The Sour Knight🍋

@robkhenderson I don't disagree with your analysis here, and yet I wonder. To insist that "modern audiences" cannot abide a classical, pagan, epic hero is a self-fulfilling prophecy if it's never tested. Cuz The Northman, as you point out, may disprove that.

Once again: A socialist, anti-Catholic dictator has suspended elections in a Latin American country.

@gmillerization @shashigalore @jeremykauffman Do I need to pull up a dictionary for you folks? Was the Battle of the Sexes “bullying”? You could call it unsportsmanlike or unfair or whatever but the only one bullied here was the kid who was basically “tarred and feathered” by a gang of girls. That makes the girls bullies.

@TheSourKnight @shashigalore @jeremykauffman Based on common sense... A man competing against girls is bullying.

New Hampshire girls bullied a transgender boy to stop playing soccer. They painted "PGS" (protect girls sports) under their eyes when forced to play against him.

@gmillerization @shashigalore @jeremykauffman Not based on this post he wasn’t.

@TheSourKnight @shashigalore @jeremykauffman Yeah, that dude was bullying the shit out of those women.

@shashigalore @jeremykauffman This is still bullying

@jeremykauffman Girls standing up for themselves against a boy attempting to manipulate and abuse them is not bullying.

Most women don’t give a fuck about the Constitution.

Düzenli bir ilişkide cinsel ilişki sıklığını ayda birden haftada bire çıkarmanın kişinin mutluluk seviyesine yaptığı katkı, maaşına yılda yaklaşık 50.000 dolar zam yapılmasıyla elde edilecek mutluluk artışına eşdeğerdir.

After watching World Cup games, I'm going back to hating soccer. The matches are frequently decided by strings hung across the arena, mysteriously disqualified goals, off-sides calls that don't make sense, fouls that don't exist and ones that don't get called. Terrible sport.

@bluzoan @SteveStuWill As if on cue.

@SteveStuWill Probably because "biological sex" isn't a scientific classifier it's a political one.

“Around a third of liberal students think professors should be reported for saying that biological sex is a scientific fact, and that there are two sexes.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/ten-new-find…

@eyesofastorm Water usage and electricity are tied for the top reasons people oppose data centers in their area: news.gallup.com/poll/709772/am… Land requirements are neck-and-neck with dislike of AI (9 vs 10%), and ahead of fear (4%) In any case, fighting U.S. DCs just means China introduces the AI

Just take up a ton of space most people don’t see the value in and are apparently very loud.

Why is everyone complaining about the Odyssey being unrealistic? I loved the part where Odysseus yelled "Papoy!"

The manosphere’s most effective recruiting tool is the discovery that adults did not tell boys the whole truth about women. One reason young guys are drawn to the manosphere is that some of the information they find there is not really offered anywhere else. And some of it is directionally accurate. One thing these guys will say is that women are trained from a young age to be aware of what men can be like. "Men only want one thing, you have to be careful around guys, etc." And so, once girls hit puberty, they have this ambient awareness that men have certain motives and that they should keep their guard up. Boys, by contrast, are not always told the complete truth about what women can be like. They grow up thinking women are like Disney princesses who want nothing but kindness and generosity and empathy. Then a boy enters high school and sees the kinds of guys many girls are actually drawn to. Often it is not the super nice guy. Sometimes it's the bully, or the jock, or the guy who seems dominant and socially confident. If you are not prepared for that, and you are a naive teenage boy, the realization can send you in a very dark direction. You start thinking, “I have been lied to about women my whole life. What else have I been lied to about?” And from there, it is easy to conclude that there is an entire matrix of hidden truths you now need to see through and only the online influencers will show you the way.

How do you punish this behaviour? Its reckless and antisocial, but prison would obviously be excessive. Our other options - community service, fines etc. - he would probably laugh off and ignore. Maybe we need to bring back the stocks...

Essentially, the Easterlin Paradox.

California is insanely dysfunctional, and it's costing the state billions, or perhaps trillions. Remember when France's national railway company stopped even trying to work on California high-speed rail? They preferred working somewhere more functional, so they went to Africa.

If you do a Google search for "AI boyfriend", you will find articles that are far less alarmist in tone.

Ebeveyn-çocuk ilişkisi ne kadar sıcak ve destekleyiciyse, gençlerin riskli cinsel davranışlara yönelme olasılığı da o kadar düşük oluyor.

"In almost every society on Earth, men are more likely than women to be murdered. Most of the time, the killer is a man as well. Women kill much less often, but when they do, the victim is usually a husband or a boyfriend...both sexes prefer to kill men." swiftpress.com/book/a-billion…