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@Spencer_Gray @foolmealex @Aella_Girl Many women struggle to think abstractly when answering personal questions. Instead of rating a body’s attractiveness relative to the full distribution of bodies (which is what men tend to do), they rate how much that specific image arouses them in the moment.

@foolmealex @Aella_Girl But like, why would you rate someone low for that? Would be like giving a restaurant 2 stars because it doesn't do dry cleaning. The question was about attractiveness of a picture.

I asked people to rate, on a 1-10 scale, the attractiveness of various naked people. Women got much higher scores than men did. The 6/10 bin was full of normal-cute ladies and absolute ripped godlike chads. Seems unfair, but my hypothesis is: This is not a dating looksmatch, this is a casual sex looksmatch. The raw # distribution shows roughly equivalent likelihood of casual sex occurring before one party would turn it down. I'm gonna test this hypothesis and give writeups (complete with images and an interactive explorer) on my substack aella.substack.com, which you should subscribe to so you get the email when I send it out!

@lizisamused Rule 1. Be attractive Rule 2. Don’t be unattractive All the rest is spurious correlation

My little brother got laid so much in college that guys in his frat house HATED him. I asked him how & he shrugged & said, "I treat girls like they're dudes." 😂 A girlfriend of his admitted to me that he drove her insane in the beginning because she had *no idea* if he liked her like that. He was super friendly, but never made it clear if this was more than friendly interest. I'm not recommending this as a strategy per se, but I do know a guy who is chill AF around women is powerful. Treat women like we're NBD, like people not unknowable beings, & we tend to respond. Cuz I've noticed this with a lot of players: they can talk to anyone. They don't panic just because it's a girl. Taking women off of a pedestal yields better results.

@_mAKE_mE_mAD_ @riton_the Japanese were the Nazi of the east, no wonder you don’t understand

@riton_the フランス人がなんか言ってて爆笑する

白ひげのシンボルマーク、どう考えても卍の方が1億倍カッコ良かったよな 卍とハーケンクロイツの違いすら分からんガイジンのせいで変更されたのマジでクソ過ぎる

@Lachieboy1 @iiwasinthee212 Future generations will read her Twitter archive and wonder what kind of civilisation could have possibly produced this

@iiwasinthee212 Every day this woman writes something that came straight out of the twilight zone. Honestly a generational poster, we live in a blessed time.

I met this british guy over the summer who's like a journalist for sky news and the bbc or whatever . Originally I was entertaining it because i def felt isolated being a zionist in londonstan and needed someone to offload all the frustrations on So he came to tel aviv while i was there and gave me amazing head, Then he pulled his dick out and it was little and uncircumcised and smelled like foot fungus. Obviously the fun ended there & He def went back to his room and left town without a goodbye - but here and there id chat to him about uk politics & islam etc etc But everytime id be talking to him I could smell the smell and lowkey really resent him and british men overall because of it. Like anytime I hear a british man talking now I can smell feet and im trying to figure out how to stop it

@Devon_Eriksen_ @simonmaechling Replace "scientists" by "white people" and this reads as a perfect response to white supremascists

