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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
They have far less ability to do this. Forcing them to play on hard mode is a win.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
16hr ago
Gotcha. Regardless it's a nice upgrade, congrats!
On advice of counsel I invoke my privilege against summary opinion dismissal and respectfully decline to answer your inquiry. Presumably, the personal experience of being a divorcee would make one bitter and lacking in objectivity, too emotionally invested in the subject, and therefore wrong. But is this really the case?
To take another example, let’s say I gave my opinion on parenting, or education, in favour of homeschooling, or against authoritarian parenting. Someone will come and ask me if I have children, again as an implied criticism, to dismiss the opinion of the childless man. But unlike the divorcee, in that case, it is the lack of personal experience, the lack of emotional involvement and lack of subjectivity, that makes him wrong. Opposite causes, same effect.
So it is not epistemic hygiene and concern for the truth that makes these opinions worth dismissing. What then? Status. It is lower status to be divorced and childless. So the dismissal based on personal circumstances pretends to be a method of searching for the truth, but is really about the status games we all play, pushing some people down, getting to a higher rank.
I don’t mean this as a harsh criticism of you, as if I’m responding to an offense: ‘you just made an enemy for life, buddy.’. For all I know, your comment comes from a place of 100% pure empathy, goodness and the search for truth, justice and the american way, you seem like a friendly guy. It’s just a thought, idle speculation.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
16hr ago
There's an additional sugar tax in the UK, so it can be impossible to get non-diet options here at times. Even when you do, you pay extra.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
16hr ago
She's in India, and doesn't have any plans to move out of it right now. Which makes all of this a bit melancholy, since it's hard to see it working out.
Thank you, and hopefully you find someone too who is willing to share even more unusual interests.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
16hr ago
My last ex was someone who was a nerd herself. I must say that listening to someone else info dumping on the many ways that people have molested Roman or Renaissance statues and the legal statutes that prompted was an interesting experience.
I've also dated people who I didn't feel like sharing my interests with, but mostly because they weren't likely to understand in the first place. To be fair, those weren't very serious relationships, and I think I've made it years without talking about the Kardashev scale with pretty women.
shakenvac
17hr ago
This is a good take. I think the logical extension is that you shouldn't go looking for this kind of activity, but when it becomes known out you should come down on it fairly hard. The norm that this kind of thing is creepy and gross is valuable to me and if people are going to make deep fakes of others the very least they should do is treat it like a dirty secret.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
17hr ago
It's just one guy that fits that bill lol. But yes, even I did a double take and wondered if this was an alt.
imreallywondering
17hr ago
Instead I’ll just work it out: 1,095 days, 1,980 matches, so slightly under 2 matches a day. This is a little confusing to me because I definitely clear that, but you said I was ugly and date 5s :(
That's some rather interesting framing. If you looked at the data you'd see that there were days with as many as 350+ likes and about 100 matches. The profile was more or less inactive after a couple months, so the averages are naturally brought down by the inactivity + the fact that you naturally receive less likes and matches over time.
HyphalKnot
17hr ago
I'm just a bit genuinely curious on your philosophy so I'm going to ask flat out. Do you actually think that you're going to get more dates with two matches a day rather than two hundred?
No.
If you actually took a look you'd've seen that there were quite literally multiple time measures, so this is a bit of an odd question to ask. The rest of this seems a lot like special pleading and goalpost moving.
I don’t think it’s odd, I didn’t want to do the math and figured that since you’re providing the screenshots you could tell me more information about how long the profile was active. Instead I’ll just work it out: 1,095 days, 1,980 matches, so slightly under 2 matches a day. This is a little confusing to me because I definitely clear that, but you said I was ugly and date 5s :(
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
17hr ago
And yeah, who knows wtf will happen with JFK at the helm.
Ok, that's it. I criticized the Democrats for hiding Buden's decline, so I can't, in good conscience, support Trump when he's appointing literal corpses.
cjet79
17hr ago
I'm in favor of the libertarian paradise option.
There are two failure modes of the FDA:
- Letting bad drugs through that on net injure people.
- Slowing or stopping good drugs that on net help people.
The natural and personal and business incentives already heavily align towards getting good drugs out there, and not taking bad drugs.
You seem well informed, I'm surprised you even mention a drug killing a 100 people. I would shrug my shoulders at a thousand. FDA drug delays have estimated kill rates in the hundreds of thousands for some heart medications.
