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Jan 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Woman accidentally reverse engineers the foundational axiom of gender relations in every civilization that ever existed prior to 100 years ago Image
Image What 100 years of feminism has conclusively demonstrated is that "women cannot be held responsible for their own decisions" is the more powerful moral precept, it trumps actual equality in practice

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Dec 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
OK but they would never dress her like this today

Letting the a female lead be a badass has never been very taboo, then or now

But letting her be sexy (not just attractive, but overtly sexy in a way that men find titillating) is very frowned upon today Image
Image Even in 1979 the film was criticized for being exploitative because of her outfit, and James Cameron railed against it as recently as 2018

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Nov 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Many people have decided Elon's influence was decisive for Trump's victory

I don't want to downplay this too much, because I think buying and uncensoring twitter did matter, as did his endorsement

But I think it's oversold

Here are four factors I think mattered much more Oct 7 and the response on the left

Seeing their friends and colleagues justify or even cheer on an act of such immense barbarism alienated and radicalized a lot of left-centrists

It was the rare kind of event which makes people question which side they're really on
Oct 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There was a massive misinformation campaign in the 80s and 90s to convince straight teenagers they were at serious risk of getting HIV if they didn't put a condom on, everyone I knew believed it Decades later I encountered information on the base rates of transmission per sex act and learned that it's effectively impossible for a man to get HIV having vaginal sex with a woman

Receptive anal sex is a unique risk factor overshadowing everything else Image
Oct 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One question I keep returning to is whether the architects of no child Left behind actually intended it to destroy public education in the long run

I'm pretty sure the rank and file voting for it did not intend this, and I don't think Bush had nefarious intentions either But I can't escape the feeling that the profligate waste we have seen as a result of the bill must have been intentional, because it was easily predicted

IEPs were always going to be a bottomless money pit that grew every year and never moved the needle on results
Sep 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The rating economy for things like Airbnb, Uber etc. made a huge mistake when they used the five-star scale

You've got boomers all over the country who think that four stars means something was really good, when in fact it means there was something very wrong with the experience Driver got lost for 20 minutes and almost rear ended someone, four stars
Jul 20, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Hi, professional c++ programmer here, this is an arcane error known as a null pointer exception understood only by myself and six other experts

Malaysian guy jumps in "do you think DEI caused the null pointer exception"

Never leaving this site I'm talking about this for those who didn't see it Image
Jul 10, 2024 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The ACA mandates that PrEP drugs must be provided at no charge by insurers (which means everyone with insurance pays for it)

As of 2018 the costs of these drug was about $2B annually
Image Truvada (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (F/TDF)) went off patent a few years ago, which means that it no longer costs $2000/month, only about $60/month

But a newer PrEP drug (tenofovir alafenamide (F/TAF)) which has no generic is becoming more popular, displacing Truvada Image
Jul 9, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Very disappointing defeatism from Scott about how to deal with street lunatics, this post encapsulates everything wrong with left thought on this topic

We don't need to do any of those "okay" steps, we can just repeatedly institutionalize people who end up crazy on the street Image Some street lunatics can be made well with drugs and will keep taking them after release

Some will stop taking them and end up back in asylum

Some are beyond help and will be in an asylum indefinitely

All of these outcomes are fine, and none are cruel or draconian Image
Jul 8, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Whenever I talk about the decline of marriage and family, people divebomb the thread to say that it's all caused by material concerns, usually housing but also sometimes wages or taxes

What causes this? How do so many end up with such an upside-down view of the world? "If rent were cheaper I'd have a gf"

No you wouldn't

"If houses were more affordable ppl would have more kids"

No they wouldn't
Jul 7, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Boomer-blaming is pure cringe

The idea that people in their late 20s are still single because their greedy boomer parents didn't write a check is one of the most jaw-droppingly idiotic things I've ever read

If only Daddy had bought me a condo I would have a gf this is his fault Presented without comment

Jun 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I read the dissent by Kagan Sotomayor and Jackson, and it's like they're incapable of thinking on the meta level, at all

Their reasoning is literally that punishing vagrancy is cruel so it must be unconstitutional

No attempt to reason about legal principles, at all I know they aren't very bright but this seems like something else entirely, it's unnerving to hear from a supreme Court judge
Jun 23, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Acknowledging IQ will lead to the extermination of the dumb, it's only logical"

Look at any historical genocide and tell me what you notice

Pol Pot: killed the smartest 1/3 of Cambodians
Hitler: killed high-IQ ashkenazi
Lenin: killed the most successful peasant farmers And of course genocide in general is not done after careful spreadsheet comparisons of people to decide who has to go, it's done to fulfill generational blood and religious feuds as circumstances permit
Jun 2, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I find it darkly funny that weird bougie boutique sexualities, felt and advertised more than practiced, are slowly squeezing out the rainbow on these flags Putting your sexual proclivities on a flag is a weird thing to do

Putting other people's on a flag is even weirder
Apr 14, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The female space marine phenomenon is genuinely puzzling to me, one encounters it everywhere

In this case we're talking about a company that sells plastic wargame figurines to an audience that is, conservatively, 90% male

Who is asking for this? Is the idea that the audience is effectively captured and they won't care enough to stop buying

Or have these people actually convinced themselves that this is the kind of inclusivity that will expand their market reach
Apr 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If I ask a question about someone and you respond "He's a Jew" like you're cracking the DaVinci code, you are communicating a lot about yourself that you don't intend to

Instant block Generally speaking I have a lot more patience for overt racism than a typical person of my background and education level

But you have to be smart about it guys, you have to say something interesting

A lot of you guys are not smart enough to be as racist as you want to be
Sep 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You'll never convince me that female teachers having sex with their teen male students is a serious crime, or even remotely comparable to the same scenario with the sexes reversed

It's very curious to me how people always show up and attempt to equate them in heinousness Wow I really stuck my dick in a hornet's nest huh

Have fun debating whether a 15-year-old guy getting to bone an attractive older woman is the same thing as a horny gym teacher preying on teen girls

I am muting this now
Jun 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This modern fable of "we can't afford to have children" is trivially refuted by noting that fertility is inversely correlated with income in every western country

You just don't actually want kids and are rationalizing your choice with money Image Putting several thousand a month into retirement accounts while not paying down debt and then complaining about the debt is idiotic

Stop saving for retirement and your debt is gone in <5 years

People make choices and then act like a gun was being held to their head Image
Feb 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mass female college enrollment has been a disaster for women's marriage prospects

There are currently 145 women graduating with a 4-year degree for every 100 men

That's 1/3 of college educated women left out in the cold, with no college educated man to marry And of course that's a lower bound: it doesn't consider the many other dimensions college educated women are picky on

Feb 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ngl, it hurts a little when somebody I like blocks me

Usually a woman, and usually because they misunderstand what I'm trying to say

You have to be willing to be misunderstood to poast effectively, but that is often at odds with the demands of social relationships As it's ever been

Feb 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I don't want to dunk on OP here too much, because this is a common thing

But women really, really don't understand male sexuality

Most men would sleep with a marginally attractive female friend if she expressed interest, and the converse is obviously not true And the reason women don't understand this is that boys are socialized from birth to suppress and hide their sexual interest in women

And that's a good thing!

You can't have a civilization without some degree of such suppression