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@basedbagel

You can thank porn for that, and in particular the BBC genre of porn.

For the same reason I'm guessing that "an concerning amount of (mostly young) guys that are insecure about their dick size" are probably white guys.

Maybe Asian guys too. Definitely not Indian guys, their self confidence is one of life's fascinating mysteries and wonders.

@sardonicsmile

The hard truth about that is it's because he is black, and black culture is typically low-trust.

Compare with the Japanese who are a famously high-trust culture. Leave your laptop or wallet on a train in Japan and you can expect to see it again.

That just sounds crazy to some people.

@basedbagel

I wouldn't even worry about pleasuring your partner. Sure, mutual pleasure is a nice diversion, but it should never be the goal. That way lies simping and entitlement.

Another truth that young men in particular often struggle with is that an important source of pleasure for women is in being used. They take great pleasure in being used and being useful to a man.

@BHG

The jury's still out on Milei. It's just too soon to evaluate his Presidency. If he gets a second 4-year term then that puts enough distance to judge his policies.

If he gets 100% privatization, he runs the risk of making Argentina a vassal state of transnational companies & cartels plundering his country's resources. Bad.

If he moves the needle on birth rate, abortions and divorces then Good.

In the end I believe patriarchy is inevitable, so I'm interested in how this all pans out.

@basedbagel

That would be the gaslighting part.

You just need to calmly ask people who make such arguments to choose their favorite part from the list attached, which is still massively incomplete.

Then take any item off that list, say myocarditis, and calmly ask them to explain how they plan to gaslight you over those figures.

@Tfmonkey

There's no difference between your two options since they are both symptoms of the same origin, the decline in religion.

There's no better example than Pope Francis. Under his leadership, majority Catholic countries have seen a decline in birthrates, increase in divorce and abortion, a feminized church followed by those countries having female-led political power & immigration policies.

In other words, Ireland.

The Art of Lying works hand in glove with the Art of Gaslighting, which walks hand in hand with the Art of Unaccountability.

All 3 have to be deployed simultaneously.

When it came to the mRNA vaccines, here's what that looked like in practise.

@Zeb

Another compliant idiot dies. We are truly in the Hard Times and I'm here for it.

@atoponce

"HaTuna MaLata"

It's a Swahili phrase with the opposite meaning of "Hakuna Matata".

Literal translation is "extreme worries".

@arstechnica

It was his time. RIP.

@basedbagel

That's good to hear. Having something positive come out of these discussions is where it's at.

@atoponce @hello

They used a rule of thumb for the lap, hence using a fraction value instead of a decimal value.

The 3 laps value is likely an accurately measured decimal value since they didn't go with a rounded natural number.

Both meaures are useful and so everyone keeps them while also accepting the contradiction.

@Stahesh

Nice, that is a good new source for news. Bookmarked.

@basedbagel

Nice.

@basedbagel

Congrats, and the best of luck.