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Republic of Chad

Paintings by Alex Colville (1952–2000)

If women are looking for some effective political role they could play to really help humanity and the future generations, this is it.

This is how the fellas and I settle a dispute. I've yet to get pregnant.

Let me break this down. Hookup culture generates negative affective consequences for women at disproportionate rates (higher regret, lower sexual satisfaction, higher post-encounter anxiety). It generates a specific positive consequence for men: the men receiving any actual "benefit" is an exclusive upper tier. The vast majority of men receive nothing. Dating apps have caused a winner-take-all market that is so imbalanced, with the top 10-15% of men cycling through 80-90% of the available women, and the median man receiving zero pussy. This is not a market that benefits men; this is a market that benefits attractive men at the expense of virtually everyone else. Most men too. More accurately, what she's trying to say is: "hookup culture benefits high SMV men and hurts everyone else, most of the men as well as most women, though in different ways". The cost to women is the emotional cost; the cost to lower-tier men is the scarcity cost; the cost to women, high-tier men, and low-tier men is that those women are in many cases providing positive reinforcement to men for behaviors they would otherwise lack the incentive to engage in without female validation - though you're right to point out it benefits the specific men she's actually fucking more than anything else. The reason she gets away with "men benefit" framing is that it's more satisfying. It gets engagement. It takes a market issue and recasts it as a gender grievance and can be maintained even when the data shows her interests aren't even well-served because the alternative is a much harder lesson: I participated in something for a long time that wasn't in my interest either. Most people just can't swallow that.

Filming at Diddly Squat has stopped for a little while but the farming goes on. Today, I have rented out a pig for sexual purposes.

If you need me I’m over on instagram watching a Georgian dance ensemble boogie to Future

Lithography is the technology, that forces rocks to think by engraving runes.

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris. She did not love him back. We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read: "Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye." Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it. Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath: "Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly." Severus came back one more time to end it: "I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you." Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it. We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived. Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments. The technology changes. We do not.

Two hares going at it. Female hares will often "box" a male hare to test if he is worthy of being a mate

i love bringing this quote up on first dates rip </3

They’re reverse engineering marriage again…

emotionally speaking, having a newborn is roughly like getting Frodo to Rivendell. Sweet helpless lil guy needs support toddlerhood is akin to battle of Helm’s Deep. there’s dwarf-tossing, architectural damage, lots of climbing and falling, a giant battering ram for some reason,

Fingerstyle guitarist apocalypse... Lickbyneck.com is off air

The paternity test thing is the same as the "no fault divorce" is the same as the "go bag" crap. Some people are bad judges of other people and would prefer to let the government intervene in sone capacity.

im embarrassing myself for the pursuit of human connection if you wanna join

if you're in AI pivot to love

Falling in love will solve ~82% of your problems

Anyone out there thinking about divorce stop and watch Fiddler right now youtube.com/watch?v=h_y9F5St…

Your great-grandparents saw each other for the first time from across the church, got married two months later, had 5 children and ~50 wedding anniversaries