Random Thought of the Day

[Nyctophilia]

I have four kids the two oldest are girls. My oldest son had a chicken when he was somewhere around 5 to 8. No one could catch it but it would always come to him if he lifted his arms up for it. It lived outside in the backyard but would run inside now and then and sleep in his lap. One day our dog killed it. Instead of burying it I told him that it would be a waste. We cooked it. That was sort of his introduction to death.

This reminds me too much of Hannibal Lecter's origin story to ever think that's a good idea. Especially at that age. So many people (myself included) can trace weird fetishes to that period of life. Now for me it's worked out OK.. But still. Jeffrey Dahmer.... Not so much. (By worked out OK I mean I didn't become a criminal + my primary fetish is too abstract really.)

[Nyctophilia]

Lol this guy leaving out the big part:

Yikes! The trolls on this forum!

Holy cow, I just wanted to brag about my new child but there are some vile people in this world and they all hate large families it appears.

Thank you to everyone who said something positive. I promise you that all of the children are well cared for and healthy.

We are not rich but we do have a robust family support network with active grandparents and aunts and uncles. We do live in something or a community of family all very close and that makes every thing so much easier.

Anyway, ignore the trolls. They're just miserable people with an axe to grind. My adult children are all close to the family and starting families of their own now. This lifestyle can definitely produce happy, healthy generations of close knit families.

Your coyness in pretending getting that exact response was not your purpose is almost as adorable as that baby.

"and based on your comment history, how many wives do you have"

Many of us support having large families, but not at any cost.

Oof, when people say they are a blended family, I think of The Brady Bunch, not Sister Wives...

I have an ex-wife, a baby momma and one current wife. I'm shockingly mainstream.

So you're not raising all these kids, it's not even possible. You're creating a lot of broken homes.

I am raising all of these kids. Certainly not the way I would have preferred with six of them but I was still present in their lives and paid my support and fathered as best I could from a separate household. It's not ideal but it's doable. Although it is much easier when they're in the house. There was only one who wasn't born into a monogamous, legal marriage.

I want to hear the black sheep of your children tell it. Not the spin they give you to support your ego but the [BEEP] they tell their spouses.

Broken maybe, but still alive! Adversity makes for strong people. And it sounds like OP is trying his best.

From OP's responses, it sounds like 6 or 7 kids don't live in his household (probably the kids from his ex-wife), and he subscribes to a sub that believes in Biblical polygyny and absolute patriarchal authority, that literally wants people to structure their family lives like Old Testament figures like Abraham and Jacob.

OP's trying his best but to do what, exactly?

I guess context will make me eat my words.

Oh. You know why you're getting hate lol.

He posted this too (he's not been paying attention):

How come there seems to be no polyamorous atheist pronatalists?

Or polygamous, or polyandrous, or other types of poly. Like, I'm surprised Elon opted to donate his sperm to multiple baby mommies who live far apart instead of moving everyone together like old school Mormons. I'm sure some of the moms would agree to that. 🤔

Even when they were in a relationship of some sort Elon couldn't live with Grimes because she's messy and likes anime (that was the reasons given in an interview.) But it didn't seem like they were exclusive anyway and she kept calling him bro. She had to sue him to get access to her kids so it's going well. His first ex wife seems to hate him. I don't know about the employee (the one he had kids with without telling Grimes.) I don't think they were ever together so probably no desire to live with him.

I think Elon identifies as a pronatalist though, it's just that most people don't want to be around him for long.

This is one of Elon's daughters. You can see why some people might have some concerns (she really does hate him):



Because he's such a bad dad he's devoted himself to destroying the 'woke mind virus' cause he can never go back and be a good dad.

After Grimes said she supports his daughter (who is trans) he unfollowed her. Tbf he seems to do that a lot. Then follow her again. Peculiar.

Anyway. Treating him as a poster child of poly relationships is a real disservice to poly people.

Dating advice as a single woman

Alright folks... I have been trying to date in this environment for over 2 decades. I am now 42 and likely out of child bearing age which is a total bummer. I have never been married and I have no children.

I haven't been unable to find any man or couple that seems to take this idea seriously. It all turns into a sex conversation after the first few interactions which is incredibly annoying or people just spontaneously ghost. Also, especially early on, there doesn't seem to be much care taken from the established couples towards me as a single woman coming in to an already established relationship. I find that my needs aren't necessarily considered and I am not treated like a potential first wife would be treated during the courting stage. Additionally, there are so few people living this lifestyle for the right reasons and it seems that more than the majority are just doing it for sex. It is really disheartening.

I have tried numerous dating apps and I've got nothing. Any advice?

What' wrong with being primarily interested in sex? As long as it's honest then that's not an illegitimate reason to establish a relationship. And you can't expect to be treated the way a "first wife" was treated in her courtship. You're not a first wife. You're going to have to accept being treated the way a subsequent wife is treated.

Actually what's happened to her is pretty tragic. Most established couples who are looking for a third are unicorn hunters. They won't respect you. They want you to be their sexual plaything.



A lot of people know this especially in the [BEEP] community but she's posting on a biblical poly subreddit so seems to have figured that out later than most (and yet those ones aren't safe at all either see the video above.) I don't know why she's deadset on this though. 2 decades is a long time to keep trying that if she was actively trying all that time and not taking breaks.

I didn't even bother with online dating lol such is my level of risk aversion. I was never even looking for a poly relationship either but the whole thing is a minefield. But by then I'd also set up a ton of requierments and loopholes for myself to jump through before I started dating again so didn't happen.

...I would rather have sex with his wife than him too (related to couple in video.) Really though I wouldn't want to with either of them because what they're doing is so gross but yes she is more attractive. Conservative men are never really attractive imo (I mean it really is my opinion I'm very picky and obviously others like them,) unless they're weird right wing Nick Fuentes femboy or androgynous fanboys or something on twitter I guess. Like him (video unrelated to politics just unhinged):



"If you found out enough about me you probably wouldn't like me either. But I am cute, you can't lie I am cute."

