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stav
1m ago
There’s no way you wouldn’t have heard about the campus protests. It was in the news for weeks and is part of the larger Israel-Gaza news mega story. Unless you didn’t leave your home and didn’t have a smart phone or a PC you would have heard about it.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
4m ago
But the world is not made up entirely of strivers. Some people just want to raise their kids, and play soccer with the boys on the weekend.
So what do strivers do on the weekends?
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
7m ago
so most large, well formatted top level posts get at a minimum 20 upvotes
Actually not true! It's clear that the community favors some long posts over others, they don't just all get automatically upvoted.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
12m ago
Adding a paragraph of blather about Columbia
I'm confused by this attitude. Why do you assume it would be blather?
You have to find value in some of the writing on this site, otherwise you wouldn't be here. If you don't like the top level posts, then you must find value in the replies. Replies that often feature multiple full paragraphs. But you don't dismiss those as blather.
What's wrong with the idea of taking one of those paragraphs, like the ones you see in the replies, and putting them in a top level post? Why is that such an onerous effort? Why do you assume that there could be no value in that?
bolido_sentimental
15m ago
It depends on what you want out of life, really.
I lived in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do for a while, and played on an amateur soccer team. The other players were all middle-aged guys who worked in various trades or for small manufacturing companies.
They seemed happy with their lives. Iksan has plenty of places to like... have a grillout and drink soju, or whatever you want to do. It's not a high-status place, and I'm sure strivers would find it miserable. But the world is not made up entirely of strivers. Some people just want to raise their kids, and play soccer with the boys on the weekend. I guess the user you mentioned would not be satisfied with that life.
I also spent time in other large cities there: Daejeon, Jeonju, Busan, Incheon and some others. But not enough to grasp the differences. They were all, you know... large. If you need to be surrounded by a million people, those are places you can do that.
stav
18m ago
That’s half the Bay Area and you also have to include San Francisco. It’s similar in places like OC and San Diego as well. Any nice place with good schools is 10x in prices and flooded with Indian and East Asian tech workers. Same in places like Austin.
Skulldrinker
19m ago
The skillet of getting a woman to fucking turn up for an OLDate has little to do with the skillet of speaking to them in person. Your instinct will be to say something charming and genuine, which will fail, while someone else with canned lines will breeze through. This is a task I'd want to throw an LLM at; not speaking to women, just the narrow task of getting them to turn the fuck up.
Even the women themselves change massively in their "voice" once they actually have met you and like you.
f3zinker
Its A/B testing all the way down
20m ago
The term you are looking for is 'Primate City'. My running theory is in addition to obvious geographic and economic factors, the sharpness of this phenomenon is proxied by how status-conscious a place is..
You know the whole "make it big in the city" schtik.
stav
21m ago
Young (displaced) people vote Democrat though. Boomers are about 52/48 for Trump nationwide.
FiveHourMarathon
You can get anything here except red ink
26m ago
It also relates back to the tendency for Rats to engage publicly in performative utilitarianism, which seems to be the order of the day among Pro-Israel supporters to begin with.
f3zinker
Its A/B testing all the way down
27m ago
Is there an article about Claude being untucked? I can't find anything in particular.
zeke5123a
29m ago
Isn’t the answer “the people voting are different than the displaced people?”
hydroacetylene
29m ago
That’s what I thought you meant and that’s what I replied to.
hydroacetylene
29m ago
The vaccines are shitty and untested. But that’s also all they are. They aren’t some depopulation conspiracy; they were rolled out among the elderly first, after all.
I mean I also know lots of people who had babies after getting them.
yofuckreddit
29m ago
There have been so many great comments and threads about increasing longevity, but the only thread I can find through search-fu is a lil old.
Assume I know that what I really need to do is eat less, exercise more, and be happy. I agree.
