Throwaway05
1d ago
Dying to understand the significance of the three question marks.
Gossiping with your girlies about men's performance is very female coded. A spreadsheet (or document) with detailed stats is very male coded.
So am I. The spreadsheet stays.😁
I like my balls attached, thanks.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Fair dinkum - my standard for what a 9 or a 10 is is something like "is a model" "could be a model" "if you told your friends she was a model they would believe it." With a 10 being more of a get drunk with your bros and sass each other and they won't disagree she is a 10 even though that is a big brag.
I don't think I've thought of it the terms you describe but it's an interesting thought. If a 10 means 99.9th percentile then it really means something, but I suspect you'd run into taste issues. Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, and Lisa (Blackpink) are all probably 10s by any objective standard but if you go by 99.9th percentile for an individual man's interest then at least one of those three is likely to get thrown out most of the time (see: the hate for Zendaya here).
Throwaway05
1d ago
I am an adult in a committed relationship now. For legal reasons any spreadsheet would have been deleted looooong ago.
I did have a (female???) friend who kept detailed information on her phone with phallus stats, which should would whip out at parties from time to time.
That was always horrifying and amusing.
Throwaway05
1d ago
As a contra anecdote - I've also slept with lots of women, and I've found my level of attractiveness varying quite a bit over the course of my life so I've done a decent range.
I've found this meme to be an exaggeration but mostly true. Plenty of mid women are mid in bed, but the gorgeous women were way more likely to be bad, especially 9s and 10s. Being bad in bed doesn't always mean unenthusiastic, but plenty of 9s and 10s just didn't know how to do anything. Importantly this sometimes included what they liked - since they knew they could count on a man trying as hard as possible they never put much effort into figuring themselves out either, much less a dick.
Might be enthusiastic, but technical skills were rare.
Women have a meme about men with big dicks being bad in bed, and similarly it's not universally true but really does seem to capture the heart of it.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Of all my time on the motte and its predecessors it is this thread that most makes me feel like i'm living in a different world from some of you.
Throwaway05
7d ago
I'm like do people like this stuff?
Compare Biggie to modern rap or Livin' la Vida Loca to whatever this is.... like damn we've gone down hill.
Throwaway05
7d ago
The choreography was great! The themes and story telling and politics was clever as hell even if I don't agree with it.
I could barely tell that all of his stuff was supposed to be separate songs, and it didn't translate to a live performance well.
But I hear other people talk about it and I feel like I'm missing something.
Throwaway05
8d ago
I enjoy bright lights and catchy music.
What catchy music? The guy mumbled in Spanish for 14 minutes.
The 3 seconds of Gasolina and the bit of Ricky Martin was way more catchy than the whole rest of the show.
Throwaway05
8d ago
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
The real world is complicated and messy.
Pacifism is good until you run into an African Warlord or Cartel.
Free exchange of knowledge is good until everyone has a matter printer and can destroy the planet.
Don't lie, cheat, or steal is great until you are an Oskar Schindler trying to save lives.
Sometimes your principles are worth dying for, but making other people die for them isn't really right either.
Shit is complicated.
Throwaway05
8d ago
Horror themed LITRPG - much less level up slop (which I love!) and more "your skills are horror movie tropes and you level up by using them."
The characters are trying to solve an overarching horror mystery by "playing" movies - your class might be Final Girl, or Jock and the Jock can make sure he gets in a fight with the monster and lets everyone get away for one scene but dies (and then comes back at the end if someone in the party makes it).
Creative idea done much better than normal for the genre.
Throwaway05
9d ago
I mean principles erode in war time and the culture war is a war - I'm very free speech, live and let live etc but I see what the woke have done and feel it is toxic to society etc.
Throwaway05
9d ago
Discharges and summaries that would take half a day or more get done in ten minutes, and senior doctors have been blown away by the efficiency and quality gains.
Charting is not supposed to be the majority of the job and is more or less a recent invention (in the US at least).
I find OpenEvidence and other similar tools to be relatively unhelpful, especially since I generally have to cross reference.
Throwaway05
9d ago
This included a pair of high-waisted grandpa trousers.
