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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I felt like this was an allusion to something I didn't understand.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
The only leglock I consistently use is the straight ankle. Everything else, I'm too worried about fucking up.
Though I did once land a cool kneebar from an electric chair sweep, but since then I have seemingly forgotten how to hit the electric chair sweep.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
My follow up comment would simply be "I am appalled that you sat through the plant-fucking thing three times."
It's more just a data thing, the men are sorted by income percentile. There are around one million men in the top 1% of income, and because it's not weighted by income Elon Musk counts the same as my local Nissan Dealership owner or any law partner at a big firm. If it were the case that Davos type masters of the universe frequent prozzies, there just aren't enough of them to move the needle on what we're looking at, even within the pool of the 1%.
I'd add that everyone I know who has (admitted to) paying for sex was lower or working class, so it lines up with my experience. I'd imagine there are a few marginal cases I'm missing though.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Yeah everything in London is super expensive, some things are just more ridiculous than others (rent being number one).
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I suppose the availability can have an impact on the market even if they aren't used. Like the Marxian theory that the unemployed are the Reserve Army of Labor, driving down wages by fear of competition. And I suppose the same goes for young floozies: my wife sees a 20 year old woman admiring me and knows she has to compete, and chooses to be better? I don't know.
I just don't think it's the case that there's some secret activity that proves that men don't really want the things they are visibly pursuing.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
North Korea is backed by two giant nuclear superpowers directly bordering it. Its main adversary is literally at the other end of the globe. Israel is in quite a different situation
HereAndGone
1d ago
They want peers who can fit in with their social and work circle and who will advance alongside them. Younger wives might not be as clued-in, so unless it's a second marriage it's not going to work as well. Her career is in the home supporting his career; making sure the dinner parties are hosted, the right people invited, remembering when to send cards and gifts for special occasions to business contacts, helping him navigate the web of relationships, turning up at the right events looking suitable on his arm, and so forth. His suits are pressed and ready for him, the home looks as it should, the exact balance of good taste and understated wealth on display to help him get promotions and move on up in the world. Everything running smoothly in the support system to his career so he can concentrate on work and not on "are the kids going to piano lessons or horse riding after school today? who is going to pick them up? mom is in the hospital, is everything okay on that end?"
the_Culture_is_great
1d ago
Would you agree with the 4% if I softened my language from "rape" -> "sexual victimization" like the report uses? I suppose the "willing inmate-guard" relationships don't count for as much, but I still have concerns there.
And I would still argue that a 2.6% chance of "actual" rape is still very bad.
I challenge someone to refute the central point which is "Prison really, really sucks. Yes even if you're mentally ill and on the street." Any arguments would also have to explain why these people are not trying to get into prison with any regularity.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Wall Street Journal literally 2 days ago:
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/washington-struggles-to-rein-in-an-emboldened-israel-14fa3a74
A senior administration official said the White House coordinates closely with Israel and has considerable influence over Netanyahu because the prime minister knows that “the United States literally is the sole reason the state of Israel exists.”
The idea that the US assistance is not crucial because Israel is a high income country on paper is either extremely motivated reasoning or just an indication of knowing pretty much nothing about the situation.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
1d ago
I got a 199 electric smoker
I love it
One day I will upgrade it when I own a home but I use it two times a week for all kinds of meats and fish
I add wood chips every 45 minutes
Comes out awesome
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki. Slowly getting out there.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
1d ago
Whatever type of body of water you want to fish from there is a dozen YouTube videos for
My big rec is to get your gear then go fishing and realize what you need / how you feel
I basically did the same thing on the South Florida coast and the biggest thing was getting out there and seeing what I enjoy
Not really, unless you want to broaden the scope of the debate to include possibilities that I doubt OP had in mind like the Jews having a sovereign state in Madagascar (which I do think would have been preferable but has not been a viable choice for about a century).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
See, teachers can and do do some bad things. Using corporal punishment for no reason isn’t one of them. Corporal punishment is protected by law in my state and getting schools to use it is… difficult.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Strangely, it looks to me like very few early Zionists seemingly actually justified Zionism in Palestine in terms of Yahwe and high level of Jewishness etc. These were mainly secular socialist/liberal/masonic people. Yet the emotional pull of the religious land seems to have had overridden any cerebral secularism.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
You seem to be claiming that Hannibal directive (or more broadly an IDF strategy of killing hostages if necessary to stop hostage taking situations) isn’t real but then instead of explaining yourself you just prose about some crypto Hamas supporters.
