Crowstep
2d ago
Crowstep
4d ago
How does it do for opening messages? I remember when I was dating and my lack of creativity really held me back there.
Crowstep
5d ago
If you support enforcing current immigration law, you support denying millions the chance to live and work in the U.S. for no other reason than they were born outside of it.
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Less flippantly, all but the most extreme open-borderers are comfortable with the idea that most people in the world won't be able to move to their country. To believe otherwise would be to be comfortable with the idea that billions of people could move from the poor world to the rich world just by patiently filling out a few forms. The fact that legal immigration is highly selective is the point.
Crowstep
5d ago
I think I first heard it in full in a teaser trailer for Breaking Bad, although I probably would have been familiar with it before then.
I also had a brief period where I would try memorising poems. It was the first one I successfully memorised.
Crowstep
6d ago
I think it's probably that people just have fewer friends and social interactions now. Therapy has jumped in to fill the gap that socialising, communal worship, hobbies and sports have left. Combine that with safetyism and I can see how we'd end up with a situation where a young person feels lonely or like his life lacks meaning and will end up talking to a state sanctioned professional, when what he really needs is to hang out with his friends more.
Crowstep
6d ago
Stop worrying about people not having kids! Like, if you're reading this and that is something that you were worried about, I'm begging you, please, it'll be alright. Evolution works! It doesn't need your help!
I'm not worried about 'evolution' doing okay. I'm worried about myself, my friends and family, and human civilisation. I know that humans as a species will survive, but I'd rather that every country in the world not turn into South Africa in the meantime. I think industrial civilisation is good and I want to maintain it.
Like sure, I guess I can admire your extremely long view from a certain perspective. But what can I say, I'm just a parochial worry-wort who doesn't want humanity living in mud huts and bashing eachother with rocks again.
Crowstep
6d ago
Dursleys were middle class social climbers (the most universally despised class).
I always got the impression that JK was channeling Hyacinth Bucket when she wrote Petunia.
Crowstep
6d ago
All of the things you mentioned (except high levels of consumption, lol) existed under communism in the USSR.
Crowstep
7d ago
The article makes it sound like that statistic clearly refutes the perception of the men, when in reality, it does nothing of that sort. Perhaps men are less likely to see themselves as victims of sex discrimination. Or perhaps the cases of discrimination men experience are more severe.
My understanding of Korean youth politics is that these men are probably referring mostly to the draft, which, let's remember, involves them being legally enslaved by the state for a couple of years. I can see why it might chafe for them to see young Korean women complaining about discrimination while the young men have to deal with a form of sex discrimination which is universal, legal and long-lasting.
Crowstep
7d ago
In Africa if you try to withhold sex from men in general, or especially your husband, you’ll just get raped
And yet looking online, Africa seems to be the only place where sex strikes have ever actually worked. I realise of course that their effects are probably overhyped by activists, but it seems to me like a sex strike is more likely to work in a sexually conservative culture without high speed internet.
Most men actually like their wives, and don't enjoy using violence against them. And it's not as if activists invented 'not having sex with your husband if you're upset with him'. I'm pretty sure women (and to a lesser extent, men) have been doing that since forever. The silent treatment or storming off in a huff are variations of this too.
Of course, 4B is obviously a cope, and I predict that approximately 0 women will actually act in a different way than they would have acted anyway.
Crowstep
7d ago
I don't think 'capitalism' is a particularly useful label here. We've had 'capitalism' since either the 1500s (the breakdown of manorialism) or the 1700s (the industrial revolution) but global birth rates only really started to decline in the 1900s, and even that was reversed temporarily by the baby boom in the 1950s and 60s.
The Amish are extremely 'capitalist' (in the sense of being extremely engaged with the market, owning businesses etc) and yet they manage to maintain high birth rates. You can see Russian birth rates collapse after the communist revolution. 'Capitalist' America has long had higher birth rates than comparatively less 'capitalist' Europe.
Now I'd certainly agree that global culture is antinatal, but referring to that culture as 'capitalist' obscures more than it hides.
Crowstep
7d ago
My immediate reaction to this 'movement' is the same as when I see the 'we're not having kids because it's too expensive' or even 'we're not having kids because of global warming'. A rationalisation for what's going on, not a true reason. After all, Korea's birth rate been low for decades, and only now are the women supposedly swearing off men?
There are clearly a lot of things that contribute to Korea's low birth rate; the punishing work culture, the educational arms race, the pathological status obsession, hyper-urbanism, the lack of in-person socialising (and the comparative amount of spending time online), the sleep deprivation. I see the breakdown in gender relations as a symptom of all this, rather than the cause.
Crowstep
9d ago
Trying to encourage the wider internet to apply SSC-style charity and moderation is an impossible battle, but maybe you can cultivate a little garden there.
