Dvorstone

Making sense of things. I deal extensively with the cognitive problem of complexity.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@dvorstone 's limiting principle of stewardship:

Do not mortgage, migrate, or sell what your grandchildren cannot reclaim.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

For most of history, being an "open book" was a reliable red-flag.

This woman is a tragic example of someone who is advertising her damage and thus attracting people interested in said damage. She's offering the classic "crazy girl experience" without realizing it. She's promiscuous and damaged, and that attracts men of dubious character.

Of course she can't find a serious relationship. No one wants to marry the "crazy girl."

I don't know what her damage is, and I don't want to know, but she's screaming it. Frankly, it's heartbreaking to witness.

I remember a girl that I went to high school with who told me, within an hour of meeting me, how she'd been molested by her father. A tragic experience but also a warning.

Similarly to Aella insisting that she was abused and turned out fine, while engaging in stereotypical examples of post-abuse hypersexuality.

Women, in general, crave attention. Often, the more damaged a woman, the more dramatic her desire or rejection of attention becomes. Some withdraw but others just crave it. The latter can now reach levels of attention previously inconceivable due to social media. They do this, in part, by advertising their trauma and dysfunction, which does them no good in recovering from it.

I've said it a million times: recovering from negative experiences requires active forgetting. The one thing social media doesn't let you do is forget. What results is this poor woman.

[Jessica Pin @jess_ann_pin]

@RealSunBros What I've actually been doing since 2020 is dating seriously and not having casual sex except with prior fwbs or on vacation.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@GiffLasta It's not trash... Neither is Dickens.

I mostly just hate Joyce.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

This is a pretty good list, frankly.

James Joyce, in particular, is a terribly overrated author for who I have a special disdain.

[MB @PAEasy64]

I have been asked several times what “classics” are actually crap. Here is a list (by no means exhaustive):

Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Orlando
Ulysses
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Finnegans Wake
Atonement
The Stranger

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

This is true. It's always been true, and people have known this was true for millennia.

But saying it risks being murdered by the average person, even if you're one of them.

The single best thing 99.99% of people can do is incrementally improve the human race by breeding or not breeding in a eugenic manner.

But apparently, it's impolite to say that.

[The Fourth Estate. @TicTocTick]

Brutal honesty.

From a bot .

Wow.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

Historically, the standard was "be virtuous, but if you can't be virtuous (or refuse to be), don't get caught."

Often, media and such would protect people. They still do, in fact. They just protect different sins for different reasons.

But yes, I do expect people to be virtuous while also understanding that they'll often fail, so I understand the need for "don't get caught."

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

Disloyalty to those who were loyal to you is betrayal; the worst of crimes.

This woman has been by his side since he was a nobody and he betrayed her for so slight a temptation as a moderately attractive fling?

There is nothing defensible about this. If she commanded he walk into the sea to die, he should do it.

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

I don’t condone cheating, but the Jensen Huang situation is a reminder that women need to looksmax too. His wife literally looks like could be his grandma

Men are expected to make money, stay jacked, and look good forever.

Women can’t just stop trying once they get the ring or you will force the man to upgrade!

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

It is because the behavior of the wealthy and powerful serves as a model for everyone else.

Think of like this:

Why is it important for the elites to have more virtue than the average person? After all, they have the resources to survive their mistakes. Why be disciplined about their weight when they can hire a trainer, for example?

The answer is precisely that. The average or poor do not have that margin of error. If they mess up, they can't fix it. More so, the wealthy and powerful will be emulated by the average people.

Jensen Huang can surely afford an affair that risks a divorce but average Joe down the street can't. If average Joe emulates the vices of the rich, he'll be taking risks he can't afford.

For the betterment of society, it is imperative to hold the wealthy and powerful to higher standards.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@FaustAndTrue You're right. They won't.

They will leave the state if they lose faith in its long-term direction.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

The danger here is real because key problem is that Texas's almost exclusive virtue was its right wing culture.

Absent the security being right wing, there's very little reason for people to stay.

I'm not saying he's wrong, but it's a much harder sell than people realize. This election wasn't supposed to be possible. Texas was supposed to be impenetrable to the left; safe for political refugees. Now that's been undermined.

Texas is in real danger now exactly because it lost its aura of invincibility. If people fled California, with all of it virtues, they're not going to stay and defend Texas. If right wingers start fleeing, Texas will flip blue quickly because of all of the migrants.

Texas assumed that the right wingers would stay... And maybe they will, but it's entirely possible that they don't, and that'll be a catastrophe.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

@LibertyCappy Texans don’t run from Texas. We will take it back.

The only path to save the USA goes through a red Texas. They didn’t get the state senate and can’t break too much.

We need men like you with a microphone to stay strong, and not spread black pills.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

I know a lady who doesn't have a lot of money but her entire investment strategy is basically "I trust Elon Musk," and she's done well.

Maybe some of these rich guys should hire her for advice.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@KatieMiller I remember that time when Masa, instead of putting $12B into Tesla for a 1/4 of the company to help me take Tesla private, instead invested the money in WeWork.

That was dumb.

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

Sobering piece from my friend @DustinDeVito.

There’s really no question that the last 10 years have been cataclysmic for the SBC.

The only real question is why.

A serious organization would be studying the causes of the decline; surveying churches who have reduced or stop giving; admitting that the issue is very real.

Sadly, SBC leaders have instead opted to pretend that everything is great. But the gravy train is not going to last forever.

I do believe that @WillyRice has a good chance to right the ship, but there is a lot of institutional inertia at work here.

Hopefully the next generation of institutional leaders recognize that the SBC is going to have to make some hard decisions and be able to hear some bad news once in a while if it wants to have a future.

[Valentin @giamattihead]

Frank Sinatra's face was so asymmetrical I'm fucking crying at this shit someone made. One side is a total chad and the other is a total chud how is this possible

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@terlinguagirl He's right. I'm not disagreeing.

I'm saying they won't.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@Lordhumongous13 There is no reason to assume that.

But even if true, he should have divorced and not cheated.

[Shaman, PSD @DarkwebShaman]

The LSAT meme is the first time I’ve realized that average people don’t have fourth grade reading comprehension

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@Lordhumongous13 What would justify this?

Also, there's no reason not to give her the benefit of the doubt, given that they've been married for 40 years.

It's gross to constantly assume the worst in order to justify bad behavior.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

This is like kings banning meat for peasants in order to ensure that they're weak.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom bans sales of certain "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18, potentially including whey protein & creatine.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

@HeracAnderson Oh, it doesn't really matter if it's true or not, though I appreciate you posting that it isn't.

It works as a metaphor, which is how I intended it.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

This is the opposite of all of those videos of women trying to hold their men back from a fight, thus exposing him to more risk.

So yes ladies, this is what men want: protect our weak spots.

[Yunguantan @Concubinist]

Is this too much to ask for

[Hestia, Esq @Hestia_Esq]

Why don’t these people go tell this to their grandmother instead of yapping at us?

Go tell your grandma with your chest that’s she looks old and ugly and better risk her life to go under the knife or else grandpa should cheat on her

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

This is how it ends.

Canada will very shortly become the model for conquest by demography, aided by domestic corporate interests and political authorities.

As I have explained: once your political class concludes that immigration is necessary, your democracy is dead and your only option to course correct is violence.

The political class cannot resist the temptation to import voters and ensure their own power. Their loyalty to you is an illusion. You must keep them tethered to you with fear.

A political class can never be loyal. They can only be afraid.

[Immigration News Canada 🇨🇦 @CanadaImmigra20]

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