Optimal situation in my mind would be to switch FDA over to a certification regime rather than a licensing regime. This is basically the same thing I say about all government regulation, but I say it about everything because I think its a good idea. Certify that a thing is safe and not harmful, but do not require that certification for selling or consuming of the substance. Companies can submit their drugs to be certified, and the FDA runs those tests. They also run some number of public interest tests every year, like for fish oil or whatever.
And yeah, who knows wtf will happen with JFK at the helm.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
17hr ago
6 feet under what?
Other corpses and/or rubble, presumably.
Supah_Schmendrick
17hr ago
If you're using the latter ottoman and tsarist empires as your models, that's kinda telling. Neither was a particularly fantastic place to live, were intellectually and culturally stagnant, and were so politically unstable they suffered fairly frequent and serious revolutionary insurrections.
What kind of catastrophic scenarios are you thinking about?
I can see a lot of ways in which current/modest AI advancements are going to make the world worse (damage to the education system, the end of audiovisual content as reliable evidence, propaganda/astroturfing/surveillance) but really these are all just extensions of existing slow decline, not catastrophic scenarios per se.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
18hr ago
Called it, you're a Brahmin.
I apologize for this poor source, but the only other one coming up is the WaPo which I would rather not link to directly because it annoys me.
RFK Jr's MAHA report seems to have at least 7 non-existent sources suggesting he (or someone involved) made use of an LLM and it hallucinated. This does not engender confidence.
gakles
18hr ago
I'm home from college and it's looking like this summer is going to be a struggle, health wise. While it's nice to move back in with the parents and catch up with old friends, it's not nice to be back at the local gym, which has a single digit amount of machines and a single squat rack. So that sucks, but I have a decent pullup bar setup at home and I can get back into calisthenics. On the other hand, I have no clue how I'm going to control my food consumption. At college, I had unlimited swipes at a cafeteria which was open every day from 7am to 10pm, and I could grab chicken and rice or make a wrap whenever I wanted. Now that I'm home, I'm limited to whatever is in the fridge, which last I checked was a bunch of yogurt, tapioca, and some uncooked fajitas. Also, my mom has this bizzare compulsion to acquire sweet snacks which she doesn't even really eat, but which are tantalizingly available to me throughout the day (as I'm hanging out at home a lot). First it was See's Candies to celebrate me coming home, then it was cookies from a friend, and tomorrow theres going to be a cake from some relatives. It's not her fault and shes not doing it on purpose but it's just annoying that so many unhealthy sweets and always available to me. The college cafeteria had a baked goods section but I would always ignore it, and I wasn't studying 20 feet from it. I've already talked with my mom about stocking the fridge with more protein, and the fajita mix is a step in the right direction (once I cook it tomorrow) but its a pain that my (very successful) routine has been so thoroughly disrupted. I am enjoying the home cooked meals though :)
ABigGuy4U
18hr ago
I think there’s a lot of pretty catastrophic scenarios even with modest AI advancement. They don’t tend to get a lot of examination because most people tend to be focused on the really extreme best and worst case scenarios.
ABigGuy4U
18hr ago
I once heard someone call it “Late Soviet America” and that’s really what it feels like.
aldomilyar
18hr ago
This is a gigantic own goal that's more likely to be seen as akin to lobotomies 50 years down the line than anything else. It's close to unprecedented in human history to issue major invasive surgeries which barely even impact the longterm suicidal incidence and just shrug and call it self-expression
aldomilyar
18hr ago
Yeah but the issue with transgenderism is that 'gender dysphoria' is the phenomenon that can actually be described, everything else is conjecture and preferred ways of treating that issue based on differing ideologies.
DefinitelyAnAlt
18hr ago
Top 1 percentile :) , but just barely.
The lowest of the high salaries
Lowkey, entering the bottom 1 percentile is harder. ChatGPT says around $1500/yr. That's a tricky number to get right. Accidentally work an extra week on minimum wage, and you're at 3 percentile.
erwgv3g34
18hr ago
If you liked that, then you will love Scott's paranoid rant (that time he got drunk and said everything he really thinks about the Cathedral and the blue tribe) and his leaked e-mail (that time his ex-girlfriend's husband decided to post Scott's private correspondence describing his relationship with the far right).
Funny thing about law, though. For every decision, there are apparently intelligent and credentialled people willing to argue both for and against it.
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