Blueberry
1yr ago
I have never encountered a truly gorgeous, promiscuous woman in my social class who has had problems finding a ‘high value man’ (ie. handsome, outgoing, masculine, successful, whatever) to marry.
I think you are onto something. The original article makes it clear, that not her bodycount is the problem, but her self-undermining behaviour and her unability of maintaining a relationship (and probably her taste in men).
I never encountered a counter example where a man rejected a woman because of that. If it is truly an effect felt by women, instead of just being an assumption, maybe it is simply a selection effect? Promisciuous woman are meeting/are interested promisciuous men, so if they want to settle down the try to do it with someone who is less interested in that, but the problem is not out of slut-shamingness?
Blueberry
1yr ago
I looked a source up, ignore the tweets, the picture with the graph is from the Economist:
https://twitter.com/NxlAnglo/status/1616874516566736900
You are right, Jewish fertility are astonishingly stable if one looks at the last 40 years instead of zooming into recent trends. In the 90s secular fertility also dipped under 2.0, so is not a new thing. But 10 years ago it was again slightly above.
The discrepancy between the normalcy of 3 kids families and a fertility rate of a third less, is I guess because childless women are less visible? Maybe they also emigrate?
Last year secular Jews fertility rate in Israel declined for the first time below replacement level (slightly under 2.0). They still do get more kids then their peers in the west, but conservative/traditional families still get more.
Blueberry
1yr ago
How does Sweden compare to Denmark/Norway/Finland in vaccination percentage? I thought all Scandinavia/western Europe were good in that.
Though one should keep in mind the children of such a pairing. The hapa subreddit has famously a massive chip on their shoulder, oscillating between self loathing because their racist Asian mothers worshipping whiteness (and they are no blue eyed blonde Aryan) and their racist tall White fathers being disappointed (for being short chubby chinks).
Blueberry
1yr ago
I’ve dealt with chronic pain for a decade and have long suspected that it was mostly psychosomatic.
I guess you know this post?
There are some (strange? common?) testimonials about miracle curing chronic pain.
Blueberry
1yr ago
Though Scott stresses repeatedly, that anorexia or anything else is not "less real" even if the underlying cause is 100% social and 0% biological. Do you think mass shootings don't exist? Of course not. An anorexic girl will still be anorexic and is in danger to hunger herself to death.
This is a bit weird to truly wrap ones head around. Lets take demonic possession. Deciding that there are no demons (or maybe very few) is a valid position. But there is a difference between A) this isn't real, possessed people are faking it, and B) the brains predictive engine is very good in simulating, and the individual experience/qualia is suffering under demonic influence.
Blueberry
1yr ago
Hersh is 85 years old and did go a bit into conspiracy theories:
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bin-laden
The problem with his sources is not anonymity, but that it is singular: He only has one source. Rumors need at least to be double-sourced before they are print worthy.
Blueberry
1yr ago
possibly drunk guy
If he were drunk or threatening Watson would have mentioned it. The only real dig she has against him is that while the man was part of the group with her at the bar, she didn’t talk with him before, so there was no rapport.
Then came Elevatorgate, and suddenly "Do you want to come to my room for coffee?" simply meant an offer of coffee
Hu? No, the issue was if it was a big deal or not. And everyone had an opinion on it, and it was a scissor statement, because this is playing out countless times every weekend in social settings, men trying to make a more or less suave/cringy move, and women rejecting it or not.
Why hasn't it worked well enough to remove him from entertainment?
Because he is funny and can sell directly to people (who are defectors).
But there are no Netflix specials, movies, tv shows, guest appearances at SNL or cameos in sitcoms, no collaborations with other artists. And he has to date outside of the US (a French woman). The only reason he is not removed completely is because there are only a few extreme sanctions (not being able to rent a venue) against him left.
Blueberry
1yr ago
acceptable for old men to jerk off
CK is today an old man (56). But the jerk off revelations are from 2002-2005 when he was mid thirties.
Blueberry
1yr ago
Russia just dismissed the dude that organized the super clean double retreat across the dnipro
Who was that and why was he dismissed?
