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- Comment on High fashion 8 hours ago:
/c/theyknew
- Comment on Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out 22 hours ago:
Hilarious and on-brand
- Comment on Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016? 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016? 1 day ago:
/c/im14andthisisdeep
- Comment on Taco Bell funeral 1 day ago:
That was so much more than I ever could have imagined…
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 2 days ago:
I mean, I’m a guy who is 6’4", quite active, and often don’t eat until late afternoon or dinnertime. So personally, I quite like “American portions”, because often when I go out to eat, I am going to already be very hungry.
But also, I find I usually get the best “bang for my buck” at mexican, indian, or ethiopian restaurants. And in these restaurants, I often see plenty of mexicans, indians, and ethiopians. And in my experience travelling and that of my friends, this is not a phenomenon exclusive to the American versions of these restaurants. I’ve been to Greek restaurants in Greece where we got to-go boxes because we couldnt finish the meal. Mexican restaurants in Mexico where they would just keep feeding you until literally couldnt eat any more. And everyone has the story of their Italian/Indian/Argentinian/etc grandmother who will keep force-feeding guests until they are literally ready to vomit. Honestly the “American portion sizes are crazy” rhetoric feels like it might instead be Europeans being weird.
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 2 days ago:
Norway is a capitalist country as well
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 days ago:
#autoorientedinfrastructure
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 days ago:
Because you pay for gas every couple days with your credit card, while you pay for healthcare rarely
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 days ago:
Tvs are cheap because manufacturing costs came down. They were cheap before they were smart
- Comment on Dam that's sad 3 days ago:
Died
There, I said it. Now you don’t have to complain about it
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 4 days ago:
Do you
thinkthattheseCBSemployeesshouldunionizeand go onstrike?Yes
- Comment on City of eternal winter? (Stable winter weather year-round) 4 days ago:
My best guess would be cities in the high mountains (like the himalaya), or in the polar circles. They would still have summer and winter, but it would be more like, winter and more winter
- Comment on t-shirt to wear on your last day of work 4 days ago:
I work in concert staging
- Comment on Fit girls role call 5 days ago:
I mean… you can compete at any level in powerlifting or oly lifting. Being “competitive” really just means you enter competitions - it doesnt necessarily imply anything about your ability.
Also, if you are using your lifting belt to stop your guts from spilling out, you are using it wrong. You are supposed to press against it to generate additional intra-abdominal pressure, stabilizing the trunk and allowing more load.
Anyway, my point was that maybe oly lifters of comparable level to powerlifters would have tighter pussies. And also, we still have no direct proof that big numbers in the powerlifts will translate to increases in functional pussy tightness.
Clearly, more research is needed before we can draw solid conclusions about this important topic. Any interested volunteers for future experiments should contact me immediately, so we can work together to improve the world’s scientific knowledge for the betterment of humanity.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 5 days ago:
On one hand, I think this is a fair assessment.
In the other, I’ve fucked runners, yoga instructors, climbers, acrobats, bodybuilders, surfers, and plenty of casual lifters. No one else comes close. my hypothesis is that lifting really heavy forces the core to engage with maximum strength - which is not an effect you get even with other forms of exercise traditionally considered highly core-intensive.
I’m split as to whether a powerlifter would see the same effect. On one hand, heavy weight should induce the core to maximally tighten. On the other, I wonder if there is something special in catching a heavy weight in the deep squat position that would create an even greater degree of core and pelvic floor engagement.
- Comment on t-shirt to wear on your last day of work 5 days ago:
If someone wore this to my job, literally no one would bat an eye. Boss wouldn’t care. Boss’s boss would probably get a kick out of it. Clients wouldnt care. Coworkers would say “why are you wearing such a nice shirt to work?”
- Comment on Fit girls role call 6 days ago:
For anyone wondering, the exercises are the front squat, overhead press, clean and jerk, and snatch. Source: tightest girl I ever fucked was a competitive olympic lifter. Will be chasing that high the rest of my life
- Comment on What are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
I’m confused what point you are trying to make…
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 1 week ago:
It sounds like your mom’s a bitch
- Comment on What are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 1 week ago:
Please provide screenshots of specific examples if you want a more productive discussion.
