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Mason@webdevMason·
@alt1na1 Me too, despite my many strengths and virtues I've always had a Hank Hill butt and a curvy latina would smoke me
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🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸PALEOLITHIC AGE TUNA 🐟ALTUNA🐟 ALTINA@alt1na1·
every morning 5:50-6:50 now me & the night nurse watch greys anatomy together & doordash starbucks while I nurse the baby & he watches the birds & the sky & the clouds moving through the giant windows & I can see the black window panes reflected back to me in his eyes. v low IQ mom morning routine but I luv it 🐄🤍
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Mason@webdevMason·
@cantsmokehere Operating purely on vibes and having spent no time really looking into it, I feel like this is the sort of thing you do at least a decade later after you've already built a life beyond the reach of whatever traumatized you and just want to tie off loose threads
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queer and loathing in las gaygas@cantsmokehere·
my girlfriend’s therapist is putting her through this thing called EMDR aka “trauma reprocessing” which seems to my layman brain like the worst possible thing you could do to someone recovering from trauma but what do i know
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Mason@webdevMason·
@asglidden @mariorustan I can neither confirm or deny, but I may be not denying more than I am not confirming
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Mason@webdevMason·
@BovrilG If she's on HRT post-hysterectomy, they literally took her gonads And if they're doing HRT the way most clinicians like to do it, they're giving her the absolute minimum dose to limit symptoms of menopause, they're not even trying to retain her drive
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Bovril-Gesellschaft@BovrilG·
The final, bleakest redpill is that women, by and large, approach intimacy (physical or otherwise) in the same way that pigeons approached the buttons in a Skinner box and the only way to keep them coming back is to make sure that your payouts are entirely unreliable.
Giff Lasta@GiffLasta

Too many guys buy the lie that their sexual desires are the source of their wives’ feelings of “pressure.” Your desire is good. It’s your weakness and neediness that makes her desire dry up.

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Mason@webdevMason·
@Ruesavatar My friend's dog just became more internet famous than me and I'm coping but just barely
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rue🌿@Ruesavatar·
Why did I just find out my brother has like 55k instagram followers and he is lowkey an eco influencer. 😹
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Mason@webdevMason·
@alt1na1 I think this is the closest a wife can ever get to a husband hiring a hot Brazilian au pair lol
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Mason@webdevMason·
@mariorustan I can speak to the devil having a vacation home in at least one of those states, yes
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Mario Rustan@mariorustan·
@webdevMason I assume this is the square of Nebraska - Iowa - Missouri - Kansas
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Mason@webdevMason·
The rich states that are losing people aren't necessarily horrible places to live, but for most people they're not worth what it costs to live there even adjusting for better salaries. Your QOL will be hit The poor states that are losing people just suck, they really suck
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Mason@webdevMason·
I will not elaborate except to say that in My Lived Experience this map very much demonstrates the enviable wisdom of aggregated population-level human decision making
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Mason@webdevMason·
@oliveegger I rabbitholed on this when it was relevant and concluded that it's probably solidly best for the first ~3m, still advantageous enough to make small sacrifices for it up to ~6m, and from there just good solid nutrition But ofc I still tortured myself to get to a year with baby #1
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bird 🐇@oliveegger·
Tbf I’m not sure that the selling point has anything to do w long term. It’s for babies. It benefits them in the short term while they’re babies
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Mason@webdevMason·
@cremieuxrecueil You can fairly accurately guess when shift changes generally happen in L&D in Mexico based on this chart 😂
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
Here's something fascinating: In Mexico, vaginal births happen all day, but cesarean births–which now outnumber natural births–are clustered earlier in the day.
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Mason@webdevMason·
@Romy_Holland One of my pregnancies I was under pretty extreme stress due to external factors, ate an inarguably poor diet for significant stretches, cried a lot. Got the best fasting blood sugar I've ever had in my life at my GD test. Had full blown GD with my "life is good" pregnancy 🤷‍♀️
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Romy@Romy_Holland·
i have two friends who are 30 and pregnant right now. both eat well, exercise regularly, are generally healthy. one has had no pregnancy symptoms and sailed thru the first trimester without feeling pregnant. the other was too sick to function, vomited for months, could barely walk up the stairs. i think the unpredictability of pregnancy and childbirth is so upsetting for some women that they develop superstitions about all the things they can control to ensure an easy time. if you actually look at how things work, it’s pretty obviously just a lottery.
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Mason@webdevMason·
@adi_baradwaj @QiaochuYuan The 1,000x thing is a vibe, but it's not an entirely bad framing The fastest runner in the world might only beat the field by 0.25 seconds, but if there isn't a damn thing any one of them can do to close that gap and win it doesn't feel like "effectively the same" is descriptive
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Adi@adi_baradwaj·
I agree that there's some natural variation between humans, but I don't think it's that large No doubt people can have 1000x (or even 1-billion-x) different *outcomes* when it comes to persuasion But that's different from saying that each individual has that much causal control over their outcomes
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QC@QiaochuYuan·
i think cult leaders are 1000x more persuasive than the average person. if you don't think this you've never met a real cult leader. some people have dedicated their entire lives to persuasion and gotten good at it the way people get good at anything
Adi@adi_baradwaj

