rekabis

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me put something else in your pipe to smoke:

  Women rape men as frequently as men rape women.

  And now the real surprise: when asked about experiences in the last 12 months, men reported being “made to penetrate” - either by physical force or due to intoxication - at virtually the same rates as women reported rape (both 1.1 percent in 2010, and 1.7 and 1.6 respectively in 2011).

  In other words, if being made to penetrate someone was counted as rape - and why shouldn’t it be? - then the headlines could have focused on a truly sensational CDC finding: that women rape men as often as men rape women.

  And yet, where are the convictions of female rapists??

  crickets

  If you want to clean house, start with your own.

  And the real kicker comes down to these three points:

  1. It took the FBI until 2015 to even begin recording female-on-male rape as rape, because before then it wasn’t considered rape. And so national law enforcement stats for female-on-make rape just don’t exist before 2015.
  2. Many police precincts still use software that hard-codes the victim as female and the perp as male, further frustrating justice by creating “erroneous” records that are trivial to dismiss, and preventing a full accounting of the problem by preventing correct gender identification of the victim and perp.
  3. Almost all men have been brainwashed to think that it is impossible for a woman to rape a man, be it physical or psychological coercion, so many of these male victims don’t even realize they have been victimized.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  tons of men in power who never get in trouble.

  Here, people, is an absolutely exquisite example of the Apex Fallacy in action: using the 1% to 0.1% of men that fit the conditions and applying that case to the other 99% who don’t have these characteristics and could never achieve the same prosecutorial immunity.

  For the vast majority of men, even the insinuation of sexual malfeasance is enough to destroy careers and marriages.

  Hell, even good samaritans lose everything, and they did absolutely nothing wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a “yes” can, and frequently is, converted into a “no” retroactively, sometimes well after the act. It all comes down to feelings before facts and how she personally prefers to interpret the event regardless of the passage of time.

  And unless the entire action is videotaped and notarized, as a man you are defined as being in the wrong 100% of the time.

  Plus, as a man you are also faced with epic levels of societal hypocrisy that you have no ability to counteract, regardless of how things actually went.

  The only rational risk-assessment analysis for any man in the lower-90% is to consider ALL responses a “no”, and to just walk away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no paradox once you realize that it is not a law, but a social contract.

  Those that are intolerant remove themselves from the social contract, and are no longer protected by it. This then allows them to be no longer tolerated by the tolerant, preserving that contract for those who obey it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Prior transmissions of the strain did not have ‘close contact’.”

  youtu.be/rO4Xd5PfIo0

  Featuring Prof. Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University.

  I’m more inclined to listen to experts in their field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Democrats are not “of the left”, they are actually right-lite.

  Aside from a tiny handful of Dems like AOC and Bernie - who would be classified as solid centrists in any other country - there are no politicians “on the left” anywhere at the Federal level.

  Relevant meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Invermectin does that in vino.

  in vino.

  What does wine have to do with it?

  And is it white or red wine, or can we run with just any old plonk?

  ducksandruns sorrynotsorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some variants like the Andes strain are developing the ability to be human-transmissible. It has been recorded jumping from one human host to the next in prior outbreaks. Once it evolves to be trivially-transmissible, all bets are off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with the best medical care, Hantavirus has a 20% fatality rate.

  Let’s just hope that conservatives continue being so anti-vaccine… a few more pandemics with human-transmissible highly-fatal viruses and maybe we can get that socialist utopia that the right always cock-blocks us from achieving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people really lack civic sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hand taser? Like, one of those easily-concealed ones?

  A hand buzzer works, too, but it needs a certain amount of moisture on the skin to work, and foot dampness varies a lot more than hand dampness due to keratin and callouses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biological Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Woman of mass destruction

  Ah, these are rather common. Divorces are their weapon of choice.

  More often than not, the man has his career and savings rolled back twenty years or more. Most never return to their prior economic level unless they’re young enough to compensate, and then they remain severely behind their peers, as well. Only the truly wealthy men - think $10M of net worth or more, and $250k+ earnings - can bounce back from a divorce like it’s nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm in!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was never about the 2^nd amendment. It was all about restricting gun ownership for “the ideologically wrong people”.

  Just look at how they came down on the Black Panthers in the 60s, and how “stand your ground” laws work in wildly disproportionate ways for only white cis people.

  It’s a racist and bigoted strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with “rights”, except for the selective restriction of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck. You.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Power toys has the enhanced version, which is what I need due to six monitors. Yup, that cursor gets lost a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another one for the “Lemmy isn’t sexist” collection.

  So true equality is “sexist”? Good to know.

  The ultimate test of bigotry of any kind is to take the terms in contention and flip them. If it reads vastly different, you’ve found the bigotry in the one that is not rage-inducing.

  Here we have a female therapist failing in her job with a male patient.

  Now have a male therapist say the exact same thing to a female patient. See how that version plays out in public vs the first. Torches and pitchforks in favour of stringing up the male therapist, no?