When I talked to Israelis about this topic pretty much all seemed to take the existence of such a strategy as given and necessary because Middle East. Do you have any evidence that this is a made up conspiracy?
Maybe you should double check the conversation context? I think you've become a little confused. I've been pretty clear the entire time, across multiple comments, that I've just been steelmanning the economic value test as a legitimate halfway definition, it's not my true opinion. Clearly our conversation has gone on a little too long and you've lost the thread, it makes no sense to attack me for "vibes" as again I've pretty clearly laid out the separation between that and my own opinions whenever the divergence has come up (such as with jagged intelligence: notice the italics and phrasing when I introduce the concept as my own belief), and I've also delineated the chain of logic that leads to an economic value test (which I don't endorse as optimal but believe to be nonetheless valid). We probably both agree that self_made_human didn't really make a very rigorous attempt at a test, but you've conflated me with him, we are in fact different people.
We were talking about bullet point 3, and you added something irrelevant: you added "information processing algorithm" instead of "AI", and then tried to tear it down as being a bad bullet point because it's too broad or extensible. Maybe you cribbed this language about processing from his original comment? I pointed out that that's not fair, you can't extend and modify my bullet point like that because Google fails the test due to the definition of knowledge work in the first place. Specifically, bullet point 3 evaluates as false, so do not pass Go, do not conclude intelligence. It's not a deliberate smearing of word meanings to call Google something different than knowledge work, which you could figure out if you spent two minutes on the wikipedia page I linked -- did you, honestly, visit the link? I suspect not.
Now, whether you think defending viewpoints you think are valid but don't agree with is a waste of time on a forum like this is a separate issue. I tend to think that it is fine (optimize for light not heat and all that), of course I could be wrong and people find it too motte-and-bailey like. But please take a moment to double check your own reading comprehension before throwing accusations of hypocrisy around.
NYTReader
1d ago
Counterpoint: No.
I'm concerned enough about what school administrators may be imparting to impressionable young children. I don't want them to also have the power to physically punish students for transgressions that will inevitably differ from teacher to teacher.
I have no inclination to hurt my children beyond maybe a light spanking; the thought that some freak might get off on inflicting serious pain on a child, let alone my own, is intolerable.
2rafa
1d ago
Rumor has it that a Pakistani finance-bro finally broke under the strain of counting all his money, and ran amok. Last I heard, he'd racked up so many confirmed kills of the local white underclass that it was almost too burdensome to count, and now, was in a tense stand-off with police snipers while his own asylum application processed.
Very good
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1d ago
I think you're painting far too rosy a picture of prison, and eliding over massive potentially negative harms (such as the abhorrent 4% chance of rape every year).
Down the rabbit hole a bit, but the actual report cited there doesn't seem like a 4% chance of what I would typically see referred to as "rape":
Approximately 1.1% of prisoners and 0.7% of jail inmates said they were forced or pressured to have nonconsensual sex with another inmate, including manual stimulation and oral, anal, or vaginal penetration. An additional 1.0% of prison inmates and 0.9% of jail inmates said they had experienced one or more abusive sexual contacts only or unwanted touching of specific body parts in a sexual way by another inmate.
An estimated 1.5% of prison inmates and 1.4% of jail inmates reported that they had sex or sexual contact unwillingly with staff as a result of physical force, pressure, or offers of special favors or privileges. An estimated 1.4% of all prison inmates and 0.9% of jail inmates reported they willingly had sex or sexual contact with staff.
Plenty of bad stuff going around, but I think it's unhelpful to put these all in the same category.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1d ago
The idea that the only choices were "no sovereign Jewish state" and "sovereign Jewish state that is approximately akin to the present-day institution", which seems to be the premise of your second point's interpretation, is a false dichotomy.
I would imagine rich men getting married (relatively) earlier, as it used to be (and maybe still is) that settling down and getting married was seen as a sign of mature stability that proved you were ready for greater responsibility and promotion up the ladder. So marrying someone of a similar background and age who knows how to navigate the work and social circles where you'll be networking your little heart out is an advantage; you can always have a discreet affair with a hot young thing from the secretarial pool later on once you're established.
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