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falling-star
55m ago
If the guys telling me there's no fire smells light gasoline and has ash on his shoes, yeah I won't believe him.
shoeonfoot
59m ago
@WhiningCoil didn't present an argument. Like almost all his comments, it's just another convenient anecdote framed in maximally incendiary language that we're expected to accept at face value.
shoeonfoot
59m ago
Ugh, thank you. I'll delete and respond appropriately.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1hr ago
Men are the ones writing long screeds on the internet about how they can’t get laid. Women aren’t. (Or when they do, it’s because none of the available options are quite good enough.)
This is not a random coincidence. It’s rooted in a biological asymmetry.
That’s all it means.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1hr ago
bustr
Excuse me, what-str?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
Alright! Even though I could spend some time cleaning up the code, it seems to be mostly working the way I want, and it's 2x faster than the retarded version (and that's with the dev database which is basically empty). At some point I'll try to find a way to make either even more efficient or more readable, but I'm pretty satisfied at the moment. Just have to fix one or two more bugs that came up, which will be my task for this week.
How are you doing @Southkraut?
Also, @FCfromSSC, you never asked me for a ping, but if you don't mind, I'm curious about your Blender adventures.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
1hr ago
Where there is smoke, smoldering ruins and dozens of firefighters still shooting water, there's fire.
There's people telling you there's no fire, which you interpret as evidence the fire is being covered up.
Eupraxia
Of all words spoken, all things read / most true was that which went unsaid
1hr ago
Because female bodies have value, and male bodies do not. [Men] belong to the less valuable half of the human species.
I get the underlying sentiment, but this is such an overextension of the concept that it's almost backwards. Yes, a woman can be literally brain dead and still fulfill her biological function, but in all areas except reproduction and survival in starvation-times, a male body is more useful than a female body—the value of literally doubled upper body strength and 1.5x greater lower body strength at base cannot be ignored. Add on top the other advantages of the male form (generally better grasp of logos, less susceptible to pathological emotionality, peeing your name in the snow), and it's apparent why men are universally considered the default sex.
I'm sorry this is ridiculous. Talk about ad hominem. Attack what I actually wrote rather than assuming things about my personality and life.
Seething
Yeah I'm not happy about the damage these people are doing to my country.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1hr ago
Not much progress on either project. Kids up my ass too much and summer heat slowing things down.
TRON bike lighting
My work area for this is outside, which is problematic because whenever I do work up the energy to do stuff on this it's too hot out. So, right now I'm setting up a desk inside of the house for it still.
Homies: Ride or Die
Decided to try to make the skydome better and also try other car models.
Attached a pic with the Dodge Charger Daytona swapped out for a 2025 Ford Mustang GTB (or whatever). Also tried integrating the Shanghai skyline. Looks washed out. I think it's because the skyline is an HDR image but my pipeline is linear color.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1hr ago
I absolutely have! I already have bustr installed on my phone.
I haven't actually tried to date anyone in quite a while due to, again, autism, general emotional and life issues, etc. But the intent is there don't worry.
ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
Does it hit your credit score, or can you usually negotiate it down before it goes to creditors?
kky
1hr ago
Sorry buddy, Rambo rules apply, you drew first blood. Your whole post was spurred by a single dollar estimate taken totally out of context from that poor guy’s Substack, and what he was saying has zero bearing on anything you said. In reality, he could have said anything at all, it didn’t matter what, you would have read whatever you wanted out of it. That’s why it’s all about you. You don’t need to make it about yourself explicitly; your post is saturated with yourself. You couldn’t even keep it down enough to read what the guy wrote! No protesting, I brought receipts.
If you want to complain about Society, do it on your own. Don’t twist other people’s words into it.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1hr ago
Maybe the reason Trump doesn't understand why it keeps going is because he doesn't have an inferiority complex about class that drives him into fantasy about elite pedophile rings.
Seething about people having an inferiority complex. That's the kind of irony I come to the motte for.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1hr ago
You said you're single. Have you thought about putting your interest in larger women to work?
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1hr ago
Well, appealing for me, at any rate!
(Not the single mom part though. That's one of the few things that actually is a hard limit for me.)
Grant_us_eyes
1hr ago
Or, if you wanted to meet in public with other people, you basically had to do a voluntary pledge of allegiance to specific political policies.
I don't think I'll ever forgive some people for that.
daguerrean
1hr ago
Is it untrue in many cases? Sure. Like it would also be untrue in many cases to say that playing Russian roulette "will destroy your own life". It was shorthand for: will dramatically increase your chances of destroying your own life. The population that ends up in the foster/adoption system is not a random sample of the population. But I suppose if you and your partner are of that same genetic quality then adoption vs biological is six of one, half a dozen of the other.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
1hr ago
American Compass has a new article complaining about the decline of the Summer job:
The teen summer job is an American tradition that has been in decline since the turn of the century. From the 1950s through the 1990s, between 50% and 60% of Americans aged 16 to 19 had summer jobs. That started to decline in 2000, and during the Great Recession, it plummeted to less than 30%. It has barely rebounded since then, hitting 36% in 2019 before dropping back to 31% during the pandemic. This year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the share of 16- to 19-year-olds working or looking for work at 35%.