There's a recurring pattern that I keep seeing in work coming from the apocalyptic branch of the AI safety community, and it goes something like this: 1) Pick some intellectual "talent" that might be attributed to a person (e.g. persuasiveness, discernment, charisma, etc.) 2) Model this "talent" as a scalar quantity that is primarily determined by factors endogenous to the individual, as opposed to environmental/situational factors 3) Assume that this scalar quantity can be made arbitrarily large 4) Use this model to make predictions about the future of AI You can see this here with AI 2040's insinuation that "superhuman persuasiveness" is an idea we should be taking seriously It's not obvious to me at all that "persuasiveness" is a human talent, as opposed to a sociological random process that we retroactively perceive as a human "talent" To be clear, certainly it's true that a star debater might be marginally more "persuasive" than someone who's not! But I don't think a cult leader or a popular politician is 1,000x or 1,000,000x more "persuasive" than an ordinary person Rather, they're perceived being "persuasive" because they happen to be the figureheads for a complex sociological preference cascade. Their "persuasiveness" isn't really a thing you can causally influence at the individual level, and definitely not in an unbounded way In general, I think a lot of the AI 2040-style forecasting work does a poor job of dealing with this kind of irreducible complexity inherent to the universe. They usually just like to pretend it doesn't exist Not a huge fan of this pattern

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Mason@webdevMason·
I guess my question is whether this is a distinction that even matters Very persuasive people in the tech world, for example, *do* end up creating something that I guess could be described as a "complex sociological preference cascade," after all that's the obvious thing to do? The insider term is "reality distortion field." Their ability to do this over and over is exceedingly rare, but the more they succeed at doing this the easier it is on the margin for them to continue succeeding I would pretty strongly contest that much of this is random, it just may require skills that aren't traditionally considered "persuasion" but which in practice act as multipliers on persuasion rolls. If you roll persuasion in with complementary skills and personality predispositions, that whole package is definitely something people can be 10x or 100x or even 1,000x at if what you're measuring is impact
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Mason@webdevMason·
Unimaginably sad story Mom takes in a pit bull for her criminal son, who is headed to prison for strangling her Dog viciously attacks her; she's in the hospital two days. Criminal son begs her to keep the dog Within weeks, the dog mauls her to death. Her grandson finds her.
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Mason@webdevMason·
@allie__voss We got the super pricey maybe-epilepsy-causing dog meds. I just can't with these
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Allie ✞@allie__voss·
Third one we’ve found inside in under a month Brb burning the house down
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Mason@webdevMason·
@ExegeekPrime @PstafarianPrice The bully phenomenon is a terrible thing. You've got these people breeding 120+ lb dogs with an exaggerated pit bull phenotype and as much pit content in the pedigree as possible. The goal is always to go larger. They're essentially trying to own a lion they can put on a leash.
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Seamás 🇨🇰🇮🇱@ExegeekPrime·
I went out with my min-pin & JR at my usual time a couple of years ago. Saw a PB ahead but it ran into what I thought was it's home. Around the corner, it came running behind me with another dog. I lifted my min-pin the moment I saw them coming. Took a stance, her & the JR behind me. The PB watched as the other dog attacked. I punched & shouted until it left. Bully XL. They'd been banned the week before. Cops found it - friendly dog. Owner had it euthsnised as he couldn't be bothered with buying it a muzzle.
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