The weirdest thing happened when I went to dance clubs with my girlfriend. I saw young girls, shapely butts, pretty faces, and alone with no boyfriends. So many desirable women!
The weird part happened when I broke up with my girlfriend and went back to the same club as a single guy. I still saw young girls, shapely butts, pretty faces, alone with no boyfriends. But I could not believe I had not noticed before, I never saw ALL of those good things on the same woman.
When I was part of a couple, my brain had assembled all of the women's desirable traits into a single, composite perfect woman who did not exist.
Only when I looked through single eyes could I notice that every woman had at least one disqualifier
That was invisible to me, while I was part of a discontent couple.
Agree with everything Lukas is saying, that advice is absolutely fucking retarded and i also criticised it last night.
However, something real is being lost in translation here. Male attraction to women is objective, women are sex objects, at least initially, especially because most women have terrible or at best tolerable personalities, so their ability to look pretty, and incubate babies, is their primary value add.
But a woman who would jump between a bullet & her man isn’t driven to that kind of devotion by his looks. It’s not a man’s aesthetics that inspire the kind of truly, madly, deeply obsession that causes her to rearrange her life around him, for him, in his honour.
It’s his personality, his mettle, how he makes her feel, his strength, his dominance, his competence, his steadiness, his ability to be her port in the storm. As long as he lifts and isn’t like genetically deformed, any fit and healthy guy can inspire that kind of passion in a woman,
Women fall in love with how a guy makes her feel. His “status” isn’t measured in exclusively or even primarily by the markers of conventional attractiveness or corporate / career / life success the way the hypergamy obsessives allege.
It’s actually locally construed, particularist status hierarchies in narrow domains are just as real as universal / society wide ones, a guy who moggs in HIS thing, niche & irrelevant to the human species though it may be - is dominant / attractive to women
eg. destiny is 5’2’ but moggs at streaming —> attractive to Lauren Southern who is
gorgeous)
The way you attract the kind of woman who will do anything for you, and be loyally devoted, is by developing into the strongest man you can be, learning how to hold frame with women, and becoming a genuinely interesting, charming and strong guy who doesn’t tolerate women’s bullshit.
Becoming that kind of guy IS available the the majority of men, and women WILL find those men attractive, whether they’re pretty boys (ew!) or not.
IMO, Chinese LLMs will rewrite Chinese smart TVs for about 10 minutes. The the Chinese govt will shut that down.
After that, the US AI execs will say, "Print 100 copies of this ESR tweet. Mail them to every Samsung and LG exec, to show them why they should support our effort to stifle open-source models."
@Deancain Every now and then, I think, "I should not be so antisem..."
But I never finish the thought because it gets interrupted by something like this
Dental Tourism Firsthand Report
I am not paid for this review. I'm posting it out of gratitude, so don't expect any entertaining trash talk, though there is one lady boy.
Here is my data: I got one dental implant and one broken filling replaced. That added up to six hours in the chair.
Here is the summary of my Thai dental tourism experience:
1. An implant happens in two stages, six months apart. Each stage cost about $1K. (I chose the premium hardware.) Compared to my (admittedly expensive) US oral surgeon, I saved enough money to pay for both flights and two weeks in swim-up hotel rooms.
2. The Sea Smiles office has no stainless steel escalators. The halls are narrow and the stairways are steep, so it is not a showplace. However, it does have an MRI machine and some hot hygienists.
3. I arrive 10 minutes before my appointment, and I am sitting in the chair talking to the oral surgeon 5 minutes before my appointment. This does not resemble my US dentistry experience.
4. The east-Asian surgeons (I had two) were swift and sure. They have obviously done it many times, and one was instructing an apprentice. One surgeon was male, the other female. The staff were all female. All were East Asian or Southeast Asian.
5. Every step was clearly explained and photographed. Nothing felt hurried.
6. Mrs. Jerk is in the medical testing business. She has direct Thailand connections and says Thai medicine is good. (She won't say that about South America.)
7. This is probably least important, but it's Thailand so the staff are all friendly.
8. The receptionist was a ladyboy. I know you'll enjoy that.
9. Based on my implant experience, I asked them to replace a deep broken filling. That was 90 minutes in the chair. Total cost including consultation and X-rays: $180 USD.
10. The final products (one implant and one filling) are apparently flawless. The implant includes a 2-year warranty and paperwork so a US dentist can get parts.
The place is called Sea Smiles, in Phuket. Grok suggested it because of its stellar online reviews, which in my opinion are well deserved.
i understand why women dislike slutty women—the threat is obvious there. but why do men hate sluts so much? men should like sluts.
i can see someone having a preference for their own girlfriend to not be a slut (tho sluts have high libidos and know what they’re doing!), but why are men so mad about random girls being slutty? the only thing i can think is that they’re mad that the girl seemingly had sex with everyone except for them.
Neither Apple Store nor Google Play will allow that app, so it will have to be a web page.
Mist AI will refuse to code it, so you will have to write clever prompts.
Here is someone working on something similar.
https://t.co/v86GGUMuFv
Here is someone working on something similar
Shut Down My Profession, Before It's Too Late.
I've taught thousands of MBA students at schools you've heard of.
Now I feel weird, because I agree with the New York Times: Business schools should be razed and the campus sewn with salt.
MBAs are like a plague of locusts, because they have no craftsman's pride in their company's product. How could they? They don't know how to make the product.
An MBA feels a craftsman's pride only for the thing HE makes: his company's quarterly profit.
So like a locust, he will devour the company's product to fatten the quarterly profit that will be credited to him.
The product will be ravaged, and hence the engineers reputation, but the MBA does not care. That is not HIS reputation.
Over time, as the ravaged product decays, its price decays, and with it, the quarterly profit that made the MBA so proud.
But by then, he plans to have collected his bonus and moved on.
You Don't Come to My Timeline to See More of the Same
I posted this "Is Putin really the bad guy?" thread three years ago, at the height of the pro-Ukraine propaganda blitz.
Remember those days, when supporting Putin was tantamount to treason?
I took grief for it. Fortunately, I enjoy that. For me, it's the social equivalent of a hard workout, a nice mix of virtue and pain.
Three years later, this thread is suddenly NOT treason. In fact, it's barely even flame bait.
It's nice to see Right-wing X catch up to me. Pretty soon, you will see big accounts posting my data under their own names.
I hope they do, because European governments are banging the Russian war drums.
(1/13) Ukraine is many things, but, crucially, it is not the USA. So why are we spending so much blood and treasure defending it? Are we there to protect Democracy?
This is optimistic. At this point, being conquered by Putin is the only thing that could save Britain, but no way Putin wants to swallow that poison pill.
@SPCX100T Fiber bandwidth is nice, but I had ATT DSL.
I will never sign up for another ATT product until they assure me I will be able to quit.
Quitting ATT DSL literally required blocking the credit card and letting it go to a collection agency l.
I took this suggestion. Mangoes and sticky rice cost $3, and she seemed delighted.
She had only charged me $5, so this was sort of like a 60% tip, but it feels less dangerous and more benevolent.
@DrInsensitive@Nopetwit bring her mangos and sticky rice and tell her you think about how hard she works
she'll refuse it of course but dont take no for an answer, bow slightly leave it on the counter if she wont take it
she will appreciate it inwardly when no one is looking :D