erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
5hr ago
It's "hand" in Latin, pronounced "ma-nus".
erwgv3g34
6hr ago
Modern Samwise Gamgee would have come home to find out that Rose Cotton cheated on him with Jody Took and the government that he fought so hard to defend would steal half his shit and give it to her (because Sam married Rosie for BAH before deploying).
erwgv3g34
6hr ago
If you want to lock up the most criminal-looking 5% of each cohort as they enter the peak crime-committing years, you either need to start letting them out in large numbers (which Bukele has promised not to do) or you end up with 5% of the population in prison, which is probably unsustainable.
In the long run, they simply have to be executed. Keeping them locked up is unsustainable (and runs the risk that some later administration will release them, like a sealed evil from a fantasy novel), exile is infeasible, and the state no longer allows private individuals to dispose of them through e.g. lynching.
erwgv3g34
8hr ago
"a" being the keyword. As in, just one. Whereas being the top sportsball player or rockstar can get you swarms of girls fighting over you.
Not working for me, either. But that's not unusual; it sometimes stops working for a bit. Give it a few hours and try again.
EDIT: It's back online.
The fundamental problem is that female desires are inherently impossible to fulfill. Each woman wants to be the exclusive wife of an alpha male, but there simply aren't enough alphas to go around. If Chad has a soft harem of five girls, and you force him to settle down, then he can only settle down with one of them, leaving the other four in the lurch. Whichever girl that dated Leonardo DiCaprio before turning 25 gets to keep him, deprives all other girls of Leonardo DiCaprio.
From Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization:
It is sometimes said that men are polygamous and women monogamous. Such a belief is often implicit in the writings of male conservatives: women only want good husbands, but heartless men use and abandon them. Some evidence does appear, prima facie, to support such a view. One 1994 survey found that “while men projected they would ideally like 6 sex partners over the next year, and 8 over the next two years, women responded that their ideal would be to have only one partner over the next year. And over two years? The answer, for women, was still one.” Is not this evidence that women are naturally monogamous?
No it is not. Women know their own sexual urges are unruly, but traditionally have had enough sense to keep quiet about it. A husband’s belief that his wife is naturally monogamous makes for his own peace of mind. It is not to a wife’s advantage, either, that her husband understand her too well: knowledge is power. In short, we have here a kind of Platonic “noble lie”—a belief which is salutary, although false.
It would be more accurate to say that the female sexual instinct is hypergamous. Men may have a tendency to seek sexual variety, but women have simple tastes in the manner of Oscar Wilde: they are always satisfied with the best. By definition, only one man can be the best. These different male and female “sexual orientations” are clearly seen among the lower primates, e.g., in a baboon pack. Females compete to mate at the top, males to get to the top.
Women, in fact, have a distinctive sexual utopia corresponding to their hypergamous instincts. In its purely utopian form, it has two parts: (1) she mates with her incubus, the imaginary perfect man, and (2) he “commits,” or ceases mating with all other women. This is the formula of much pulp romance fiction. The fantasy is strictly utopian, partly because no perfect man exists, but partly also because even if he did, it is logically impossible for him to be the exclusive mate of all the women who desire him
Alphaize the betas? Not going to work. Much of what makes men alpha is zero-sum; fame, status, leader of men, etc. We are all richer and taller than we were before the industrial revolution. Doesn't mean women are suddenly much more attracted to the average man; it just means they keep looking for the top 20%.
Women's wants cannot be satisfied, and we are going extinct trying. Since they are going to be unhappy no matter what, we might as well go back to what worked for the last 5000 years; forcibly pair off each woman while she still young, virginal, and fertile, to a beta who is willing to do the work of building and fighting to support his civilization.
erwgv3g34
17hr ago
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18hr ago
erwgv3g34
1d ago
Knowing that other women find a man attractive is one of the most reliable triggers of female attraction. Look up preselection, social proof, and mate-choice copying. PUAs are well aware of this, and will use tricks like going out to pick up chicks while wearing a fake wedding ring.
It's not that women want their man to cheat of them, exactly; but neither do they want a man who is so unattractive that he has no opportunity to ever cheat. The female fantasy is a man who is so sexy that he plowed through a legion of girls before settling down with her, then remains loyal to his wife even though other girls keep propositioning him. But, by revealed preferences, women would much rather forgive a cheater than date a man who has no prospects of ever cheating; better to share an alpha than to have a whole beta to herself.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Doesn't matter what the lawyers say or what you sign; a judge can decide to throw it all out and put you on the hook for child support because it's in the child's best interests. Sperm bank donors have strong precedent protecting them from this, and the knowledge from the legal system that the entire institution would collapse if they allowed donors to be sued; you don't.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but be aware of the very real risk that they divorce later down the line and whoever gets custody chooses to come after you; like Parfit's hitchhiker, they cannot credibly precommit not to defect at a later time once it is in their interest to do so.
