sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
2mo ago
Not to mention that aging is to an extent evolutionarily advantageous because you're not supposed to perpetually compete with fresher, better genes.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
If Jews' representation is inflated the same way Blacks and Latinos' allegedly is, then how come Jews allegedly rule the world?
sun_the_second
2mo ago
To add a point of anecdata, when I was thirteen I wanted to touch some tits. Getting laid, let alone constructing a psychological profile of a potential "weak" girl to do so, was somewhere in the realm of strange vaguely gross things that didn't seem so appealing.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
It's not a problem that the social norm as to who gets called "Bill" is "people who tell you 'Call me Bill'". Why should it be a problem for the social norm as to who gets called "Mrs" to be "people who tell you 'Call me Mrs'"?
It's not a problem for Bills only as long as it's not an imposition on the others to call them Bill. Right now, it is not. As references to people go, given names such as "Bill" are pretty close to the most efficient way to refer to people.
- If you want to be called "Snprrrpurpqz", this is an imposition because it's impossible to pronounce.
- If you want to be called "my lord", that is an imposition because it demands status you do not have.
- If you want to be called Bill some days and William the others, with no connection to any socially established practices such as "William at work, Bill at home", that's an imposition because you're hogging mental capacity. Doubly so if there's no way to tell which one it is today other than asking you.
- If you want to not ever be referred to in third person in your presence (real example of a person from my life), do I even have to explain why that makes it easier to ignore your existence entirely rather than talk with others as if you exist?
I see the argument about the trans definition of "woman" being circular as the bailey that's not really the central objection. The central objection is that "woman" is one of the words that mean things, unlike "Bill", and the meaning that includes "people sharing key traits with the 'human females' cluster" is the most useful one to most people, rather than "anyone who says their pronouns are she/her". It is no more cruel to refuse that "mere shift in language" than to impose it.
I recently started to explore speed dating events. For those unfamiliar, the way they work is they arrange a number of pairs, and you go through a few ~10 minute conversations (strictly timed) over the next 1-2 hours. You get to mark down your like/dislike per person, sometimes with specific intentions (friends/romantic/hookup) depending on the event, and matches get each other's contact info.
The pros are that the conversations are opt out rather than opt in, and they're one-on-one by design, so the part about the woman's attention is solved. Since she paid her entry fee as well as you did, she's probably not the kind of person to stare into her phone for the entire duration of the time slot, either.
On the other hand, it's still up to you to leave an impression over 10 (usually less) minutes enough for her to reply, even if you end up matching. The women there are also probably not the same as those who go to bars, but that might be a pro for you rather than a con depending on who you're looking for.
Overall, I'd say it beats a dating app in terms of getting guaranteed talking/flirting practice for the same price of a few drinks you'd spend at a bar.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
They vote.
sun_the_second
2mo ago
"Asking grognard to explain and justify his belief of why Araujo is a name that doesn't belong in America" is not necessarily the same as "baiting grognard to be racist", unless, of course, grognard's justification really is racist.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
I'm not moved by the authority of international prosecutions - certainly it is not unthinkable that many countries, perhaps even most countries, can be wrong, or more likely overtaken by a political agenda that requires them to act as they do.
Brutality that is less than exceptional or even less than expected can undoubtedly still shock. One child killed in a bombing is one child too many for a lot of people. In the circumstances given, where the militants deliberately walk among innocents and their greatest weapon against Israel are the sickening images they publish on the Western news, I'm convinced for the moment that Israel is using less brutality than would be justified of them. It would be merely expected of them to strike at the people shooting rockets at Israel without regard to who else is in the strike zone. Taking any measures at all to blow up a little bit fewer innocent people is less brutality than expected.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
They were using the opposite of exceptional brutality.
I think it would make your argument vastly more succinct if you just said "Musk is more powerful", rather than arguing back and forth on the relative value of wisdom, smarts and factual accuracy, as well as whether Musk possesses all of those. Musk has power, Hanania doesn't, therefore Hanania's criticism is groundless and impotent. That appears to be the real gist of what you're saying.
