As reported by NPR (I’m sure with gritted teeth), a Pew Study finds that the milliennial generation has a low level of social trust. There are several possible causes for this distrust, including a skewed social media culture and a faltering economy. […] One explanation for this, the study suggests, is growing racial diversity – … Read more
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Posted in Beta, Culture, Tool Time, Ugly Truths on Apr 16th, 2014
Cuck up, idiom, slang, origin: Chateau Heartiste. 1. Variation on the “man up” theme; to demand of a cuckolded man that he support the bastard child of his cheating wife or girlfriend. 2. A taunt directed at a beta male to ostensibly shame him to provide for the child of another man’s seed, often delivered … Read more
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cold russian on the restrictions diversity organically imposes on discourse, Dialogue is naturally limited under the condition of diversity. Atomize any further and it gets down to kindergarten level, pretty much “Don’t say that bad word!” dictated in baby talk. All of this for the upkeep of a lonely society where you say “Have a … Read more
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Posted in Culture, Game, Self-aggrandizement on Apr 9th, 2014
Here’s an example of the utility of reframing to domains outside the sphere of pickup. Reader PA asks, What is a good, short, SFW [safe for work] response to the 77% [pay gap] lie? Other than “it’s not true if type of profession, years of experience, and overtime are factored in.” PA is right to tacitly … Read more
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Commenter “Z” over at Cheap Chalupas/Bargain Beans had this to say about poverty alleviation programs, Welfare programs have never been about solving poverty. Even the most wild-eyed utopian dreamer knows that’s absurd. The poor will always be with us. Poverty programs serve three functions today. One is riot insurance and prevention. The people of Maryland, … Read more
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Put away your history textbooks, this is the only graph you’ll ever need to consult for an explanation why civilizations rise, plateau, and fall. set a course for vaginaland, sulu In honor of the factually baseless, feels-fueled, and insipid “””Equal Pay Day“””, this graph represents what happens to civilizations as they slowly but inexorably womanize. … Read more
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For those optimists who don’t think lying liars and the mendacious ideas they propagate matter, President Barry Kenyatta-Downlow Obama today signed two executive orders addressing the so-called “sex pay gap” myth that feminists have been menstruating over the national discourse for decades. In one order, federal contractors will now have to report how they allocate their … Read more
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Posted in Culture, Game, Love, Vanity on Apr 3rd, 2014
Perspicacious and numerate commenter “St” writes in response to this post about Shakespeare having his male characters utter fewer words than their romantic female counterparts, CH, I hope you realize that 101/155 = 65.1% Which is disturbingly close (1.6%) to the 2/3 male-to-female text communication ratio you advise. If that’s not another exogenous vindication of … Read more
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Via The League of Extraordinary Sadists comes another study concluding that diversity is incompatible with a sense of community. Community psychologists are interested in creating contexts that promote both respect for diversity and sense of community. However, recent theoretical and empirical work has uncovered a community-diversity dialectic wherein the contextual conditions that foster respect for diversity … Read more
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Posted in Alpha, Culture, Game on Mar 27th, 2014
A dataslut at FiveThirtyEight tallied the lines each pair of characters spoke to each other and found that Romeo was following Poon Commandment V. Juliet speaks 155 lines to him, and he speaks only 101 to her. His reticence toward Juliet is particularly inexcusable when you consider that Romeo spends more time talking than anyone … Read more
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