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Corvos
14m ago
Is that what the Chinese say? I’d be interested to read a translated article or whatever if you happen to have one.
TIRM
24m ago
overworked SF nerds with more money than sense
I naively would have thought some significant minority of them would go for all the transwomen we work with. As best I can tell no one does. It must be more than zero, but so low I somehow don't notice. I certainly notice all the asian wifes and half-asian kids.
TIRM
36m ago
men can still, to this day, be forced to fight and die for society
I understand you are not American. From my very American perspective: yes, I registered for selective service, which is our national male military draft program. I volunteered for some hypothetical draft. I predict if they ever to use the draft in anything other than an apocalyptic impossible situation in which mainland America was invaded, it would be an unmitigated shitshow. Our culture used to have a commonly used draft. A significant minority of American men were called to military service including in peace time to maintain a standing military. The Vietnam War ruined it beyond recovery.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
38m ago
Wait is Chili's not considered a full-service restaurant? Also that sounds about right for a Chili's (restaurant staff generally makes ~23-27/h here based on the help wanted signs I see in windows, probably on the upper end of that considering the selection effects, and $20pp sounds rightish for dinner out somewhere nonpretentious).
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
He really is the ur-example of the bimbo fetish.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
Hef really dodged a bullet considering the stories I heard about what he got up to.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
1hr ago
Huh. Now that I think about it, I'm even more surprised that there isn't a greater amount of scandal surrounding the magazine or Hefner. It all sounds like prime Me Too material, but either it was too early, or the literal playboy billionaire was squeaky clean(-ish).
The Playboy magazine had near mythical status in India in the early 2000s when I was a young boy. Everyone had heard about it, some boasted and claimed to own one, but I'll be damned if I ever saw one in the flesh. A few years later, with the increasing spread of the internet and mobile phones, nobody cared about porno mags any more.
waffles
breakfast food
2hr ago
Your #5 makes me think that you might've stumbled on some serious alpha here. You might be getting private-school quality peers for your children at discounted prices (assuming that immersion language school is cheaper than full-on private school).
I think you, and most other reasonable folks can see as plain as day how the demographics of your child's friends will influence educational and, consequently, life outcomes, so there's nothing racist about that.
As an east asian myself, the only caution is that a lot of Chinese families treat education as an arms race and a zero-sum game. And in certain ways, they are correct, there are only so many spots at top colleges/companies/positions of power. But I feel like this optimizes for some local minima, and one can get swept up in this whole competition for an unclear objective.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
1970s-2023, I'd say. Your safe and prosperous world is a product of an overall competent policy. Just continuing and improving on Biden's program could have been enough. See the success of CHIPS act, for example.
I'm in a funny position where I mostly agree with you on China, but it's precisely because I mostly disagree with you about the competence of the previous regime (which hasn't even been soundly defeated yet). The period in question seems to be that of an obvious decline, the CHIPS act has a cool name, but much like it's European counterparts, I haven't really seen many tangible results of it. Quite frankly, to the extent the American economy is any good, it seems like the only reason for that is that the supposedly competent regime did not have total control, and had it's initiatives constantly frustrated, otherwise the US would look like Canada.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
Yeah, you may have a better chance of getting that cute girl to talk to you if you ask her in the real world rather than like her profile on a dating app, but in the real world chances are you aren't going to cross paths.
I don't see how this makes any other point than that the apps spoiled you as much as the women.
In the real world there isn't a seemingly bottomless well of single women advertising their availability
Single women absolutely were advertising their availability. There not being a "bottomless well" effect is exactly what made it better than today.
I doubt there are many people who had a ton of game pre-app and are now getting nothing but crickets.
Do you think the complaints are about the top 1% with a ton of game?
Playboy magazine’s path to profit wasn’t selling subscriptions, it was setting the organization as a prestige knower of what made a hot woman hot, which it then as an organization certified and sold.
