hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
12hr ago
But starvation isn't a real problem in the modern west. People who can't afford food will be taken care of- possibly by food waste, but more often by charity- either private, government, or informal(eg the donut shop worker giving unsold product to the homeless at close instead of throwing it out for raccoons).
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Actually a century ago Catholic immigrants mostly only married within their own little niche ethnic group. Irish-Polish Catholic marriages were more encouraged by the Church, but not by the immigrant communities themselves.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
But given fertility rates, that's the case for people too- essentially voluntarily.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
The true robot apocalypse where we all lose our jobs will only come when Clippy returns at the head of his AI army. It's a millenarian cult now and I'm going to treat it like one.
I'm sorry but the constant 'but AI is gaining in capabilities' ignores one thing- yes, yes it is, but those capabilities don't actually correspond to anything. Yes, it can reduce secretarial workload, and that will over time drastically reduce the number of secretaries, but mostly through not replacing retirees. Good thing the population's shrinking! In the meantime, I get a raise because AI hardware raises the wages for people that work on cooling systems(and electricians, too). The lower working class, that could theoretically be replaced by trained monkeys(but training the monkeys is not cost-competitive with $15/hr), yeah, a computer that knows how to flip burgers was possible in, like, 1982- still hasn't happened, because hands, you know, Claude doesn't have them. McDonald's uses lots of robots in their kitchen. None of them have hands, they're not a replacement for local teenagers.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
All of these shootings were motivated by the spiders in the shooters' brains. Trans plausibly, but it can't be proven after the fact, made those spiders worse or pushed them over the edge, sure, but these people did it because they were crazy- and that applies to both the shootings and the becoming trans.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
How is anime not normie-adjacent? It's extremely popular almost everywhere.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Trans communities do seem to pathologically validate, even when they're clearly wrong. That's what 'self ID' is.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, unemployed, uneducated men with poor social skills are losers though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, China meets all of your criteria while being poor.
It’s quite common for communist countries to have good public transportation, urban infrastructure, etc while having very low PPP.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You know I am not a tech worker, right?
Affording a mail order bride/passport bro wife(I don’t quite know the difference between the two, and I suspect there isn’t one) is doable for a man earning mildly above median(which is a very reasonable expectation in a high opportunity society), because there are many such men who have done it. And most men don’t have to, thé average 35 year old man is married. The point is that unmarried western men who are genuinely above average in desirability are unmarried because they choose to be, perhaps by priority- not because there are no options.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’m not disputing that something is broken in a system where guys who round to average and aren’t doing anything wrong need to go to foreignstan to find a wife often enough for it to be a discussed phenomenon(to be perfectly fair, this system isn’t great for women either). Just saying that ‘incels’ aren’t an actual thing- they don’t ’just Want a wife’, those are available assuming these guys aren’t just, giant losers, and basement dwellers wouldn’t have been married in 1955 either(there were just fewer of them). The craving for validation from a specific kind of woman is a different phenomenon entirely, and while it’s not entirely unprecedented it’s also… look, these guys want to be rock stars. It’s not a totally natural response to circumstances, thé history of loveless men is pretty long and it tends to look like broadening thé search pool, not like endless public whining about the need to restructure society completely.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So have the government arrange marriages for the conscientious.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
American rents are higher, but you do get more for your money- IDK how much it cancels out, but a lot of ways in which America is more expensive(mostly not groceries though) are like that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm glad to see I have some followers around here.
In practice, a truly no-fault divorce free marriage in the modern world requires a subculture in which every single one of your friends and acquaintances testifies against the spouse who wanted the divorce. The only successful ones so far have been religious.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are no non-loser first world men who are involuntarily celibate, you can passport bro if it comes down to it(and even if you have strong ethnic preferences, very poor countries with lots of white women exist)- but it usually doesn't. I don't know if it'll stay at that point forever, but most men can get themselves into a long term relationship, even if they're pretty average(and average is a broad term). Yes, this might entail lowering your standards, you're probably not that much of a catch either.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Something needs to be done about the womanosphere.
Young women are fed a deluge of propaganda by social media teaching them that 150% of men they meet will rape them, that spousal abuse is common(and highly unpredictable), etc etc. The insane scaremongering serves the purpose of driving young women to the left by painting right wing men, in particular, as unusually bad/predatory/abusive- and their own male allies serve as a useful illustration of how men are just too dangerous to trust, you don't need to want to be an independent girlboss.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My comment was not about their faces; it was that these ‘ideal girls’ were so skinny as to lack many of the, uh, development of features associated with physical maturity in women. Westerners just like their women a bit curvier on average even if that means they’re not quite as skinny.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I freely admit that in this, and many, specific cases, poor male driving is the cause of women backseat driving, but also the ‘women be talking’ stereotype totally drives much backseat driving which is entirely unrelated to such things.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most of the women in the groups she was talking about were, themselves, autistic men, I suspect.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What she wants is Marxism, and the history of attempts at implementing Marxism leaves quite a few industrialized, modern societies. They’re just poor and shitty.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And are they spent on anything that benefits Phoebe in any way?
Yes. Aside from free healthcare, thé heavy subsidization of women being girlbosses enables her lifestyle in a way it doesn’t for men.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, didnt Finnish drinking decline due to a government campaign?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Costa Rica aside
Costa Rica performs much better by purchasing power than it’s GDP would suggest, and it’s surrounded by basket cases so it looks even better in comparison.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don’t claim to be the expert on what Chinese/mongolian phenotypes are and how they contrast, but somebody looking for a Mongolian look searching ‘Chinese’ seems very, very believable to me, because they’re probably not the experts either.
I’m wondering what you’re basing this off, because most informed speculation is that ‘white’ as a social category underestimates thé percentage of phenotypically European cultural Americans.
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