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2mo ago
Addendum: You never sit in the car because it’s too hot or too cold if a tire needs changing. But you also don't want to be a tough guy to the point of becoming a liability. Being prepared is a finer line, and you can definitely cross into being an overly equipped “EDC Boy Scout” dork.
A story: Late this winter, we went to a cabin with a group of friends. An admittedly complicated snowfall occurred the night before we were set to leave. A friend ended up putting his car in a ditch. Trying to be a “tough guy” (in reality, embarrassed and rushing), he refused to wear a jacket, attempting to dig out the car, hook up pull straps, and put on chains in just a t-shirt. He started shaking uncontrollably, his hands stopped working, and I had to yell at him to get back in his car to warm up. He then sat there as my wife and I did the grunt work to get his car to the highway.
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2mo ago
There is little to be gained by a man expressing transient physical discomfort. If you have a reputation for toughness, you can express mild preferences in limited circumstances - rarely in the moment - and it must always be clear that you can perform when needed.
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2mo ago
It doesn't necessarily ring that way for me. The kind of guy that will break into a campus building so you two can... "watch the stars" on the roof. Or the type of guy that goes backpacking for a few months in developing countries, street smart can adapt. Lying your way into a club or fancy party. All sorts of things that happen in rom-coms. There's a spectrum between goodie two shoes and felony lowlife.
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2mo ago
The guy could have been a troll, whatever
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1923128567996780750
I've been in the middle of some bullshit outrage cycles in my day, but the one that some of you cooked up this week is probably the fakest of all. There are even "conservatives" hounding me and demanding that I apologize for a hidden swastika that someone else posted in a tweet that I replied to.
Just to be perfectly clear to all of the slimy little smear merchants playing this game: I apologize for nothing. I owe you nothing. I will not explain myself to you. You all know exactly what you're doing. If anyone is owed an apology in this situation, it's me. But I don't expect one because that would require a level of honor and honesty that none of these trolls possess. Piss off. All of you. There's my statement, for the many who have asked.
It's pretty clever, on my computer I wouldn't have seen it if someone hadn't said something. I could tell it was AI though. When the image is small it's clear as day. He didn't tweet it, he didn't even retweet it, he replied disagreeing with the person who posted the picture and statement.
Motte and Bailey. Maybe Christians should hold everything in common, selling property and possessions to give to anyone in need. Is that how Zizek lives or does he need to remove something from his own eye? Nowhere does the New Testament call Christians to advocate the violent redistribution of the fruits of non-believers’ labor.
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2mo ago
who was filming at least one otherwise-unsupervised child at a public park.
What's the evidence he was filming children or did he just pull out the phone to put Hendrix on blast?
More like you can't read the room or you're playing games. "Word of power"... You won't get a warning for saying "nigger" in the context of a story. No one's getting banned for quoting Mark Twain. You just can't call someone a nigger.
Is/Ought... If you want oughts you have to start somewhere, this one starts with "self-ownership". If you're just an is guy, cool, not sure what the point of talking about it. Is there a axiomatic ought you'd rather start with?
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3mo ago
My guess is you and most other's here are high enough status that y'all tend not to associate with dumb/low conscientious/high time preference, fat people.
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3mo ago
Archive Link: https://archive.is/EVkGv
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3mo ago
Who are these 100% blank slatist CICO advocates? Especially around here in the land of "IQ is real and probably has a large genetic component."
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3mo ago
In the United States, in the sense that it's relatively simple not to be poor? Yes. No, in that having lowing intelligence, high time preference, low conscientiousness makes it very hard to do the simple things.
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3mo ago
It's pretty much what I do as well. Also anticipating excess calories, "Gonna get drinks and have a big dinner so going light on lunch.". Bonus, less booze to get tipsy.
Also knowing your indulgences and where calories sneak in. For most I think that's liquids and snacking. I have a huge sweet tooth. I keep snacking to a minimum and cut out sugary drinks over 20 years ago so I can have an extra slice of cake every now and then. Over the last 5 years I've started "light" intermittent fasting so it's even easier to keep tabs on things. Also I think being comfortable with the feeling of being hungery is a good thing.
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3mo ago
No, you're poor because you don't do relatively simple things. And yes, hopefully GLP-1s help a ton.
I know it wouldn't be The Motte if it wasn't 10,000 words of caveats. Yes, these are exceptions that apply to a minuscule number of people, yet a bunch of people use them to make excuses for why they're fat.
It would not surprise me one bit that certain drugs and conditions reduce self-control and other's increase it. Some things make desired outcomes easier and some things make them harder. If you've got lots of self-control and you get some condition or start some drugs that make it harder to keep weight off, reduce CI until you stop gaining weight.
I would bet you think I have some normie conception of self-control: "self-control is easy! Just don't eat." Nope, self-control is really hard, and you're probably mostly born with it, like IQ. Can a midwit get a PhD in math from Harvard...? Well, are they black? No? Very unlikely.
You don't need official diets for CICO it's self evident. Reduce food consumption and/or increase activity until you lose weight. Still haven't lost weight? Decrease/increase.
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People tend to lack self control. If you had self control you wouldn't be fat.
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People tend to over-weight the activity part. So really just forget about CO and reduce CI until you start to lose weight. See problem one.
Expand to why you're poor and struggle with addiction.
I never understood this take that evolution is the demarcation of a good education. It was amusing back in the 2000 when dunking on creationists was cool but I would assert it was much more to do with signaling then general intelligence.
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General scientific literacy is awful among the general population.
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Even among those with scientific literacy "Macro" Evolution has to rank very low on the usefulness scale.
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Evolution at the high school level takes a few hours for a smart kid to wrap their head around.
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4mo ago
n=1 Within the last 5 years my wife walked into a firm that she thought looked interesting, no "We're hiring" sign, zero experience in the industry, just with a portfolio showing she was artistic, and got a job.
I think he partakes in engagement farming. I would point to the Sexy women stuff as strong evidence which leads me to highly suspect some of his takes are trolling for engagement.
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4mo ago
I have a under 2, and haven't had to fight any medical staff on vaccines. I don't remember our exact schedule but we spaced things out a lot more, and have skipped pretty much everything we didn't get as children. As you noted many seem to be geared towards degenerate parents. I got a vibe that there are several issues around babies that I highly suspect are from degenerate parents like co-sleeping and SIDS are likely because of parents killing their kid, drugs, or obesity.
I will point out that Scott has given literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to charity, so whatever else you want to say about the guy, it strikes me as very unfair to accuse him of only giving away other people’s money.
I will consider this if he working as hard as he can, living an ascetic life, giving it all away. One gets zero moral points taking the fruits of another person's labor.
I’ve obviously had to jettison some of the foundational tenets of Judeo-Christian morality.
Where did Jesus say one should advocate Caesar take money from others and redistribute it according to one's will?
I prefer women who hold themselves to similar standards. I would recommend other men follow it for the reason Throwaway05 states, the downside is virtually none existent compared to the upside.
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