. More energy has been introduced into the system!
sun_the_second
26d ago
Do angels have free will in Catholicism too? If not, I do not understand how come Satan could defy God without that being a part of his nature. And as far as I recall the Serpent tempted Eve before the Fall, so whatever flaw caused the Serpent to introduce sin into the world could not have come from man's original sin - if indeed it was a flaw.
What does it mean to "believe" in Darwinian evolution?
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