It's very funny and true.

Conservative women are often attractive though. Like Abby Shapiro (she has another name now since she's married but I'll never remember it,) and her:



Tragic again really.

Is this even a real response? I'm pretty confident that it's a very low percentage of relationships based on sex that last long-term. If you want to have a sex based surface relationship, then knock yourself out. I'm looking for something that's deeper, more genuine, and long-lasting.

Your comment about not treating your 1st wife as an equal to your 2nd wife couldn't more embody exactly what I'm describing above. You're literally the embodiment of all things stereotypical in this sector. Lol! If you're not treating your wives as equals, then you're doing it wrong. Good luck.

Well said here, while there is some difference in how you go about dating a potential 2nd wife or whichever number it is.

Biblically, the benefits afforded the first wife should not decrease, which means the 2nd wife should not be coming in to a relationship and getting less than equal treatment.

First wife gets the house, 2nd gets the shed, third gets the doghouse? Where does it end if we take this attitude towards our families?

What? The first wife's benefits shouldn't decrease so the second wife should get exactly what the first wife has? That statement isn't logically coherent.

He tried to walk it back later:

I'm sorry Lauren but you're mistaken. You can base a relationship on anything if both sides are committed to seeing it through. I've known couples who bonded around their love of walking. If someone wanted to marry a ballroom dance partner you wouldn't blink at that. Sex is as legitimate as anything else as long as the end result is a lifelong bond. I should add here that I believe sex is the last thing that should happen in a relationship, once sex occurs the relationship should last a lifetime. I'm not advocating for free movement or swinging.

Also, you pulled a little bait and switch there. I didn't say that the wives wouldn't be equal, I said that they weren't the same. I don't treat my second son the same way I treat my oldest son but they're equal. I think you might be thinking of polygyny as getting half a man, or a man half the time. That's one way to do it for sure, but probably the hardest way to do it.

None of you n---as was wifey material
None of you n---as was worth all the drama (Ah)
None of you n---as was hittin' it raw
And mad I'm not one of your baby mamas

😉 (the wink in the video is important)



Personally I came across a few biblical poly people on twitter before. I posted about one of them before. He kept posting about lesbians and was trying to break up this lesbian couple he knew and claimed both of them wanted to be with him but 'the one who he saw as the leader' was threatened by him while the other wanted him but deep down they both wanted him. He was very homophobic. And was delusional in general about his attractiveness. He would just try to get random women into the idea by talking about how it can save on housework too cause he wanted bangmaids really.

[Nyctophilia]

Do you like how British people treat black cats?

In some countries they see black cats as evil, something associated with demons, witches, I don't want to name countries. But what I love is how 99% of British people don't believe in that type of myth and treat black cats with love, compassion etc. I know it sounds silly but yeah

That's because black cats are considered good luck in the UK. Though I assume because of the Americanisation of most Anglosphere cultures that will change a bit. Like you watch US TV shows and adopt those beliefs.

"I don't want to name countries"

OK I will lol.

You can see that in the comments on the thread:

Brit here, my mum always said that if a black cat crosses the road in front of you from left to right it means you'll have 5 years of good luck! She passed it down from her mum!

"Brit here"

The subreddit is called 'Ask UK' 😓

That's interesting, because my mum and here mum used to tell me that it was bad luck. I wonder how the story changed up the path.

American media.

My grandmother used to tell me that if you see a black cat walk under a ladder that it was bad luck 🤣

Lol she mixed two superstitions together.

Apparently they get adopted less which is sad. They're my favourite along with ginger cats.

Lol I've never heard of void cats before:

One of my neighbours has a small black cat that's just a ball of fluff, it keeps its distance but watches and will eventually come over and sometimes I'll catch it on top of a garage or fence watching me, following slowly, only it's eyes visible. I refer to it as the Void and it is beautiful

I absolutely have to agree, void cats have been some of the best cat's I've ever had the pleasure of sharing my life with. So much character it's unreal...

Love a voidy boi, mesmerising little doofuses

There's a subreddit lol:

VoidCats

Void Cats, not to be confused with r/BlackCats Void cats are cats that have an indistinguishable shape, they are usually black cats that at a distance look like an ambiguous blob of cat. AKA, the Where's Waldo of cats

I don't dislike all of US cultural trends coming over btw. Halloween was a much bigger deal over there and has gradually become slightly more prominent here and that's cool. Halloween is the coolest holiday really. Depends on whether it suits my aesthetic and cultural preferences.

From what I remember the American tendency to see black cats as evil comes from Germany? Maybe just mainland Europe in general. I thought it had something to do with the black plague but that wouldn't really make sense since the UK was still effected.

https://www.history.com/news/black-cats-superstitions

Obviously they became tied with the occult in many places and then opinions on that were further mixed:

Written records link black cats to the occult as far back as the 13th century when an official church document called*"Vox in Rama"*was issued by Pope Gregory IX on June 13, 1233. ?In it, black cats were declared an incarnation of Satan,? says Layla Morgan Wilde, author of*Black Cats Tell: True Tales And Inspiring Images. ?The decree marked the beginning of the inquisition and church-sanctioned heretic and/or witch hunts. Initially it was designed to squash the growing cult of Luciferians in Germany, but quickly spread across Europe."

In addition to their early association with Satan, cats also became inextricably linked to*witches*in medieval Europe. According to*Cerridwen Fallingstar, Wiccan priestess and author of*Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic,*witches were the pre-Christian pagan practitioners of Europe.

Although the early Christian church in Europe coexisted with witches, as the church gained power, she says that they saw witches as their direct competition in gaining the hearts and minds of the people. That's when the church began hunting, persecuting, torturing and killing witches in vast numbers, she explains.

"Witches honored the natural world, having deep respect for plants and animals," says Fallingstar. "Affection between human and animal therefore began to be seen as 'diabolical', or devilish, and the old lady with her cats became seen as suspect."