Podcasts, audiobooks, radio dramas, and music. Some recommendations:
- One-Shots
- Series
- Audie Award Winners
- LibriVox
- Isaac Asimov Audio Book Collection
- Dimension X
- X Minus One
- Escape Pod
- PodCastle
- PseudoPod
- The Drabblecast
- The Methods of Rationality Podcast
- Rationally Speaking
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast
- "#25 – Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do"
- "#32 – Bryan Caplan on whether the Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders"
- "#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs"
- "#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news"
- The Bayesian Conspiracy
- Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot
[1] https://files.catbox.moe/ihpyci.mp3
[2] https://archive.org/download/EscapePodCompleteMP3Collection/EP200_AllYouZombies.mp3
[3] https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rationallyspeakingpodcast/rs135-9.mp3
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Apparently she had seen a receipt for a fairly expensive gift for a woman and that had not been her birthday present. She assumed I was buying for my mistress. Because? She’s Japanese.
I keep hearing online about Japan's cheating culture; is it true?
The receipt was for her Christmas gift, still hidden in our tatami room closet, and I made the decision that confessing this was probably more helpful than keeping the surprise.
You had the opportunity to do the funniest thing (rent-a-girlfriend and try to keep the charade going until the 25th).
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Or perhaps he is wondering why someone would create an acronym for non-whites if all races are equal.
erwgv3g34
4d ago
Couldn't you just avoid that by, you know, not drinking? I'm a pretty big fan of that. Alcohol just makes people act like idiots, and being a teetotaler seems to me like a much smaller imposition than never being alone with a woman who is not your girlfriend/wife/family.
Yes; the usual way to attract female costumers into a male IP is to toss in a romance subplot, such as Han/Leia in Star Wars. Putting a chick in it and making her gay and lame attracts nobody, as has been empirically proven. The reason they keep doing it is because modern games and movies are made by people who hate the IP, and hate its fans.
erwgv3g34
5d ago
Have seen only the first avatar movie as a kid.
How old are you? That movie came out in 2009. Which was only... 16 years ago?!
erwgv3g34
7d ago
If you look at the way people actually use smartphones, they spend several hours texting, watching videos, and playing games for every hour they spend talking. These are all activities that benefit from a larger screen, so phones have evolved to become as large as possible while still (barely) fitting inside a pocket or purse.
erwgv3g34
8d ago
If Sisko was white, it would not make the show any worse.
Ummmm, ackshually, this is demonstrably untrue for at least the episode Q-Less. Q was accustomed to pasty ass Starfleet officers like Picard. He was not prepared for fisticuffs with a real one.
Kirk would have totally punched Q, too. It's not a race thing, it's a Picard thing; he is insufficiently aggressive for a military officer (in the show, anyway; movie!Picard is almost a completely different character).
I backed it up on archive.org and archive.is before posting; I'll edit the link after it expires.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
I posted on 4chan earlier today, and I noticed that the CAPTCHAs have basically turned into IQ tests, requiring the user to select which abstract image from a group of five does not belong. I was amused, and I understand that it is necessary to create tougher filters to screen LLM-assisted bots, but I wonder what the long term impact of such gatekeeping will be? At this rate, I will not be surprised in a few months when sites start requiring users to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices!
The problem with making older men whole on their social security contributions is that
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That money is gone, long since spent on whatever stupid shit the government does (by this point, social security is old enough that the money has chiefly been spent paying out social security benefits to even older men, who are now dead).
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Social security always promised more out in benefits than was paid it. It was structured like a pyramid scheme, and inherently reliant on forcing every new member of an exponentially increasing population to enroll at gunpoint. So when fertility collapsed...
The only ways to keep giving old people their promised benefits is one of:
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Keep borrowing money until nobody is willing to lend anymore. We already owe Lord Tywin three million gold; what's another 80,000?
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Keep printing money to inflate away the entitlements. Sufficiently high inflation is indistinguishable from a default.
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Keep importing immigrants to pay for the benefits, replacing your people to kick the can down the road a few more years. Except, a lot of those immigrants are going on welfare and making the problem worse. Hispanics and H1-Bs are productive; Sub-Saharan Africans, MENAs, and Haitian refugees are not.
erwgv3g34
13d ago
The Haredi are parasites; they support themselves by stealing from others through the welfare state. We need to find a sustainable, productive population with positive TFR and emulate it. I was hoping the Mormons would be it, but apparently their fertility has collapsed as well?
From "The Right to Marry" by Sister Y:
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