Bought a dumb phone recently for weekends and rediscovered emoticons in a big way
I have never wanted someone to suddenly stop having vocal chords as much as Chris Cuomo in this clip
This is an interesting conversation to say the least
I think few people if any think that men and women should not take equal part in life’s labor, I just think it’s the labor that has changed
I do think there is a gendered predisposition for women toward aesthetics and socialization, and likewise for men for physical toil and risk-taking. But if aesthetics and socialization can be bought with money, and physical toil can be avoided and risk managed with money, and the western world’s methods for procuring money are not gender specific, then the need for traditional gender roles certainly diminishes. Essentially, with enough money you can replace a wife or a husband.
The question then is two-fold - 1) is it ok to abandon traditional roles because we are sure we’ll never need them again (should we maintain them as a backup?), and 2) are we sure that our evolutionarily rooted needs are not being abandoned if we abandon these gender roles (Chesterton’s fence)
When you realized that every terrorist group on the planet is actually controlled opposition serving the agenda of their nominal opponents, the world starts to make much more sense.
Monkeys don’t masturbate in the wild, but they’re widely known to do it in captivity.
I think it’s important to realize we’re in captivity in the modern world. Nihilism and anti-natalism are part and parcel.
Berating people to stay unhappy and unhealthy is definitely wrong.
It’s hard to have strong marriages and strong families when everyone is here in modern captivity, instead of engaging with survival every day together. When people needed each other acutely, marriages and families were stronger.
I heard AI is racist as hell
Yes but can’t hedging against a bad marriage actually be a lack of commitment to a marriage? Like having one foot out the door?
For example, should a man keep in touch with old girlfriends to protect himself from being emotionally trapped in a bad marriage? (Obviously not - but why is a woman having her own job outside the home so different?)
The needing each other to survive and committing to each other no matter what is the important part and if you take that away, marriage is just another relationship (and you see this with the rise of the vague term “partner” for even heterosexual relationships - people are too non-committal to even using specific language about the deal)
Most men do want a housewife, but they’ve had this wish beaten out of them, because it’s “misogynistic” to divide life’s labors up that way
My only regret in life is the weddings I didn’t make it to
Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in cruel nets or birds taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Ha he sold his trading algorithm to Cantor Fitzgerald 👻👻👻, company that 20% of 9/11 casualties worked for (including Greg Foss’s college roommate, twice)… DYOR fren
It’s a real fucking drag negotiating for the same deal you got 7 years ago + REAL inflation (M2)
The catch I found was that some of the more passionate relationships I had in my life often had the least potential to build anything lasting
Balancing trusting your feelings with using your brain is what it’s all about
Like seasons, where it’s ok that everything is dead in the winter?