But it wasn't only the connection they fabricated between witches, cats, and the devil that the early Christians feared: they also saw them both as threats. "Cats, like the women accused of witchcraft, tend to exhibit a healthy disrespect of authority," she notes. "They don't fawn, like dogs, upon even the unworthy. In the church, neither independent women, nor independent animals, were to be tolerated."

The early population of the US was made up of some of the most religious and Conservative Europeans so it sort of makes sense that they took that belief with them.

I think it's an evolutionary thing. They want women to reproduce and witches were often women who didn't or refused but sometimes also disagreeable women in general. They liked cats - who weren't even Human so were devoting emotional labour outside the tribe (the species even.) Instead of helping instill the traditions of the group in younger children, they were often eccentric or disagreed with the mainstream culture.

A lot of the victims of the witch trials were actually teens girls but older women were sometimes attacked since older women are expected to help with childcare and such after their own kids are grown up (evo-psych explanation for menopause actually.)

Current Western culture doesn't push that expectation as much and the result is a lower birth rate since boomers regardless of gender aren't really willing to help their kids out with grandkids or families live far away in the first place. People are instinctively put off the idea knowing there's less support. Especially if they can't afford to pay for support.

I'm not judging them for that I'm just stating a fact that the lack of intergenerational community is one thing contributing to the lower birth rates.

Often younger people prefer to be independent anyway so it goes both ways. People are deeply uncomfortable spending time with their partner's family generally. The historical tradition of marriage focused more on the idea of uniting two families than modern relationships do. If you don't get married or have kids you could potentially avoid meeting family indefinitely.

At some point, the pairing of witches with cats narrowed to black cats, although Fallingstar says that it?s not entirely clear why that happened. "The relationship between witches and black cats, in particular, is probably imaginary, but it is possible that black cats make better mousers, since they cannot be seen at night and therefore have a hunting advantage," she explains. "Witches do tend towards the practical."

Eventually, the fear surrounding black cats and their association with witchcraft made its way across the Atlantic, courtesy of Puritan colonists, says Daniel Compora, associate professor of English language and literature at The University of Toledo. "The idea that witches could turn into their familiar likely evolved from those accused of witchcraft having cats as pets," he explains.

'Witches do tend towards the practical' Lol.

Black in general has certain symbolic associations in Western culture that are probably related. It might also be connected to spirit animal/therian type beliefs that have exisisted in many cultures throughout the world.

The history of Europe has always been a kind of war or negotiatian (at best) between Christianity and older pagan beliefs. Gnosticism incorporated this too with the archons who resemble older polytheistic deities and are considered evil leaders of the material realm keeping Huma s trapped in matter:

Archons (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: rchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες,*?rchontes), in*Gnosticism*and religions closely related to it, are the builders of the physical universe. Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of*Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related to one of*seven planets; they prevent souls from leaving the material realm. The political connotation of their name reflects rejection of the governmental system, as flawed without chance of true salvation.[1] In Manichaeism, the archons are the rulers of a realm within the "Kingdom of Darkness", who together make up the Prince of Darkness. In*The Hypostasis of the Archons, the physical appearance of Archons is described as hermaphroditic, with their faces being those of beasts.[2][3][4]

They blend together genders and non-Human animal with Human its all very contemporary and eternal. You find all the same groups today. It's inspired art and music a lot of course (not necessarily directly) especially in the UK?:

He's wearing a red dress and a fox mask lol:



IAMX has also incorporated both androgyny and animal themes into his work and aesthetics:



He was wearing a cat mask during some performances and maybe im one video... Think I just found a photo with some bunny ears. Can't embed them right now though. Most are encrypted images or too big and fixing that is too annoying on phone.



I love the black gloves with clawed nails. They're kind of scaled too and seem kind of dragon like. I like stuff like that I looked up the ones he's wearing too since clearly he'd bought a bunch of stuff from this one acquaintance that he's plugging lol at the time. But way too expensive for me.

His videos often look like they belong in an art museum tbh. But the best part (that bothers some people,) is he just mixes sexuality in like in this video at one point he has a butt plug (the effect of this mixing aesthetically doesn't always work equally well imo and sometimes is overly messy like in The Surrender video which is also more basic depends on what he was going for though I guess and it seems he might not always enjoy making videos anyway. I'm very into music videos but a lot of people see them as pointless or a distraction or taking away from the music):



Aeons are considered manifestations of the 'real God' in Gnosticism.

I assume he knows this because I remember in interviews from like 2016 etc he was reading books on alchemy etc and has an album called Metanoia:

The transition from immaterial to material, from noumenal to sensible, is created by a flaw, passion, or sin in an Aeon. According to*Basilides, it is a flaw in the last sonship; according to others the sin of the Great Archon, or Aeon-Creator, of the Universe; according to others it is the passion of the female Aeon*Sophia, who emanates without her partner Aeon, resulting in the Demiurge (Δημιουργός),[1] a creature that should never have been. This creature does not belong to Pleroma, and the One emanates two savior Aeons,*Christ*and*the*Holy Spirit, to save humanity from the Demiurge. Christ then took a human form (Jesus), to teach humanity how to achieve*Gnosis. The ultimate end of all Gnosis is*metanoia (μετάνοια), or repentance?undoing the sin of material existence and returning to Pleroma.

Aeons bear a number of similarities to Judaeo-Christian angels, including roles as servants and emanations of God, and existing as beings of light. In fact, certain Gnostic Angels, such as Armozel, are also Aeons. The Gnostic Gospel of Judas, found in 2006, purchased, held, and translated by the*National Geographic Society, also mentions Aeons.[2]

I like the addendum to that album that he released later too. It has a few good songs.



In this heat, I believe there is no future
Control and fear killing queers, Santa Claus, dictators
I was God, I was love, now I?m bleeding
Oh alchemy, alchemy can?t help me when
Everything is burning

You can see the reference.

But back to cats:

During the Middle Ages, it wasn't uncommon for cats to be killed, given their association with evil, Compora says. Some people even went as far as blaming cats for spreading the Bubonic plague and used that as another reason to get rid of them. However, their ill-conceived plan backfired.

