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Common foid rejoinder is to remind men that wealthy men typically marry women with similar income and typically want her to go to work but it’s hard for them to separate WHY he does that.
He does that so that if he never gets his hands blown off their children can still enjoy a similar lifestyle and he wants his wife to still work so that she doesn’t settle in at home to spend even more of his money.
The average man does not really spend money when single. Entering a serious relationship usually 2-5Xs his baseline spending
Even if the girl were to pay for 1/2 that increase (not likely, lol), the guy still has much less money than before
Guys clearly are not doing this for the money
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This has been said before but it’s funny how the exorbitant cost of all necessities just makes me want to spend more irresponsibly on frivolities. Just got rinsed at the grocery store for $200, fuck it add the guac.
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My freshman year of college I met these three people at a party who were going to drive to California over fall break but thought they weren’t going to be able to afford it because their fourth person had justdropped out, so I offered to go and they said yes.
My mom‘s boyfriend gave me $200 and I left with them like two days after we’d met.
We drove from St. Louis to north of San Francisco and then back through the Southwest and Texas in seven days.
The $200 covered my share of gas and whatever I ate. I don’t even remember ever thinking about food. There must’ve been many long stretches in which I didn’t eat.
They knew people in Nebraska and Boulder, where we stayed the night for free. And then we camped on “the beach” in California and in a state park in Texas. Those are the only places we slept. That means taking turns driving straight through from Denver to San Francisco and from San Francisco to Texas.
I brought a backpack with some clothes and a copy of On the Road.
I called a buddy of mine back home from a payphone in Death Valley. I don’t even really know why and I remember feeling kind of embarrassed to have done it.
I otherwise had no contact with anybody. No cell phone, etc.
This all seems completely crazy to me now. How could you do this on $200? How could you do that without stopping more often?
But we did!
I know the kids hate hearing stuff like this, but I spent whole summers as a late teen just kind of hanging out and never having any money at all. I don't even understand how I did it, to be honest. Seems sort of impossible, but it happened!
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This is why militaries used to hang, rather than shoot, criminals like this: It stripped them of their soldierly dignity and made an unsightly spectacle that was harder to admire or respect.
Shooting was for otherwise honorable soldiers who had merely gone astray or failed in their duty, and offered a way (by facing the bullets bravely and accepting one’s punishment) to reclaim some honor.
I’m torn on this.
Not that he is being executed. It’s the closest to justice that the victims and their families can receive.
What I don’t like is that we are setting him up to be a martyr for his evil cause and those that are our enemies.
If I got to choose, I would have already fitted him with a pair of cement shoes and would dump him into the ocean in an undisclosed location.
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The feeling of disrespect from being layered is the reason that it's so corrosive to morale. Bc of how bad it is, layering is one of the cases where you must set expectations well, often years in advance (eg "Head of X is your job to lose" vs "we expect to hire a CRO one day")
People really underestimate how impactful being layered can feel to someone. Even when done for the right reasons it feels brutal and needs to be a conversation explaining how and why the person will still be valued and see growth. Otherwise it’s seen as disrespectful
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There are only three kinds of sex scenes in movies and TV allowed now: girl on top riding boredly using the guy as a dildo with no eroticism or passion, guy giving girl oral but she's either fully clothed or under blankets, guy pumping away at bored woman (no nudity shown) with close up of his unflattering orgasm face and you're meant to laugh at how cringe and ridiculous straight male sexuality is
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I get what wayne is going for here but it's not quite right, I think. It's true that we don't like people who study for the spelling bee, but that's not because we don't like hard work or getting better at things one isn't naturally gifted at. That seems off.
“You don’t study for the spelling bee” is a deep and important aspect of American culture. I was at a baseball game discussing some young players with a buddy one time and he said to me offhandedly, “hard work is fine, but nothing beats talent.”
Americans have this sort of sense that there’s something a little off about working really hard to get good at something that you’re not naturally good at. You’re never really going to be on the same level as the guy who has a natural talent. We have room in our hearts for scrappy little guys who work hard, but we are by default suspicious of grinders and strivers.
If you were really meant to do it, then you’d be naturally good at it. You sign your kids up for little league, but you don’t take it too seriously unless they show remarkable early talent.
Yes, this sounds sort of ridiculous if you take it too literally. No, nobody is saying that there’s any kind of practical test for this or that anybody should be excluded because we found out that they secretly studied too hard.
But this is a part of American culture. And if you can’t understand it, then that just marks you out as foreign to that culture to an even greater degree.
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They're so close yet so far away from understanding that their very best, their psychiatrists and engineers, are best suited to be housekeepers and construction workers in anglo countries
Australia es esa superpotencia económica que atrae a los mejores profesionales de Europa y Argentina para ponerlos a laburar de obreros rasos.
Qué baile cómo piolan los canguros.
