yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Too many people online reach for this as an all-purpose defence and smug way of going "nothing like this on our side, it's all on the religious nutjob right side!"
I agree with this! But I also think the Catholic church's celibacy requirement means there is and always will be a problem greater than the general population.
At best, a significant amount of the clergy is closeted gay men. At worst, the male proclivity to favor younger partners (which we see represented in the gay community) manifests itself in inappropriate behavior with children in the church.
Finally, it's much harder to fix grooming and bad behavior in general society (because the nice progressive side is everywhere). The Catholic Church has a problem it can at least start to remedy. They'd have the added bonus of fixing their seminary recruitment problem at the same time.
yofuckreddit
7mo ago
No homo, but ass play from a woman is great. You're ceding the use of maybe 33% of your erogenous zone.
yofuckreddit
2yr ago
I'm not going to discuss any specific studies because I don't want to google them. However, I'll echo my memory of the STD transmission rate in Africa being affected by circumcision.
I understand and sympathize with the anti-circumcision argument. I've just found that there's a big disconnect between the people I know in real life vs. internet advocates and the fringe-case traumatized victims. My buddies who are uncut, overall, wish they had been. None of my friends who are regret it or feel less whole. From a practical perspective cleaning your penis is a hell of a lot easier without folds. Sex becomes more complicated with potential rips etc. Oral isn't as straightforward for someone to perform. Once again this is anecdotal but a collection of minor inconveniences.
And then there's the final nail in the coffin for me which is female preference. Life isn't fair. What women want is what men give. There are entire illogical swaths of our society built around it. The accumulation of currency and power is, in my view, largely driven by concerns around sexual access. A significant percentage of American women prefer uncut cock and wishing / hoping they'll change their minds about it if we just stop circumcision is a pipe dream.
Nobody I know remembers being circumcised, but uncut buddies have an uphill battle getting laid. The risk of a botched procedure etc. seems low to me compared to the certainty of reduced sexual opportunities.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
The good (?) news is I wasn't expecting anything different. The attitude is consistent everywhere (forums, reddit, instagram, meatspace) and with almost everyone. It's honestly funny to watch people just skip past reality. Even with the most insanely generous statistical twisting, cars are a whole order of magnitude more deadly to everyone (and in reality, at least 100x). Almost no other topic would disregard reality over feelings so quickly!
At least some folks are admitting it's irrational, and others have actually been on a bike before.
And in a future on the downslope of fossil fuels, they won't be possible at the scale that they are now
As another upside, the electrification/automation of cars is going to, 20 years from now, be a boon to people who want to cycle. Less variance in driver behavior, ambiguity over laws and standards, etc. There's always going to be a risk of being hit by someone manually driving, but there's a good chance technology will get us in a better place eventually.
Just sucks that my body's going to be in way worse shape by then.
yofuckreddit
2yr ago
is the same as the number of wrongfully convicted people on death row
These are probably similar numbers but I don't think they're similar ratio. Roughly:
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200 people have been Exonerated while on death row since 1970
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2,000 people are on death row each year
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Actual Executions aren't very common at all https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/28/u-s-ends-year-with-fewest-executions-since-1991/
Given the sheer difficulty of actually exonerating someone, the accuracy of convictions seems suspect.
I admit that "jailed for drug possession" is pretty much a myth/meme that Libertarians like to drop - including myself in the past.
yofuckreddit
2yr ago
How many of your friends have a basis for comparison? There may be a certain "ignorance is bliss" thing for most men.
... No appreciable number of people have this experience. Of course there's an "ignorance is bliss" component, I have no idea what it's like to have foreskin beyond when I was younger and had different skin/head ratios. I can tell you I didn't like the feeling but that doesn't mean anything.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
You didn't read my statistics quite correctly. That's just pedestrian deaths.
###Deaths/Year
- Car -> Car :
40,000 - Car -> Pedestrian:
8,000 - Car -> Cyclist:
1,000 - Cyclist -> Pedestrian:
10 - Cyclist -> Car:
~ 0
After that you can do your own normalizing based on capita or miles driven. The latter is most fair to cars, but given how much further they can go and how often cars kill riders despite their rarity, I think per-capita is a much better measure.
Roughly cars are at a minimum 10x more deadly, and realistically more like 100x
yofuckreddit
7mo ago
I am one of the people who would agree with you that leadership in any team context is key, and it's a lesson that took me too long to learn.
I see the value in a designer/team who has a vision and can push to see it through. The analogy of a director may be a good comparison, in that they can produce what I would consider a good movie with very little in terms of assets or contributions from the team.
I suppose it depends on your definition of "Value" and "Success". An indie film with one director is almost always going to be crap, occasionally a niche art-house classic, and very, very rarely a breakout like Blair Witch or something.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
We can reach back as far as we want to figure out who the real villain is but, realistically, it's just an escalation of what's been going on forever. The Warren Court was another major episode/era of course, but there have been more.
I just think it'd be foolish to not recognize how angry this move made Democrats and how it may have changed their approach. Many of them called for far more aggression in the aftermath.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
That has been my experience. Men can also be in the same position too but it's far less common. They end up becoming more religious, or at least saying they are, much later in life.
