CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
7mo ago
I found it on the nose that Pacific Drive was set in 1998 before the black lives matter movement and development of some of the more obscure sexuality flags.
Imagine playing Battlefield Vietnam with the ability to unlock MAGA skins for your M16.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
It’s a great way to deflect attention and criticism from your story or game because any time someone says they don’t like the product, you can always default back to “the fans are just mad about inclusion.”
Yes. This is very common now in all sorts of media.
DEI injection > Bad content > Bad reviews > 'Bigots are review bombing our content because they are bigots!' > Roll hard left and die
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
As a layman, you are doing God's work.
Not everyone has the brain or the fortitude to do your craft and act like its all cool and no big deal.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
I should have been more clear. They can flood the 'market' with unwanted role models, but the kids won't absorb their values. They know what a man is, intuitively.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
I remember getting banned from a forum when I was much younger. The policy there was 'after X amount of time you can write to the mods, admit you were wrong, and they will reinstate your account'. No way in hell I'd admit being wrong for what I considered an unjust banning.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
I was on the internet this week
That was your first mistake.
It is clear that what educational and social institutions want are meek, inoffensive and productive men who do not question the rules of society. This is in direct contrast to what young men want, which is to be outspoken, to be popular with women, to be socially and economically successful. No role model ever produced or selected by the state could manage this, particularly not when operating under the notion that it must maintain women's liberation, which itself requires the stifling of men. I question for how much longer this approach will be kept in place.
Market forces will kill any initiative like this. There is no demand for role models that don't teach young men what they want to learn (at least from the young men themselves).
The same thing happened with injecting progressive politics hamfistedly into tv, movies and video games. The market will just flow around and find what it demands elsewhere.
CertainlyWorse
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8mo ago
Very good question with ripples through the culture war.
What does it mean to fight a battle when the winners get to write history?
CertainlyWorse
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8mo ago
There is interesting coverage by Asmongold (A major gamer influencer) where he drew the direct link between game studios hiring these DEI consultants > Good ESG rating > More funding from Blackrock/Vanguard subsidiaries.
Also some major anti-woke movie critics like Critical Drinker have also picked up on Sweet Baby even though its out of their wheelhouse. The interest there was the direct evidence of creators hiring DEI consultancies to improve ESG.
Basically there is evidence now of the chain of causality of injecting DEI into content to attract investment, while before there was only suspicions.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
While I don't think you need to change your attitude, I think it's helpful to understand that people rarely change their behaviour without there being some consequences or outside force that makes them do so.
There will always be Bob's in the world. Currently he's incentivised to continue his behaviour. Your boss's job is to make sure the work gets done. If your boss does not think their will be consequences for himself (such as being understaffed) he is limited in how much he will push Bob.
I'd look for other positions. I wouldn't tell your boss what you're doing or try to leverage 'if things don't change, I'll quit!'. I'd just quietly look for a better place for yourself that aligns with your own temperament (eg a job that doesn't force you to pick up other's slack in order to be diligent). It could be inside the same organisation or it could be somewhere new. Consider not taking roles where you are responsible for joint output and look for ones where you have your own deliverables that don't require other's input.
I'm dealing with a similar thing second hand right now with a close friend who has stakeholders in her job role that are blocking her from making changes to make her company more profitable. To do what she wants means more work for the blockers who are solely concerned with doing to bare minimum to meet their KPI's. They don't care about the company at all. Big agent/principal problem. Management are very slow to figure out the misaligned incentives, so my friend has to waste an unknown amount of time watching the blockers make excuses in meetings for why they don't want to find ways to make more profit until management figures it out. My friend has not surprisingly started looking for a new job in her spare time.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Yeah. Not just romantic partners; basically any life choice.
Moving somewhere else, taking a crazy job, dropping out of college/uni. Pick your poison.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
I never really figured out what you're meant to do after the fact though. I think it's 'acknowledge your friend is fallible and making a bad choice. Decide that you care about them enough to help them pick up the inevitable pieces.'
I think most people make this choice to a greater or lesser intensity every single day.
I will approach this in a utilitarian way for you.
By trying to intervene there is a good chance that Bob will cut you off as a friend and marry them anyway. I've experienced this with close friends trying to talk other close friends out of serious relationships/marriage before using 'they aren't right/good/healthy for you' as a justification. In one case they became friends again years later after the inevitable breakup. But they weren't ever as close.
