@shoe0nhead Perhaps it's just something they can call somebody, negatively or positively. Some people just like calling people names/ things negatively or positively. You can be annoyed, pleased or indifferent without changing your behavior...
X should demonetize all sites artificially elevated by government fiat.
Plus they can add warning labels to all sites elevated by govs: "This post is required to be shown to you by your government." Perhaps a different typeface like all caps could also underline the situation...
@Chris_arnade Also, it shows an essentially American characteristic: identifying the Enemy as a singular figure; be it the White Whale, Qadaffi, Saddam etc. For good or I’ll, we hunt the White Whale...
@LisaBritton Also, the conventional wisdom the having children is better for a woman's career is misguided. I think having children the 20s is financially more advantageous. Promotions happen in the 30s; the 20s is a lot of holding pattern time. Conventional wisdom is mistaken, financially.
Please note, birth control medication can be taken every day not just 24 days a month. It might be better to menstruate monthly but it needn't be required for hormonal birth control and medications derived from that. The inventor was a Catholic hoping the Church would bless it because of its continuance of menstruation.
@newstart_2024 Recognizing childcare and home maintenance/improvement as ‘providing’ is a start. Seeing well-paid blue collar work as equal or better than ill /paid white collar work closes the gap.
Ever given a back rub?
Why?
Cuz you're doing something nice for someone you like or love even if it's boring so they can have that pleasure. Presumably it's a 2-way street like
Oral sex is the same; eating pussy is as boring or enjoyable as sucking cock. If making them happy is big for you, bingo! If you don't care, why should they? Divorce is the obvious path to happiness for both.
No, male ‘effort’ doesn’t drop across time but female effort does. Their willingness to trade sex for male provisioning starts out strong but diminishes rapidly as that becomes certain rather than uncertain. Female desire for sex includes uncertainty; once things become certain their effort decreases markedly.
@TonySeruga Beznemov's observations are even stronger when applied to countries where they were successful enough to install Marxist governments; Mozambique eg & much of post-colonial Africa plus Chile, Bolivia & other South American countries.
@patcondell Note the conspicuous absence of 'undecided' voters, about 12%, without which no picture/projection is meaningful. Instead, a spurious 'lead' is supposed rather than things portrayed as the unknown quantity they are.
@OwenGregorian 2% of people invited to receive degrees isn't a "mass walkout." Stanford confers about 5,000 degrees per Summer ceremony, of which 100 is 2%.
@MymTyme@andrewdoyle_com@daheditor Such debates are much more for the audience than trying to persuade the other debater; their opinion won’t change (at least in real time) but those of others watching well might.
In the Western Europe, leaders are 'post-national,' whose future's will be in various international orgs and they have very different priorities than each nation's people. Why those orgs' (UN, EU, WHO, and 10,000 NGOs) prioritize 3rd world migration to the West (including Japan) is unclear but they do.