FtttG
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FtttG
1d ago
Only a small minority of women have the sort of ideal breasts that earn you a Playboy photoshoot, so small that it’s impossible to fill all titty mags only with pictures of them.
Interesting question - has there ever been a lad's mag which specifically marketed itself with the USP of only featuring breasts without implants?
FtttG
1d ago
I think they were able to pay in instalments, half upfront and half at the end of the second semester. I think several droppped out without paying the second half, but I'm not sure. But you're right, quite a big chunk of cheddar, especially given quite a few were international students.
FtttG
1d ago
The fees for my master's were €8k. But you're right: my understanding is that in Italy, it's pretty normal for people to be constantly enrolled in a post-grad course which they spend years finishing, more or less explicitly so that they can avail of student discounts at cinemas, coffee shops etc.
FtttG
3d ago
That was more or less the conclusion of the link I shared in the paragraph about sex-positive feminism: that a lot of women experience regret after one-night stands. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't enjoy the experience in the moment. In contrast, most men seem not to regret one-night stands and presumably enjoy them in the moment too.
I'm not "perturbed" by anything: it's simply that your assertion that everyone on the Motte works in Silicon Valley is extremely obviously erroneous.
I don't know if we've ever done a user survey here, but Scott does one of his readers every year, and only 58% of his readers live in the US, and less than 50% work in computer science-related fields. If you assume that there's a lot of overlap between the kinds of people who read Scott and the kinds of people who post here, I'd hazard a guess that at most forty per cent of Motte users work in Silicon Valley - quite a long ways from "all" or "a very strong correlation". I wouldn't be remotely surprised if the real figure was as low as twenty per cent, or ten.
TracingWoodgrains did a user survey back in the Reddit days and only two-thirds of posters lived in the US (I don't know how much the demographics have changed since the migration from Reddit).
I will admit that there are few types of fallacious argument I find more obnoxious than sneering Bulverism, especially when it's based on an untrue assertion.
FtttG
4d ago
Sure. But "someone who is immersed in the rationalist milieu" and "someone who works in Silicon Valley" are not synonymous, as numerous commenters have taken great pains to explain to you.
FtttG
4d ago
Every normal Christian in America has heard of the Mormon church.
FtttG
4d ago
114k on my NaNoWriMo project. I would like to say that the end is in sight, but who knows. It actually feels like it's getting harder and harder the closer I get to the finish line. If I'd known that, when I'd finished my initial 50k words at the end of November, that would represent less than half of a first draft - I'm not sure I would have started in the first place.
FtttG
4d ago
Never do they acknowledge that the addicts bear any blame
Wasn't that pretty much the entire point of that paragraph of my original post?
FtttG
4d ago
Would I be right in saying Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman were not personally responsible for the genocide of any ethnically distinct Native American tribes?
FtttG
4d ago
You will find that people in mental health find the current paradigms on these matters to be extremely deleterious to human development and flourishing.
Just because the people who work in the industry think that these paradigms aren't conducive to human flourishing, doesn't mean the paradigms in question didn't ultimately arise within that industry. I'm sure there are Catholic priests who have misgivings about this or that component of Vatican doctrine, or people who work in the gambling industry who feel guilty about how they've been complicit in ruining so many lives.
Competent therapists will emphasize this early and often and actually do it.
Of course, but lots of therapists are incompetent and aren't weeded out quickly enough, if at all.
FtttG
4d ago
Relevant: https://youtube.com/watch?v=isafYIg0o3c?si=Ag1feI3cQNjZ8ZQM
I don't know how good AI is at generating a video of a woman pissing into her own mouth but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
Richard Hanania is constantly beating the drum about "low human capital" people believing in conspiracy theories, which seems like the most obvious example. Working-class Dale Gribble voters believing in the New World Order, UN black helicopters, microchips in Covid vaccines etc. are so common as to be a cliché; the rare elites who believe in conspiracies are "man bites dog" stories.
I, @FarNearEverywhere and @Tollund_Man4 are Irish and live in Ireland, the former two residing there and the latter in France. @self_made_human and @mrvanillasky are both Indian, with the former residing in the UK.
As for the claim that the only people who care about those topics are people who live in Silicon Valley: have you not noticed that the entire world has been talking about AI nonstop for the past two years? Have you not noticed what a hot-button issue the trans stuff is in every Western nation, to the point that Trump signed an executive order banning men from competing in women's sports, and the UK Supreme Court recently had to rule on the definition of the word "woman"? Indian caste dynamics are of profound import to the 1.5 billion people who live in India (even if only 1% of those people express an opinion about caste dynamics, that's still five times the population of Silicon Valley), never mind the diaspora. There's been a nationwide campaign of arson against Tesla because of the outsized power Musk wields (wielded?) as part of DOGE.
Of the items on your list, polyamory and Aella sound like the only ones to me which are uniquely Silicon Valley-coded.
FtttG
5d ago
I think this question came up before, and I suggested hard-line anti-abortion. It's easy for a wealthy conservative man to proclaim that no one should ever have an abortion, as by virtue of his wealth, he and his family are insulated from most of the "use cases" in which an abortion might be preferable to carrying a baby to term. Whereas a working-class woman who gets pregnant unexpectedly might find that carrying the baby to term is financially ruinous.
FtttG
5d ago
Well actually my point is that there are plenty of self-identified trans women who don't even put on a dress or try to speak in a more high-pitched voice.
Oh thanks, I missed that.
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