"In a particularly bizarre piece of irony, the killing of the cats helped fuel the spread of the plague," Compora explains. "With the reduced number of cats to control the rodent population, the disease spread rapidly."

Yeah this is what I heard before about the plague.

In the UK there's some kind of tradition (though I think this is either rare or location specific because I've never known anyone to do this,) where its considered good luck to give a bride a black cat on her wedding day.

A very friendly black cat walked home with me on Christmas a few years ago. It rubbed up against me then walked ahead and kept stopping and looking back to wait for me to catch up then started walking again. Very cute.

Another cat which I think might have also been black though I don't remember now walked to school with me once as well.

There's a Scottish folklore cat too:

The cat-sith (Scottish Gaelic: [kʰaʰt̪*ˈʃiː], plural cait-sh?th), in Irish cat si (Irish:[kat̪ˠˈʃiː]), is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in Scottish folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the cat-s?th was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times.[1][2][3]

Funnily enough the first time I encountered this though was in Final Fantasy VII because there's a character based on that story.

Apparently black cats are good luck in Japan.

[Nyctophilia]

This is a pretty extreme example I'm about to mention but there was an early example of this who was the guy who wrote that racist book I forget the name of who after his first wife divorced him kept marrying women from Eastern Europe (mostly Hungary I think,) and they all would leave him after moving to the US after a few years. Except the last one because he died but after his death she said he was condescending and that she was miserable living with him.

Couldn't remember his name it's William Luther Pierce and he wrote The Turner Diaries. Considering the time period, being married 5 times is really indicative of how highly disagreeable he was:

Pierce was married five times. His first marriage was to Patricia Jones, a mathematician whom he met while he was attending the California Institute of Technology. They were married in 1957 and had twin sons, Kelvin and Erik, born in 1960. Kelvin was an aerospace engineer, while Erik is a computer scientist.[5] According to Kelvin Pierce, his father had been emotionally and physically abusive.[43] In 2020, Kelvin coauthored Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist, which chronicled his experiences with his father.[44]

William Luther Pierce's marriage with Patricia Jones ended in divorce in 1982.[45] The same year, Pierce married Elizabeth Prostel whom he met in the National Alliance office in Arlington. The marriage ended in 1985 and Pierce moved his headquarters to southern West Virginia.[14] Preferring immigrant women from Eastern Europe,[13] in 1986 Pierce married a Hungarian woman named Olga Skerlecz. She is a relative of Iv?n Skerlecz, Governor of Croatia-Slavonia; the marriage lasted until 1990. Olga moved to California after their divorce.[45] Pierce then married another Hungarian woman named Zsuzsannah in early 1991. They met through an advertisement that Pierce placed in a Hungarian women's magazine aimed at arranging international marriages. Leaving him in the summer of 1996, Zsuzsannah moved to Florida. His last marriage in 1997, which lasted until his death, was to another Hungarian woman, known under the pseudonym "Irena". The marriage between Irena and Pierce was troubled, as he was reportedly "sharp and condescending" leaving her miserable living with him.[13]

I think personality wise passport bros are the same genre of man with or without the excessive racism (though there's a reason there's a sterotype of white nationalists marrying East Asian women.) They're very disagreeable, domineering, and often not so intelligent. Leading to some bad choices. Not very attractive either obviously so they can't find Western women to go along with it all. I've seen a lot of mixed race people online who have a white dad and Asian mum complain about this relationship dynamic too.

How come every man who wants a traditional wife doesn't wanna be traditional himself and provide for her. "I shouldn't pay her to be a mother" you are her husband, her provider, under the logic of tradition, you should be giving her money. These men ain't shit.

Exactly. He takes her from a developing country, moves her to the US, they have multiple children, he wants her to stay at home full time to do domestic labor.

He also wants her to work and make enough money to support herself. What type of job is she going to get while also caring for 3 kids and not being 100% fluent in English?

Wow this sounds even worse/more dumb than I thought. Guess I should watch the actual video.

0.47 seconds in:

"The problem is men are not being men and women are being men."

*Expects his wife to work while taking on all childcare apparently.*

So some masculine stereotypes are fine then lol?

Americans looking for love are getting killed by gangs in Colombia

U.S Embassy warns tourists after eight men died in Medellin in two months, often after meeing women on dating apps

Honestly I'm not surprised. I'm not saying this is good but I was just about to say if they continue acting like this people in these countries are going to start avoiding Western men and perhaps Westerners in general.

"It only took two years literally to the day for my Filipino wife to become Americanised, hate literally everything about me and what I provide and decide to leave."

Why is every woman on the planet the problem but not you?

Is it me that's the problem? No it's the mere 2 years she spent in America...

Think about it. There are actually (very rarely tbf) men who stay married their entire life you know. Even today there are a lot of people who stay married for 20-50 years easily.

The reddit posts she included:

I've stayed in Thailand for almost 2 months. I couldn't find any cute girl.

Title. I'm introverted and also anxious. 5'6", white, work out 6 days a week. So I'm pretty jacked. Tried thaifriendly, tinder, badoo. Also tried beer bars and gogo bars (rip off), on tf the girls were not attractive (at least 95% of them) Also tried approaching freelancers on walking street. All I got from it is being cheated by a ladyboy who told me he was a "100% lady" and some of them - you can't tell. Soo.. yeah it's over. i'm not the most social guy i the world. But I shouldn't struggle this hard. I also met a toxic arrogant freelancer girl on thaifriendly. So it's getting worse. Or there's something wrong with me on a very deep level. It's not like [...]

They don't want you and some just know you're willing to give them money and you're desperate. They need money. Also if you find 95% of women there unattrative and are seemingly only attracted to trans women then you might just consider getting over that hangup and dating trans women. Or on second thought don't...

Bros-ISO

ISO countries that have beautiful, fit, feminine blonde women?

Nordic countries are the gold standard

They are not feminine in Nordic countries. Sweden is the epicenter of feminist.

