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Botond173
1d ago
It also bears mentioning that Playboy used to release a multitude of (mostly) short erotic/softcore movies on VHS. Supposedly subscribers could receive them via mail-order for an additional fee or something, and cable channels also broadcast them. I think this was important in terms of brand recognition and building, especially in an age when distribution via VHS was still the norm. Before the age of cheaply available broadband internet it was much easier to control the distribution of such content and limit piracy/filesharing.
And it’s also unironically true that Playboy usually featured interesting articles as well.
Botond173
1d ago
I guess it’s just a simple case of scarcity. Women tend to either have well-shaped tits that are small, or big tits that are often misshapen and saggy, and of course get increasingly saggy with aging, which most women are terrified of already. Only a small minority of women have the sort of ideal breasts that earn you a Playboy photoshoot, so small that it’s impossible to fill all titty mags only with pictures of them. Hence the sad and pathetic proliferation of bolt-on tits.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
1d ago
Is the loss in social trust caused by ethnic diversity in general, or by specific high-crime ethnic groups? The high crime groups (ADOS blacks in the US, Jamaicans and Somalis in the UK, Arabs and Afghans in Continental Europe) did not get here through work-based legal immigration.
Corvos
1d ago
€8000 seems like quite a lot of money for 1/3 of your classmates to toss away, though. I’m surprised.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
1d ago
No - it's the recharge rate that the supervisor's employer charges the student's college. Informally, it is also the standard rate for self-employed supervisors. (In the UK there is no overhead on a self-employed worker). The direct overhead on a Cambridge academic is about 30% - 15% employers' NI and 14.5% pension contribution. They took this into account by calculating a supervision at 2.5 hours pay when the supervision takes about 1 hour contact time and 1 hour marking time.
FtttG
1d ago
The fees for my master's were €8k. But you're right: my understanding is that in Italy, it's pretty normal for people to be constantly enrolled in a post-grad course which they spend years finishing, more or less explicitly so that they can avail of student discounts at cinemas, coffee shops etc.
Corvos
1d ago
My understanding is that in Europe university is free and therefore much more ad-hoc than in UK and US where it’s a massive investment.
I’ve always thought it sounded like a good system but haven’t had a chance to try it.
For what it's worth my university front loaded the weed out classes. Freshman year courses graded on a curve to give the bottom portion a hint to go to business school or some other joke major.
TIRM
1d ago
Classes at elite universities have long abandoned the idea that they actually teach skills and knowledge, in favor of the idea that they pre-selected the best kids, made sure they could pass basic tests, and then certify them to other users
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.
Corvos
1d ago
Is that what the Chinese say? I’d be interested to read a translated article or whatever if you happen to have one.
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 wives and half-asian kids.
TIRM
1d 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.
1d 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.
1d ago
He really is the ur-example of the bimbo fetish.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1d ago
Hef really dodged a bullet considering the stories I heard about what he got up to.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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.
With hindsight, she arguably should have called a manager and had you ejected, photographed and banned from the store for bothering on-the-clock employees while not being a customer.
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