Meet @simonmaechling. Simon has a PhD in organic chemistry. He is very proud of his PhD in organic chemistry. He can't wait to tell you about it, it's in his twitter bio. Simon identifies as a scientist. In fact, he identifies as all scientists, ever, since the beginning of history, and his pronouns are we/us/ours. He uses these pronouns as he informs us that, by writing and defending a thesis, he has inherited credit for every engineering and technological advance in human history. He fed billions of people because he is Norman Borlaug. He saved millions of cancer patients because he is both Francis Crick and James Watson simultaneously. He powered nations because he is inhabited by the very soul of Enrico Fermi. If humanity conquers the stars, he will retroactively become Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk, as well. Please clap. Unfortunately, there has been one small oversight. Simon doesn't actually know what science is. Perhaps universities in France don't require coursework in the history or philosophy of science, to attain a PhD degree. Or perhaps he was sick that day. But whatever the reason, his hat or his shoes, Simon doesn't understand that science is an algorithm. Not a person. Not an institution. Not a body of knowledge, or a set of data. An algorithm. It is a simple, stepwise procedure. It is the act of examining the universe to see what is there. It is not the act of examining one's baguette to see which side it is buttered on. Which is precisely why a lot of institutions, who prominently, proudly, and fraudulently use the word "science" in their names, have lost the public trust that Simon feels entitled to. They took money. They sold their judgement and modified their results. They took money from Proctor and Gamble, and they told us that beef, butter, and eggs are bad for us, and we should eat crystalized cottonseed oil instead. They took money from Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Unilever, and told us a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and that the worldwide obesity epidemic is your fault because you somehow magically were born lazier and greedier than previous generations. They took money from a cabal of grifters in the federal bureaucracy, and told us the planet has a fever, and we all need to pay more taxes so they can give it to their grifter friends. They told us that if we didn't use our entire population as guinea pigs for an untested medical technology, we were personally killing grandma. These people expect to share in the respect we have for Newton and Einstein, for Watt and Tesla, for Fleming, for Turning and Von Neumann. But they are not any of these. They are Pravda. They are Squealer. They are Baghdad Bob. They are not scientists. They are whores. No, wait a minute... upon reflection, I wish to apologize to the world's whores for that last sentence. A whore is infinitely better than a fake scientist, because, however degrading her profession, however much it scars her mind and soul, a whore only takes money from those who freely give it, and delivers something they value in return. I've never had a whore try to poison or rob me.

@BryanBe70254456 @TaraBull What’s the colour of the skin of the guy who asked him to lower his speaker?

@TaraBull Blacks are so dumb ! Whenever they play their phone speaker or loud obnoxious shit for everybody else to hear on public transportation, I just start clapping and I sit next to him. It’s wonderful. I should start filming it.

Man filming threatens to cut another subway passenger's face open for asking him to turn his speaker off.

@alainastruc @Ouinston Nolan’s films are grand spectacles and clever plot structures, but they indeed lack in vitality, human emotions, and orgiac experiences. He is worse suited to adapt any myth from the warmer parts of the world.

@alainastruc @Ouinston His answer is thoughtful but misses the points you were making. You critiqued a lack of Dionysiac ecstasy and sensuality which has nothing to do with cruelty or brutality. The romanticism in your vision is about the colourful and warm world the Ancient Greeks lived in.

The only thing epic here is the aesthetic catastrophe. Nolan is a cerebral director of the global anglo world, all his intelligence put to industrial ends. Grey matter for a grey world. Nothing in this trailer is Greek. Nothing is Mediterranean. No olive groves and no white stone burning under the sun and no salt and no pine and no sea-glare. A deracinated Odyssey, made for imaginary nobodies from nowhere. The script feels like it's going to be the work of a diligent student who took down the events of the Odyssey one by one, forgetting that this is not a novel but an archaic poem, from a time when men and women lived each word as a heartbeat, who sang the soul and flesh of a people and of a world at once real and supernatural. A poem in which Telemachus does not say "my dad is coming home." The Odyssey deserved a Parajanov or a Fellini or a Welles, someone larger than life, a Dionysian ogre, someone hungry, someone who could make a film that smells of figs and raw wool and roasting meat and tar and blood. Monsters that are actually monstrous and seductive witches with real venom and golden shields catching real light and banquets going on for days. And the women of the poem, who are everywhere in Homer and seem so cold and dull here. Circe in her smoke and Calypso in her cave and Penelope at her loom, the sensuality of witches and the rigid loyalty of wives, all replaced by a fashion-armor Athena and a Penelope played as a strong American woman. And then there is what the Odysseus of the trailer says: "No one can stand between me and home, not even the gods". The cunning sufferer who knew how to bow to divine forces turned into a defiant individualist who bows to no one. Greek cunning replaced by American autonomy. The poem's central lesson reversed in a single line of dialogue. I usually don't mind Hollywood slop, but this has made me weirdly angry, and the film isn't even out yet. I feel as if a red line has been crossed, some hubris that has gone too far. The gods have been angered. How could they not be, with the decapitation of that statue at the end of the trailer? An iconoclastic gesture absent from Homer, usual with the monotheistic traditions that have spent centuries smashing pagan images. Nietzsche said he would believe only in a god who knew how to dance. Apollo without Dionysus produces exactly this: cerebral, cold, unambiguous. I cannot trust a filmmaker who is not hungry enough to banquet with the gods.

