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2D3D
2m ago
You have no idea. Good east asian girls are a totally unknown quantity to westerners because these girls generally didn't date at all and find even nebbish whites too aggressively forward. These girls also have their preference profiles shaped by the most asinine Kdrama shit, and their expectations for male behavior are simultaneously low and ridiculously high. While more leeway is given to whites in terms of cultural compliance, less leeway is given for emotional unintelligence. This is a huge warning sign because these girls have no experience in managing their own emotional states under duress and present a totally unknown variable even to themselves.
RenOS
Dadder than dad
3m ago
Because the sales pitch of the inquisition wasn't "we will stop witch hunts", it was "we will do witch hunts the proper way". Granted though, this did reduce insane witchery nonsense substantially, and it probably was the most pragmatic way of doing so.
Silverdawn
I wake up 🔄 There's another psyop
18m ago
Some people seem to think Rashida Jones was used for the initial AI voice.
Personally, I think whatever happens, this is a win for OpenAI/Microsoft/Sam Altman.
The likely worst-case legal scenario is a lawsuit followed by settling out of court for a trivial amount.
As far as public opinion, there are essentially 3 groups of people:
Group 1 doesn't care about this silly drama
Group 2 are the neon-haired neo-feminists who will scream about evil misogynistic capitalists on social media
Group 3 are techbros and people at the top of companies whose reaction will be "Wait, Sam Altman has created a real-life version of Samantha from Her? When can I get a copy and how much???"
People will probably try to hurt Sam Altman as has happened to the likes of Elon Musk and Rowling but I don't see that going anywhere. The US government doesn't have a problem with him and the OpenAI board has already been "cleansed of disloyal elements", to put it bluntly.
Forgotpassword
24m ago
I moved in with my partner and her younger sister (mid-late twenties East-Asian consultant) 6 months ago, and have had kinda first hand view of her sister's involvement in dating as a 100-hour week consultant who occasionally has an awkward first date... and yeah it's a whole subculture/form of existence I had no idea about until now.
2D3D
26m ago
He's my fucking shrink, he knows things. He'd need a shrink himself if he let me anywhere near his cute and nerdy daughter, and I'm not licensed yet
He has seen into the abyss and with that you are still a viable candidate. That speaks about both the alternatives he is aware of and likely his calculus of what the baseline mental state of the educated Indian male of your social stature. If his daughter is hot go for it, and rub it in your brothers face that you overcame adversity.
my mom asks me if I care to examine the latest batch of single ladies lovingly handpicked out for me by my aunt in London.
Having spent more time examining the London offerings, I would say that if the girls are below 27 it is ok to see. Barely out of university so they haven't had time to adjust their own presentation to match local white standards, old enough to not be blind waifs ignorant of basic functions, amenable enough to listen to their mothers and will get scolded by their own parents if they go against the man. Finding white girls to date in Scotland is all well and good, but do recall my earlier points about mass distribution curves, and also be wary of their extremely low tolerance of UV radiation.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
29m ago
No one thing Sam Altman has done sticks out as evil
The non-disparagement agreements tied to an NDA on the topic of said non-disparagement agreement, tied to retaining your equity weird not-quite-equity compensation, with no mention of said clause at hiring time, seems surprisingly pretty clear-cut
Harlequin5942
34m ago
That seems like an unnecessarily high standard of what "victory" involves.
Harlequin5942
39m ago
There's also 'birthing persons' for to denote what would otherwise (problematically) be called real women.
Let's just hope that 'birthing vessels' isn't next: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Axlotl_Tank
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
47m ago
No idea the truth to Altman's claim that it was a voice actress, but it definitely sounded like Johansson. I quite liked it and it's really odd how when I heard a different voice (the new one they put up) I was like who TF are you?
2D3D
51m ago
no real experience beyond consuming KDramas.
Someones experienced the east asian dating sphere and knows the horror for himself. Virginal asian girls really live a cloistered life totally unknown to their foreign counterparts, even indian, and the girls who are put off by obnoxious yellow fevered men are unlikely to waste time dating asians either. For great fun see if these girls read webnovels, those things are hilariously smutty and gay.
Most complaints and expletives I instantly thought of were already voiced by others, but with how gratuitous and senseless the marketing-by-controversy is - this has to be reverse-psyop-able in some way, right? I'm only loosely following the gamer culture war but I haven't seen a finer target in years, judging by Youtube comments even the most updated NPCs seem to instinctively sense there's something off here. I can only hope KiA or someplace is still capable of coordinated trolling since from a cursory glance /v/ is totally mindbroken, although I can't really blame them, the psyop seems to be near tailor-made to target them specifically. (On a side note, is the tweet in the op here actually real?)
Any other problematic hooks to be derived from this? The immediately obvious race war angle was already mentioned below, they're not the first to think of some kind of black Japanese warrior either, but there has to be something more visceral here to really get under people's skin. Several NTR jokes are at the tip of my tongue but I can't even articulate them in a subtle way because the setting is literally too perfect.
Botond173
1hr ago
To be fair, the level of vandalism that characteried the end of the festival was extreme and out of the ordinary. Also, MTV was huge back then, so the event received enormous publicity from the beginning.
I sense a tale waiting to be told. Sure, Germany is far too close for comfort for the British, ancestral memory and all that. I suppose you can subsidize the alcoholism and I'll get the sauerkraut. I think both of us could use the drink, if not the wiener.
