sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20hr ago
The broader point here is that if your opportunities are coming from discord you're in trouble.
sarker
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23hr ago
You'll never get anywhere asking girls out on discord.
sarker
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1d ago
Do zoomers really ask girls out on discord?
sarker
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1d ago
You're missing the point. The watermelon we have today is the special cultivar. Presumably at some point you'd say that people who only like this cultivar don't like watermelon, and now you wouldn't.
sarker
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1d ago
60 minutes with a jade-like beauty: 160 dollars (240 Australian dollars)
Gotta love the brothel opening at 10 AM, in case any Aussies want to get a quick COOM in before lunch.
sarker
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1d ago
Humans have been developing food technology for about ten thousand years, from domestication and selective breeding to improved processing techniques. Would I find you in Middle Kingdom Egypt saying that if you don't like the bitter and poisonous watermelons of our forefathers then you don't like watermelons at all? Would you deride the sweet watermelon as "a Menhtuhotep II era invention only possible thanks to a selective breeding program"?
sarker
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2d ago
The reason for their high beneficiary status is that the men insist on studying for an exceedingly long time.
Typically, more education doesn't correlate with being more likely to be on the dole.
In Israel you have the conservative / modern orthodox who have a high TFR while living a very productive technology-forward life.
Until very recently even secular Jews in Israel had above-replacement fertility so this proves little.
sarker
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5d ago
It was a scythe actually, but directionally correct.
Doing the work yourself does not logically exclude the possibility of mechanization though.
sarker
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5d ago
Further, they produce a lot of stuff besides their signature wokeslop
So what? So does Hollywood - Oppenheimer wasn't wokeslop, and that was the third highest grossing R-rated movie ever.
sarker
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5d ago
Netflix's entire strategy of the last decade plus has been to license less and produce more in house.
sarker
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5d ago
I included the next paragraph to (futilely) head off such sufficiently motivated reasoners.
Looking at netflix subscriber numbers, there is no drop like we see in box office sales despite the median Netflix release generally being way more shitty and pozzed than the median theatre movie.
Somehow, the theory is that people are disgusted by wokeslop in theatres, but happy to gulp it down at home. Perhaps the counterclaim will be that people pay for Netflix but don't watch it, or only watch it in the background.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5d ago
Box office revenues have been dropping since covid (as seen on the chart). Assuming the trend continues past 2024, it's hardly surprising that one month would turn out abnormally bad and be the worst such month for a long time.
How does covid affect box office revenues? I don't know man, the last movie I saw in a theater was Oppenheimer. Perhaps people, having not gone to the movies during lockdown, simply decided that it's overrated.
In any case, I don't think that a priori you would expect that Hollywood's wokeness would only catch up to it only in 2020, although I'm sure a sufficiently motivated reasoner could make the case.
Looking at netflix subscriber numbers, there is no drop like we see in box office sales despite the median Netflix release generally being way more shitty and pozzed than the median theatre movie. So I really don't think this is a story of "get woke go broke" at all.
sarker
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5d ago
This looks more like a covid effect than anything else.
sarker
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6d ago
It's probably because you're almost a Britbong.
Did you like The Ginger Man? I hated that one, by the end I was hoping he and his buddies would get the lethal injection but apparently Irish people love it.
I'm currently at 20 books and I doubt I'll finish Le Morte d'Arthur in the next three weeks.
There’s almost no one I talk about it with who doesn’t reply with some variation of: A) Insecure Excuses along the lines of I WISH I had TIME to read so much, and I wasn’t so BUSY all the time [with things presumably far more important than FHM’s leisurely reading]; B) Books are Dumb along the lines of I only read blog posts summarizing non-fiction self help books; C) Braggadocio, Actually I read THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE BOOKS this year, how did you ONLY read 26.
Aren't those the three most obvious responses?
