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Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
23hr ago
Even prisoners still produce toilet wine. Gaza seems to have been a total economic basketcase going back decades.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
23hr ago
Screening tests can have false negatives. Perhaps there has been some large, recent improvement, but not that long ago the situation was so dire that blood from MSM that had been tested and found negative was still more likely to be contaminated with blood-born pathogens than non-MSM blood because the base rate was just that much higher.
thejdizzler
23hr ago
You and @Tree and @Sloot are correct. Upon reflection last night, I think I don't want to hold this position, and at least some of it comes from rage at my personal living situation. The prosocial thing for me to do would be to move out as soon as my lease is up (which I will do). It's not good for me to hold enough rage in my heart that I'm willing to advocate for castration (although everyone seems to miss the marriage part which is much less severe), and to hold such a dim view of women that I think they are fundamentally incapable of change. Thank you for helping me realize how ridiculous my position here is.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
23hr ago
I guess I never went through a redpill phase. I certainly went through a phase where I realized that you do need to make your romantic intentions known early on with a woman, and trying to build a relationship on top of a friendship just doesn't work. But I only rarely encountered women who were "hooking up with alphas" as I was trying to date them; okay, maybe a couple times, but it was obvious pretty quickly that those ladies were emotionally troubled anyway, and a relationship with them would simply be unstable.
But I've also had women ask me out, women hunt me down or drop notes in my locker or use mutual friends to try and get me to ask her out, when I was back in school. In college I was asked out once, and had a few women who seemed eager for me to ask them out. Not every woman who's been interested in me has been my type -- but most of them were perfectly normal, stable people, and the relationships I've had, though fewer than perhaps I'd like, have been founded in mutual vulnerability and intimacy. I could always share my emotions with my partner, and we looked out for each other and cared for one another. When my relationships have ended, it was either because of a natural falling-apart (moving away, mutual loss of interest) or it was my fault. So the stereotypes of what male-female pairings are like, in TV sitcoms and motte posts and redpill guides isn't my experience of love.
I guess my few interactions with women who seem like the redpill stereotype involved me bouncing off them -- I don't play games, and I don't chase skirts. I don't sit for shit-tests and I don't like coquettishness. My yes is my yes and my no is my no. If women want to create drama for the sake of drama or engage in verbal sparring like a Jane Austin character, well, they're welcome to find this somewhere else. So I suppose my romantic style heavily filters against manipulation, and firmly towards well-adjusted, romantically decisive women. I intend to keep it this way.
So now I wonder, are you one of those mythical, well adjusted, family oriented men who other mythical, well adjusted, family oriented women instinctively seek out? Or are you an oblivious alpha-chad who's mere presence is capable of making women act right? I have so many questions about your experiences, and how on Earth so many seemingly well adjusted women approach you. Or are you an unreliable narrator? How old are you? Do you go to church? Did you get married? Do you have a family yet? I'm so curious.
Cause I mean, the advice of "Just be yourself and don't tolerate women acting like that" isn't uncommon. And maybe it's regional, but after HS I never once encountered a woman who wasn't "acting like that". It's like after being released into the wild, all the good women got locked down or went to ground, and only the predators were out at night. Following the standard advice of "Be yourself and don't settle" was a recipe for being always alone. So instead your learn how to defang the predators.
faceh
23hr ago
I also appreciate your posts. Modern "dating" just seems like the mother of all coordination problems
There are some bigger ones, but this one will directly impact all the others over the long enough run.
I'm confident we'll 'figure it out' because the drive to reproduce and the forces of natural selection are not going to give in so easily. Going to suck for many, many people, though. Possibly including me.
But the CRAZY thing is we had the necessary social techs for this problem. There was a system that 'worked' (not optimal, not everyone was happy, but it was a decent equilibrium) and then dismantled most of it, and now we're stuck here because very few left even remember there being a better time.
Me, I only barely remember a time when it wasn't so openly hostile and the new technology (smartphones, social media) promised to improve things. And I feel like I was a naive idiot to think that way. But I also didn't have a good model of how intersex relations really work at scale.
hanikrummihundursvin
23hr ago
There are more pieces to the puzzle. And whilst it might be easy to throw together a few negative connections and proclaim everyone is 'just like the creationists' it just so happens that everyone is also not like that, depending on context.
For one, SIG has been on a long downward trend in the gun sphere. Complaints of poor quality control can be found online going back to 2013 and further. On top of that, SIG gets awarded a military contract allegedly based on low price. Pushing forward a pistol that is not drop safe.
To go from 'High Quality Swiss-German, Made in Eckernförde, Germany' to 'Low quality and cheap, Assembled in Newington, New Hampshire, parts from wherever' is a big change.
To that extent this is more a protest than a cult. At some point SIG managed to devalue its name, through whatever means, to a point where people feel the need to vent about it. SIG was good, now it's bad. Things didn't used to be like this. Now they do.
Funny, my impression is that it was a drug driven thing. People being high would explain the repetition, the weird descriptions of physical sensations and how long they go.
And I think that would place them on the far end of consumption habits.
I lived there, I'm aware. But a very large municipality still isn't a state, and a very large mayor isn't a governor.