But having encountered this sort of doomer sentiment in the past and dabbled in it myself, will create a bifurcated answer.
For the individual, the answer is to create in him a belief that he can change his outcomes via effort. While it is very difficult to convince someone to change who is resistant to it, the best path is likely creating a supportive, long term relationship with that person that is empathetic to their desires and struggles, and then to show them real life examples of people who had their same problems and were able to succeed.
For society, my optimistic side says that the main problem is a lack of facilitation of living happy, healthy lives among young people where socialization is easy and encouraged. In our current model, the default is to be mentally and physically unhealthy, and to silo yourself in task-specific spaces, like home, work, etc. This means that there is a large chunk of the population - those who are unhealthy but with median standards - who are simply not attractive enough as mates to attract anyone they are attracted to. And then for the people who are sufficiently attractive, there are few opportinities to have spontaneous interactions with attractive strangers. So by creating conditions which overcome these issues, we could solve a very large chunk of this problem.
My less optimistic side says that the breakdown of monogamous patterns in society and the influx of information about the world via the internet has created higher modal expectations in women than the modal man can meet and results in an asymmetric “dating up” pattern in society, where it becomes a simultaneously entrenched and unspoken reality that men with greater dateability will have a surplus of female partners, while men with lesser dateability will have almost none. Yes, I’m aware that this sounds very black-pill-y. But idk, the math checks out - especially based on the number of (liberal/left leaning, educated) women I’ve encountered who have explicitly told me that they would happily be in a relationship with a man where he could fuck around on the side but they couldn’t (or some variation of this, like a girls only rule) - just as long as he was a good, committed, and supportive partner to them. And then the solution to this problem would be (best case) a sort of monastic class of less dateable men, or (worst case) the “spontaneous” creation of wars to burn off the excess less dateable men, or (worster case) violence from the less dateable men on society until some sort of equilibrium is reached.
And yes, I am aware of how doomer this sounds. I suggest we try to implement the optimistic solution first and hope it works.
- Comment on Wouldn’t it make more sense for Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Foggy Nelson to be prosecutors or civil rights lawyers instead of defense attorneys? 1 week ago:
I have a friend who is a public defence attorney. His words: “Pretty much everyone I work with is 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt, completely guilty. My job is to guide them through the legal system, and do my best to make sure the sentence they are given isn’t ridiculous.”
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 week ago:
Because of our cultural conceptions of the two subjects.
In our culture, it is quite well accepted that for practical reasons, children need to be exposed to and made interested in science and technology from a young age. That way they can become engineers who make good money and help us outcompete our technological/economic rivals. Having a child who becomes a successful engineer (or other stem profession, like a doctor or accountant) is seen as the mark of successful parenting to the middle class, as these roles make a good wage, contribute to society, are reasonably high up the social status heirarchy, and have a clear and achieveable path to success. Therefore parents, who are far more likely to be voters in their cities, will be willing to support spending tax dollars on science museums that are interesting and engaging to children.
And another factor is that science museums designed for children are often just as interesting and engaging for adults. The vast majority of adults have largely forgotten their high school physics or chemistry, and will enjoy remembering those lessons with hands-on demonstrations just as much as children. And while children and their parents are often the biggest target demo of science museums, in larger or more educated cities at least, many museums try to appeal to larger demographics. For example, in my city the Natural History and Science Museum has regular changing exhibits that go in-depth on topics that many find interesting. A while ago, I saw their exhibit on poison, which had a lot of interesting things to learn about the history of poison, evolution, biology, and chemistry. And most people at the exhibit were adults without children.
Anyway - art. Art, on the other hand, is not a viable career path (according to our cultural consensus). Parents want their children educated enough in art to make it a hobby and so they will be well rounded… but they don’t really want their child harboring fantasies of becoming a writer or painter or musician, since these careers tend to have poor wages, have no clear path to middle class success, and will probably end up with their child living in a bohemian commune and getting a neck tattoo. Hence, there is not nearly as much pressure for large investments in the arts that appeal to children.