This might be worth it to you, it might not. But interventions on this scale (eg interfering and trying to stop someone from marrying their partner when love/limerance is at it's highest) is a recipe for disaster dangerous game.
You have been warned.
Edit: some strikethrough and extra words.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
I note that he studiously avoids describing the losers in his equity based system. Or what happens when ALL tribes start collectively 'bargaining' for better outcomes?
Just terrible incentives all around.
CertainlyWorse
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8mo ago
Yeah I was talking about something a bit more personalised for condition management that is tailored to the patient rather than a source sheet ripped straight off webMD. Agreed that there probably isn't time to do this in a 15 minute consult unless the doctor is young really on the ball.
I actually try to find younger GP's for this reason. Many boomer doctors just have not kept up with newer treatments, a professional bedside manner, or technology use.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Yeah I was more aiming for your General Practitioner (GP) in a clinic having a printer at his desk and potentially a notes template with letterhead ready to go. Smash out 5 x 1 line dot points summarising your advice on how to manage their condition and have it auto save into their file.
If it isn't as easy as that it won't get done. You'd be lucky to get some unintelligible scribble notes on a sheet ripped out of a physical notepad even if you requested it.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Interesting. I think this would work. Doctor just needs to make brief dot points and print it out. He can also save a copy of the notes to the patient's file (to cover his ass in the event of patient's lying).
Doctors are often lazy and or overworked though, so even though this would be a small amount of work, it would still be a not insignificant thing in the context of cramming even more activities into a 15 minute consultation.
CertainlyWorse
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8mo ago
I get bored with IRL conversations because nobody wants to have deep conversations or talk much about the things that I find interesting.
I think a lot of users on this forum would run into that problem eventually.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Do you ever have problems with bureaucracy or automated systems when you provide your birthday?
How about informally? Any other complications?
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Even as savage as the dating market can be as you age, it doesn't mean you won't find a good relationship again. It will just take time, and from the state of dating apps I think you're better off pursuing this passively though attending social groups.
This can kill two birds with one stone. You can have people to talk to and hopefully get closer to over time while fulfilling your need for social interaction. I'm an introvert, but still get value out of attending meetups (where I've met girlfriends and friends over the years).
It's common for people to go through something like 3 different therapists before they find one that they click with. Don't presume all therapists will be like that guy. Even if I agree that you're unlikely to be alone longterm, it seems like the way he went about convincing you that that was the case was pretty blase.
As for being happy by yourself, you can hedge your bets. There must be some activity you enjoy doing by yourself. You don't need to do it all the time, but help fulfill the gaps in your free time between social events.
I had good results with n acetyl cysteine during and after drinking. I'd say it reduced the strength of hangovers by 30%.
Edit: One month later, I'm adding a study.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
CIA / GRU / another western intelligence service killed him to get support in the west for more aid money. It did happen right around some votes, and Navalny wasn't likely to be of any other use to them.
No. (Assuming this story correctly quotes him,) Ukraine's spymaster of all people would then push the narrative that it was Putin.
I still believe the likely option is that Putin did it indirectly through conditions of his incarceration.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Agreed. If you have identified the rigged game and made a conscious choice to not play, accepting the consequences of doing so.
The identifying the choice and making it is the important thing. Not allowing the choice to be made for you or deluding yourself that there is no choice to be made. The price may be high, but it is still a price that can be paid.
It reminds me of 'The Box Trap' in Harry Browne's How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Pg 108. Warning libertarian text - Please don't call the Firemen on me).
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
It's just standard internal vs external Locus of Control.
It doesn't matter what your politics or background is. An external locus of control is poisonous and will result in worse outcomes over your lifetime.
This concept gets obfuscated with people trolling 'just pull yourself up by your bootstraps' when there are clearly external factors preventing success. Even in those cases when the deck is stacked against you, you are better off doing what you can with what you have rather than just giving up and succumbing to Learned Helplessness.
CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
8mo ago
Whenever I visited the US I was amazed at how their free to air TV advertisements were about drugs. The rest of the western world is not like that.
I see the knife guy eating a bat hit and having a fractured arm/ribs/cheek as he lunges in before sticking bat guy in the ribs. Once that knife goes in, its over.
I thought about differences in age and athletic ability though. Bat guy could spring backwards on the knife lunge and have a glancing slash on this arms while still getting the bat hit off, but its uncertain.
I also saw the Lindybeige sword/spear video and think if the knife guy tried to get smart and look for openings he might lose. Bat swings are slower than a spear jab though with much less reach difference from knife/bat compared to sword/spear.
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