As a metalhead since I was 8, metal is about speaking to the marginalized, speaking truth to power, liberation. Metal heals. This is corporate PR garbage. Metallica was always overrated. Listen to Gojira, RATM and Sepultura instead.
On gym attire:
There is an innate fantasy women have that goes like this: I am super duper pretty and everyone notices and loves me for this, but also this attention and power come with zero further implications or downsides
The fantasy is one thing, being frustrated it isn't reality is another
Most girls grow out of this as part of normal development (and you should! it's not realistic), learning that large amounts of attention and affection from, say, your dad, are freely given
....but that same kind of attention from strangers comes with strings attached
Posting bikini pics that get 10M likes means you have a lot of men saving them for...gross reasons
Going to the gym wearing next to nothing is attention grabbing for a reason, and you don't get to decide whose attention it grabs or the nature of that attention
It's a bit of a black pill, and you tend to (or, should) figure it out somewhere in your teens: strange men do not want to adore and dote on you for zero reason
To be clear, negative attention can happen even when you aren't doing something specifically out of the ordinary
Getting catcalled often happens in the most normal outfits - it's just the flip side of being young and pretty
The issue is this has evolved into almost an ideology: rather than recognizing the reality that attention is a double-edged sword, there's an impulse to regulate the attention i.e. "You can only notice me in the ways I want"
You become like the dog meme below, saying "No sexual thoughts, only attention"
Unfortunately for its advocates, this line of thinking is waging war with reality itself
Nick Shirley’s success is a good example here
Merely saying Somalis are stealing the money is one thing; people kinda expect it and hate it without much caring
Showing up at the Quality Learing Center, on the other hand, and giving a few visceral images of what the lightbulb heads are up to, really struck home with people and did more to combat socialism in practice—Dewayne held programs—than any number of articles or general talks previously produced on it
“We need to stop Ilhan Omar from giving your money to her coethnics” is the same sentence as “we need to stop socialism,” but is much more convincing
@JesseLucasSaga You could say AAs getting performatively upset about someone asking about their ancestry *is* a form of assimilation. Asian Asians consider it extremely important that you know they're from Chingchong province & aren't a bad breathed slanty eyed animal from Chongching province
Funny thing: Ukraine takes out Russian data centers and “Zelensky” rises while “genocide” and “Free Palestine” drops off according to X’s Radar analytics page.
Anyone else seeing trends w/🇷🇺 bots muzzled?
How long is X The Everything App going to be caught totally off guard when I do something wild and unpredictable like "try and look at a person's posts"
Like can we get a timeline
Thinking about the "don't let AI steal our math problems" controversy, it's important to remember that truly leading mathematicians probably never had the important Gifted Child formational crisis of meeting someone their age who is obviously much smarter than they are
really astonishing to me, somehow, to see how many math professors implicitly understand the goal of the profession to be providing them with a prestigious paid hobby rather than increasing the amount of mathematical knowledge available to humanity
yes we're all going to lose our jobs and it sucks and i hope we live through it. and also, this is the most exciting time in the history of math