The article notes one reason why:
One curious fact about teen summer employment rates is that Asian teens are least likely to have a job. Only 20% of Asians aged 16 to 19 have one, compared to 40% of whites and approximately 30% of blacks and Hispanics. For adults it is the opposite, with Asians having the highest labor force participation rate.
Why are Asians half as likely to have summer jobs as white teenagers? In part, because they are busy studying. Tiger Moms think working as a lifeguard will not help anyone get into college, but test prep or math camp will.
The college admissions arms race puts pressure on parents who might otherwise prefer to let their teens spend their summer lifeguarding. Moms and dads worried about the intense competition decide to make their teens spend their summers on something that will boost their test scores or burnish their resumes. It is a vicious circle.
This might lead you to wonder if maybe you should learn something from the wealthiest racial group in America. But no, the author doesn't suggest that. Send your kid to work at McDonald's, good for them, builds character. Who cares if Asians take 25% of Ivy League seats and conservatives find themselves increasingly locked out of the American elite?
Doing so will help shape a happier generation of young people. A Harvard study that ran from the 1930s to the 1970s tracked the lives of more than a thousand teenage boys in the Boston area. It found that "industriousness in childhood—as indicated by such things as whether boys had part-time jobs, took on chores, or joined school clubs or sports teams—predicted adult mental health better than any other factor."
This is the same kind of error Leftists make when they see that kids whose parents took them to art museums have higher incomes than kids whose parents didn't and conclude that it means we need to subsidize art museums. In both cases, genetic confounding is ignored. But while the left fetishizes education and high-class culture, the right fetishizes hauling boxes and cleaning pools.
None of this is to say that summer jobs are necessarily bad. If your teen is rotting his brain with electronics 16 hours a day, kicking him out and telling him to get a McJob is probably gonna be good for him. But if he's well adjusted, does well in school, and has lots of friends, there's no reason to make him work manual labor because someone conservative writer who attended a third-rate university told you it's an "American folkway." It isn't, by the way. John Adams said, "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." It wasn't "I must study politics and way so my sons can work a cash register and be in touch with the working-class."
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1hr ago
So you see, the gudness of the git gudder matters not, because people will always just reject the message anyway. But it matters not. "Git gud" always reigns supreme in the end, for it is the truth.
I think fat girls are sexy af, so I'm biased, and I'm aware my biases are not shared by everyone. But, it can't be that bad, right?
This is almost indistinguishable from advice sarcastically attributed to tradcons. "Men, you need to git gud, and you need to be willing to marry overweight single mothers!" Boy, what an appealing reward for gitting gud.
Shrike
1hr ago
I don't think that this is true – non-denominational churches (which I would think are often but not always right-wing evangelical coded) are actually growing. And attending evangelical types typically have a positive tfr, IIRC.
Some groups (like the Southern Baptists, IIRC) are undergoing narrowing (perhaps temporary as Baby Boomers and the Silent Gen decline?) and of course retention rates are not perfect (so a high tfr does not guarantee continued adherence.) But I think that modeling a mild downturn in attendance to infinity is as naive as modeling a mild upswing to infinity.
Regardless, just going by current trendlines, I think we can expect evangelicals to continue to be a "live player" group. They're often overlooked in favor of the Amish or tradcaths because the Amish are basically a far-group to most internet users and tradcaths have a lot of momentum, so they are more fun to talk about, while evangelicals' day in the sun ended with Bush 2, but evangelicals never actually went anywhere.
I wouldn't necessarily predict it but I think there is actually a very good chance that evangelicalism (defined broadly, and perhaps throwing in a few Protestant denominations that wouldn't consider themselves evangelical but nevertheless have many of the same characteristics) is actually the Religion of the Future in America. Very plausible to see them cannibalizing the mainstream denominations as they enter tailspins, pick up tradpilled younger Gen Zs, and make massive inroads into traditional Catholic territories.
Eupraxia
Of all words spoken, all things read / most true was that which went unsaid
1hr ago
I think you meant to respond to @Hoffmeister25 above.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1hr ago
Whelp that's enough of TheMotte for me today.
Would you feel better to know that I know an affluent white couple having the exact same terrible experience with a white child adopted from methbilly parents? No racial angle at all (the adoptive father is even from a similar borderer-descended background as the child). Yet nurture is still failing horribly and it's a coin toss whether the kid ends up in prison by his late teens.
Oh, you mean proper roommates, like bunk bed? No idea, I’ve not lived like that since college and can’t think of anyone who does. Maybe it’s workable, but sex seems like a real drag.
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