Your family cares about you. Be glad.
Oh I certainly am touched, my family is great, not that it stops me from muttering about the way their care and concern manifests on occasion. I'm only mildly exasperated; I'm no lemon or old beater that I need an enthusiastic salesperson or a dozen trying to sell me off to the highest bidder, but eh, enough stress might bring about the male pattern baldness earlier than expected and it's always good to have a backup.
Apart from all that, what is your family's opinion on you moving to Scotland?
My parents never wanted me to move abroad, and were vocal about it. To them, an ideal ending would be me taking up my dad's reigns as a surgeon, or at least marrying a woman just regaining her sanity after a gyne MS, so that his massive clientele and skills can be handed down to someone who needs them for more than writing the odd examination or two. Well, they've got my younger brother still in the oven, and while I doubt he's insane enough to take up gyne either, I'd bet decent money he'll be getting married off eventually, preferably to a surgeon. He's far more handsome, but simply doesn't give a single fuck about the fairer sex. Not gay either, he ignores the horny fucks sliding into his DMs, and those include one of his male professors from med school. I suppose he'll just shrug and bear it. I'm deeply jealous, that's a level of sanity that I can never aspire to.
But that's all the ill I can speak about my parents. They've been supportive of my own ambitions, even if it means I'm flying the coop. The worst they've done is occasionally argue and try and dangle carrots before me, never the stick. They have valid arguments, both emotional and practical, but so do I. I don't think I'd ever be happy in India, I fit in much better abroad.
Right now, they're feeling the same melancholic, bittersweet happiness that I do. Parting is such sweet sorrow, but they're proud that their son is getting around to adding more alphabet soup behind his name, and a degree in the UK still gets their peers nodding appreciatively, so they can't complain. A postgrad degree is what everyone is dying to acquire post MBBS, while doctors might seem interchangeable to a layman beyond knowing their age and specialization, the lack of the latter doesn't get you very far in the eyes of your peers or your career.
I certainly wouldn't be getting so many marriage offers if I hadn't proven that I have some degree of academic competence, at least not from the parents of other doctors, though that's partly because until you've got that locked in, the rest of your life looks an interminable grind getting there.
Cheers to you, not that I can drink on duty. I can use a continental vacation at some point, and a beer, dearly.
Botond173
1hr ago
It's the usual stuff. Your parents assumed that it will, like, just happen.
Forgotpassword
1hr ago
For some reason this doesn’t strike me as the most unique IP.
The estate of Marilyn Monroe will have to sue ScarJo for copyright infringement.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1hr ago
I would have thought that Britain and the Protestant anti-Catholic propaganda, considerably preceeding the French Enlightenment, would have played an even larger part.
Forgotpassword
1hr ago
Honestly I think a lot of the tragedy of this is that these women get onto the dating apps and it's usually one of two outcomes from what I've heard.
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Week or two of chatter with guys, maybe a first/second date which doesn't really go anywhere and eventually churning for another few months after a moderately bad experience or since work picks up. Rinse and repeat twice a year from 25-35.
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Get absolutely played by somebody they don't have enough knowledge to know who's too good to be true and either abandon the apps or pivot into the most promiscuous decile for vague meandering reasons of revenge.
Forgotpassword
1hr ago
I've got a partner and a child now, actually doing pretty well!
But I do agree that 80 was excessive but this was me essentially starting from a 2/10 in attractiveness and going on a date who'd anybody who'd take me in order to develop social skills, my self-confidence and generally explore options.
Botond173
1hr ago
Are these women incapable of picking (understandably less attractive) simp/soyboy/nerdy men (perjorative terms used to denote an archetype succinctly) who would be flattered by any female attention and very likely take it slowly with sex?
These women are very unlikely to put themselves in social situations where such a man takes the initiative, and they themselves obviously won't take the initiative with any man.
Southkraut
Rise, ramble, rest, repeat.
1hr ago
My life is a farce.
Tell you what, if ever you stumble into Southern Germany, the drinks will be on me and we can have a dick-measuring contest on whose life is more farcical.
Your family cares about you. Be glad.
Apart from all that, what is your family's opinion on you moving to Scotland?
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
People don't consider past sex work a black mark because they are worried about STDs, they consider it a black mark because they think it's icky to have sex with people for money. If you can change that then sure, the black mark goes away... but that's a real big "if".
phailyoor
1hr ago
Playing cooperate against defectbot is how the Republicans have been losing for decades.
phailyoor
1hr ago
Every AG statement just drips with condescension and/or righteous anger at the opposition.
Furgeson? Bonta? Becerra? Who were we talking about again?
DradisPing
1hr ago
I'm actually very interested in how SBF's personality and views will change after he's been off all of the stimulants for a while. I know that when he was in jail they knocked his Adderall dose from 40mg/day to 10mg/day and he went to court to demand more while he was on trial.
His legendary lack of empathy was probably at least partly a "too many amphetamines" problem.
The establishment Democrat messaging has been "we need to trust our foreign policy professionals" while Trump and Kennedy are both running more along the lines of "the State Department keeps fucking up and someone needs to yell at them". So it hurts Biden in that way.
It's more of a case of his supporters losing energy and enthusiasm instead of someone thinking of the issue and changing their vote.
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