But suppose Hanania really doesn't have the right to speak on Musk. In that case, why do you care enough to correct the public mottizen opinion on Hanania and urge people to not listen to him? Shouldn't his lack of influence be self-evident?
sun_the_second
3mo ago
How does accessing the current mental faculties of Biden, whether satisfactory or not, prove anything about what they were like three months ago?
sun_the_second
3mo ago
What stops everyone from copying the maximally unfun design from the web? If I wanted invaders to stop taking my stuff I'd just do that rather than build something aesthetically pleasing yet very penetrable.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
You build the levels yourself and you shoot up and loot levels of other people who aren't that good?
Doom builds the levels so that they're fun to fight in. What you're proposing seems like it would converge towards levels that are maximally unfun to fight in. Unless I'm misunderstanding your definition of "not that good", but if you mean the others are not that good at fun level design, why would you want to play their levels?
sun_the_second
3mo ago
The concern over mannish girls being concern trolled en masse with no recourse looks like concern trolling to me. If the Obama transpiracy is anything to go by, cruel childish insinuation is quite bad at masking itself.
From what I see, young men that look a bit gay have not been smothered by concern trolls who insinuate they're actually gay and do it so cleverly that they can't be rebuked. Those are the benefits of a culture that promotes accepting people as who they say they are.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
If you liked Twig's worldbuilding you might want to check out Seek by the same author, since it's the next work that is set in an original setting (as far as "unspecified future post-FTL megastructurepunk Earth" is an original setting). Warning: ongoing and started only recently.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Depends, are you tilling the earth using a hoe or alongside her?
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Perhaps so. Then again, as far as I understand it, in many properly trad societies a "respectable" girl was rarely sexually attractive.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Physically harder to wrangle cattle than till the earth with a hoe or drive a plow?
sun_the_second
3mo ago
I do not believe most heterosexual men are going to classify her haircut as an explicit turnoff.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Last time I checked, the country in Russia was notoriously destitute aside from, as mentioned by others, dachas and cottagecore influencers. Not much trailer culture, either.
sun_the_second
3mo ago
Revenge is a product of simple iterated game theory. Humans not being solitary also adds up to this. Can't survive alone -> can't just kill all competition -> intra-tribe squabbles are nonlethal -> being known as a spiteful person becomes valuable.
This word colloqually means simply homosexual, with the non-mangled "pederast" out of use by anyone but historians.
There are other context clues that suggest the man was most likely speaking about homosexuals. Speaking of "beating faggots on the streets" as a particular boon of Russia suggests you can't do so in other places, which is true for open homosexuals and quite untrue for open child molesters. Furthermore, it is a lot easier to find [alleged] homosexuals on the street for the purposes of beating up, since everyone knows those damn faggots wear long dyed hair and tight jeans, or something to that effect. Pedophiles generally don't advertise themselves so, and if you were going by stereotypes you'd have to face down, like, a quarter of middle-aged male population.
Those who want to beat up pedos on the street generally need some sophisticated preparation, such as setting up a honeypot, perhaps take pointers from Tesak. Note his quote: "Are you a pidoras or a pedofil?"
sun_the_second
3mo ago
we know it’s a thuggish dictatorship, why are gay rights the top issue over there?
I would like you to quote specific people who claim that gay rights is the top issue in Russia if you want that claim to be defended.
But to propose an answer that sounds plausible to me: the crowd who engages in active dissident politics is not large, and the wiser people are aware that blessed glorious West also has corruption, and perhaps will always have it. There is thus not much demand for being loud in a Putin-bothering way about it. Once Navalny got chased out and later offed, the anti-dictatorship side of dissident Russians has become much more disunited and self-eating.
As for islamic awareness, those of middle class means and above can largely avoid the worst of the Islamic component of Russia. Again, little demand. A lot of anti-Islamism is channeled through the gay rights issues, anyway.
Is owing something to people who are dead and to people who will live when you're long dead a thing that helps you or a thing that hurts you, and why?
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