And more to the point, the election is weird, you have a corrupt incumbent, a joke goofball Republican, and a weirdo carpetbagger independent all running. Mamdani's primary win, and ultimate general election win, aren't indicators of anything in a place with a normal field of candidates. It's relevant that it's a municipal election in that you rarely see state level elections that odd and shambolic.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
This shit turns people into the Joker.
Astranagant
1d ago
I was going to add the topic of twink death to my list of nosy questions, but FG straight up told me that gay men hit a wall after 30. That answered things.
This is a lie. Twink death is a spook. It only happens to those who stop taking care of themselves.
What happens is there's a point where you can no longer effortlessly be a twink. And a lot of twinks, unused to making actual effort, let it fall by the wayside.
What's your theory here? Broken sear and broken striker safety spring and the same time? That's mechanically plausible.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d ago
If they're using AI for this purpose, well, that would be unusually forward thinking for the Turkish military. It probably doesn't take long for a military psychiatrist to take a look at an image, and trust me, we've seen much worse so it's not an onerous task.
I have never needed to dodge a draft, but I could see worse options on the table. Paying a gay man a few bucks to put on a condom and stick it in? Do you even have to pay? On the topic of AI, I'm sure it would be possible to deepfake it.
Astranagant
1d ago
I don't believe that it was "designed" to be anything. It's simply male sexuality in its most natural and unrestrained form.
Yup. Gay male sexuality is just pure-strain male sexuality, free from the fetters of women's preferences and demands.
So too is lesbian sexuality unmodified female sexuality, and lesbian bed death is a common thing.
SigurdsSilverSword
1d ago
I'd be down as well
Astranagant
1d ago
The idea of it is hotter than the reality. I've been a couple people's "exception", as a pretty and feminine looking guy.
It's not really worth it. They don't know what they're doing.
I linked you the FBI tests last week, which you dismissed as having "modified" the gun
Let's revisit that. I specifically asked you if that was the investigation where they had to cut the slide. You did not respond.
@FtSoA did make that statement, but I am not him. Please do not put words in my mouth; it's disrespectful and lowers the quality of the discourse.
However, since you can't seem to tell us apart, I'm going to quote him from another comment that you ignored.
The problem with the first issue is that the window the FBI cut into the slide (in order to examine the striker safety spring under recoil) is part of what retains the spring. By removing that material, the spring was able to move.
Shall we keep "modified" in scare quotes, or can we accept that the word is appropriate here?
I'm m sure SIG USA is worthy of your dedication and continued support.
That's unnecessary, man. Who pissed in your Cheerios today?
2rafa
1d ago
Most non-rustbelt cities have some kind of successful local business or industry, surely. I think this is the big advantage of medicine, sales, and to some extent IT/sysadmin work. In other industries you actually have to be in NYC, LA, SF, Texas, whatever. If you have a job title that is both necessary but that any medium sized or above business needs a couple of, you can move back to your hometown with a 90th percentile (locally) job and live a great, striving-free life.
Coming close to a completed second draft of my NaNoWriMo project, which now sits just over 111k words (17% shorter than the first draft, which was 133k). I'm planning to print a hard copy on Friday for the missus to read.
FtttG
1d ago
Yes, but in this particular gay bar the condoms and lube are given away for free in common areas, as opposed to being available for sale in the toilets.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d ago
Most people don't even use TP in India! When it's there, it's present as an adjunct to the bidet.
My provisional guidance is:
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Use the bidet
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Wait up to a minute for the majority of the water to drip off
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If it doesn't seem to be dry enough, use TP. I rarely need to do this, waiting long enough dries it up naturally as far as I can tell. I would assume that using multiple strips and folding them would help with the flakiness. Even if you don't use TP, whatever residual dampness remains is readily handled by underwear, without causing swamp ass)
(You were in Japan, you've seen bidets that look like they came from the 22nd century. I don't know how they solve the issue there, but it's probably more elegant)
New York City is rather large for a "municipality", if you weren't aware. It has twice as many people as the adjacent state of Connecticut (8.5 million vs. 3.7 million), and nine-tenths as many people as the adjacent state of New Jersey (9.5 million). And it contains Wall Street. It's practically as important as a state.
2rafa
1d ago
Even today, the Turkish army excludes people bottoming from the mandatory draft, but doesn't allow tops to use the same excuse. There are doctors working for the government whose job it is to look at pictures of people getting their backs blown out, while having to decide if that counts.
I wonder if AI makes this easier, although I presume there are simpler ways for the committed pacifist and/or coward to get out of it.
I remember my grandfather saying that in the US military during the war there were countless easy ways for someone smart to avoid actual front line combat, but they had to join first so as to allow the military the plausible deniability central to conscription; it is important for the fighting plebs to believe that nobody is “getting away with it” lest overall morale suffer. He hated those people, even though after a relatively minor injury he sat out much of the war.
Astranagant
1d ago
I'd say the majority of straight bars I've been in have vending machines in the bathrooms for this. Maybe not lube, but that's just knowing your audience.
Which makes you very unusual. Most men have to chase. You're basically Terence Tao wondering how people can find calculus to be so hard.
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