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It's cool you did this and I wish I did
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It's dumb you did this and I'm glad I didn't
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It's cool you did this and I did it too
My top books this year:
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Two Years Before the Mast: an absolutely incredible story of seamanship, camaraderie, and the old west. Reading this book in the California summer was an unforgettable experience. It is on the very knife's edge of exponential growth taking root in California that has lasted through today. Be sure to read the author's postscript on his return visit 24 years after and his son's postscript 72 years after. An unspeakable sense of nostalgia and yet also a sense of what stays the same.
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A Confederacy of Dunces: Absolutely the funniest thing I've ever read, period (and yes I've read all the Britbong funnymen). Even better if you've met a couple guys who reflect facets of the substantial and well-formed soul of Ignatius J. Reilly.
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Anna Karenina: A book like this is hard to even review, but it's certainly worth your while. One small aspect: it's deeply amusing that Tolstoy seems to think that subsistence farming is basically the right and proper mode of agricultural activity for the Russian landowning class. Disregard mechanization. Leave behind optimization. RETVRN to mowing hay from dawn to dusk with a sickle, shoulder to shoulder with the illiterate peasants. If you're making any money, you're doing it wrong.
sarker
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8d ago
It doesn't sound like arriving at the airport two hours early would have helped the situation.
Anyway, carryonchads rise up.
sarker
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8d ago
Him looking like the guy they're looking for is a pretty good reason.
sarker
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10d ago
She was 12 in Taxi Driver.
sarker
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10d ago
You should report back, I wonder if they are as warm as they look.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
I've been considering buying a pair of these but haven't justified the price.
https://www.glerups.com/products/the-boot-with-natural-rubber-sole-honey-cranberry
sarker
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10d ago
I think there's a variance in how lenient people are with shoes in the house. The other guy is telling me that it's ok because he takes his shoes off before he gets on the couch, and I've definitely been over at people's houses where they just wear shoes all the time. Not, like, getting into bed with shoes, but still.
sarker
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10d ago
The floor is considered unclean in houses where people don't wear shoes indoors.
So then you must agree that not wearing shoes in the house is more hygienic, since the floor is cleaner in such houses. Which was my original point.
What I mean by that comment was that it's a minor, mostly inconsequential cultural difference that gets blown up online because a certain subset of non-Euros/non-whites/non-Americans seem desperate for "insults" that will "stick" and so they fixate on this. I honestly think it's a lot of sour grapes, tbh, just like most "Do Americans really?"-style questions.
I'm not familiar with the "shoe in house" discourse, it's simply a salient thing many Americans do that's less hygienic than the alternatives.
I guarantee it's not sour grapes in my case because I'm an American myself.
sarker
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11d ago
I'm sorry but this is somewhere between nonsense and cope.
Our floors are treated much more like the ground outside than a clean indoor surface. We don't put pillows on the floor and lay on them, we don't eat off the ground. So it's really not a big deal.
So you admit that the floor is considered unclean in houses where people wear shoes indoors.
That said, we don't just track filth indoors -- we have doormats and it would be unthinkable to track mud or shit inside the house.
This is like an ancient Roman telling me that they don't just walk around with shit in their asscrack, they wipe with the communal sponge on a stick.
And while their floors have less outside dirt and dust, they are far from clean unless swept regularly, especially if one has kids or pets. So the difference in cleanliness is also exaggerated.
Any horizontal surface is going to accumulate dust and dirt, of course. But wearing shoes in the house isn't making it any better. It's simply inarguable that the sole of a shoe is dirtier than the sole of your foot.
But this whole meme smacks of "wypipo don season dey food" or "white people are all inbred pedos," nonsense made up out of whole cloth, or very nearly.
It's got nothing to do with wypipo. There's a lot of variation in cultural norms, but basically all of Eastern Europe takes their shoes off at home (inb4 "slavs are asiatics").
You can definitely find pallets near dumpsters, but I don't know that there's much evolutionary headroom for them.
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