CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
Dedicated Pessimist
23d ago
Wouldn't the Harris campaign (who were contacted by Snopes) be highly motivated to provide some evidence for this if it were true? They couldn't find one childhood friend who said 'yeah we worked at Mickey D's together'? This has (at least for the next couple of days until the next cycle) blown up to be front and center in the presidential race.
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23d ago
Snopes tried their best to prove this true and still failed.
Aside from the above-mentioned news reports, there was no tangible evidence of Harris working at McDonald's as a college student. We reached out to Harris' campaign, as well as McDonald's headquarters, seeking tax records or other proof — which could include photos or videos of her working at the restaurant, employment records or physical items such as a uniform or name tag. We also reached out to Harris' sister, Maya, as well as a close friend from Howard University seeking comment, and looked for public interviews by friends or family members of Harris' to confirm the story, with no luck.
I don't think it happened.
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23d ago
He's definitely done the 'Boss swaps jobs with a worker' schtick before with good results.
The video of this was freely available until recently, but I've been trying to search for it in Youtube and it seemed to have been memory holed until I found it through external search engines.
Edit: Clip was from Oprah's show in 2011.
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24d ago
Men are at risk of being popped, not women.
If you extend getting 'popped' to the broader concept of social exclusion then women are absolutely susceptible to this. More so they would be more sensitive to the idea too.
To simplify, the message is 'if you don't sign up to vote (for kamala) then you will be socially rejected', but its sugarcoated with 'you have the power to do this to high status men' so it doesn't cause anxiety in the message's recipients.
Edit: There's also an element of 'thinking past the sale' where there is a presumption that the group consensus is already 'its low status not to sign up to vote (for kamala)'
CertainlyWorse
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24d ago
I've seen some recent podcasts where Silver is a guest and he seems to think the blue tribe still underestimate Trump. If he is a Democrat, at least he's taken his blinkers off.
The surprising bit is that the Harris campaign isn't targeting men with this but women, as indicated by ad targeting spend.
This makes a lot more sense. If directed at men its hamfisted and counterproductive. If (in)directed at women though...
They can't directly attack a woman in the ad (without turning them off), but they can show a very attractive man getting his social status destroyed. The message could be 'if it could happen to HIM, what do you think would happen to YOU?', but it's sufficiently buried under the power fantasy of rejecting a high status man to not get rejected by the women consuming it.
Biggest issue is probably to make sure the ad doesn't get viewed by men, but even if they did see it, were high status 6 figure men going to vote Kamala anyway?
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25d ago
only drink in celebratory bonding social settings with benevolent peers.
This should be carved into stone.
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25d ago
I know right.
Raise your hand if you've heard 'You're not an introvert' after you've told them, just because you aren't socially awkward.
Social introvert energy is something I think a certain type of extrovert will mine for. They just can't leave you alone.
CertainlyWorse
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25d ago
I just spent my Saturday doing a winery tour out in the countryside with close friends.
I'm an introvert, but sometimes I really appreciate extroverts dragging me out into the right environment. We actually managed to fit 5 adults into a sedan to get out there (to avoid drink driving). There was just the right amount of degenerate day drinking, which was kind of ok because two among us had Summer dresses.
I think there might be something to 'touching grass'.
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27d ago
For orchestrating the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians he considered to be collaborators in 1989, Sinwar was sentenced to four life sentences by Israel, of which he served 22 years until his release among 1,026 others in a 2011 prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
This was the gift that keeps on giving. I hope governments everywhere are taking notes.
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1mo ago
When I saw Fortnite. I used to be a huge Counter Strike Source player when I was younger and then naturally moved away from the FPS genre (RTS's too) as I aged. I just really didn't see the appeal of Fortnite at all, but I realised it was me that had changed when I saw how popular it was on Twitch.
Also Star Trek Discovery after being a big Trekkie when I was younger (Deep Space 9 was peak Trek). This is probably the best example of a franchise where a small minority of creators decided that only people with their niche values are allowed to enjoy the show any more. Trek was always kind of progressive, but it really jumped the shark in recent years.
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1mo ago
How does it compare to Helldivers 2?
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1mo ago
Their culture would become radically different (rationalist community on crack?). Some of the downsides of high IQ such as anxiety, loneliness etc would be mitigated because they would not be 'outside the norm' any more when the norm is 180. TFR would plummet but that probably isn't huge deal over 16 years.
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1mo ago
You'd think the mall management wouldn't allow people to harass shoppers, because this would lead to more people shopping from home to avoid them > less mall customers > stores closing > death spiral for mall.
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1mo ago
I probably teach my kids about mental illness and try to sugarcoat that his cousin is ill in a gentle way (which he is via depression, which you can motte and bailey for the trans thing if you get called out on it). I'd teach my kids binary genders by showing, not telling.
I'd take comfort in the fact that by the time your child reaches adulthood, this social contagion is likely to be in decline (with more clearly explored science on hormone disrupters, links to autism, studies on conversion leading to suicide etc).
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1mo ago
I walked into a mall with my partner recently and got slammed with people trying to sign me up for services/charities what have you. I hate those places. I'm one of those downer guys though and she complains she can't take me shopping because I always want to leave early. Like why would you spend your time there if you don't already know what you're going to purchase?
Though It does makes me realise how different I am to the average man, when I see the other mall denizens shambling around.
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1mo ago
Ok but like, at home alone are people letting out load grunts while shitting?
I have no idea. I presume so unless there's some weird exhibitionist kink out there where people are like 'You know what? I'm going to shit really loud in this public toilet so everyone knows that I'm shitting. Oh yeah.. you like that? Oh so dirty.' lmao
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1mo ago
Airports contain many people from different cultures passing through. In some of those cultures, it isn't a faux pas to make loud noises while undertaking ablutions (see snorting while clearing nose, hawking up phlegm, spitting, grunting while defecating, peeing directly into water rather than side of the porcelain to limit splashing noises).
I noticed in the West that there was less of the type of thing you're talking about compared to overseas. While overseas I change my sensory filters to ignore all sorts of things that would ping my normal disgust threshold.
Edit: Also airports give a greater than normal feeling of anonymity. People would feel more free to do something in transit that they wouldn't do in their workplace bathroom for instance.
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1mo ago
Troop movements are always the tell for a ground invasion. It's almost certainly on.
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1mo ago
Unfulfilled libido, while distracting, is actually helpful in terms of augmenting male drive and motivation. It adds a certain dynamism and vigor to your tasks. The downside is the distraction, but there's a balance to be had in there. There is nothing shameful about masturbation, and the risks involved in chemically messing with your sex drive (and downstream effects on general motivation) just aren't worth it in my view.
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1mo ago
I've seen this request multiple times over many years. Libido is basically seen as a distraction for a certain type of guy (autistic/hyper focused) and just another problem to be solved for maximum lifestyle efficiency.
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1mo ago
US Citizens are taxed on global income by the IRS even if they don't reside in the US. This kind of fiscal obligation should earn them a vote even if they're living overseas.
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1mo ago
Its very common for American companies to push their standards worldwide regardless of suitability for local conditions (eg local countries using the metric system for a start). I don't think it's from superiority, just out of ignorance. Many Americans are woefully uneducated about the world outside of America. (clearly doesn't apply so much to the 'very online', such as our American posters here.)
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1mo ago
Yes, the arabs have repeatedly made it clear that they don't want palestinian refugees due to past complications (Egypt, Jordan, Muslim Brotherhood etc).
Fair enough.
The New York Times has now seemed to find a friend that got told second hand by Harris's deceased mother that Harris was working there.
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