Blueberry
1yr ago
Very interesting list. But isn't it depressing if not much has changed? Shouldn't GWAS studies shown something which can't be handwaved away?
Blueberry
1yr ago
Note that I'm not touching on the moral aspects of the war, just on the operational ones.
It is noteworthy that a private military company (Wagner) is doing a lot of the difficult front fighting, and the normal Russian army is just following later.
https://twitter.com/MihajlovicMike/status/1612936331587649537
What is interesting is that Soledar is basically PMC against the western-backed (equipment, weapons and above all intelligence) military: Wagner group distinguished themselves as a true crack fighting force, in many aspects better than the French Foreign legion.
Is the private sector also in war more efficient than state bureaucratic militaries?
Speaking of abortion, this study (from Japan) gathered thousands of comments on reddit currently:
The psychological distress scores were lowest for those who experienced a wanted birth (14%), then went up slightly for those who chose abortion (20.3%). Distress went up again for those choosing adoption (31.5%) and those experiencing an unwanted birth (30.7%). […]
Additionally, the study concludes with these thoughts, “This study showed that among women who experienced an unintended pregnancy, the unwanted birth and adoption group had worse long-term psychological distress consequences. Abortion did not lead to negative psychological consequences. Therefore, it is important to ensure equal and safe abortion opportunities and providing more support to women with unwanted birth.”
Blueberry
1yr ago
but we only see smart Asians who made it thru Visa processes.
You miss the forest for the trees. Are the kids of these smart asians smarter than other US ethnicities? This question is not solved by noticing the strong filter, but the opposite.
Blueberry
1yr ago
risks alienating left-leaning Tesla buyers
But they will often just buy other electric cars.
By aligning himself with conservatives, maybe gas-guzzling climate deniers will instead buy Teslas. Which is a net positive for the electric car industry at a whole.
Blueberry
1yr ago
https://archive.ph/5qyEx#selection-2497.0-2497.8
Religious Zionism lawmaker Orit Strock … gave by way of example a situation in which a Christian wanted to hold a Christmas party with a Christmas tree in a venue owned by a religious Jew.
“I assume an observant Jewish person won’t want to do this because it contravenes his religious faith… Jews gave up their lives to not do such things throughout history. The law must not treat Jewish law as something of lesser value,” she said. "The State of Israel is the state of the Jewish people … "
The end result and goal by the zionist lawmakers is segregation. The "lgbt cake case" is more like that a Jew shouldn't be forced to provide a christmas tree (creative services). But not providing a venue, is like denying to sell a generic cake.
Blueberry
1yr ago
Elon is on the warpath again
Which isolates him more and more. He needs allies, not more conflicts. He should phone Tim Cook and cozy up to him and other powerful CEOs, not be a pain in the ass to them. He should court the White House and lobby his interests in Washington, not pointlessly antagonize politicians.
I think he is in an especially bad feedback loop on Twitter, with sycophants cheering his antics (shitposts), which will crash and burn him. Also his personality is thriving on adversity, he is amused by conflict, but that won’t make him friends or build coalitions.
Is Apple willing to fight?
Their advertising won’t come back. But I don’t see them removing Twitter app without a good reason (eg data leak of users, increased hate). Maybe Musk will do stupid subscription shenanigans to avoid the 30% cut in the AppStore/Playstore.
Blueberry
2yr ago
Let me rephrase: Can you give an example of a trait correlated with basketball skill, which would be erronously found by genetic testing?
Blueberry
2yr ago
To use another example, the government effectively owns the internet, which lead to a golden age of tech.
Interesting, because I have the opposite view: The governments didn't understand the World Wide Web and left it alone, so the wild west cyberspace was left to libertarian self organization and anarcho-capitalism, which led to a golden age in tech.
Compare it to the Minitel system by the French state, which was reasonably successful but technologically stagnant:
In Germany the social dynamic is that at the Bachelor the women contestants are forming cliques, gossiping and intriguing against women outside but giving support inside their group, but that the Bachelorette is way more boring. Every bit of drama has to be inflated 10x by production as the men contestants are just partying as bros.
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