houseoftolstoy @houseoftolstoy@merovingian.club
Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
@sardonicsmile the "natural balance" that has fewer men with harems has other consequences this woman has not considered. Civilization is able to be far more advanced when there are more men invested in the system succeeding. Having fewer men means you just don't have the raw numbers for this to be possible. Our current issue is not the total number of men, but men who have a stake in the success. Men who have no wife and kids of their own are not going to be nearly as invested.
@TenaciousGoat how can you possibly have under 1000 steps in a day? I get that many just from my morning routine.
@Justicar And I could see that even that system would have issues, but at least the states being the bigger factor would allow for better governance than our overarching federal government. California, for example, would probably still suck, but at least other states would have their regions be more functional with the principle of subsidiarity instead of the top down system we have now.
I see balkanization being a very strong possibility in the US's future.
@Justicar I would not consider India to be running things smoothly overall, but I cannot speak from personal experience. China is not perfect either, and you are correct that their total control is a major factor in them functioning as well as they are.
We could definitely have things working better if we actually enacted the principles of federalism, where the states themselves are the most prominent governing bodies, but that has long since been a thing of the past.
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@houseoftolstoy you cannot have efficiently working government when you have population size in hundreds of millions. i have no clue what the situation in China or India is but at least China has total control and can do things in a way that no western democracy can.
@caekislove With Kyle Rittenhouse, his crime was preventing rioters from destroying property and defending himself when the rioters got mad. Because as we all know, when rioters are angry over "the correct cause," no one is allowed to stop them from carrying out their destruction.
So basically Kyle Rittenhouse was interfering with the leftist cause of the moment, and his self defense was inexcusable in their eyes.
Doing recon listening to state propaganda NPR, and they had a guest on to talk about how RFK Jr. gutting the HHS was bad because "the HHS saved the government money by preventing fraud and abuse in the system with their oversight."
Okay, that might be true. But it begs the question of why is it even possible to have this fraud and abuse in the first place. Maybe we shouldn't be granting money so easily for every request for funding. That's the real problem, not the cuts to bloated institutions.
@deprecated_ii more of an overcorrection, as there are plenty of cases where people do eat too much salt (especially true for those who eat out every day of the week instead of cooking for themselves).
Salt for the most part will not kill you, but eating unnatural amounts of it can be a problem. Just don't eat out as often.
It reminds me of sugar. Fine in natural quantities, but a problem when you eat it in levels humans were never designed to eat.
While I see plenty of talk about the anti-white agenda of the Episcopalian "church," I have not seen as much talk about the fact that President Trump actually granted asylum to a group of white people on the basis that they were being persecuted. So I will give him credit for doing something that is not just in the interests of Israel.
@BobsonDugnuttHB @deprecated_ii "Dude, we can just have a service based economy, where we provide services for everyone! And we can just import everything because we are so rich from our service based economy! Just don't think about where we will get actual wealth if we don't make anything, because the dollar will NEVER collapse!"
In a way, we have become victims of our own success with previous economic momentum still keeping us going. But for how long will that last?
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I just saw a video talking about how "men don't ask women for advice on dating because men bad".
Reality is, women will tell you what worked for them, but that's dumb advice for men because they're women -- the whole experience of being a woman is fundamentally different than being a man, especially in dating.
In college, my mom gave me advice like "Just talk to women on the bus!" Well she was a decent looking middle-aged woman at the time, she could just strike up a conversation, and most men would find her perfectly tolerable. Women's mental space isn't like that. Women are much more defensive, especially with strange men. The concept of a "Barrage of bore" of guys trying to get with a pretty girl every day from their 16th birthday onwards is real. Women typically have too many men expressing interest and need to pare down the number of men asking, most men outside of the top 1% typically don't have virtually any women expressing interest and need to gin up leads to have someone to accept or reject in the first place.
Eventually I did date, and I got married, and I had to use totally different techniques than women did because I'm not a woman. I had to figure out how to seem safe, how to seem interesting, and how to be fun.
In the book "Self-made man", Norah Vincent talks about dating in her man disguise. I read the book all the way back in 2005, and the chapter on dating was the descent into darkness for Vincent. She went into it going "Stupid men, I'm a lesbian, I'll show these stupid men how to get women", but the pain she experienced realizing how she was treated as a man was palpable. It was clear that the simple acts of getting a new haircut, wearing a suit, binding her chest, and gluing some stubble to her face put her in a completely different class of person and she didn't realize she was going to walk into something like that.
Many people have also completed the experience of creating a dating profile of the opposite sex to see what it's like, and for women they're shocked at the silence even when they made their dream guy, and for men they're shocked at how they're inundated by attention even when they make a horrible woman.
"Just be nice and respectful" -- no, just be nice and respectful and don't be a sycophant and don't be boring, be exciting and fun and make her feel like you could be dangerous but not to her. She wants you to be dominant but to walk a fine line where you're dominant without being domineering. It's a load of paradoxes because human beings are paradoxical.
The whole "nice guy" syndrome is in a sense a reaction to guys who did listen to women and get frustrated that the advice is bad. "I was fuckin nice just like you told me, and instead of getting a girlfriend I got a girl friend. This is bullshit I didn't want a girl friend." -- A woman who followed men's advice would likely face a similar but different frustration if she were following men's dating advice. She can't bang every guy who hits on her who seems nice. In fact, we do see that on dating apps, were women end up having sex with men who are really attractive, but they find they can't actually get a boyfriend, she just gets a friend with benefits.
