Crowstep
4d ago
I'm not claiming that jealous and envious are complete synonyms, I mentioned a distinction between them in my post.
I'm claiming that thoroughlygruntled's distinction is wrong. He's proposing a difference which could exist between them, but doesn't, and hasn't at any point in the hundreds of years that the words have been used.
Crowstep
4d ago
I'm more sympathetic to those, since they're being used for things that can pretty reasonably be infantalised.
Veggies on the other hand, drives me mad. A food group does not need a childish pet name.
Crowstep
4d ago
People tend to use them as synonyms (more often simply using jealousy for both terms)
If the average person uses a word to mean X, then the word means X, surely?
I've never heard of the distinction you're making, and apparently neither has the Cambridge Dictionary. Merriam-Webster says that they have always been used as synonyms, although jealous has the extra meaning of suspicious possessiveness.
Crowstep
5d ago
When your post started with 'humanity peaked in the 90s', I didn't think the reason was going to be that James Bond would need to learn too many languages these days, quite the curveball.
Crowstep
6d ago
Drowning in pussy, maybe not. But Indian men are not exactly known for their chastity.
Crowstep
6d ago
Because fat people are stupid. If they were smart, they would not be fat. It is easy not to be fat, so if you are fat, it is because you are too stupid, lazy and greedy not to be fat. Everyone knows this!
I assume this is a joke, because if not then something has been making us real stupid since the 1970s.
Crowstep
6d ago
“Most men in bio are short because they can’t get women, but because you’re tall I know you’re genuinely interested in bio”
Odd, as I'm not sure biology is known as a high-paying field that draws in short men (surely that would be finance or something) but not objectionable.
“Women at Oxford and Cambridge are better than Harvard and Yale because they know their job is to look pretty and get a rich husband”
If a woman finds herself surrounded by very intelligent, conscientious men, she'd be crazy to not try and marry one of them. I'm not the first person to realise this.
“There is a biochemical link between exposure to sunlight and sexual urges.. that’s why you have Latin lovers”
Definitely true. The link between vitamin D and testosterone is well-established.
“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them”
Seems like a poor choice as a hiring manager. Why not take advantage of anti-fat prejudice and get talented fatties at a steal? But still not an earth-shattering revelation.
Crowstep
18d ago
Baggy jeans are pretty much universal among Zoomer women. They are just as ubiquitous as skinny jeans were on millennial women.
The worm will turn though, fashion will change, 'twas always thus.
Crowstep
19d ago
But yeah you should probably leave the UK it sounds awful there for a number of reasons.
That seems like somewhat of an overreaction, like Reddit advice threads that always conclude 'you should leave your boyfriend'.
I'm not going to quit my job, abandon my family and friends, sell my house and uproot my wife and child because the unemployed welfare system is too generous. As much as we moan, the UK is still one of the richest and safest countries in the world.
Crowstep
20d ago
When we talk about social welfare programs, what we're really talking about is insurance. You may say that you work hard, etc., etc. and will never need these policies, but that's about as ingenuous as saying that you're a really good driver and thus don't need liability insurance. You may say that the people who receive the greatest benefit from welfare policies pay the least into it, but how much you receive in insurance payouts is only loosely related to how much you pay in.
I think that's definitely a model of welfare that can be used to describe a high-trust society, but I don't think it's particularly accurate in defection-heavy, low trust societies that exist today. In the UK for example, half a million people between the ages of 16 and 24 have literally never worked (and are not in education). Their welfare payments are not insurance payouts for people who have paid in but who have fallen on hard times. They have never paid in, and they've been claiming from the day they were eligible. And of the entire working age population, a full 25% are on benefits.
I'd be fine if a had a literal insurance system of unemployment, provided by the private sector and which people had to pay premiums to receive. What we have is a simple transfer from the (shrinking) productive part of the population to the unproductive part, and we pretend it's an insurance system.
