Dvorstone

@dvorstone 's limiting principle of stewardship: Do not mortgage, migrate, or sell what your grandchildren cannot reclaim.

@NateAFischer I strongly favor the U.S. ignoring any ambitions that El Salvador might have pertaining to Honduras, Guatemala, or Nicaragua.

There is a better option. El Salvador is too small a country for a great man.

Who cares? There is the opportunity to highlight a useful behavioral heuristic. One should assume every story posted on the internet is fiction. This has been common knowledge since the internet was invented. Frankly, I'm baffled by why so many of think you're making some great deduction when you comment on that.

@HowlingShitpost @dvorstone Yup, this just never happened. Engagement farming.

This is actually a classic bad faith move by a business, and the correct response is to decline and negotiate. The moment they told him he wasn't ready, he should have started job hunting. What that really means is "we don't want you to quit because we need you but we're never going to promote you." The days of "proving yourself" are gone. Businesses rarely reward that. Instead, they'll just grind you up.

@ChristinaPushaw Entirely reasonable question. Five years is a long time. But again, I'm mostly addressing appearances here. It's just a REALLY bad look, from a male perspective. And I'm not saying she shouldn't date the guy. I'm saying that the narrative that has taken hold will do damage.

@dvorstone Loyalty isn’t a one way street If he wanted a lifetime of loyalty … why didn’t he ask her to marry him instead of “dating” for years?

I just learned about this woman today and... well, I'm not easily shocked but she and Sarah Stock have probably done more damage to women's reputations than anyone since Eve herself. And she'll suffer no immediate consequences. Odds are that she'll only "date" this guy for a few months and then she'll bounce around athletes and celebrities for the next decade before settling down with a dentist or something, if she's lucky. But in a healthy society, she'd be driven from polite society, and he as well (though she wasn't married, it's still incredibly nasty).

"hitting the troonshine"

@ChristinaPushaw And to be fair, the opposite is the infamous Bettie Broderick story... which is many women's worst nightmare. Of course, Bettie killed him so... ha ha.

Your perspective would make more sense in the context of this story, if the young woman had been married and left her husband for a famous athlete. In that case I would agree its shameful. But simply "dating" someone for years, especially as a teenager, isn't the same thing. It's completely normal for men and women that their high-school relationships do not last a lifetime.

Fair. I'll explain my reasoning (caveat... this could get community noted any second as I'm just naively trusted the story as presented): 1. Societies have to regulate moral behavior, and one of the most important is sexual morality. For men, this means suffering condemnation for promiscuity, sexual debauchery, violence, and so on. There are corresponding issues for women, and the infamous "hypergamy" is one. 2. Hypergamy is good BUT it has to be regulated. If women can simply humiliate a man by abandoning him for someone higher statue, and not suffer negative consequences for that, then women will do precisely that and men will... 3. As soon as men conclude that women's sexuality is entirely unregulated and there are no consequences for ruthless hypergamy or public humiliation, they will cease to for earnest long-term relationships with women and will instead just use them for sex. We're already seeing this to a degree. The parallel would be something like men being physically abuse women without consequence. If that were socially acceptable (and it is in some circles), then you get a similar breakdown. 4. What this woman did was flagrant and public but mostly, it appears like a near worst-case scenario (she just casually discarded her long-term boyfriend for a likely short-term fling with a higher status man and access to a higher-status sexual carousel). Is it in truth? No, but appearances matter and the modern age demands different techniques of propriety. Sarah Stock, at least, is hiding in shame (I think). This woman has to grasp the potential impact of her actions. It's harsh but society should punish harshly in order to remind everyone else that this kind of behavior isn't okay.

Kinda harsh. These are 2 teenagers. She wasn't married before, she did not leave her husband for this guy, and she has been with Lamine Yamal publicly since May so the "3 weeks ago" comment isn't correct. I agree the Sarah situation was really bad, but I don't see how this is comparable. Lamine Yamal is also unmarried. The other situation involved a married father and a woman who was married or engaged.

@loganclarkhall If I walk into a restaurant (or such) and its all foreigners, I just leave now, unless the foreigners correspond to the regional cuisine. At the airport today and I saw half a dozen restaurants all staffed with the same ethnic group.

How it feels when you stop at gas station in rural America and you go inside and there’s an H1B who can’t speak English behind the counter

"falling for" Are you serious? Do you think I imagine that any of these things are genuine or real? I know they're slop. Obviously. However, sometimes, it's worthwhile to comment on "slop," because sometimes the subject matter has genuine resonance. It doesn't have to be authentic or genuine.

@HowlingShitpost @dvorstone So many fools keep falling for the S.E.A. bait and reposting it. Embarrassing!

It is hilarious the degree to which egalitarian ideals thrived when isolated from the global commons, and died when exposed to them.

@GiffLasta They're not patriarchal. It's more like "rule by man child." Again, their mindset is hard to understand because they're different, even at the most fundamental level: metaphysics.

@dvorstone I would have thought more “let her out of the house without a male overseer” but IDK. Still seems weird for the wolf to be angry at the sheep for being eaten by it—even in an uber patriarchal context.

Worse, it's spiritually Islamic. What's described is an external locus of control, and precisely how Muslim metaphysics orient them psychologically. If you interview Western rapists in jail, they will invariably rationalize their crime. Usually, they'll say some variant of "she wanted it." They might rail against the injustice of their prosecution and they might accuse their accuser of lying, but as a general rule, they're hostility to the victim is rather limited. Islamic rapists do not say that and are notoriously rageful against their victims. Why? Islamic metaphysics assert: 1. Humans are born inherently good and are tempted into sin by external influence. This is an external locus of control. 2. The way they see the world is that they are the victim. They were trying to be good but along came a woman who seduced them with her whorishness. She is the aggressor. She made him "rape" her. That is why they're so angry at their accuser. They perceive themselves as the victims. It is they who were violated.

Britain has exposed the lie underneath the supposed benefit of constant monitoring. If it worked, they'd catch all of the rapists and murderers, but they don't. It turns out that the corrupt powers that be will simply use them to actively punish people who expose corruption and crime. As for the criminals? They'll catch them too... But now they'll just give them light sentences. Flock cameras will be used to give tickets and catch subversives or the politically undesirable. Criminals? Again, they'll catch them and let them go. You'll be the real targets.

@GiffLasta He would blame her. They don't think the way Westerners do and so the notion of "her father raised her poorly" doesn't really apply. Women are, in their mindset, function as a kind of sin-sink. The men can't be responsible.

@dvorstone Is that true in an Islamic context though? Or would he blame her father?

@davereaboi Harsh but fair.

“The propaganda engine will become distributed to the people, and the outcomes will be judged purely on resonance.” What’s the worst that could happen? lol. It’s interesting that there’s such a thing as right-wing populism, considering it should be a contradiction. The fetishizarion of the popular will is not compatible with excellence or nature.

I wasn't familiar with Pangram until someone accused me. I checked the post in question and it did, indeed, conclude it was 100% AI written. So I had Grok write something and I changed maybe 5% of it, and checked it on Pangram (I didn't post it) and it reported it as 100% human. Clearly, AI detection is as bad as you say. I think what it can be useful for it detecting significant variance. If it looked at all of someone's posts, it could identify any obvious dramatic change in ability or style. Still, it's terrible at identifying a singular, standalone post.

AI detection seems to be shit at this point. Someday it’ll be a lot better, but right now it seems like there will be more than a few legit writers who will be furious about being falsely labeled.