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@lialiascg This is a very normal life path these days for men who are successful

my 37-yr-old guy friend who used to clown other men for “keeping options open” just told me he’s been rotating 3 women for the past 5 months. he said none of them are “the one” but they’re all fun in different ways. one’s good for deep talks, one’s good for weekends out, one’s low-maintenance. he knows it’s not sustainable but also doesn’t want to “close doors prematurely.” when i asked if any of them know about the others he said “we never defined anything so technically i’m not lying.” then immediately followed it with “i still want a wife and kids one day, just not right now.” I guess the modern dating culture takes someone who actually wants a real partnership, hands him unlimited access to low-stakes intimacy with zero accountability, and slowly teaches him that commitment is what you do after you’ve exhausted every other option.

North country scene: A hundred leagues locked in ice, A thousand leagues of whirling snow. Both sides of the Great Wall One single white immensity. The Yellow River's swift current Is stilled from end to end. The mountains dance like silver snakes And the highlands* charge like wax-hued elephants, Vying with heaven in stature. On a fine day, the land, Clad in white, adorned in red, Grows more enchanting. This land so rich in beauty Has made countless heroes bow in homage. But alas! Chin Shih-huang and Han Wu-ti Were lacking in literary grace, And Tang Tai-tsung and Sung Tai-tsu Had little poetry in their souls; And Genghis Khan, Proud Son of Heaven for a day, Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched All are past and gone! For truly great men Look to this age alone. SNOW, 1936 Mao Zedong

Yeah the guy who won from this position is not “one of the great leaders of this world”

@hollowearthterf I think its fine tbh, sometimes you get got

My actually trad take is that you are not obligated to stay with anyone you’re not married to, especially if you’re a woman. Otherwise what is marriage? Half a decade together and no ring? That’s on him!

@wylfcen People are missing out on the joyous life paths only Monarchy can deliver

Can you imagine being this guy?

@ariel_haivri My jewish friend in the US would complain his brother married a non-Jewish girl and now he has to marry on because hes the only other kid Some times history repeats itself

Antisemites: “We took Jewish women as concubines, that’s why some Jews look European.” Sure, bud. Ignore the fact that the Italian DNA Jews have is on the mother’s side. It’s the opposite. Roman woman converted to Judaism.

@shashj Morning mine host killed me

Always enjoy stumbling across this, more than a decade on. Letter to the Telegraph.

I find this hilarious

@TheMindScourge You have many servants and porters, they are all on welfare

You have to think about the entire system, not just one small part of it. The idea of putting wheels on a suitcase occurred to many people. There are patents going back to the 1920s at least. It wasn’t something that was overlooked The reason, rather, is how suitcases were moved within the overall airport experience. Today, bags are mostly checked inside the terminal. In the past, curbside drop-off was the standard practice. That’s what my parents always did in the 90s when I was a kid. You pulled up and a team of skycaps unloaded your luggage onto a cart and then handed it over to the airline. You weren’t moving your bags yourself. Someone else was. So the convenience factor of wheels was not so important. If you did need to move your luggage around, you rented a trolley. These have mostly disappeared now in airports. Curbside delivery went into steep decline after 9/11. It’s never recovered. But this isn’t only - or even mostly - a security story. It’s a labor cost one. You didn’t need wheels on luggage because it was cheap to hire someone to move your luggage for you. Tickets were expensive in modern terms, and more luxuries - like paying someone to carry your suitcases - were available. Today, the competition is at the ticket price level. Something has to give - and that’s extras like porters. It’s the same as with live in servants. In the 1920s many middle class families could afford live in servants. A century later, essentially no middle class families have a servant. It’s just too expensive. The same is true for porters and luggage. When labor is cheap, you can hire people to do all sorts of tasks. But as it gets more expensive, these jobs are priced out of the market. Instead, this work is outsourced to the end user - you. But until all those things change - cheap labor, cheap tickets, etc - wheels don’t make much sense. Many things in the modern world are like this. Greater efficiency - of money, for the airline’s operations, the workforce labor distribution - at the price of an aesthetic decline. There is greater savoir-faire and panache to having someone handle your luggage for you than doing it yourself. Porting your own luggage is inevitably déclassé and frazzled; it contributes to the inescapable busyness of contemporary life. There is no cultivated leisure - no otium cum dignitate, no flaneuring - to manhandling your own bags