Best countries for blonde and feminine are Eastern European countries and some Baltic countries.

Lol. Can't wait for someone to use this guy for a greencard.

Cause American guys are not bossy and not chauvinist not like European countries and what not. We really want partners in our relationship but if his wife's trying to be a girlboss all the time and run the show that is very degrading to his morale. What I experience with filipinas is they're always very good for my ego. I always feel like a man around a filipina.

Oh... Don't say that in front of your wife. Come on bro.

Also I don't know what European countries he's talking about but either way most the most annoying sexism online is coming from American men though of course most of what you hear in general online is coming from Americans.

Half of this is just signalling that you find most women intimidating to your ego which isn't a brilliant thing to do for obvious reasons. Then the whole 'I love being a man' thing doesn't really work on most people unless they have a masculinisation fetish, and most of those 5 people are into trans guys for obvious reasons.

Like..

They will sneer at you as their boot tightens on your throat and they repeat to themselves - as mantra - how God wills it. Preabsolved of their torment of you.

Then react with the utmost shock when you slice their heel and in a fit of spite bring hell to Earth.

The Christian cries out as he strikes you for being trans, gay, a woman, someone he simply disagrees with.

"You would only be on that side if you were always of the enemy."

Birthing their own foes.

in 2025 we're gothmoding. we're hauntologymaxxing

Trans men proving transphobes wrong by publishing the kind of painfully edgy power fantasy prose that only men can write

It was pretty good, I thought it could have been better. The right direction I guess.

They aren?t actually transforming it, is the thing. Too many are tempted by patriarchal power. It sucks

i think its pretty clear that this is a profoundly feminist text, i dont know how you can argue otherwise unless youre just asserting that maleness itself is antifeminist

The article is mostly correct, and the author and several trans men may behave in accordance with these goals, but we've both seen how the majority don't, how power within transness can fall within the patriarchal lines

There are a shocking number of tboy incels, as well as soft lib transmascs who use sj language to call trans women icky and shove them to the margins at every chance.

Trans men are raiding the dying fire, but many don't understand this and will work with the expectation of keeping the fire going, it isn't wise to plan on people to voluntarily give up power

He's not expecting anyone to voluntarily give up power, he makes a parallel claim to the blackpaper that trans men introduce negentropy into the continuation of the same. its the same argument that n1x makes but cleverly inverted

I understand that transmasculinity's existence fragments patriarchal power and threatens it to a certain degree, but they are very much capable of coexisting, and we see the efforts of trans men to uphold it.

I think masculine power can exist outside the bounds of patriarchal hierarchy and that's what Satan is. Or a serial killer. Or a vampire. But that's not necessarily reassuring because toxic power is still toxic power.

This is the best response to that text:

lol

Speaking of lol (continuation of the previous quote before the lol one):

I don't understand how manhood could survive g/acc on any level but the most extremely superficial, and at that point cultural forces would just dissolve it. I don't really disagree with the article, but necromanhood will have a shelf life.

Necromanhood will have a shelf life as a force behind transmasculinity, I mean. Once a critical mass of transmasculine influence on masculinity is reached, something new will have to happen

ok so will transfemininity. trans womanhood and trans manhood both die with the gender binary. let a thousand sexes bloom

No. That is repulsive and there is a desire of efficiency which will disallow it. Multiply, and be divided by categorization.

This is why a post-gender society is impossible. Technocapital, the desires that direct humanity, want efficiency. Each gender requires additional cognition. We are all mascs, femmes, and neutrals, like it or not.

G/acc outlines how technocapital pushes things in the femme direction. This will go, and people will adapt, until the differences between the few generalized categories become nothing. At which point, further demand for efficiency creates monogender society.

what do you think the "accelerationism" in gender accelerationism is? autoproduction at its most gigantic scale. you think the gender binary survives human beings being rendered for biomass to fuel whatever comes after?

No, I do not. I think "man" dies. "Woman" does not. Perhaps some people's reductive definition of "woman" will, but "woman" will not, because "man" is dependent on "woman", but "woman" is not dependent on "man".

oomfie what

g/acc is gender abolitionist oomfie

[screenshot of some text]

When I read that, I see different words to mean the same thing. All becomes woman, and at the same time, because all is woman, all is "genderless", because much of the baggage of gender loses meaning when there's only one. But there is still a core womanhood.

Tbh it can't die while sexuality exists because androphilia exists. Supply and demand. It's even relevant to why some trans men exist...

If there are infinite combinations that are then flattened for 'efficiency' obviously that would be 'Human' or 'cyborg' in the future. Not 'woman.' If something like a 'core womanhood' continues to exist than some form of core other to it will exist because 'the other' will always reform itself in reaction. Even if in a shadow like fashion.

It's kind of ridiculous to say that the reductive definition of woman will die but core womanhood will not, as though there isn't also a reductive definition of manhood. Why do you think there are trans men who don't medically transistion and appear almost identical to women? Why are there femboys? You can't dissolve something without 100% agreement.

You can ignore it - like a shadow. But the shadow remains.

So this seems to be the answer: the framework for transmasculine identity is that of existing as a shadow. It is banishment from any existing framework, giving trans men two options: either pass and assimilate so seamlessly that you uphold cis manhood in your attempts to achieve it, or be swept away and disposed of so you don't pose a threat. [...] This framework, however, is collapsing. As more and more trans men assert ourselves and our manhood, it becomes more difficult to deny alternative ways of being a man. Patriarchy and manhood cannot maintain themselves without adapting to the loss of chromosomal and reproductive markers of manhood, leaving trans masculinity as the only way out. The realization of the shadow is assured; you cannot declare something imaginary forever.

😏

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die"

Also of course g/acc isn't synonmous with cyberfeminism but since she brought up feminism and some aspects of this were inspired by cyberfeminism... A lot of cyberfeminism (I prefer to say cyborg feminism because of Mary Harrington's hilarious complaints I saw a while back) is about choosing androgyny ironically. Trying to find this one quote and struggling... Maybe I imagined it lol.. It's going to bug me that I can't find this quote. Sure it had something to do with cyborgs.

