hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Again, I am not saying that social activities for the graceless should be conducted with the intent of meeting women, they should be conducted with the intent of improving social skills, and then go to book clubs or something.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
When I was in eighth grade, my history teacher- young, female, quite pretty in retrospect- had a crush on me and it was blatantly obvious, she never did anything but it was incredibly awkward and I was not a fan of the experience.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Safe seats tend to have expensive primaries- thé US has two rounds of election.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
That's a severe lack of confidence in your kids. Are these people marrying the weakest partner they can find? Is this more blue tribe weakness-as-status-symbol, like ARFID and long covid?
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I live in a filter bubble with a median age of 12(not a typo). If you want children badly enough, you can have them. Economic reasons? I know people supporting double digit numbers of children and a SAHM, without obvious signs of poverty, on salaries of notoriously high paying jobs like 'welder' and 'teacher'. Health reasons? How much time you got for miracle stories that are more about the miracle of listening to doctors? 'Oh no one can keep up with more than one kid' I know a woman who had seven under eight while her husband business travelled... and she had a broken leg. 'Combining with education is too difficult' Lol no, lots of people around me are PhDs and have multiple children.
Most people just don't want kids. Eventually they'll die out. The Past is a Future Country was a strange prophecy, but I haven't seen an intelligent counterargument.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Humans are tougher than cockroaches. Literally, we conquered the high arctic and the depths of the sahara where they can't go. The belief that humans won't persist through some postapocalyptic wasteland, perhaps your children conquering this mad max world, is... well I guess about as unreasonable as believing it's going to happen.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Tradesmen often report feeling unwelcome in UMC neighborhoods- and they're not even particularly poor.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
What part of 'Go out and socialize because social skills are important and take work to build up' did you not understand? Lonely men should socialize including for non-meeting women purposes. Swing dancing happens to kill two birds with one stone, but MMA still helps to teach social interactions and being normal. No seriously social skills and confidence are make or break for male romantic success, that's why you see these men who are fat, slovenly, and poor who are ladykillers.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The experiment has been run; the Germans had entire regiments made up of sixteen year olds, which fought as well as their conventionally drafted peers. On the other hand younger teens often lack the physical capabilities adult male soldiers need all those calories to support, and tend to do things like fall asleep on watch.
On the whole, setting the age of majority at sixteen doesn't seem distinctly worse than eighteen or twenty one. But you have to pick an arbitrary line somewhere and it's going to be wrong for quite a lot of people, that's what an arbitrary line is.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Basically everyone knows it, though, and they don't need a fancy man scientist to tell them so- even if it fails to replicate, it's a conclusion that everyone over 25 already believes.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
They don't want poor white people in those neighborhoods either, you know. Far less than they want wealthy blacks.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
OK, stealing a gun should carry harsh penalties and be charged at the limit of the law every time. But we don't live in a well run society(the recommended 'solutions' to gun violence are also stupid and will never happen), and it sounds like the issue was these people getting an unusually good deal due to their youth, not to the nature of their crime.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, Russia obviously is capable of doing things that require a lot of thinking- but it can’t translate that into running a country that’s a nice place to live in.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I didn’t say ‘go out and socialize’ as a blueprint for meeting women. I said ‘go out and socialize’ because social skills are important and take work to build up. Yes, swing dancing will get you closer to your goal of female companionship slightly faster, but MMA is likely still progress in that direction.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I got 49% German(I'd always thought myself culturally Francified, if anything) and 24% autistic. I've never thought of myself as autistic and find the modern mania for diagnosing every difficulty irritating and off putting for those who genuinely could help themselves, and possibly offensive for those with special needs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It ought to be a truth universally acknowledged- although of course it isn't- that those who have lots of boy/girl friends are for the most part those possessing of the necessary sanguinity in temperament to generally attain to a high degree of success in all of the more ordinary tasks of social intercourse besides, and that these must be acknowledged as more desirable for all the normal reasons. It furthermore ought- although it often isn't- to be acknowledged that these chaste virgins sitting on the sidelines do not particularly want to date and marry Clav, their Mr Darcy may bear physical resemblance to him but is entirely unlike him in other ways.
But all that being said, there really is a large premium for social skills paid in all social tasks, including the mating game. To the sexually frustrated men reading this- go out and socialize. That alone explains a huge portion of this gap- do you think Justinian found Theodora's sexual history incredibly appealing, or Pericles Aspasia's, or Napoleon Josephine's? No, they wanted someone they could interact with as a friend rather than the stereotypical prissy upper-class wife of the day.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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I mean mormon nepotism is well known. But why would we assume a higher percentage of IEP's? The mormon advantage isn't all HBD, lots of it is culture.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Siberian huskies are immediately distinguishable from wolves- for one thing they're half the size- and most other northern spitzes are also easy to tell apart. They also interact with humans very differently(I had a cousin with pet wolves growing up, and a different one who had Alaskan malamutes), even aside from aggression. These are very different things and it is not difficult to tell them apart, despite some superficial similarities.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Was The Snatch not a big hit in the US?
I've certainly never heard of it.
Is this a counterexample to the HBD argument?
Russia itself is a counterexample to the HBD argument. Incompetent corrupt oligarchy running a shithole for average people that's slightly poorer than Mexico- despite being fairly good at G-loaded tasks like chess grandmasters and advancing higher mathematics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, the guys working on robots in the real world were mostly diesel mechanics or HVAC techs or generator guys whose brother in law mentioned someone who was hiring over an NFL game, and who don't know what 'python' is('update the software' is treated as a mechanical repair and what it actually means is a question for tech support, which doesn't know either and suggests it when everything is working except the machine).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I highly doubt that the traveler population has a lower genetic IQ due to evaporative cooling than the native working class of Ireland(which has probably suffered stronger genetic selection by evaporative cooling), and which is not nearly so overrepresented among the prison population. Some cultures are just bad, like this one. The Roma are far less welcomed in Europe than similar IQ Mexicans are in the US- because Mexicans believe in paying their bills through honest work(and then drinking themselves stupid and blaring their polka beats at 2 AM while being incapable of recognizing that requests to turn the volume down aren't requests for an invitation to join the party), while Roma have a culture of stealing and swindling their way into the money to pay their bills with, and then doing the strung out loud noises thing anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Perhaps this response is even dumber, but adolescent breast cancer/reductions due to overactive puberty or whatever, while rare, is not a new thing the way trans mostly is, so we should be able to compare baseline numbers by averaging pre-2007 statistics?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pouncing on the next chapter of Man Eaters of Kumaon for myself and reading Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to the boy.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Parents of young children very much welcome family friendly third spaces.
This sounds like clickbait. And… sûre enough.
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