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Increasingly I feel like AI is a magnitude increaser in the direction someone else was already heading. The theory I had in 2023 that arming everyone with it would upskill people was quickly proven wrong by watching Mids get a Mid-Cannon
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The alternative is she goes to the indie co-op opioid and shrooms parties instead, sans any safety training. Not sure I'd roll the dice on that one
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Plumbers “pretty clearly” will experience a noticeable decrease in demand because people will do it themselves with ChatGPT.
I have to deal with this, not a single other person is going to bother? Surely it was “pretty clear” to at least one other person that Teno doesn’t know what we hire plumbers for, or really what plumbing is.
even eg plumbing, one of the classic examples people tend to throw around, pretty clearly will experience a noticeable demand decrease + skill floor shift even short term well before any robotics, when its possible to have a highly skilled plumber in ur phone giving u direction
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I recommend asking chat the following questions:
- What is plumbing?
- What do plumbers do?
- What are the risks of my property not being up to code?
- What are the risks of a bad plumbing job specifically?
Inside these buildings there are copper pipes that carry water under pressure. The majority of jobs, if you do them wrong, you will flood the property and do tremendous damage. Kinda the key mechanic here. Plumbing is very important to get right.
You are required to hire professionals for many of these things in order to insure the property. Things must be up to code.
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This is what’s going on with the (foreign) doctors:
The way this worked was that state U trained local boys who liked their home. Local boy bought a practice from old local boy. He bought radiology, labs, etc and billed the local hospital that he was on the board of. He got fairly rich and locals knew their doctor. (1/x)
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.@ROCRegional: Show us the numbers. How many residency slots went to H‑1B and J‑1 visa holders? How many American applicants got a fair shot?
@POTUS’ EO puts visa abuse under the microscope.
If the system is being gamed, we’ll work with @VP’s @WHFraudTF to expose it.
BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors.
80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas.
Only 2 are Americans.
98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating.
Americans got 2 jobs.
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I think he's right about this!
But I think in six months things are gonna look a lot different. It's like the early days of the automobile or the refrigerator. Time to market for all the new stuff people are creating looks a lot like the adoption curve for any technology.
Marketing, word-of-mouth, distribution, etc. are all still as slow as they've ever been. It took Facebook or Google a long time to get a critical mass of users, and then all of a sudden they took over the world. There are probably new tools out there making big impacts in localized areas that TPOT just hasn't found yet.
On the flip side, I do think there's going to be a persistent hesitation to use new software for the next few years. Decision-makers at companies will say "why would we buy this tool when we can make our own" which will actually slow down the rate of adoption. They're calling this the Lewis-Caballero paradox
I still can't get over the complete lack of impact agentic coding has had on software from a user's perspective.
Our industry looks faintly ridiculous for waxing lyrical about the "agentic era" when it's had zero observable impact to the end user.
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He’s just trying to piss me off here (it worked) but the fact is that really all western fiction draws from the Bible, consciously or unconsciously, so using direct Biblical terminology and blatant symbolism on top of that should be considered very intentional and meaningful.
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Doesn't have to be intentional. Sometimes people just throw in religious sounding words because think it sounds cool. People used to do this more in the past just because the culture was more Bible infused, but its at an unconscious level here
The problem is people don't understand the difference between religious symbolism and Christian influence, and being a "Christian" game/movie
So they get mad because they think you're saying that a game with a few misapplied religious references is actually representing Christianity. If they're Christian they're mad because they think their faith is being misrepresented, if they're atheist it's because they think you're saying the game is proselytizing them or something
Conversely, something that unfortunately has occurred, would be a pastor taking a film like the Matrix as some kind of gospel story or using it to explain the Bible, without realizing the story its presenting is the well-documented two thousand year heresy of gnosticism
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Superbad was such a formative movie for me growing up, I remember buying it on iTunes when I was in middle school by convincing my parents that, yes, it was rated R, but it was really just a silly Will Ferrell movie (they barely knew what the internet was at that time so I was confident they wouldn’t fact check). But the more I think about it now, the more it presents itself as the Anti-Zoomer movie. The whole premise of the film is that it’s supposed to be a faithful depiction of the COMPLETELY AVERAGE high school experience, but it’s seems like it’s out of a different world now. Let’s see, the rising action is that the protagonists are preparing for a house party (no one goes outside anymore because phones), so they need to get booze (young people don’t drink anymore) by using a fake ID (zoomers too risk averse and consequences too high) so that they can get laid (do I even have to say anything for this one?). The past is a completely different country, these are exceptions circumstances today, but that was seen as THE BARE MINIMUM high school experience LESS THAN 20 YEARA AGO. What have we robbed the youth of and to what extent are the consequences??? Barack Obama you will pay, you wicked, WICKED DEVILLL!!!!!!
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Somebody was saying that amazon had pretty much churned through everybody who was even borderline employable
New: Amazon wants former employees back — including some it laid off. In one email, a recruiter called the push the “Boomerang Reengagement Initiative.” In another, a recruiter asked whether Amazon’s RTO policy had driven the ex-employee away.
businessinsider.com/amazon-b…
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New visa restrictions don't just make it harder to bring people to the US, they also make it harder to dangle the distant H1B or L1 carrot to the people you want to hire in India
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