Why aren’t men excited about dating as they used to be?
The risks are extremely high and the benefits are extremely low, especially if you are dating an American woman.
Why put yourself through that? No reason to do it.
Annoying
No Haste Much Waste
Why does every “quick question” turn into a 30 minute troubleshooting session?
Thirty minutes isn’t bad. I’ve had one “quick question” turn into a 2.5 year project, and many transform into multi-month projects.
I do not like user “quick questions.” They are never quick, and are rarely questions.
Not Just a Humblebrag
Something else that is also worse since the 1990s.
Women have always had somewhat stricter beauty standards foisted onto them than men.
But in the 2010s with the rise of Marvel and other similar superhero movies, that began to change. Women were psyopped into believing that if you were not completely ripped Hugh Jackman-style 24/7, then you were out of shape and had a “dad bod.” Never mind that for those scenes, Jackman was on the verge of death from dehydration, etc.
So, now, men also have absurd beauty standards applied to them. I don’t completely blame women for this; as I said, they were psyopped into it.
As someone who has a physique now approaching the Marvel superhero ideal (and could get there easily with 2-3 days of dehydration after a month or two of cutting a few pounds), I can tell you it’s really very difficult to achieve. It requires working out an hour or more a day 4-6 days a week. And not just putzing around. You must do hard workouts combined with eating well. And if you don’t want to use drug enhancement (and I do not), you must do this for years.
These days women assume you’ve never seen the inside of gym if you don’t look like Chris Evans in his post-transformation Captain America shirtless scenes. And that is pretty fucking absurd.
Again, the 90s were better.
Windows 95
Generally agreed. Culturally, things were superior then.
No, idiots, I don’t think that just because I was young then. I was a paratrooper in the motherfucking 82nd Airborne Division for a large part of the 1990s. Not an easy life at all.
Sometimes, things are just better. Deal with it.
The Nothing Achieved
PMC liberal “feminist” women’s attempt to make attraction itself verboten is one of the doofiest things I’ve ever seen.
Its clownishness exceeds all previously-established bounds, while its chance of success is essentially zero. It can do great harm while achieving nothing. What a way to be.
Scaled Out
I’ve been running TrueNAS Scale on the new NAS, the one that is home-built (not from a vendor). And I don’t like TrueNAS itself much. It’s yet another power user tool that has removed or gimped its most important and useful features for no apparent reason.
For instance, they’ve removed the recycle bin on SMB so that “Previous Versions” in Windows no longer works. I don’t even run Windows at home on my daily use endpoints, but that’s a real loss. And moronic. Their “solution” is to use ZFS snapshots, but this is a totally different tech that is not as easy and is far more dangerous.
TrueNAS also doesn’t handle certain files generated on the Mac correctly — specifically ones with Alternate Data Stream stuff going on — while commercial NASes seem to deal with these files fine. And no, the supposed common fix did not correct the issue.
The GUI is also pretty bad. It manages to be both too simple and too confusing at the same time somehow, and is missing many features and capabilities (many of which did exist previously and were removed for ideological reasons).
Of the major NASes and their OSes/GUIs I’ve used recently, I’d give QNAP’s a 7, Synology’s an 8.5, and TrueNAS a 4. It feels amateurish and like something I used in the early 2000s.
I will keep using it for now but it’s pretty meh.
Deveflop
I also had to fix a bunch of dev code too, separate of the below.
Grrrr.
Power Fail
I’m a little bitter because I spent a good while on a substantial project at work that was something I had to learn from scratch (no AI used in this case) and the person who pushed for it…just never used it.
Not a single time, after 8 months. Well, I learned something, but a lot of time wasted there.
Change Shift
This is correct. Women when they are young have a huge amount of power over their same-age male peers. They are desirable rather than disposable and have just enormous sexual and social control over the spaces they inhabit. They let that go to their heads and believe it does and will hold forever.
But it doesn’t, even though many still act as if it is eternal as they age. However, as men get older and their libido decreases a little — and they gain some wealth and prestige — they learn to automatically discard any woman who sees herself as the prize just because she has a nice smile and a functional vagina. That’s going to be a bad relationship and the man knows it. That delusional woman who still perceives herself as the catch beyond age 28 or so is doomed to cycle through men who realize how horrid she is until she’s an old cat lady.
I’m not on the dating market but if I were I’d be the catch now. And some women never get used to that transition due to the vast sociosexual power they held in their late teens and twenties. They never recover from the loss of de facto power. So in some ways it’s good that men aren’t raised to believe they are some unfathomably great prize. It makes them a lot less entitled.
Fade the Grade
What in the world is up with the color grading in the new Cape Fear show?
Did they get enough orange in there or what? And way too much saturation. It looks different than a lot of other shows, but certainly not good different.
Since 8
I’ve carried a pocketknife since I was eight years old.
Cessional Vibe
All the clown-ass economists are like “vibecession” and “everyone is doing amazing, they are just lying and deluded about economic problems!” Meanwhile, a hamburger at a counter-serve restaurant that cost $8 before the pandemic is now $17.
And I’m fucking rich! So if it bothers me, it’s got to be absolutely brutal on those who are barely making it. Because even if they aren’t buying hamburgers in restaurants, they still are getting hit with those high grocery prices.
And that’s why people report bad economic sentiments.
Slivers
It’s hilarious to watch women complain about this. Even women who are at some point in their lives are relatively forward only experience an extremely tiny sliver of the rejection men experience.
Also, you’d have better success as a woman approaching someone when you’re not all teenagers. That would go a lot better with 28-year-old men than 15-year-old boys.
Not like I kept an exact count, but I guess I’ve been rejected by a woman 3,000-5,000 times in my life. And had maybe ~100 successes (got the number, got a date, had sex, whatever). Let’s say 4,000 approaches in whatever form with 100 successes. So that’s a 2.5% success rate. I think that’s actually probably better than average, where it’s more like ~1%. That’s because I am extremely verbally fluent and that gives me an advantage.
But still, 2.5%! That’s not great. And that comes with a lot of danger of reputational damage and women who attempt to ruin your life for merely asking them out.
Women don’t know shit about rejection.
Feminism Fallen
Too much of modern feminism has become about punishing undesirable men for merely being attracted to women, and penalizing attractive women just for being appealing.
Which is kind of crazy, when you think about it.
They are primed to go full Islam soon I guess.
Houser
Not sure if the original tweet is a joke, but $200,000 in 1881 is around $8 million now.
Not so “simple” at all. And a house like that back in 1881 would’ve been expected to have 4-6 servants doing things.