But I'm now in a place I want to solve problems with money and convenience instead of hard work. I'm willing to take on a reasonable amount of risk for unproven supplements. To summarize the previous thread, some hot topics included:
- Creatine (already a convert, love it)
- Boring stuff (Fish Oil, Vitamin D, Vitamin C - none of which I take right now)
- Phenibut (Very interesting, and I occasionally have high-stakes meetings I could see using this for but haven't pulled the trigger)
What else would you suggest or discuss?
f3zinker
Its A/B testing all the way down
30m ago
I have enough presence of mind to not get swooned by an AI yet. But I must admit that voice is really something, they nailed it. Its warm, and inviting in that very distinct (she wants to fuck me but also loves me) way and doesn't come off as fake... It's definitely gonna rack up some casualties.
cjet79
32m ago
Come on man. There is no goddamned way that anyone posting here is unaware of the core of the story.
There are other good reasons to ask for context:
- To avoid talking about nothingburgers. Sometimes people have weird news feeds and they get small incidents show up on their feed.
- For future readers. We do keep a list of old quality posts. The reader of a post is not just the people here this week.
- For additional depth and discussion. For example, if they had linked Brown University they could have started a discussion about divestment.
Yeah, they did that - it's right there!
Yeah they sort of did, which is why I half parroted their words.
Some of you seem to very much live in the culture war. You are very aware of what is going on and the latest news. And you also seem to want to replicate that newsfeed here?
I'll admit I just don't get it. If I didn't read this website I'd probably be unaware of a large portion of the culture war. I am not certain I would have known about the campus protests if I had not read about it here on TheMotte. I specifically need the context. I basically live under a rock. I hangout with my family and my neighbors, and we talk about local stuff mostly.
At the same time I don't want a scrolling doomlist of every item in the culture war. That is what twitter and mainstream news outlets are for. I don't visit those websites because I don't want the scrolling doomlist of every item in the culture war. If there is something novel and interesting to be discussed about a particular item, sure, lets have that conversation.
What do you want here exactly? Do you want this to just be a twitter clone (but with indents!) where we write a few sentences to performatively crap on our outgroup? I don't see the point.
RegularlyExpressed
44m ago
Germany is the obvious counter-example.
I'm not asking to cancel every length post. A mod saying
Black people, whose natural inclinations are adverse to lifelong monogamy, quickly devolved back into their ancestral mating patterns when released from the straitjacket of traditional Christian morality.
Please proactively provide evidence for controversial claims when you make them
Is completely fine.
Removing the rule is also fine.
But don't write rules that sound lovely, but which you're not willing to enforce.
But if one cancels every lengthy post which contains some claim which might be controversial and is not backed by evidence then there will be very few posts left.
I don't personally believe this. I have every confidence that OP could have omitted or supported that sentence, if they had felt like it was expect of them.
I think people fall to the standard they can get away with, and it was clear when the top-level comment was posted that the mods were never going to mod it.
RegularlyExpressed
49m ago
but they even tried to do it with Harry Potter.
Do you mean they tried to cast North American actors/set the film in NA? That would have been hilarious.
Pynewacket
50m ago
this may sound out of left field, but How would you have felt if you didn't have breakfast yesterday?
Corvos
51m ago
This feels though similar to Americans do not travel to other countries but everyone in Europe does therefore everyone in America are uneducated proles.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I follow.
All of Europe seems to have outsized capital countries, but the countries are probably more comparable to regions of the U.S.
Bear in mind the language problem. In America, everyone speaks the same language everywhere (more or less). In Europe, lots of people speak English but realistically only about 10% have more than a few phrases they remember from school, so moving is hard. In Asia there's basically no overlap at all.
cjet79
53m ago
that many of them perceive the barrier to entry to be too high.
Exactly! Its a perception thing, so I am trying to clear it up by changing that perception. WhiningCoil and others are making it more difficult by adding to the false perception. You of course are asking them to stop posting these bad interpretations of the rules, and thus discouraging posting, right?
Saying that they're mistaken, it's really not that high, isn't going to change anyone's mind.
There are different barriers to posting. One of those barriers is being afraid that the mods won't like your post and you'll get banned or in trouble. I can lower that barrier. I can't lower other barriers like "I don't know what to post about", or "I don't really want to talk about anything".
I just don't see the causal chain from voting for Trump to the home prices in someone's hometown going down. The President just does not have that much power over local home prices or land use. To the extent CA Democrats are responsible for the housing crisis in the state, they are also passing a bunch of bills to try and fix it.
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