Here's something though:h

Donna Haraway was the inspiration and genesis for cyberfeminism with her 1985 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", which was later reprinted in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991).[19] Haraway's essay states that cyborgs are able to transcend the public and private spheres, but they do not have the ability to identify with their origins or with nature in order to develop a sense of understanding through differences between self and others. Haraway had ideals based on making individuals androgynous, and wanted society to move beyond biology by improving technology.[20]

G/acc DLC just dropped.

Sighs?.

Can we go back to before Land

never

You have to kill deleuze it's the only way

Not an option we destroy Britain

Yessss that too

Boo. Just because we (probably) invented all the goths (from fiction to music to whatever the hell this is.)

I hate this as much as I hate Nyx.

N1x did it better putting my foot down

I hate her so bad

She did really.

This is probably the neatest theory related thing to transmasculinity I've seen and yet is kinda more of an argument for why transfemininity is inherently vampiric if anything

I thought Nyx's take on Lilith sounded more non-binary anyway tbf but then was like 'no androgyny is really female' OK. Well.

Why does it have to be?

Oh context. They're talking about that text I posted about days ago:

https://cybercommedia.neocities.org/...d/necromanhood

Never mind I couldn't find an example I felt worked well enough and got distracted.

I have a weird craving today to try nachos (not sure I ever have.)

[Nyctophilia]

My internet browser froze kind of inbetween autoplaying a new video so it kept the title from the other video with pretty hilarious results:

[Nyctophilia]

PYLONS

I know this project probably doesn’t have anything to do with the preachers daughter story but when I heard the first half “nearer to my god thee” I think of Ethel’s mother sitting in a dark room after the death of Ethel singing this it’s purely nightmare fuel and I fucking love it

It's just giving me Fallout vibes. Followed by post apocalyptic aliens.

Edit:

Omg I can't believe I forgot about this (while linking songs below) that's what the intro is like:





This is an unofficial music video but yeah:



Not really the same but yeah:





Feels aesthetically similar.

But musically I guess it's more like Apex Twin and Coil a bit.

[Nyctophilia]

lol Hasan just stays streaming while picking people he knows up from the LA wildfires:



"When we were initially evacuating I said OK hurry up because everyone's going to be trying to go so only bring what's important and this motherfucker grabbed his Pokemon cards."

Well sure gotta grab the Pokemon cards.

"Man LA is really being pissed on right now."

No I think the problem is it's not being pissed on.



The DEI argument in this context doesn't really make sense (for firefighters in general,) because there isn't a exclusive limited number of jobs in theory in an area with a lot of work. Basically I doubt anyone who wants the job and is remotely qualified is really being turned away in the first place as it's a job most people don't want to do due to the high risk...

Also lesbians often work in masculine fields. It's funny that they fixated on that part and not that she's a woman.

Up next: It's suspicious that gay men are in the fashion industry.

God damn gay men taking jobs and concert tickets from straight women.

I was wondering which pop diva to go with when I said concert tickets. Can't think of anyone current that's that hyped tbh (specifically with gay men.) Not Taylor.

Although this is even more nonsense:

Like especially on ATRL, there's this myth that gets perpetuated around that people who like Ariana, Beyonce, Gaga and then Taylor gets inserted, are most likely the girls and gays...



... When a big BIG portion of her fanbase and the major reason she's pulling 800k-1M debuts is because of her extremely loyal straight male demographic that supports her physical releases. That fanbase will be the same that'll go and buy an AC/DC vinyl + a folklore vinyl along with the middle aged female fans she has.



Taylor has never been the gayest popstar, she hardly has ever been, it doesn't mean she isn't an ally and gay-friendly but her image has never been closely associated with camp and gayness the way Ariana or Beyonce do it. She's always been pop-rock adjacent and she's a lyricist (she markets herself as that) and its what makes her appeal strongly to the straight demographic.

Sure, we the girls and gays love Taylor especially RED-now but her OG and a bulk of her commercial success is owed to the straight male country-rock base that goes hard for her. I just went onto Reddit and a lot of the Taylor Swift fans on the subreddit also seem to be Iron Maiden, U2 and FOB fans (which is like the str8st base there is). You'll never get that with any other MPG. Here in Cali a lot of my straight male friends love Speak Now and Fearless, back home in the Philippines via Facebook so many of my straight friends think RED is a banger and folklore is amazing!

No I don't think that's a major part of her fanbase lol. It's reddit so whatever the question it will be mostly men. I've seen polls turn out that a majority of Doja Cat's fans are straight men and I know that's not true.

I also don't think the same people who listen to AC/DC would be fans of Taylor... In general obviously I'm sure there are some.

Anyway maybe her or?:



Obviously there are older people. I'm just thinking of people in like the last 5 years or something.

Me seeing this thumbnail (parts of this video are kind of graphic in a violent way btw):



'That's queerbaiting j/k'

*reads comments*

the kiss,the outfits,the plot ,omg I think we've found ourselves a winner you guys

I manifested this with my God mind you know.

Also I love chainsaws as weapons (this track always reminds me of them lol)



Not irl of course.

Taylor Swift concert tickets are insane though especially in the US they seem to go for thousands or something. Glad I have no interest in seeing her live honestly (and I don't live in the US,) would be a real pain. Some people worked it out that it would be slightly cheaper to travel to Sweden to see her live than in the US.

I like how Jenna Ortega is the new Aubrey Plaza that's just a thing now. I mean it was sort of before with like Fairuza Balk and Winona Ryder but not exactly.

Listening to my 'witch house and similar' playlist now. Xiu Xiu are so good:



His (Jaime's) voice is like 10/10.

Actually he kind of sounds like Shannon Funchess a bit but like creepier:



I was trying to find his vocal range. I don't think that will be illuminating though. I think he mostly just has a really weird vocal style. Like I was wondering if he was a contralto (unlikely though really,) but I think it's sort of like how Christina Aguilera is a soprano but everyone thinks she's a mezzo:



I think Shannon Funchess is a contralto?