By the way, I later realized that as a man I was filled with similar paradoxes. When a man hasn't had the girlfriend who wants sex all the time but actually all the time, the hot girlfriend who is also too crazy, the fun girlfriend who doesn't have any responsibility, you start to realize you don't want what you think you wanted.
Consider two groups. One lives in a fortress with a granary, the other lives on the steppe. What do you do if under attack? For the first group, you hunger down behind safe walls and eat your accumulated grain until the enemy loses interest and leaves. For the second group, you run away on your horses because you can probably outrun them. Both are legitimate tactics, but totally unapplicable to one another.
You can say "that's not fair!" -- but life isn't fair, and the quicker you learn that, the happier life will be.
Reality is, women will tell you what worked for them, but that's dumb advice for men because they're women -- the whole experience of being a woman is fundamentally different than being a man, especially in dating.
In college, my mom gave me advice like "Just talk to women on the bus!" Well she was a decent looking middle-aged woman at the time, she could just strike up a conversation, and most men would find her perfectly tolerable. Women's mental space isn't like that. Women are much more defensive, especially with strange men. The concept of a "Barrage of bore" of guys trying to get with a pretty girl every day from their 16th birthday onwards is real. Women typically have too many men expressing interest and need to pare down the number of men asking, most men outside of the top 1% typically don't have virtually any women expressing interest and need to gin up leads to have someone to accept or reject in the first place.
Eventually I did date, and I got married, and I had to use totally different techniques than women did because I'm not a woman. I had to figure out how to seem safe, how to seem interesting, and how to be fun.
In the book "Self-made man", Norah Vincent talks about dating in her man disguise. I read the book all the way back in 2005, and the chapter on dating was the descent into darkness for Vincent. She went into it going "Stupid men, I'm a lesbian, I'll show these stupid men how to get women", but the pain she experienced realizing how she was treated as a man was palpable. It was clear that the simple acts of getting a new haircut, wearing a suit, binding her chest, and gluing some stubble to her face put her in a completely different class of person and she didn't realize she was going to walk into something like that.
Many people have also completed the experience of creating a dating profile of the opposite sex to see what it's like, and for women they're shocked at the silence even when they made their dream guy, and for men they're shocked at how they're inundated by attention even when they make a horrible woman.
"Just be nice and respectful" -- no, just be nice and respectful and don't be a sycophant and don't be boring, be exciting and fun and make her feel like you could be dangerous but not to her. She wants you to be dominant but to walk a fine line where you're dominant without being domineering. It's a load of paradoxes because human beings are paradoxical.
The whole "nice guy" syndrome is in a sense a reaction to guys who did listen to women and get frustrated that the advice is bad. "I was fuckin nice just like you told me, and instead of getting a girlfriend I got a girl friend. This is bullshit I didn't want a girl friend." -- A woman who followed men's advice would likely face a similar but different frustration if she were following men's dating advice. She can't bang every guy who hits on her who seems nice. In fact, we do see that on dating apps, were women end up having sex with men who are really attractive, but they find they can't actually get a boyfriend, she just gets a friend with benefits.
By the way, I later realized that as a man I was filled with similar paradoxes. When a man hasn't had the girlfriend who wants sex all the time but actually all the time, the hot girlfriend who is also too crazy, the fun girlfriend who doesn't have any responsibility, you start to realize you don't want what you think you wanted.
Consider two groups. One lives in a fortress with a granary, the other lives on the steppe. What do you do if under attack? For the first group, you hunger down behind safe walls and eat your accumulated grain until the enemy loses interest and leaves. For the second group, you run away on your horses because you can probably outrun them. Both are legitimate tactics, but totally unapplicable to one another.
You can say "that's not fair!" -- but life isn't fair, and the quicker you learn that, the happier life will be.
When I think I have seen everything, am proven wrong. I am seeing a cornhole competition televised. I never knew anyone would take a game like that seriously enough to be doing full blown competitions. That game should just remain something you do with extended family on the 4th of July or frat house gatherings.
If you have the access to a cattle farmer and abundant freezer space (at least a medium sized deep freeze bare minimum), I would recommend purchasing quarter/half/whole cow for butchering. It will not only be a better value in the long run, but I know I can taste the difference with the steaks, roasts, and ground beef from a cow you get directly from the farmer versus buying it at a grocery store.
A half cow will pretty much fill a medium deep freezer. So keep in mind your storage space.
On the topic of "identifying the problem not being enough," I can come up with an example we all well know: inflation. Yes, inflation is a problem when your money buys less things. But when you see many people give their input for solutions, they would often make the problem worse. For example: "The government needs to provide more financial assistance to people." when that "assistance" would just mean more money printing and more of the same problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li70iz1NaDY
Watching interviews like this are a great way to slow boil my blood. Much of it has to do with Scott Galloway. To his credit, he can correctly assess what the problems are, but he will constantly bend over backwards to deny the underlying causes of the problems (mainly feminism).
This just goes to show that identifying the problem is not enough when looking for solutions, as many "solutions" will just make the problem worse. Scott Galloway offers only bad solutions.
@caekislove @MCMLXVIIOTG @sickburnbro it is really the lefties' fault that it happened, because the wanted to have their "historical moment" all neatly wrapped up rather than have any sense of pragmatism when it came to replace Supreme Court Justices.
We can all learn from this lesson that it was a childish idea to hold out for a woman president replacing a woman justice with another woman, as well as laugh at the fact that they are so worked up over the consequences of poor foresight.
@JoeBravo77 it does bo good to pick someone to "code talk" to a group of people who see the pick as a traitor to their principles. The fact that this was their thought process shows they have no idea how to actually appeal to anyone beyond superficial traits.
houseoftolstoy
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Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
