Month: June 2022

Prudential

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Among the under-30 set, prudishness is at highs not seen since perhaps the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s. It’s hard for people to acknowledge this because usually prudishness occurs because of some form of organized religion and this time, that is not the direct cause. I don’t quite understand what is, but it’s not that.

A friend of mine suggested our current age’s precarity as a cause, but I don’t quite buy that either as the evidence seems to indicate that typically people have more sex in times of precarity, because what does it matter what you do? There’s no future anyway.

The complete explanation remains a mystery.

Like Sex

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A lot of people are taught — I was — that women don’t actually like sex at all, that they merely put up with it, and that if you attempt to have sex with a woman it is automatically harmful and degrading to her.

Many liberals have embraced this philosophy fully, but have also removed it out of the religious context in which it is typically embedded. That somehow makes it even worse because then it becomes an even deeper core belief.

On the other hand, this is also true:

WGAC

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Agreed. That’s life now. I somehow have not yet caught (symptomatic) Covid, but if I do, who gives a crap?

Tamp

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Friend of mine: I bet you didn’t know there is a tampon shortage.

Me: Yeah, I know.

Friend: Oh, never mind, all your friends are women. Of course you know.

Heh. She’s not wrong.

Just Gone

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I’ve noticed that. Everyone assumes the market price or “value” of something decreasing means that the money goes somewhere, when nothing could be further from the truth. Nope, that money is just gone. Doesn’t exist anymore (if it ever did). Money has value only in trade, essentially. Otherwise, it’s just an idea — a fiction we tell one another — and is not conserved in any way. This is very difficult for physicists and engineer types to understand and accept.

Tot Up

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Anyone who doesn’t get themselves or their child vaccinated is a fucking clown. For so many reasons. Just a total doofus.

Body Talking

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Fat Acceptance Dipshit: It’s literally impossible to have a body like that. No one in the history of ever has had a body like that. It takes decades of effort, flawless genetics, and working out 37 hours a day.

Looking at random street photos from the 1970s: Everyone in the picture has a body like or better than the FA “impossible” body.

WMI

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Hey now, I’ve used WMI filtering quite successfully in certain restricted scenarios. Sometimes it’s the right tool. But you really have to know what the fuck you are doing.

Exo

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On Inflation, Economics Has Some Explaining to Do.

Again, I was right and the economics establisment was wrong. Why? Well, it’s obvious that you can’t just pause an economy and then resume it, as we did with Covid, and expect no ill effects. It was always clear that any exogenous shock — and there are always exogenous shocks — would lead to non-transitory inflation.

There’s no model for this because it’s nearly impossible to plausibly model one-off events. That’s where deep systems thinking capabilities come in, and I have that.

It’s a Stretch

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How do i help my girlfriend feel better about her stretch marks? She has a beautiful slender body but she feels insecure to wear some of her swim suits because of stretch marks. I tried to tell her that no one cares or notices but she’s still insecure about them.

I think this is one of the biggest divergences between what women think men care about and what they actually care about. Men do not give a single crap about stretch marks.

Or as a commenter said:

Was having sex with a woman back when I was in the army who said, “Sorry about my stretch marks” and I replied, “I don’t mind at all” when in reality I didn’t even see them or notice them. So of course I didn’t mind because I had no damn idea about any stretch marks that might or might not have been there.

Stealth

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Eh, none of this is really true. I do agree there is too much emphasis on stealth when most of it should now be on drones and the like, but rarely do adversaries have the latest equipment in all the right places, either. And stealth isn’t all or nothing — it’s a spectrum.

If it takes 10 seconds longer to get a missile lock, that’s 10 seconds more for you to get away. This is another clueless take by someone who knows little to nothing.