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2rafa
1d ago
I was raised with a hardcore anti-tattoo worldview (both about getting them and about people who have them). My parents are both secular former hippies with liberal views on sex, abortion, modesty, whatever. I suspect it might be a Jewish thing, although my family is very secular, and I know other secular Jewish parents their age who don’t seem to care.
4doorsmorewhores
1d ago
- 3 kilometers
- 1 kilometers
- 19 kilometers, dairy
- 2 kilometers. (This is a Canadian station but the Amtrak line from NYC 'Adirondack' runs there, otherwise a station owned and operated exclusively by Amtrak is 109 kilometers)
- 6 kilometers
- 18 kilometers
Not to bury the lede this is downtown Montreal
Muninn
"Dick Laurent is dead."
1d ago
Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen by Al Jourgensen and Jon Wiederhorn.
Oopz
1d ago
What happens when women don’t get attention?
The old adage says men want sex the way women want attention. But attention, unlike sex, seems easier to come by... for now.
As dating grows more complex, and sometimes risky for men, we’re seeing the rise of alternatives: AI girlfriends, VR porn, sex robots. Add to that a growing visibility of trans women in romantic spaces, and a strange new question emerges:
What happens when women can no longer command attention?
We know what many men do when they’re denied sex or companionship. They turn inward or rage outward. Some retreat to forums. Some go monk mode. Some hit the gym. A few, tragically, turn violent.
But when women can’t get even a glance, no matter how they dress, how they walk, or how perfect their makeup is, what then?
I suspect they won't react like men.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
The Worm Ourobouros, again and still.
Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century. I read a Kindle sample and found its subject matter interesting, but the actual treatment of it seemed convoluted and overly materialist, and on top of that the full book is quite expensive. I'd rather just read Frantz Schmidt's diary directly, if I could get a reasonably readable edition of it. All I find is direct scans of 19th century versions in fonts that are cute in their antiquated way, but to be quite honest I'm habituated to more accessible typography.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1d ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on a bunch of stuff. Adding Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America, another open access book, to my list.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Employers having to pay for training. This is pretty normal for skilled blue collar workers, but getting into the program might require previous academics- electrical apprenticeships generally want to know your high school algebra grade.
For lots of white collar workers I'm not sure how that system could work in practice that doesn't look a lot like a university. Are doctors going to work their way up from being CNA's?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think- university employees being a small group that's super confounded- it'd be better to compare freshmen at state flagships to seniors in high school. There's not that big of an age difference and state flagships usually take only the top x%.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As I understand it there is a large cluster of people whose strengths and weaknesses come out to around average. There is a somewhat smaller cluster of people who are dumber, less athletic, uglier, etc than average, but well within normal variations. There is a smaller cluster of people who are about a standard deviation above in every trait, and an even smaller cluster that is more than two standard deviations below in every trait(tards are usually ugly and unathletic to go with it), but no corresponding cluster of people more than two standard deviations above average on every metric. Looking back at the people noticeably smarter than me who I've met, they've been overwhelmingly male so caveat about judging their looks, but their appearances follow the same distribution as everyone else's. The one woman was not very pretty but more of a slightly below average than ugly.
This isn't DnD where you have a set number of character points to spend. Some people get a better hand than others. There are beautiful, highly athletic people with genius level IQ. Not very many of them, but they exist.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
- Stuttgart I guess, around 60km from here.
- There used to be one (several in earlier times) in town here. Not sure if it still exists. So, maybe 4km. Otherwise: No idea, I don't own a suit.
- About 20 meters, I can see hear and smell it from here. They used to farm vegetables for their own use, have some crop fields further out but I don't know which ones are theirs and what crops are on them (lots of corn is up right now in general though), and they do have good number of cows.
- Presumably it's in America, so at least one Atlantic away. But if you just mean a generic train station - about an hour on foot if you know the slippery shortcut up a hidden valley, about ten minutes by car if you take the long way. 2km away if you could fly.