My understanding is that these exist for men with no hips after their ass shrinks from old age.
cough
Throwaway05
9d ago
ook 7 of the Twelve Miles Below saga was much more satisfying than the end of book 6!
I'm pleased to hear this!
Have you read The Game at Carousel? I forget if we've talked about this.
Throwaway05
11d ago
Thanks for the links!
Throwaway05
11d ago
Wes Moore: A Study in Media Bias.
Those who have been following the upcoming election cycle may have noted that Wes Moore (current governor of Maryland) has quietly been dropped from top ten lists and is starting to be listed as someone who might not run.
This raises some questions – he’s popular, charismatic, ethnically preferable, a Clooney favorite. What happened if he was so ascendent?
The answer is… unbiased investigative reporting, that for now is mostly swept under the rug but would certainly pop up in the primary and beyond.
The Washington Free Beacon has done two reports on Moore in recent months that are probably best considered bombshells and exclusionary.
- His academic credentials appear to have been heavily fabricated.
- A widely told anecdote about his ancestor fleeing from the KKK appears entirely fictious.
The reporting on this reasoned, clear, pretty close to air tight and with lots of room for fire that was held back (Mark Halperin notes that if he was the editor he would have tossed in a lot more).
Moore’s camp just says that it’s all Republican BS hit pieces, which is about as close to admission of guilt as you can get. Seeing this story, which hasn’t gotten much airtime, concerns me.
Our big media outlets just aren’t investigating (unless of course, it’s the Right). We saw this with Biden’s trivially obvious cognitive decline that now all Washington insiders admit was obvious and clear.
I’m not sure that Western society can function without bilateral media scrutiny, but you see things ignored, swept under the rug until convenient, and just discounted with “well that’s the NY Post” with no engagement of the facts.
What can we do about this, anything?
Bari Weiss taking over CBS was supposed to help, but that tree has yet to bear fruit.
Perhaps more concerningly – what else are we missing. Biden became eventually obvious, Moore got scrutiny in a presidential election. Most politically involved people know about Jay Jones’s comments.
What else is out there, well known, and not addressed because it’s on the right team?
Throwaway05
11d ago
Plenty of people disagree on that description of Jan 6, but the fact of the matter is that the issue at hand is about something entirely different, and I think it's concerning and embarrassing how many otherwise wise people think he would go this direction.
Throwaway05
11d ago
That's a completely different thing though.
Throwaway05
12d ago
Copy that.
Throwaway05
12d ago
Nothing about Trump running again is credible. He has none of the institutional support required to take such a big step, he's already old as hell and would be considerably older by the time it is relevant.
Such a sweeping thing for the most widely criticized president of all time would require things like the military being on board and they simply are not and there is no credible path for them to become so.
It makes no sense.
Thinking it is likely (regardless of his interest or lack) is a sign that he's broken your brain and you need to take a step back and think about actual motivations, priors, and so on.
Throwaway05
12d ago
This is a problem entirely of the lefts making.
You want to have a good argument for why they shouldn't have masks? Don't be evil.
Harassment, stalking, doxxing, and violence are the tools of evil - and the left feels that way when it happens to those they support.
The need and desire for masks are caused by the actions of the same bad actors demanding that they don't have masks.
You don't like it? Fair - but fix the actual problem first.
Throwaway05
12d ago
He's literally just trolling. One time he was meeting with Dem congressional leadership and offered them the hats.
Throwaway05
12d ago
- No Masks – Prohibit ICE and immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings.
This is what suggests to me that the situation is pure power politics. The reason for the face coverings is targeted harassment, doxing, stalking, and even violence.
Demands on this front aren't credible given the environment.
It's complaining about a problem that they caused.
Would love to see someone (with awareness of the circumstances!!) steel man the request.
Throwaway05
15d ago
Really? Do you have a link that's crazy it got (more or less) confirmed.
I mean this is where taste comes in - you'll note that she doesn't look at all like your other examples.
That said she's literally famous for being beautiful in an industry that the most beautiful people in the world go into. If getting paid millions of dollars a year to be beautiful isn't a sign of being a 10/10 then I don't know what is.
You are allowed to find her not attractive. Many people don't like um ethnic women, or women who are low on curves. That's preference, but if we are looking objectively...
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