On the other hand, enjoying art is a sign of high social status. Here, we should differentiate between pop art and high art. Pop art doesn’t need museums, and therefore doesn’t require public funding. The guy who will make you a trippy landscape painting with spraypaint next to the tilt-a-whirl is an artist - but his art will almost certainly never hang in an art museum. It is too lowbrow for that, and the purpose of art museums is to showcase highbrow art - art that the upper classes have deemed “good”. Going to an art museum is a way of signalling social status because what is considered “good” - what is fashionable at the time - is constantly changing, and one can signal their social status by expressing their opinion of what is “good” or “bad”, which signals their closeness to social elites. The closer you are to the elites, the faster you hear about their preferences, and the sooner you can mirror them. Of course, this nuance is lost on almost everyone - they just pick up from the cultural zeitgiest that going to the art museum is a very classy and sophistocated thing to do. And so when funding the city’s art muesum comes up on the ballot, a middle class suburban 43 year old mother of two teenagers isn’t thinking about the museum’s impact on her children’s education, but is rather thinking of her own self-conception as a high-minded individual who supports “the arts”, and who really should get around to badgering her husband into taking her there so she can “keep up with what is going on in the art world” in her fancy dress (that is actually 10 years out of style and hasn’t fit her for the last 7).
Hence why art museums are so often boring and stuffy. Their main purpose is to serve as a social space for elites during exclusive events. Elite tastes must not coincide with common tastes - and since most people like things that are nice and friendly and fun and happy, elite tastes must differentiate themselves by being boring, disconcerting, harsh, and uncomfortable - hence the popularity of modern art and architecture. The interesting and enjoyable thing about art museums is the opportinity to get drunk with elites during their exclusive events. Then the average person, who is not invited to these events, is allowed to feel sophisticated by visiting and staring at the painting that the elites had a conversation next to but never really looked at.
Popular art - art that people actually enjoy for its own sake - doesn’t need museums, since it can be enjoyed in movie theatres, in art studios, on street corners, in crowded bars, at music festivals, at home on a phone or laptop, or next to the tilt-a-whirl.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 week ago:
Upvote = Yes, Downvote = Yes, but in denial
- Comment on Boomer comics 2 weeks ago:
it takes $200 for a date
tf? When I go on a first date with a girl, I take her to a funky bar. We typically have 1 or 2 drinks max. Typically, I buy first round and she buys the second - but even if I pay for the whole date, it’s only $40 max. Including tip.
Then for subsequent dates, we’re either meeting at one of our places to get straight down to business, or doing something free or nearly free, like going hiking or playing pickleball or cooking dinner together.
Zoomers are just not having that much sex
I can tell you that zoomers are plenty interested in sex. They just need to get over their social anxiety to get naked with someone else.
- Comment on Boomer comics 2 weeks ago:
Shut up! You’ll scare off the venture capital
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 2 weeks ago:
They don’t stretch out from having a dick put in them. But giving birth is literally a physically traumatic event. Ligiments get slack so bones can shift around, and it is not uncommon for the flesh around the vagina to experience significant tearing. The whole thing is quite horrifying. Post pregnancy medical procedures may be necessary not just to have a tight pussy, but to be able to not constantly be peeing yourself.
- Comment on Graham Platner Thinks a Political Revolution Is Coming 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a good guy. I’d be eager to vote for him if I was a Mainer
- Comment on I can only be assertive when I'm on edge, is this normal? 2 weeks ago:
The fact that you are using the word “submissive” in regards to your day to day actions indicates that there is something very weird about you, but probably not what you think it is.
Please help us understand by giving examples
- Comment on That's a nice streak ya got there... be a shame if something happened to it 🔪 2 weeks ago:
Just stopping in to say that if you are learning spanish, I’ve found Dreaming Spanish to be far superior to duolingo for actually learning the language. I believe they are also offering French now, and their method of comprehensible input is better in general for learning