- Supposedly there's one in Switzerland. There aren't any in Germany as far as I know. The closest generic supermarket is about 3km away, over in the next village.
- Stuttgart again. Somewhat over 60km, since it's on the wrong side of the city.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, I wouldn't allow these in my house, but we're used to the idea of being recorded all the time in public. Security cameras are everywhere(and one needs no special permission to put them up), there's people livestreaming, taking selfies with others in the background, etc.
Cameraphones were what killed the privacy expectation. Not these things.
2rafa
1d ago
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A couple of miles
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Less than a mile
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I didn’t know, but there are apparently dozens of commercial farms in the green belt around London, maybe 20 or 30 miles? Livestock, milk, fruits, the usual.
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The north-easternmost Amtrak station, so either Boston or somewhere in Maine if they go that far north.
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Don’t have it here, but their nearest former subsidiary Asda is ~4 miles away. The nearest Costco is like 6 or 7 miles away.
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5 miles to London City, 20 to Heathrow.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There is massive latent demand for sex
in the economy.
Fixed it.
MayorofOysterville
1d ago
Yes I agree 100%. But in this aspect tattoos are like clothes. It's not tattoos in themselves that are bad news in terms of social signaling but the type of tattoos.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
1d ago
My story about getting banned by reddit was really strange.
I was on /r/anime participating in a subreddit watch of Re:Zero. The only important thing about that show is the main character has the ability to go back in time by dying, he returns to a set "save point" defined by the plot.
At one point I said " Try to get your sword repaired it's really useful for the small amount of fighting you can do, but more importantly you can use it to Kill yourself" which got me a temp ban on reddit.
Meanwhile this phrase didn't even get a peep
"Get a knife and be ready to stab myself to death if things are going south"
So it must have been a bot.
What was incredible of course is that the /r/anime mods apparently messaged the admins defending me and my post. This is mind you a 13 million user forum yet the mods feel really that strongly about defending users from admins.
IDK why the mods in /r/anime are like this but it's convinced me that it's the best modded subreddit by a large margin and it remains one of the only subreddits I actually use. (that and /r/slatestarcodex)
MayorofOysterville
1d ago
I judge anti tattoo posts online more harshly then actual tattoos IRL. My initial snap emotional judgement is that online anti tattoo stigma is the province of, "timid men“. I feel like there's a reason here and reddit both hate tattoos and sometimes look down drinking. It's the original virgin chad meme where Chad is comfortable and chill and the virgin is uncomfortable in his own skin. IRL most people under 50 that I know with these opinions on tattoos tend to be coming from a position of fear and inability to hang with the boyz rather than solid judgment. Online I can't help but feel this is more so, when I see an anti-tattoo post here or on reddit my strong initial snap judgement is it's written by a timid man who is uncomfortable with masculinity.
As for tattoos themselves in the Portland area it matters a lot what kind of tattoos you have. I am not saying I don't judge tattoos but a hipster girl with arty tattoos is entirely different than a girls with a tattoo of her baby daddies name or Jesus saves. There are tattoos and tattoos but trying to exclude all tattoos in Portland is gonna make you go insane. In Western culture tattoos are totally mainstream these days.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
The law in most of the West (maybe world) says that you can effectively record strangers in public without permission with a few exceptions.
Is this true in the EU? I'm not the most aware of it's specific laws, but it seems like something GDPR and friends might frown upon. The EU is a non-trivial part of "The West", although I know the UK likes it's CCTV.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1d ago
I can see that, actually. And the reality is that my own worldview can sound very "F", depending on the context. That said, my general view of the world is that we should be making reasonable decisions based on logic -- and accounting for people's emotions and the real fallout of a decision on people is a part of that. I read "You prioritize facts over people’s feelings when determining a course of action." as referring to, not taking people's actual feelings as a result of the action into account, but "making a gut decision based on people feel at the current moment rather than actually evaluating whether those feelings will reflect how they experience the fallout of the decision." Other people might read it differently, and that's a big ambiguity!