~3% of the women in my dating pool were agnostic. It was never practical for me to require that in partners.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Do you want advice about how to speak to your in-law? Do you want to talk about Christianity in the public sphere? I need some guidelines on how to help you that isn't a request to sneer at your family.
I don't need any help navigating my personal relationships, and this post wasn't intended to be a celebration or validation of my personal beliefs. TheMotte needs some counter-jerk every once in a while and (to be frank) the tenor of much of this thread indicates my instincts were correct on that front! The anecdote is window dressing, no more than that.
I hadn't heard anything about a different model of religious schooling, so I appreciate the information there. I still have a few years before having to make a firm decision, and I'm also having to balance a quality education with ensuring we can comfortably afford it. My wife does the vast majority of activity and school scouting - the kids are actually in Catholic day care as we speak - but I may need to grab the reins on the K-12 front.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I only know firsthand about one male sex drive and secondhand about a few dozen more, but I cannot fathom living without it.
Perhaps this is the intent behind the rule. It's a test to see just what sacrifices you'll make to enter the priesthood. But I don't believe that priests as a group are passing this test. I'm having trouble finding multiple surveys and sources, but this one suggest 15% aren't celibate and ~60% want the rule gone. I've seen higher numbers on the former.
I'd agree that raping your parishioners is illogical and evil. I also have seen other posters suggesting that numbers have been inflated - this is probably somewhat true, just as with any massive sexual behavior condemnation movement that has complex incentive structures (I.E. #metoo devolving into just bad sex anecdotes)
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I don't know why one marries someone who thinks their beleifs are idiotic, but love is love I guess.
It would be beyond rude for me to ridicule my wife in this way, and I have no plans to do so. That is intrinsically part of our "deal".
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Your decision will have consequences and this may lead to conflict, but I think taking a firm stance at initiation would certainly have made their stance public and the future conflict would not have occurred.
A valid theory! My personal opinion is that refusing to allow my children to be baptized would have been much worse, consequence wise. My strategy is to play the long game. I'm confident that my kids will find their own way long term, whether that's being religious and having acceptance from my in-laws or not and having my protection and support.
yofuckreddit
2yr ago
That wrecked me for like a year and then later, just as I was patching things up with her (friendshipwise, at least) she died in an unlucky accident.
Dude, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear it!
yofuckreddit
2yr ago
every now and again there's some sort of heated argument about something, and if I'm one of the people who feels strongly about it, then I can easily feel isolated, like the other person or side doesn't really get it, and then I worry about whether I don't really get it
I have to tell you that:
IF you work at a company that is mostly not-assholes
AND you frequently find yourself alone on one side of an argument
THEN there is a significant chance that [You] really don't get it.
I'm responding because I think most people on here are capable of some sort of self-introspection and I am, at this second, dealing with one person in my org that represents 10% of my HR bullshit every month because they are mentally incapable of understanding where they fit in the organization and hearing the truth/feedback.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
None that I know of, but the locations nearest to me are a drive. It's like a burger CFA in my opinion. The kid's burgers are the same size as their normal ones so if you're looking to save some $ that's the play.
yofuckreddit
14d ago
I think that'd be the difference. Your approach is great for actually getting better and building confidence. For benchmarking, I'd argue it's not providing as much value.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Knowing what little we do about your side hustle, I think you're fine.
Paying for API access can be valuable if you have a lot of data you want to curate/generate. Imagine you are selling 10k items and want to take the specs + reviews to make better descriptions or something.
That's it though, you won't get much better quality from another model or benefit out of building your own rig. Yet.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I did soylent for a bit, always found the original flavor ("Pancake Batter") to be my favorite. Would unflavored/sweetened be the closest there?
Did you replace real food with it?
yofuckreddit
4mo ago
We're all speculating here. It's all going to depend on the timing and use cases. But imagine a factory that's sunk millions in capital for their human driven processing.
They can re-do all that with hyper-specialized machines, dozens of vendors, the nightmare of IT/OT interactions (doing a project on this right now in bottling actually). Which they probably do every couple of decades.
Or they can wait for a humanoid robot with these capabilities and drop them almost completely in-place.
Humanoid robots work with existing interfaces. With sufficient image recognition quality and human-like sensory capabilities, they're going to fit in way more jobs. Think of the difference in outlay between training a single humanoid robot to cut chicken legs (which is doable by illiterate illegal immigrants) compared to the expense of developing and deploying a hyper-specialized machine.
yofuckreddit
4mo ago
Did you read the Dark Tower series? I'm considering it
yofuckreddit
4mo ago
I think the Novella. Books have an advantage by default for me though it should be said
yofuckreddit
5mo ago
The twitter thread shows the methodology. Please actually read it.
It's my industry, so I think it's as good as it can reasonably be.
Gun rights are in the bill of rights, but given every legal benefit and cost around marriage I still think it's insane to deny recognition of gay marriage. It seems trivially easy to classify under equal protection.
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