@MattZeitlin the thing is that "improve your personality" is completely directionless. also, i think most people like their personalities as they are. looksmaxxing seems more dignified than pretending to be a different person to get laid
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tom bombadil
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tom bombadil
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if the bartender hitting me with a shovel is wrong, i don't want to be right https://t.co/wfGZiwTXSI he/him. born 1989
Cleveland, OH Katılım Şubat 2009
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I think many men have perhaps accurately realized theyll have better luck hammering their face and taking peptides than in trying to improve their personalities
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The rise of “looksmaxxing” seems to indicate that many modern young men have little confidence that they can acquire gf through improving their personality or learning social algorithms like the 2000s PUAs, which is curious
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@OldNGreasy @Lib_Development i think research has generally found that speeding cameras are a pretty effective way to reduce pedestrian mortality rates
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@Authw8 @Lib_Development Ok but the modal crash is a Nissan Altima with no plates going 60
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Everyone talking like this should go get behind a wheel of a car, start driving at 25mph, then stand on the brakes and see how long it takes to stop.
It’s not far!
Transportation Alternatives@TransAlt
New York City's speed cameras are only triggered when a driver is going at least 11 mph above the speed limit. Going 26 mph in a school zone with a 15 mph speed limit is, in fact, speeding.
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@Empty_America i know a guy who served in the marines and everyone he served with is set for life on big disability payouts, but he's at a lower payment tier because he went to therapy as a teen
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If you are trying to get your kid diagnosed with a learning disability and get an "IEP" in order to have test accommodations, you may want to consider that this is generally disqualifying for military service.
So you delete some of the leading options for actual free college!
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what you say: ai doesn't use much water actually. ai water usage isn't a big deal
what people remember: something something ai water usage
what people take away: wow people keep talking about ai water usage. ai must use a ton of water
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something that anthropologists have observed in tribal societies is that people are generally aware of their own tribal section and how it rolls up to higher levels of organization, but they struggle to distinguish between subdivisions in other tribal sections, tending to lump groups together that don't see themselves that way.
so i think this is just what humans are like - we easily grasp fine-grained distinctions within our own community but are bad at understanding them outside our community.
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It’s not crazy for both progressives and conservatives to dislike the same thing
It’s slightly crazy that both sides at least claim they think that EA is fundamentally aligned with the other side
David Sacks@DavidSacks
“The Effective Altruist movement has a structural problem when it comes to conservative America. Its donor class is all Bay Area progressives... Its policy agenda, which calls for sweeping AI regulation and content governance, reads to most conservatives as exactly what it is: a censorship power play dressed up in safety language. To move that agenda… the movement needed a vehicle that didn’t look like it came from them.”
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this doesn't really make sense to me? you're always one election way from all your work being undone, that's the nature of living in a democracy. electing a die-hard doesn't really get you much lock-in over electing an opportunist, they're both gonna just get wiped away later anyway.
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@Authw8 @JeremiahDJohns @mattyglesias Shifting policy is absolutely a win. Why we want our candidates is because it locks in the win. A wishy washy dem that changes policy ideas could revert to the bad policy. A diehard wont negatively change.
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This is a great point from @mattyglesias today - the weakest 2028 Dem nominees are ones that swing voters perceive as too far left, but the left hates anyways. You want a candidate that doesn't create internal strife, but still codes as moderate to swing voters.
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i think the dinergoth article is on to something but also it's kind of like that story where a blind guy feels an elephant's trunk and decides it must be some sort of snake
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yep. it's the return of traditional oral ways of doing things enabled by the internet. political participation is no longer gatekept to people who are bound by traditional rules of the game. people's "natural" behavior is to organize as a mob to stamp out non-conformity.
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"Woke Right" does get at something specific.
The core of Woke is an extremely rigid "narrative" that seemingly emerges in a leaderless fashion, combined with "swarming" "canceling" or "mobbing" tactics to punish wrongthink.
This behavior 100% describes a part of the right.
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
'The Retard Right' (exactly as John Doyle uses it) is such a great coinage. There's literally no reason to hear 'Woke Right' bullshit ever again. (It has nothing to contribute except smoke.)
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fwiw it is possible for this to happen - the genetic evidence shows a lot of evidence for caste endogamy in india leading to what geneticists call a "highly structured" genetic signal. but medieval europe was not like that.
(though there was still enough gene flow that it's probably still true that everyone is your ancestor if you go far back enough)
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People are literally doing The Thing in this thread. "Ummm but people married very locally and mainly within their social group."—This doesn't contradict that. It's not a claim that all of your ancestors are equally spread out geographically.
Roy@royllovians
The actual truth, which people have repeatedly refused when I explain it, is that roughly 25–35 generations back, you are descended from ***every single*** person who was alive in your ancestors' entire region of the world so long as they have any surviving descendants today.