That's my problem with the T vs F dichotomy -- it's not real. People who are so far in the extreme that an emotional argument from their partner or their child would not persuade them barely exist. And people who are so extreme that they'd rather make a feelings-based argument over what kind of mortgage to get also barely exist. People are both feelers and thinkers. I agree with @Primaprimaprima on this.
I'm not a utilitarian, but I guess I sound like one in this context. But my values on these kinds of questions are shaped by the fact that my feelings and emotions are very flighty and unhelpful a lot of the time: if I made decisions based on how I feel right now I would make horrible, impulsive, and often extremely avoidant decisions! I couldn't function. My life has been a long struggle of using the "heartless robot" to override the useless emotions that can't help me in the moment, to try and develop a path forward that will lead to the best emotional state I can possibly expect and to proper functioning. I have to think in terms of telos, because I need some kind of a star in the East to walk towards in the desert.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
And don't look up more recent pics of Kelly LeBrock.
FtSoA
1d ago
It's worse than that.
IQ is a better predictor of job performance than a college degree is. (Especially now, when the vast majority of colleges aren't selective anymore.)
Education is usually just a proxy for general intelligence on the job market. We could just cut out the credentialist middle man, but that's not going to make things better on the disparate impact front.
Meritocracy is, in some very real sense, "discrimination against dumb people" because, while intelligence is not all one needs, it's the single biggest thing in most cases.
FtSoA
1d ago
To date, I've personally met maybe five or six people smarter than me
You don't get out much I take it?
How ugly do Nobel Prize winners look? I think it's a pretty standard finding that there is only a small positive correlation, but if you look at say top 20% IQ vs. bottom 20% I think it's pretty clear who looks better. (Obesity make this all the more obvious.)
but this horseshoes at the ends of the distribution.
As Yud would put it, the tails come apart.
I don't think being wildly intelligent is negatively correlated with physical attractiveness, the way extreme height is negatively attributed with athleticism, for both reasons of physics and often resulting from a disorder.
Here's why you're probably less smart than you think you are:
Height's relationship to athleticism is a pretty bad example because those are both physical things. Height comes with performance tradeoffs due to physics, and in certain sports that is very apparent. Being extremely tall also tends to come with greater fragility and various health ailments at higher rates because it's "out of spec."
Intelligence and beauty are completely different things. There's no inherent trade offs for the shape of one's face with the performance of one's mind. There's also no reason to believe sexual selection would totally divorce the two.
People also try to believe that being really smart means you also are not as good as various mental things, or have a higher risk of mental health problems.
Which to my knowledge is all bogus cope because most humans don't like to realize that life is actually just unfair and it's not a like a video game with a finite amount of skill points for a character.
cjet79
1d ago
they bought the land in exchange for half the skin on their babies pensises
Too antagonistic.
You have been warned and banned before for this type of behavior. You have multiple other comments in the queue right now. 7 day ban
ulyssessword
1d ago
But now I'm curious what is acceptable to judge people about. Let's say you're walking to your workplace or your university class or your school and you see...
Yes to your entire list. It's acceptable to judge people based on their fashion choices, including clothes, hair, piercings, tattoos, or other body mods. Note that "choices" excludes medical devices like braces, and accepts external constraints like dress codes, weather/dirt/hazard resilience, etc.
I typically don't care about most of that, but me choosing to judge them neutrally doesn't mean that you should be forced to share my opinion.
This happens to most formerly-pretty women past a certain age. The unlucky ones get fat or ugly by their early 20s, those who care more and stay put-together and healthy can “enjoy” (and sometimes, often even, it is enjoy, but rarely always) male attention into their early 40s. The truly valiant crusaders, the 99th percentile, the $100k deep plane facelift aficionados, can make it to 60 as milfs. But age comes for everyone lucky enough to live out a whole life, and most women make do. Some go a little crazy for a while (an overdone and trite topic in women’s literary fiction, especially of late), most don’t.
Some young women will always want male attention, but even if most young men are inside playing VR waifu simulator, my guess is there will still be enough around to offer it.
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