Crowstep
25d ago
I think looking outside the West is a good way to approach this. Clearly it is not simply a case that women in the workplace = the end of objectivity but there does seem to be something of an interaction between a high female percentage in a field, WEIRDness and identity politics that leads to the negative outcomes the author talks about.
A companion piece to this by the indomitable Louise Perry, Cancel Culture is Girl Culture.
Crowstep
29d ago
It's a good thing we put at very few politicians on British banknotes - the row when feminists decide we need a woman and the only serious candidate is Margaret Thatcher would destroy confidence in the currency.
I'm not sure why they chose Jane Austen instead of Florence Nightingale. The woman who invented modern nursing vs a woman who wrote six books about thinly veiled author inserts finding rich husbands. My guess is that the civil servants who decide are more likely to be English Lit graduates than nurses.
Crowstep
1mo ago
You are aggressively ignoring every poster asking you to clarify why enforcing immigration law is equivalent to enforcing laws on slavery. This is just trolling.
Crowstep
1mo ago
"Would you love me if I was a worm" interestingly suggests the opposite - that women would prefer to be loved primarily for their personality (which persists after they are no longer hot).
Interesting. I interpret that statement as 'do you love me completely unconditionally?'. A worm isn't hot, but it doesn't have a personality either.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Refer to these two charts.
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*cries in Bri'ish
There's two fallacies here. The first is that it is impossible to get ethnic food without mass immigration from that country. That's obviously nonsense, with the internet and online shopping, you can buy basically any foodstuff in the developed world, regardless of whether your country has had immigration from where that food comes from.
The second is that 'assimilation' is magic and can make everyone behave like white Americans (or even better, Asian Americans). The existence of a dysfunctional African American underclass that has existed for 400 years in spite of the end of slavery, legal equality, affirmative action and astonishing wealth (African Americans are richer than Europeans in Europe) puts paid to that.
I do wonder why Yglesias would make bad arguments like this though. I thought all the liberals were supposed to be secretly reading Steve Sailer? Maybe he genuinely has no intellectual curiosity as to why different ethnic groups have such vastly different outcomes.
Crowstep
1mo ago
I'd want absolutely perfect health tracking, the kind of thing where the AI can tell me exactly what to eat, what supplements to take, how much and what type of exercise to do etc. Might require a bunch of implants, but I'd love to always feel well-rested and optimised.
Me, I think I want the ability to produce bespoke episodes of older TV shows that I enjoyed but were cancelled or went off the rails and/or had horrible conclusions. GOT and Firefly are obvious examples there. But I have several others in mind.
This would also be good. The petty part of me desperately wants to re-make all the BBC costume dramas without all the ahistorical diversity casting, but I'll settle for Six Seasons and a Movie of Firefly.
This could genuinely be a Paramore B-side. Crazy.
Crowstep
1mo ago
If 'waging culture war' consists of getting angry over the internet, then I think we can expect that to happen for as long as it takes to develop the necessary cultural antibodies to unplug from the outrage machine.
America is too rich and too old for a real civil war. So is most of the world.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Yup, and the world's best governed country has shown that it works.
Most Satmars don't live in Israel (as you'd expect) and those that do don't participate in elections. I wasn't able to find any figures online but ChatGPT estimates that the Satmar only make up about 2% of Haredi Jews in Israel, and so an even smaller percentage of the total population.
Haredi non-Zionism is mainly focused on the fact that the Israeli state is too secular, they're not wishing to dismantle the state and let the Arabs take back the land.
My expectation is that as the Haredi welfare teat gets closed off and they are forced to serve in the military, a significant chunk of them will end up joining the religious zionists.
I think focusing on DEI and affirmative action is misleading. This college is talking about a change in the past five years. The US has had affirmative action since the 1970s, the expansion of higher ed started in the 1980s, grade inflation in high school since the 1960s. Some happened between 2020 and 2025 that drastically changed the competence level of the incoming cohort.
It's probably the phones.
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