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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
Bob Dylan: I'm not even going to address this.
... because he so obviously should be included, or shouldn't?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
I'd just like to take this opportunity to once again thank you for all the hard work you put in to make this space possible. You really are the unsung hero of this place, I'm proud to make my monthly Patreon donation, and would encourage anyone else who appreciates the work Zorba puts in to match it.
Not that I don't believe your account, but I'm curious if anyone's done a proper longitudinal study on the efficacy of vapes as a means of weaning oneself off tobacco. I've known more than one person who bought a vape for this explicit purpose, but after a few pints would inevitably get a craving and buy a box of fags. They'd just doubled up their nicotine intake.
I despise the environmental impact of disposable vapes, there's something profoundly unsightly about seeing discarded chunks of bright plastic on the side of the road. I particularly hate the way they design them to look like toys with rounded corners and bright eye-catching colours, a transparent and shameless effort to make them appeal to children. (Under EU law, cigarettes must be sold in plain standardised cartons using a colour scheme selected by graphic designers as the ugliest in the visual spectrum: by rights, this legislation ought to apply to vapes as well.) That goes double for vape shops themselves, which are invariably garish eyesores rightly derided as one of the most aesthetically displeasing aspects of the modern Yookay. And while Irish people have successfully internalised the idea that it's impolite to smoke cigarettes indoors unless given the express permission of the owner or resident, a lot of people seem to think that this basic common courtesy doesn't apply to vapes. I do not want my flat smelling like candyfloss any more than I want it smelling like John Player, thank you very much.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
What kind of social circle is this? It sounds like one profoundly unrepresentative of Western society as a whole.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Physical media stages a real comeback beyond vinyl.
How do you think this will work in practice? Will we see renewed interest in Blu-ray or DVD players?
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1d ago
I can imagine a big backlash against vaping, with legislation designed to make it harder for children to get their hands on them and heavy taxes on disposable vapes.
Still reading de la Rochefoucald's maxims. A few I took photos of on my phone:
Absence makes average passions decrease and great ones increase, just as wind extinguishes candles and kindles a fire.
What makes us so bitter against people who act cunningly is the fact that they think they are cleverer than we are.
(In recent weeks, a man tried to scam me into letting him use my parking space without paying for it. Another man punched me in the face. For the reasons outlined above, I was far angrier about the former.)
We readily forgive our friends for faults that do not affect us.
We try to pride ourselves on the faults we do not want to correct.
The same pride that makes us criticise the faults we think we do not have, also leads us to feel disdain for the good qualities we do not have.
Moderation has been turned into a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to comfort average people for their lack of fortune and lack of merit.
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2d ago
You are still thinking that the respondent is giving advice on how to get laid. She is doing no such thing.
The article is literally called "All the Dating Advice, Again".
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
But this is the exact point of disagreement – I don't think there's any correlation between being a "decent guy" (read: feminist) and getting laid. It's trivial to find examples of men who aren't decent guys and yet have no trouble attracting women. So the advice is worse than useless.
I think self-driving cars will become a massive new culture war battleground. Industries that stand to benefit from human drivers (e.g. taxi drivers, Uber drivers etc.) will be relentlessly pushing every story they can find about how dangerous self-driving cars are, and we will see "scientific" "studies" with the headline finding that self-driving cars actually get into more accidents than human-driven cars per mile driven (and then you dig into it and you find that the severity of the accidents in the former case is vastly lower than in the latter). Meanwhile, Waymo et al. (along with car insurance providers) will be relentlessly touting the safety of their own vehicles and pushing stories about other kinds of dangers associated with human drivers (e.g. expect to see a lot of stories about women getting raped or sexually harassed by Uber drivers).
Eventually some city will experiment by rolling out self-driving taxis and refusing to issue any new taxi licenses for human drivers. This city will have a vastly reduced rate of automobile deaths and insurance payouts compared to peer cities, and the battleground will be quietly ceded in self-driving cars' favour.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
the prevalence of GLP-1 products and will negate the unspoken reason that high-waisted mom jeans got popular.
Hey, you said no politics!
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2d ago
In "Radicalising the Romanceless", Scott provided a prime example:
Step I. Consume More Art By Women – I think it’s a good idea to make a deliberate year-long project of it at this time in your life, when you are trying to figure out how to relate to women better…Use woman-created media to to remind yourself that the world isn’t only about you + men + women who have/have not rejected you as a romantic partner.
Sometimes I wonder if the person who wrote this actually believed that consuming art by female artists would make a man more desirable to women, or if she was just trying to line the pockets of her fellow female creatives.