Sadly, this is where Hef is directly complicit in one of the great crimes against an entire generation: the promulgation of bolt-on tits — volleyball-sized, perfectly spherical breast implants — as the beauty standard preferred by the great unwashed mass of late Boomer and Gen X men. All three of the women featured on The Girl Next Door had them, and of course Hef’s greatest victim (though he was far from her only victimizer) was Pamela Anderson, who was turned from a girl-next-door with a gorgeous face and a natural figure into a dead-eyed plastic simulacrum of a woman. I thank God every day that we are finally free from the volleyball-titty, Living Barbie Doll era of female sex symbols — the specters of Jenna Jameson, Carmen Electra, and Anna Nicole Smith no longer haunting the boners of virile young Americans — and can, instead, just appreciate a tasteful set of naturals, like Hef could in the 70’s.
anti_dan
3hr ago
I suggest you go to the local courthouse and observe the number of women in felony rooms waiting for a man they are not married to to have his case called.
No_one
3hr ago
..were you even alive back then? People went drinking and to clubs and hit on girls there. Most everyone was paired up. I recall reading fucking complaints about how 'everyone is dating someone' in mid sized towns in Germany, by some clueless feminist.
aiislove
3hr ago
Why are there no direct flights from Alaska to Asia? There are tons of airports in Alaska (lots of places are only reachable by plane from what I understand) and a lot of people who live in Alaska are there from maritime or military/Navy connections and they're part of the Pacific rim where lots of US military bases are. There are tons of flights between Japan and Hawaii, and Alaska and Hawaii, but none from Alaska to Japan. You can fly from Fairbanks to Frankfurt Germany. There are flights to various places in Canada from Alaska and seasonally, to Reykjavik. But not to Russia, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, China, or Mongolia. Wikipedia says that 6% of Alaskans are Asian (as of 2020, a number that has increased steadily since 1970.) It seems like there should be enough demand for at least one route between Alaska and Asia.
ABigGuy4U
4hr ago
If I recall correctly, Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine involves using a lot more tactical warheads to offset Indian conventional superiority in the event of an invasion, so their warheads are a lot more widespread and forward deployed. Which would make the possibility of accidentally striking warheads a lot more likely. 4Chan found evidence of US Department of Energy personnel getting flown into Pakistan shortly after the strike. The DoE build’s American nuclear weapons so they would be the type of people you would ask to get cleanup advice.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Average American worker earns $1000/week for forty hours work, or $25/hr, which makes a restaurant meal for four priced out at average American wages under your numbers ~$90. Equivalent to raising the price of chilis to a steakhouse price.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I don't think SF nerds are thrilled about:
an overweight, chain-smoking phlebotomy school dropout
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Women tend to take after their male partners; if you're dating a marriageable woman and the two of you know you're compatible then don't worry about divorce, just pop the question, because she'll copy your 'just make it work, no matter the cost' mentality.
phailyoor
4hr ago
She directed me to the corporate number.
She's probably been explicitly told by corporate not to comment on the matter.
4bpp
After January 20th, all orange flairs are considered political
4hr ago
Well, that's how much the supervisor takes home - what are salary overheads in the UK like? Continental European countries tend to have between 1.5x and 2.5x.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Have you considered that she may have simply not wanted to talk about it, or known much about it, and been leaning on approved phrasing from corporate to avoid having to talk about something she didn't want to?
Gaashk
4hr ago
I worked at a large corporate coffee chain for a while, and the entire charm of the job was a series of short, easy, straightforward interactions. Someone wanted a mediocre but predictable latte and a smile. I would smile and make them a latte. It was positive and predictable for all concerned. Everyone was happiest during the rush phase of the day, when these small positive interactions happened in quick succession. Everyone was least happy during the slow part, when we had to engage in daily cleaning tasks like restrooms, mopping, drains, and sometimes odd customers who would try to chat about my ethnic background or something.
The interaction described above sounds quite unpleasant from the perspective of the worker, more than remaking a coffee. But, yeah, mostly it's because he isn't actually a customer.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I was happy to buy a coffee and buy one for the employee, or one of her colleagues, for their candid take on current events.
But... you didn't?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Your "just for fun" is her job, and for a working class person can be very precarious. Retail workers are not dancing monkeys, especially when you weren't even going to buy anything or tip her!
In this economy? She can get a new, equivalent job tomorrow. Not a great job, but she already didn't have that.
There is simply a shortage of customer service workers compared to people wanting customer service. Yes, this means standards for friendliness to customers have declined. I'm personally ok with that and would rather the 'all business' model of customer service become standard(I have requested new waiters for being overly personal with the friendliness before), but lots of Americans aren't used to that.
There's an old quip about how the only way to flunk out of Harvard is to die of a heroin overdose. It's at least as old as the 90s. Google is crippled and won't show me.
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