@zhil_arf Bullshit cynicism. It’s almost exclusively individuals who grew up in extreme conditions who enjoy extreme violence. “Without civilisation” does not correspond to a stage in human history but to a state of collapse. Only a tiny fraction of humans are truly sadistic.

Late night tweet. People say taboos enhance group cohesion due to "costly signalling" I disagree. Breaking taboos are hella fun. Knowingly doing crime and getting away with it is fun. SS officers felt an absolute joy in the industrial extermination of millions. Humans, without civilization, will naturally form roving gangs to rape and rob and sadistically beat up and kill using an iron pipe random people and families and grandmas and children and infants, because it's fun. It is within our natural human nature to smash grandmas into mangled pieces. Humans with civilization will do it in a more orderly way and in a vastly larger industrial scale, because it's fun. 4chan internet trolls and mentally ill Blueskytards are structurally the same as Sub-Sahara African bandit rape gangs who roams around to rape every random women and children and infants and corpses of infants and smash them with blunt metal sticks for fun. The only difference is that the internet trolls are vastly more pathetic and weak. These worthless and disgusting basement rats don't even have the will to physically commit violence in the outside world. God willing, their population are already set for an inevitable and total extermination. Schools are more often than not industrial concentration camps to prevent the formation of these roving gangs. The state, which sees itself as God on earth, unilaterally imposes a Bureaucracy to dispense organized extreme violence to unleash infinite genocide upon the vile bodily nature of the kids and transform them into New Men able to build the Kingdom of Satan. Through schools, the mind and body of these kids are hydraulically crushed into large, dense balls of flesh and bones, which are restiched together into conforming to the exacting specifications of the Machine of Society. Out of chaos, a totalitarian and unjust and completely arbitrary and meaningless Order and Law is thus established in the land. So it is, and so it shall remain, until the good LORD rug-pulled the flat earth like carpet and let the trillions of stars fall down slamming into the earth, instantly killing billions in an eternal torture of flames of infinite heat that burns and fills every unit of spacetime in the entire observable universe forever.

As his body gears up to fight, the view of a female with fat deposits optimised for maximal sexual signalling hijacks the ghetto male's salience system which turns his arousal state from aggression to sexual drive. He needs to talk to her, cortex back online, for now...

the amygdala of the ghetto male screams "DANGER!" at the slightest gesture of law enforcement, the archetypical out-group rival. The surge of glutamate easily short-circuits his thin prefrontal cortex sending him into a vocal loop "I ain't gone lie,I ain't gone lie, yeah, yeah"

@airshaped @melissa people believe he cheated because he cheated regularly in the past. what is it so hard to understand here?

@melissa i think people think he cheated mostly because he's very unlikeable tbh

the netflix chess cheating documentary is so bad. how is it possible? the story is so good. a kid goes from 2450 to 2700. he beats magnus carlsen. magnus carlsen drops out. the media ruins the kid. and somehow there appears to be no evidence of the kid cheating in any live games?

@beboj2 @OrevaZSN FALSE, pre-industrial peasants only worked 150 days of the year, had plenty religious enforced Holy Days, and the Lord had social obligations to the peasants. Factory workers toiled 70h-80h a week year round doing repetitive work that destroyed their mind and body.

So you think capitalism invented work? Then look it up: people had to work much more over the ages to scrape by. Pre-industrial life was brutal: no vacation, hardly any time off. The modern weekend wasn't even a thing 100 years ago, and the 5-day week was pioneered by Henry Ford - the definition of capitalism. Capitalism didn't invent work, it created leisure to complain about it while gardening and making art.

I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.

@algekalipso interesting the difference between UK and US. While both are quite indirect, UK speech is more impersonal and passive aggressive while US are more committed to maintaining enthusiasm.