Xiu Xiu. I really don't like Jamie's voice.

jamie's voice is like one of my favorite things about xiu xiu this is wild to me

Yeah.

[Nyctophilia]

All my posts are trash but this one is more trash than most haha.

I like the part where she's being arrested and looks kinda crazy:

I refuse to believe that ppl actually watch the music videos

But that's where 98% of the hot people are... Also sometimes they're very aesthetically cool. People just don't appreciate the art form.

Also:

Me seeing this thumbnail (parts of this video are kind of graphic in a violent way btw):



'That's queerbaiting j/k'

*reads comments*

the kiss,the outfits,the plot ,omg I think we've found ourselves a winner you guys

I manifested this with my God mind you know.

I'm actively not reading Wednesday/Enid fanfiction from the Wednesday TV show because they're both teenagers but I like the dynamic and said I wanted something similar with adults before. I guess the Sabrina + Jenna Ortega music video is the second best thing. (Not exactly that but in the vague area.)

I appreciate the attempt universe.

I feel like it was inspired by Death Becomes Her?

Yep.

Wait what?





Oh cool, but I already headcannoned young Geddy Lee for the librarian role:



You're right though universe libraries are hot.

[Nyctophilia]

Watching more of this video because I didn't finish it before:



"Why is my tumblr queen dating a tech billionaire."

Lol it was at that point that I was like we're living in a simulation and it's broken.

"They bonded over AI"

Oh they didn't just bond over the AI thing the specific in joke references a thing that started on lesswrong.com. Though that joke was popularised by the TV show Silicon Valley already. But it's like a community that they're probably both adj to and kind of culty. I talked to some people from that community before for a few years on discord and everyone who's adj to it or part of it (including people I talked to) is like 3 degrees seperated online at least. I started talking to them before the whole Grimes thing and also liked some of her music before then going back to Visions and Genesis (first song I heard,) and she was a indie musician who most people outside certain circles had never heard of so that just made it more surreal later.

"A lot of time adults who have no connection to the community or the political cause that LGBT people are faced with. A lot of time parents having a child who is [BEEP] draws parents into the fold. [...] but He talked about having a trans daughter it radicalised him in the opposite direction."

Oh no that's still common especially with trans kids/teens. Especially if the kid is afab but even if not sometimes. Transphobic parents are all over the place.

Elon's (and his biographer I guess?) version of the story with his trans daughter where he claims he didn't care about his daughter's transistion until after she came out as a communist really just makes it worse if anything. It just seems like he's overly controlling and cares more about his work and punishing anyone that goes against him or disagrees with his economic philosophy.

"Elon Musk officially takes the red pill"

Oh is that the one where he responds to someone's tweet and then one the Wachoswki's was like '[BEEP] both of you' that was a great response lol.

Oh yeah I remembered it wrong he tweeted and Ivanka responds to him. Yeah.

"This is my favourite response in the history of twitter.com"

It was great yeah.

"We all want something to be remembered for. We all want to be liked. We all want purpose in the world."

At this point it would be good to earn enough that I can start living a normal (relatively speaking I guess lol) life. I'm already known by thousands of people which is surreal (I need to stop using that word lol,) which I doubt I would have ever imagined as a kid or whatever (especially the reason why.) So, I've already kind of exceeded fame expectations really. The rest of my life is disapointing by anyone's standards but more difficult to manage/change for a variety of reasons.

[Nyctophilia]

There's a reason birth rates are an increasingly prominent feature in discourse and policymaking today. Population ageing and decline is one of the most powerful forces in the world, shaping everything from economics to politics and the environment.

But a weakness to the debate - perhaps even the term 'birth rates' itself - is that it implies the goal is the same today as it was in the past: finding ways to encourage couples to have more children. A closer look at the data suggests a whole new challenge.

Take the US as an example. Between 1960 and 1980, the average number of children born to a woman halved from almost four to two, even as the share of women in married couples edged only modestly lower. There were still plenty of couples in happy, stable relationships. They were just electing to have smaller families.

But in recent years most of the fall is coming not from the decisions made by couples, but from a marked fall in the number of couples. Had*US rates of marriage and cohabitation*remained constant over the past decade, America's total fertility rate would be higher today than it was then.

I'm surprised to hear this (and doubtful) because my understanding is that at least for women the number not having kids by the end of their reproductive life has remained stable (approx 20%) with only slight variation. I'm sure I saw some evidence genetically that this number goes back a long way too. Bleak if you want them or if it correlates with not finding a compatible partner but seemingly predictable.

The change is that women are having children later but still having them, so they have less children and smaller families. So in that sense the change is the smaller families.

Trying to get the 20% to have kids seems like it would be even more difficult because they/we never did (I assume I'm part of that group - too mentally ill and [BEEP] lol. Don't want to give birth, too many issues I think to be a good enough parent in the short reproductive window and hell life window we have on this planet. Too many to even try to get a relationship imo let alone a kid.) Might require technological revolution and acceptance/promotion of single parenting with support of robot helpers. I could see that encouraging people to have kids who cant find Human partners. Some of the percentage would just make bad parents though and we have to accept that and that there are probably pros and cons to population collapse. Depending on who reproduces.

The central demographic story of modern times is not just declining rates of childbearing but rising rates of singledom: a much more fundamental shift in the nature of modern societies.

Relationships are not just becoming less common, but increasingly fragile. In egalitarian Finland, it is now more*common for couples who move in together to split up*than to have a child, a sharp reversal of the historical norm.

When pictured as a rise in happily childless Dinks (dual income, no kids couples) with plenty of disposable income, the social trends accompanying falling birth rates seem benign.

I think people are [BEEP] scared of having a huge group of people wandering around with nothing to lose lol.

Meh they probably should be. A lot of people are very pissed off.

