Why does every Hacker News discussion on dating sound like it’s between a bunch of Ferengi? pic.twitter.com/SI7kwYRM0i

— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon) January 14, 2020

Yes. Ignore this shit and ignore feminist dating advice, which is also mostly fecal in nature.

Feminists will hate this, but the best way to date lots of people is to ask lots of people on dates. I found this out myself at a job where everyone was pretty much asking everyone else out. I asked out about 20 women I was interested in over the course of a few years. Two said yes. A couple also asked me out. I said yes to both of them. That’s two more than would’ve said yes had I asked no one, which is by far my natural inclination.

Dating is hell and I am glad I am not doing that anymore, but one definitely way to be successful is to just try lots of things and see what works. But ignore MRAs and feminists completely. They will steer you wrong every time.

Remote work:

– better for environment
– better for productivity
– better for companies
– better for diversity
– better for workers
– better for families

Offices:

– better for wasting time
– better for middle managers

Am I missing anything?

— Chris Herd (@chris_herd) January 13, 2020

Mostly, it’s not middle managers who are against remote work — it’s executives and MBA types who get a thrill from seeing their minions trapped in offices, at their beck and call. It’s part of a status competition between upper executives, mainly.

People are really surprised that Lupita Nyong’o didn’t receive an Oscar nomination for her performance in Us?

In case no one noticed, Us was a horror film, which other than for effects nearly never get nominated for anything in any Oscar category. That it happened to be by far the best movie released in 2019 doesn’t matter a whit. The snub had nothing to do with racism and everything to do with general anti-horror attitudes.

Symptoms may include: https://t.co/F40N1hvoMq pic.twitter.com/45E0zgDwJT

— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) January 12, 2020

The annoying “progressive” phrasebook.

A difficulty with being an anthropologist in your own society: To coherently explain certain social norms, is itself a social norm violation.

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) January 12, 2020

Social norms only work if they are implicit and flexible to some extent, while spelling them out transitions them more into the realm of law rather than norm.

The whole point of wokeness is to aggressively stop a large coalition political movement, this distinct possibility arose twice in the past 10 years, and at each point there were rapid accelerations like weirdos showing up to bank protests demanding people line up by skin color. https://t.co/CjWHs9CGdu

— stricture (@bog_beef) January 11, 2020

That is correct. Similarly, #metoo became about upper middle class women ruthlessly enforcing their assortative mating preferences and advertising their extreme sexual dysfunction.

I wish it weren’t true, but it is.