Crowstep
9d ago
Or the Spanish version, where decayed parts are replaced by jarringly ugly alternatives, because this is somehow more 'authentic' or 'honest'.
From the perspective of the tourist or resident, the first three options are basically the same, right? The building looks traditional and beautiful, and is built with new materials. The only way options 1 or 2 are superior to 3 would be if the old materials pass on some ineffible essence to the new materials.
Crowstep
9d ago
With regards to Ship of Theseusing buildings, I'm definitely on team Japan. Who cares if the actual wood is new? Fetishising the materials themselves leads to craziness like this.
Crowstep
10d ago
Anti-Indian sentiment within the Anglosphere seems mostly confined to Canada and the UK, increasing in the former noticeably in the last few years because of the enormous ongoing immigration wave and diplomatic disputes over the relict Khalistan movement-in-exile. Indian-Americans are a cut above most other immigrant groups as far as education, income, and general "merit" go, even compared to Indians in other countries, so they don't tend to draw a lot of flak.
Attitudes towards Indians are similarly positive in the UK, for the same reason. They are rich, well-educated, law-abiding. Like the Chinese they are considered model immigrants and usually vote Conservative.
Pakistanis are less popular, for reasons.
Crowstep
13d ago
Which first principles would they be?
Because it seems pretty self-evident that housing is fungible. If I can't live in a grade A apartment because there aren't any available, I'll live in a grade B one rather than sleep on the streets. If grade A apartments become available, I'll leave my grade B one, which will then go on the market. The more apartments that come on the market, the less buyers will need to pay because there will be the same number of buyers chasing more properties, and sellers will be forced to lower their prices.
'Luxury' housing is just the word we use to describe the most expensive houses, it's not a characteristic of the houses that makes them qualitatively different.
The only way for me to believe that building luxury homes doesn't reduce prices would be for me to believe that either:
- Increasing supply while keeping demand static doesn't reduce prices
- Different types of housing aren't fungible
Crowstep
13d ago
There are constant calls to build more affordable housing, but instead all that seems to get built are luxury apartments that don't alleviate housing shortages, regularly outraging the /r/Eugene subreddit.
Is this what you believe, or just what the subreddit believes? Because building housing of any kind (including luxury housing) absolutely does mitigate housing shortages and reduce prices.
When cities build luxury housing, the wealthiest people move into those houses, while moving out of their existing, less luxury housing. That housing in turn gets occupied by the next rung on the income ladder, and this continues right now to the bottom. House prices and rents drop for everyone.
Crowstep
13d ago
Prosecute people who hire illegal immigrants so that they self-deport
It baffles me that no previous Republican government has done this. It's such an obvious low-hanging fruit. The fact that JD is suggesting it makes me think that this may be the first US government who actually want to reduce illegal immigration.
Crowstep
13d ago
There was a thread where ladies were trying to find places to get their tubes tied
Take that, conservatives?
Crowstep
15d ago
Apparently his chief of staff only agreed to take the job on the condition that she have strong power to vet who comes to visit him, precisely in order to avoid him being swung by flattery by the wrong people.
Crowstep
16d ago
They are also apparently 'members or associates of a fraternity', not sure if that's worth reading into.
My guess, the victim was an old guy trolling Grindr for teen boys. The attackers are wannabe vigilantes.
Crowstep
17d ago
Glad to see my pet peeve about American racial categories getting support from an actual Latin American.
What are your predictions for the new 'Hispanic' census label? I expect mestizos to continue using it but I imagine the next generation of castizo children will abandon it for 'white'
Crowstep
18d ago
Ah, Margaret Thatcher, universally loved and respected across the political spectrum. Not to mention a bizarre choice for a Trump supporter given her antipathy for the working class, out-of-touchness robotic character and neoliberalism. This smacks more of someone you agree with rather than an objective measure of quality or intellect, no?
She didn't need to be universally loved across the political spectrum, honestly, I'd struggle to name a politician who was.
The fact is, she won three elections and was the longest serving prime minister for over 150 years. She was, objectively, an extremely successful politician.
My only experience with a NP was getting misdiagnosed with asthma when I had whooping cough. The actual doctor (when I did see her) diagnosed me correctly in about a second. Prior to that I didn't really know what a nurse practitioner was.
I certainly agree that the doctors' cartel (the British Medical Association) are a gang of scoundrels though. The UK has a chronic shortage of doctors and a chronic oversupply of students who want to be, and are smart enough to be doctors. But the BMA artificially limits places at medical schools to keep their wages up, leaving the UK reliant on imported doctors who are objectively worse (with no disrespect to @selfmadehuman, I'm sure you're great).
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