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@GWHayduke97 @realLPBeria no, this is comparing overall lifetime mortality. driving fewer miles than average or having fewer births than average would put you at somewhat lower overall risk
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@Authw8 @realLPBeria Per birth yes, but multiply that by 8 or 10 births...
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Pre-modern maternal mortality must have led to some disturbing selective pressures.
Bluntly, all the guys who reproduced couldn’t have cared *that* much about killing their wives in the process.
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one of the reasons a lot of societies end up with unilineal descent models is because it solves this problem. if you stick to one side, then you always have exactly one ancestor in each generation. family trees are trees instead of criss-crossing chaos.
this is especially important in societies that plan to generate significant amounts of military force along kinship lines because you can quickly ascertain which side of a conflict everyone is supposed to end up on.
Roy@royllovians
The actual truth, which people have repeatedly refused when I explain it, is that roughly 25–35 generations back, you are descended from ***every single*** person who was alive in your ancestors' entire region of the world so long as they have any surviving descendants today.
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@Empty_America yeah, i miss the ethos of writers who saw it as their job to sort of digest big ideas and present them in an approachable package
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tom bombadil@Authw8
something i've noticed about myself is that my taste in art tends to favor works that are fairly intellectual or daring but still aimed at mainstream audiences. i think it's because i tend to find art aimed at a really narrow audience to be a bit incestuous. that said i don't care about marketability. my criterion is more like, if a regular person started reading this out of boredom, would they get something out of it?
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Most of the great modern novels, when written, were closer to Mass Market fiction than to what we call "Literary Fiction."
They were designed to sell large numbers, written by guys who lived by the pen.
Not professors/grad students writing for each other.
thus spake zara thirst trap@philiptraylen
"literary fiction" is a good name for bad American writing from the 1990s, DFW or whoever, since that particular kind of bad fiction stopped existing literally not one person thinks "literary fiction," means anything, or rather, what they mean by it is the specific difference between bad American writing from 1990, and terrible American writing from 2020
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i think taylor swift should consider this move for her next tour
Brangus🔍⏹️@RatOrthodox
Possibly my favorite FAQ item on a conference website ever. Question: "Why have prices gone up so much? Answer: *just a supply and demand diagram*
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thought experiment. suppose a society faces 100 unsolved problems that all have an easy fix. 98 of the problems are fixed immediately. 2 remain unfixed due to some dumb cultural aversion to the easy fix.
then another 100 problems show up and the same thing happens. now we have 4 unfixed problems left hanging because of dumb cultural hangups.
over time you just keep accumulating problems that seem unsolvable despite being very solvable if everyone would just X, for some X. but everyone won't just X.
vivian@vivian39_
nuclear energy is sitting right there. just sitting there. producing massive amounts of clean reliable power with a safety record better than literally every other energy source per kwh. and we're out here arguing about whether to put a solar panel on a parking garage. okay
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garage owner isn't doing anything wrong of course. actually maybe he is, i have no idea what the original context is. the point though isn't that the garage owner should be building a nuclear plant, just that this whole thing would be less of a problem if we hadn't ignored nuclear technology for 50 years because it gives us bad vibes
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@Authw8 This is mostly made up. The owner of the parking garage hears solar’s pitch and says yes because it’s a no brainer. He doesn’t care about nuclear because the min investment is like $25b.
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this is cool but also it's pretty funny to celebrate the invention of the invasive species transportation box
Dudes Posting Their W’s@DudespostingWs
This guy explains how a British doctor changed the world. Plants couldn’t survive long sea voyages, so he created a sealed box that kept saltwater and sea air out while maintaining humidity, allowing plants to travel across the globe.
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examples include: all types of sports, singing, dancing, video games, tabletop games, going outside, and talking to people
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in general there's a broad trend to take participatory cultural practices and turn them into passive consumption where you watch other people do things instead of doing things yourself
NWBro Janeway@NWBroJaneway
40k used to be a vast universe full of Your Dudes. Your Dudes wouldn't kill Abbadon, they wouldn't drive off the Nids from our galaxy or destroy the C'Tan. They wouldn't move "the narrative" forward. But Your Dudes had victories and losses through playing the game that felt personal to you. And Your Friends Dudes did as well. And Their Friends Dudes did too. This all connected up. This all made the universe feel vast without endless corporate lore dumps and marketing videos. This collective universe of fanon through engaging with the wargame via modelling and playing felt more real than reading about Rowboat having a fight with Mortarion and winning the indomitus crusade. Because Your Dudes didn't do that. And Rowboat doing it means Your Dudes, the custom army you made, the fanon lore you created, none of it really mattered. Because really the main character of 40k isn't Your Dudes anymore. It's the official characters. And Your Dudes will never be allowed to have a spotlight in your own games again. This shrinks the universe from the collective imagination of the fans to whatever GW make and approve of themselves. And this is poison to any Wargame. No game lorelets will never understand that 40k was once a wargame with supplimental material. If you weren't playing 40k you weren't engaging with the universe. But now GW caters to those people and will die after they are abandoned.
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