How people in different countries respond to things (in terms of pragmatic implicature and cultural norms - prompted Chat):

@menhguin How does that even work? Don't you have a family? I'm sure many people will be interested in hearing more about this experience

sometimes i wonder if i'm genuinely asocial. when i was ~15, i wanted to see how long i can go without speaking to other people. at month 6, i was still having a pretty good time. but i ended the experiment, fearing i would genuinely forget how to speak.

@tenobrus Have you met these parents with kids who show early sign of severe psycho-cognitive anomaly such as psychopathy or severe autism? They are often the last ones to realise what their children might be.

does jensen look kinda hard in his leather jacket and sound sort of badass when he says he is not a loser? sure. but who the fuck cares? he's wrong and he's not even trying to be right.

@TVachaW @Aella_Girl + it wouldn't be wild to think that two asymmetrical structures yield different trade-offs, not sure what's unfortunate about that lol

I don’t see how. In almost every sentence I put “for me” or some equivalent to emphasise that this was the mechanism that yielded these benefits for me. It leaves the door open for other people to have yielded these benefits via a different (eg polyamorous) mechanism. I really don’t know what I could have done here to make this post any less polemical. I feel people should be able to provide personal case studies on how either monogamy or polyamory have yielded benefits for them without it automatically being seen as an attack or delimitation on other people’s romantic style. In any case, I’d be more interested to hear you case study on how polyamory yielded these benefits for you than in arguing the toss over whether my case study carries implications I didn’t intend.

Not to diminish polyamory in any way, but one of the great benefits of monogamy I've found is that it serves as a powerful alchemical container on a spiritual path. For me, committing to a monogamous relationship has been a key part of transmuting lust into love within the foundations of my psyche. Before getting into this relationship 6 years or so ago, I used to sleep around a lot and be in a lot of situationships. What I found was that this meant the novel part of any sexual encounter was largely the novel energy and physicality of the new person. Which created a tendency towards lust as the driver for sex. Whereas, in a longterm monogamous relationship, whenever we have sex, the novel aspect is the increase in love, the further depth of our bond and the accumulation of shared experiences. Deeper love becomes the novelty factor and love becomes the driver for sex. I do find that (for me) new and deeper pleasures open up this way too. In Buddhism, they talk about two types of pleasure: piti and sukha. Piti is a more bubbly, restless, tingly pleasure. Whereas sukha is a more peaceful, smooth, warm-hearted pleasure. I find that as my monogamous relationship grows I still experience all the piti-adjascent pleasure sexually, but also feel ever more types and depths of sukha-adjascent pleasure. The monogamous aspect has a function, as it stops my libidinous energy leaking out into other less developed containers. This forces the search for novelty and new depth to seek fulfilment within the monogamous container. And this is what allows that container to become alchemical: The accumulation that takes place within it creates the pressure that facilitates the alchemical transformation. In this way, the relationship becomes a vessel for transmuting lust into love, which to me is a deeply spiritual pursuit. NOTE: This is not a culture war post. Highlighting some benefits to monagamous relationships does not imply that polyamorous relationships don't have their own corresponding benefits.

Stand ready for my arrival nigga.

@Thecosmichustle @movie_tvshows_ War is a psychological battle. Most battles are decided when the adversary believes they have no way to win and flee, not when they are killed.

@causalarchitect @movie_tvshows_ I was born a common man - I’ve been at war my entire life. That applies to a mass peoples - psychological warfare does not work on trained militia. Its purpose is to demoralise the non militia to influence public opinion and sentiment. I think its you that misunderstands.

This is honestly a great Intimidation tactic, showing your enemy you have absolutely no fear of devth and happily rushed towards it.

@QiaochuYuan auto-translated tweets were boring from the start. Turns out average is average everywhere, repetitive and boring. Now, managing to find that part of japan or brazil twitter would be the actual breakthrough.

very sadly i have already gotten a little bored of the delightful autotranslated tweets. they're 1) starting to get a little repetitive, 2) starting to get into discourse i don't care about, 3) idk how to goad the algo into showing my tweets to them so i can't join in 😔