@isafernan I want a gorgon but I think tatoos are a bit much for me at this age

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@adamhump @DisgracedProp @barrywrites1488 If you want a good account, try Stolzhenetzens 200 years together

@DisgracedProp @barrywrites1488 done

Longform holocaust essay just dropped, "The Wehrmacht was busy. It was fighting for its life against the Red Army in the most consuming military campaign ever conducted. It was losing millions of men. Its supply lines were overextended. Its soldiers were freezing. The German army's relationship to the Jews of the East was not, primarily, one of genocidal intent. It was one of terrifying indifference because they had somewhere else to be. As a Jew, this is a hard thing to say, and a harder thing to feel. You want your murderer to care enough to murder you. The reality is in some ways worse: the Wehrmacht rolled through these towns, sometimes confiscated supplies, occasionally issued anti-Jewish decrees or assisted the Einsatzgruppen (German mobile killing units), and then moved on to the real war. They left the Jews to the locals. And the locals were hungry." mamathemagazine.com/what-nobody-te…

@realillyrian668 Lol, how about the patrilinear DNA? I bet their byzantium male ancestors got wiped from the gene pool

How do Byzantine women feel knowing that their lineage is still dominant in Anatolia nowdays

@ibnAbiMaruf @grok compared to both global averages and american demographic averages, are Mormons successful in terms of birth rate and asset accumulation

@Obaidsview Mormons aren’t successful And Islam for the whites is Islam for the Arabs and the rest of the people There is only one Islam

The reason Mormons are so successful is because Mormonism is Islam for white people

@BasedProphetic @gnievchenko @arakharazian Not in Sharjah hahahaha

@Obaidsview @gnievchenko @arakharazian Exactly what a smart Emirati would say, then open a branch in Sharjah or Dubai

TIL German companies have to publish financials even when privately held, including Berghain. €1.4m net profit in 2024 €414k annual rent 355 employees

@niederhaus17566 @gnievchenko @arakharazian Captured here means like the way a photo can capture a moment

@Obaidsview @gnievchenko @arakharazian If it existed to "capture revenue" it wouldn’t be what it is.

@jakluge @arakharazian Thats true, the UAE has become quite a high cost of living country

@Obaidsview @arakharazian This post probably says more about the Emirates than about Berghain.

@gnievchenko @arakharazian I know that but the club is legendary, the number is so small for such a venue its quite insane to me I think a lot of revenue isnt captured in the figures given

@Obaidsview @arakharazian Consider that the club owners may be running this club not solely motivated by profit

@brazzlefrats @3xoined77484 @ok6ixx His career will fail and probably stall miserably But his thinking will help him start an enterprise that is enough for him He was 100% right, how you talk and think is so important, its worth addressing

@3xoined77484 @Obaidsview @ok6ixx These are the types who feel “overly qualified” for their position, but are actually woefully underqualified at the things that actually carry a career forward. I’ve watched more than a few peers like this fail to launch as we all careen into our mid 30s.

There's a new guy at work and he's been here maybe two weeks and we're in a meeting and my boss is talking about quarterly goals or whatever and she goes "we really need to circle back to customer retention" and this guy raises his hand and goes "I have a question" and my boss is like yes and he goes "why do you always say circle back?" and the whole room goes quiet and my boss is like what and he goes "you say it like every meeting is there a reason we're going in circles why don't we just go forward" and someone coughs and he's still going "like I've been keeping track you've said it eighteen times in two weeks" and my boss just stares at him and goes "have you never worked in an office before" and he goes "I have but nobody said circle back this much it feels aggressive" and I swear my boss aged five years and she goes "it's just a phrase" and he goes "okay but like why circles" and she just moved on with the meeting. He got let go during his probation period today and I heard him ask HR if it was because of the circle thing.

@nomadgeist In the UAE we have a tribe called Shehhis and they sometimes have blue or green eyes and they say its becsuse of Portuguese sailors stranded in the region Probably not uncommon across the world

@PolitlcsUK I think well wish Kier was back soon enough

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