  The entire greentext was anti-male gender bigotry writ large, and an epic fail by the therapist to go beyond her gender-unique experiences in order to understand how wildly different the typical man’s experiences are.

  As you have demonstrated, the cultivated ignorance by so-called “anti-sexist” people is absolutely stunning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I am astounded at the levels of cultivated ignorance needed to not have the point leap out and bodily slap people across the face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you show me some of those facts?

  On mobile, no direct access to sources. But:

  Compare the average man with the average woman. In general,

  • the man will swipe right about 100 times before he can arrange a single coffee date.

  • out of five coffee dates, four will ghost him or otherwise fail to show up, leading to one successful date per thousand attempts.

  • the average woman who asks can get the same buy-in by men for every ≈5 swipes right

  • she will see only one ghosting or otherwise failing to follow through for every ≈25 such coffee dates.

  • just managing to leverage a date is a 20:1 advantage in the woman’s favour.

  • actually going on a date and not getting ghosted is about a 100:1 advantage in the woman’s favour.

  • when men were presented with a scenario where a woman met 80% of his desired attributes, about ¾ said they would gladly entertain a relationship with her.

  • when a woman was presented with the flip proposition, where a man met 80% of her desired attributes, a similar ¾ of them said the exact opposite… that they would absolutely refuse to entertain a relationship with such a man due to his glaring inadequacies.

  • when gauging women, men invariably graded them on an almost perfect bell curve, with half being above average in physical attractiveness, and half below.

  • when gauging men, women skewed the bell curve severely towards the bottom end, with slightly over 80% of men being “below average attractiveness”.

  • men’s bell curve of women shifted objectively based on how attractive the cohort of women were. A more beautiful group was shifted higher, no different than if they were just a part of a larger group.

  • women rated a more attractive group of men equally as harshly as a more random group, with 80% of them still being “below average attractiveness” regardless of how highly attractive they might be among the general population.

  • individual exceptions exist, but in general women are still very loathe to marry a man that makes less than they do, or has a less socially prestigious job than she does. Women who make more than $100k almost never marry men who make less than they do, even when that difference is almost negligible.

  • In fact, early retirement by the man (and sometimes, even just retirement at the appropriate age) precipitates 100% of all retirement-triggered divorces… which are invariably woman-initiated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GO OUT AND MEET PEOPLE AND FORM RELATIONSHIPS

  Inapplicable, already married for the last 20 years, together for 30 years.

  I’m taken, not blind or ignorant. I have eyes to see what is happening out there, and a functional mind with which to examine and critically analyze recorded statistics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most women are smart enough to understand the differences between how men and women experience and express sexual desire, but maybe it sometimes grad school beats it out of people.

  You are so far out in left field it isn’t even funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t the facts I go after. You should examine the stats that come out of things like dating apps and papers published by actual sociologists examining intergender relationships. It’s absolutely wild how it runs completely counter to what most women say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as usual she’s the problem. lmao

  The therapist, who is utterly unwilling to consider that a man’s reality is wildly different from her own experiences?

  Yes, absolutely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bro seek help

  For what? Being obsessed with reality? Putting evidence above ideology?

  Sorry, no. I know how things are like out there, I’ve seen the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  she

  There’s the problem, right there. Women marinate in so much attention they just cannot understand how men can want relationships and sex, yet not be able to get it. Their brains melt down when you demonstrate how fundamentally different the male experience is.

  Men: if you want true understanding, you have a much better chance of achieving that with a male therapist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The planetary zero-impact carrying capacity for humanity is somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion, depending if we want (respectively) a first-world meat-inclusive diet or a fully vegan diet.

  Carbon emissions aside, we are indeed a plague upon the planet. Thanks to high tech, we have massively blown past our carrying capacity, and risk lowering the non-high-tech-enabled carrying capacity down into the mere tens of millions or even less. Which bodes very badly if we experience a severe civilizational collapse in the next 10-30 years (as is becoming increasingly likely) that makes building and maintaining high tech impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But to truly beat the house you need to find that one ATM which has a transaction flaw where you can withdraw your entire balance but the withdrawal does not get recorded anywhere, and for extra measure nothing about the transaction gets recorded so they don’t even know it was you who accessed that ATM.

  Fun fact: there have been a few such cases of ATM flaws in the last few decades, either time-limited to a specific period (the hour after midnight, for example) or transaction-limited to a specific type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better look at it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes.

  If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, the sun would be screaming at us at just over 100db.

  For reference, sounds at 85db can start causing hearing damage after only 8hrs of exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better look at it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that we’re not allowed to look at it, it’s that we have oodles of evidence on how severely damaged our vision becomes when we do look directly at it without sufficient protection, and anyone with two functional neurons to rub together isn’t going to be doing any looking unless they are wearing the appropriate vision protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.

  At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.

  I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply. That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, they’re fucking awesome work boots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I unreasonably disappointed to not find “Correct Horse Battery Staple” in that list?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…

  Oh.

  Oh, Myyyyyy…