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2d ago
This is the correct answer. f1nn5ter, Avocado and Clavicular himself are all particularly morbid examples of the perils of audience capture.
Well, that's the thing. "Looking like a woman" is a heuristic, not a definition. It's reasonable to assume that something that walks like a duck and talks like a duck is a duck. But the existence of entities that resemble ducks but are not in fact ducks doesn't mean that our definition of the word "duck" is lacking: it just means that the heuristic we were using sometimes produces false positives, and that's okay. Heuristics by their very nature are imperfect. Definitions, by contrast, are supposed to be definitive. "Anyone who looks like a woman is a woman" is a bad definition by virtue of being circular, and it wouldn't even satisfy most trans activists as it makes trans identification contingent on passing. It also leads to absurd conclusions, like the idea that a man wearing makeup and a wig becomes a woman by so doing, but then reverts back to being a man once he takes them off.
Was the progressive claim really that misogynists find it impossible to get laid?
I'm old enough to remember when the stock piece of advice feminists offered to sexually frustrated straight men was "be more feminist" and "of course women like nice guys – that's why you can't get laid, because you're not one" and so on. "The reason Nice Guys™ can't get laid is because they don't Respecc Wahmen enough" was a core tenet of what Scott calls geek feminism, and still lives on in how progressives use the term "incel" as a term of abuse towards any man whose opinions are deemed insufficiently socially progressive. See this comment by a poster who expressly believes that any woman who dates a conservative man must be mentally ill and filled with unconscious self-loathing:
My subjective observation would be that that attitude - women are liars, women are picky, etc. - about women leaks out into interactions with them, and, understandably, they, or I supposed “we”, do not want to get romantically or sexually involved with someone who thinks so poorly of “us”... I would recommend that loveless men consider one solution to their lack of success in the dating market is to re-examine their overall attitude about women and see if that isn’t playing a part as to why women are not responding the way you want them to.
I devoted several comments to attempting to rebut this reasoning as facile.
Birth rates in socially conservative countries and communities clearly prove that to be incorrect regardless of what ‘Clavicular’ is doing.
In fairness, feminists might legitimately rebut that misogynists can only get laid in socially conservative countries where women are afforded very little freedom in their choice of sexual partners, and that in a free society no woman of sound mind would voluntarily choose to go to bed with a misogynist. They tend to get very defensive when you provide them with some examples of men with backwards attitudes to women who nevertheless have no trouble attracting them.
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2d ago
It's just terrible optics for progressive gender values when a neurotic out-and-out misogynist influencer faces little trouble picking up young attractive women in Miami.
I've seen several compilation videos of him trying to pick up girls in assorted locales and striking out. Maybe it's a numbers game, but "little trouble" seems to be exactly what he's facing i.e. he's not effortlessly hoovering up pussy without a care.
When I worked in a hotel, rubber or gel insoles were a godsend.
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3d ago
I think term limits for senators and congresspeople would mitigate this effect substantially.
But is that downstream of natal biology, or of assumed gender during childhood and adolescence?
Congratulations, your hypothesis is unfalsifiable.
If a trans-identified male behaves in a conventionally feminine manner or has conventionally feminine interests, that's proof that he's a woman trapped in a man's body. If a trans-identified male behaves in a conventionally masculine manner or has conventionally masculine interests, that's proof that he was socialised as male against his will. Under this rubric, there is literally nothing a trans-identified male can do that might reasonably lead one to question his trans identification.
You're constantly gushing about Eliezer Yudkowsky and the Sequences, but seem to have failed to internalise a message he hammered home a lot therein: if a theory explains everything, it explains nothing.
You'll also notice that many gay men have conventionally feminine interests in spite of their gender being (correctly) assumed to be male throughout childhood and adolescence.
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3d ago
I do think penises are ugly and weird
Some and some.
I don't think that all trans-identified males are entitled pornsick men, and have a certain amount of sympathy for the homosexual variety (per Blanchard's typology). But plenty of them are, and aren't even being discreet about it.
is this a Kafka-trap wherein the mere fact of Alice claiming to be a woman while being AMAB is proof of her being 'an entitled and pornsick man'?
A Kafkatrap is when denying an accusation of X is taken as evidence that the accusation is well-founded. I have never claimed that anyone who denies being pornsick therefore is pornsick. Even the claim "any man who claims to be trans is entitled and pornsick" wouldn't be an example of a Kafkatrap, although that isn't the claim I made. I don't believe all trans-identified males are pornsick, nor all pornsick men trans. I believe this was abundantly obvious from my original comment.
Out of curiosity, what kind of smut is it? Hetero/homo/both?
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