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Harlequin5942
6m ago
That seems like an unnecessarily high standard of what "victory" involves.
Harlequin5942
11m 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
19m 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
23m 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
34m 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.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
41m ago
I sense a tale waiting to be told. Sure, Germany is far too close for comfort for 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
45m ago
It's the usual stuff. Your parents assumed that it will, like, just happen.
Forgotpassword
56m 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
56m 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
59m 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.
2rafa
1hr ago
Islam doesn’t encourage premarital sex for men. As with all Abrahamic religions there was a certain historic tolerance for prostitution and female chastity is discussed more than male chastity. But premarital sex for men is still zina, it’s still a sin.
What is different about Islam is that it is less concerned with agency than Christianity or modern rabbinical Judaism (which has invented many highly legalistic workarounds for historical Old Testament harshness). The man who kills his daughter for being seduced by a man doesn’t necessarily ascribe to her more agency than a Christian father who is merely Very Disappointed in her. Agency is simply not relevant.
By contrast, historically Christian honor killings involved a man murdering the man who cuckolded you, because he was the responsible agent. In Islam, honor killings seem to involve murdering the daughter who engaged in sexual immorality. The man must marry her and pay off the family if he is single (that much was historically the case in many non-Muslim societies too), but he is rarely murdered if this isn’t possible.
NewCharlesInCharge
1hr ago
SBF also affirmed that he would take the hypothetical bet that had something like a 51% chance of doubling world happiness and a 49% chance of destroying the earth.
He would sacrifice all of us on the altar of expected value.
https://bestinterest.blog/sbfs-stupid-bet/
2rafa
1hr ago
I personally know quite a few women in their late twenties who are relatively attractive and either virgins or have maybe had one partner in their whole lives. Often they’re women who have mainly female hobbies or career, but some work in male-dominated jobs too. They’re usually very shy and have feminine hobbies/interests.
One of the big failure states for men looking at modern women is judging them by the most promiscuous decile, simply because those are the women they’re most likely to encounter socially (even if they don’t hook up with them, they’re more likely to go out, drink, and have masculine hobbies and interests).
Felagund
2hr ago
I suppose it depends to some extent what fluency is, exactly. I'd be very impressed by anyone not a native speaker knowing English as well as I do (and, to be honest, a bit impressed even by native speakers when they know sufficiently obscure words).
I would imagine generating the right word on the spot would be significantly harder than grammar—native speakers can fail to do so, on occasion.
That people would know at most 2 or 3 languages well seems unlikely to me. My guess would be that there would be hundreds of millions of people who are natively bilingual, so surely higher numbers have occurred a bunch of times.
Ioper
2hr ago
I got that :)
I've already read MoL but Ar'k is new to me and I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
2hr ago
I have.
I Am The Very Model Of A Culture-Warring Partisan, but the one good thing that has come from Biden's presidency is him slamming the door shut on the Afghanistan war. I credit him greatly with having the guts to do it, and I am pretty sure the disaster in the pullout was deliberate insubordination on the part of the Pentagon. For everything I've read about the incompetence of the occupation, I cannot bring myself to believe that they are actually incapable of executing an orderly pullout. To my knowledge, no one has ever been held accountable for the mess, and I'd really like to see that happen.
The non-disparagement agreements tied to an NDA on the topic of said non-disparagement agreement, tied to retaining your
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