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
9hr 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9hr 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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1d 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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3d 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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3d 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
Netflix's entire strategy of the last decade plus has been to license less and produce more in house.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d 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
3d 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
This looks more like a covid effect than anything else.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5d 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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7d 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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7d ago
Him looking like the guy they're looking for is a pretty good reason.
sarker
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8d ago
She was 12 in Taxi Driver.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d 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
9d 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d 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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9d 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").
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
In a nice suburb you have access to some parks, playgrounds and like. (You could say you have access to parks and playgrounds and like in a city, too, but cities get the drawbacks from higher population density.)
If we're cherry picking just the nice suburbs, we're gonna have to cherry pick the nice urban neighborhoods too.
In my suburban neighborhood, the nearest park is nearly a mile away and requires crossing a five lane state highway. That park is about 150 feet square.
I kind view that this structured activity craze is pushed by adult FOMO.
Correct. Where do you think you find such adults? They move to the suburbs.
I though myself as a bit of loner nerdy kid and yet I had spent a great deal of unplanned hanging around time in friends' places after school and during weekends, and then we got ideas.
How old are you and where are you from? The situation is very different today. I know there are young kids on my street because I see them with their parents, but they do not play outside. My parents live in a neighborhood a few teenagers on the block and they are similarly never seen. The suburban reality today is phones and extracurriculars.
Regarding transportation, ideally really I'd find a bikeable neighborhood. Chances for that are better in suburbia than a city.
Assuming "bikeable" means that you can get somewhere you want to be, I wouldn't be so sure. The suburban housing division I grew up in was bikeable in the sense that you can bike around the subdivision and the streets are pretty quiet, but if you even wanted to get to the mall you'd have to bike on a 45MPH road without a bike lane. Urban cores don't even have roads with speed limits like that these days.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
No, I don't trust the notification because I don't see any mechanism that prevents microphone from working while not displaying the notification, those are completely different systems, and the only thing linking them is software. Which is extremely fallible. If I break the electric circuit, I'd trust the laws of physics to prevent the microphone from working.
That you think the mechanism is fallible doesn't mean there isn't one.
Doesn't have to be Facebook, could be google feeding some data into one of a myriad of data aggregators, and ad platforms just using the end result of that.
This is not how Google's business model works. Selling user data to other companies defeats the purpose. If you're seeing Facebook ads for stuff you talked about IRL, I guarantee that information doesn't come from Google.
phone manufacturers aren't those who profit from ads
Facebook isn't a phone manufacturer.
sarker
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10d ago
This isn't NIMBYs (who mostly don't want you to build halfway houses for criminals and/or the mentally ill, or dense pod housing, next to them)
That's the sanewashed position. The reality is that NIMBYs are against duplexes and fourplexes too.
sarker
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10d ago
Not untrue, but how many years one spends as a teenager? 4 years from 14 to 18 perhaps? Substantial but a minority fraction compared to time one is a kid, and not that large fraction of human lifespan.
Small children play in the yard with their dads. By the time they're six, they're old enough to play with friends on their own. Options for autonomous play are extremely limited in suburbia which means that kids basically play in front of the house on the driveway or, if the street is quiet enough, on the street.
Kids under sixteen rely on their parents to drive them to every single activity since they have no other means of transportation. That means those activities are usually planned by the parents too. So much for intellectual growth.
boredom is supposedly good for intellectual growth anyway
It's 2025. Nobody's going to be bored, they'll just scroll tiktok if there's no point going outside except when Mom drags them to soccer practice.
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.
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