But the rise of singledom and relationship dissolution is a less rosy story, especially considering the drop in relationship formation is steepest among*the poorest. Of course, many people are happily single. The freedom to choose how to spend one?s life and who with (or without) is to be celebrated. But the wider data on*loneliness*and*dating frustrations*suggests not all is well.

The trend is global. From the US, Finland and South Korea to Turkey, Tunisia and Thailand,*falling birth rates*are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults.*Baby bonuses*put the cart before the horse when a growing share of people are without a partner. Even in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, similar trends may be under way.

Why an almost worldwide decline, and why now? The fact that this is happening almost everywhere all at once points more to broad changes acting across borders than country-specific factors.

The proliferation of smartphones and social media has been one such exogenous shock. Geographical differences in the rise of singledom broadly track mobile internet usage, particularly among women, whose calculus in weighing up potential partners is changing. This is consistent with*research*showing social media facilitates the spread of liberal values (notably only among women) and boosts female empowerment.

You don't need a smart phone but if you spend a lot of time online on even a desktop computer you'll see the worst people imaginable (right wing American men. Lol I mean thats most of who you'll find on twitter,) posting bs so it makes sense that you'd be cautious of taking the risk of getting into a relationship if your norm is so skewed.

I do think this is probably a lazy answer though at this point (hiding the problems of a hypercompetitive culture) and missing some stuff.

But apparently women who are in all female environment are less likely to focus on marriage and more on career (resource aquisition,) makes sense so you can artificially trigger that too via the internet I guess (but university too depending on what you study and since less men these fays go to uni. But this is ironic to me since almost everyone I hung out with when I was at uni was a guy. Many of them were quite picky and judgmental too let me tell you and more on that later in this post):

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-dige...s-career-focus

How does availability of men in the environment affect women's career focus?

There are at least two explanations for why this effect exists. One is that sex ratio shapes the labour market, fewer men entailing more employment opportunities for women. The second is that sex ratio shapes a mating market, making finding a partner harder and thus encouraging a different strategy for life security. To differentiate between these, another experiment replicated the previous one using a similar exposure technique and also asked the 58 participants to rate how difficult it would be to acquire a good job or to find a mate (phrased in terms of marriage and dating prospects). Those participants exposed to a high-female ratio were more likely to see mate-finding as tough, but their expectations for the ease of finding a job were similar to their counterparts. Pulling the data into a model, the researchers demonstrated that putting career first was mediated not by their expectations that good work would be easier to find, but that a good mate would be harder to find.

I think this must just apply to straight women.

I dislike how research ignores that people very clearly have multiple mating strategies.

Back to competition though there are a lot of people who think even making friends is pointless and treat it like networking. I saw a post about this yesterday (the relevant part is later in the quote just providing background context):

Lol my time has come. Not really though I'm non-binary so can't date lesbian women really (this post was on a lesbians over 25 subreddit) since I identify as a man partly and all that:

Shy traumatized dweebs who don't go outside, please touch grass so I can meet you


Seriously, please, I just want to talk to someone I relate with. Y'all don't need a reality check, but please just physically be in a location where I can at least make friends with you.


Everyone here who actually goes to big events is a hiking/sports (or business/travel) lesbian who has not touched a book that's not self-help in the past 10 years, doesn't do crafty or art stuff, only engages with very mass-market media, and has not played a video game other than maybe a vague memory of Pokemon when they were 6. They just roller derby, camp, go to soccer games, or somehow fly to other countries on a whim because they're way into stonks. I know, I was there, I asked them. They're lovely people but it's kind of hard to contribute to group conversations. I end up just talking with the chill married 50+ lesbians who are like 10/10 cool but not a dating pool ;_;


This is a cry for help, an SOS. I'm literally begging. We will never meet each other if you don't go outside. I hit shy dweeb escape velocity and now I'm a slightly-less-shy dweeb who goes outside. Just go to lesbian board game nights, arts and crafts body doubling, dweeby sci-fi sapphic reading groups, webcomic fangirl coffee shop meetups, anything, please.

You don't have to agonize about how to cold approach and flirt with random girls at the bar, it's like insanely unlikely to work and even worse if you don't just want to hook up anyway. Its best use is practicing being okay with rejection, not getting a girlfriend.

I dunno I was daydreaming I was another person where I could just not be an anxious mess and make out with someone at a bar or something. You know normal Human stuff.

That's how I found this I was curious if women ever hooked up in bars like straight couples do (or did, though even that was uncommon,) or if that's essentially impossible. A guy I hung out with in the early 2010s made out with a woman in a bar once.

With sex I mostly worry about stds though. Wish they didn't exist.

I find it so infinitely interesting that so many lesbians in these so called "welcoming cities" in countries that are supposed to be way more progressive in terms of LGBT matters have trouble finding [BEEP] friends.


I literally live in a conservative 3rd world country. We have ZERO laws that protect us here as gays, and yet the [BEEP] community is alive and kicking. I am 34 and I am still making new [BEEP] friends at least every other month.


I don't think this is a lesbian issue. I think it's a cultural issue. I used to live in the west for several years (US and Europe) and westerners are just so difficult to make friends with. Compared to southeast Asians, you guys are just so closed off and suspicious of people. I always felt like I had to prove my worth to be friends.

Yeah I agree and I think everyone in Western countries is very polarised now on top of the general coldness and the internet encourages that.


I've heard someone from the US on YT (a pronatalist guy actually with 4 kids so far so this is ironic) straight up argue he only talks to people who he can network with or who are influential basically because he doesn't see the point of friends because that's what his wife is for.


I've met many people (guys mostly) who clearly operated in a similar way but didn't say so. Which I assume is why men are lonely (and apparently most people with a close friend are friends with women) but the problems extend to everyone really.

The fall in coupling is deepest in extremely-online Europe, east Asia and Latin America, followed by the Middle East and then Africa. Singledom remains rare in south Asia, where*women?s web access is*more limited.

This is not to overstate the role of social media. Other cultural differences between countries and regions mediate both the spread of liberal ideals and people?s ability to act on them.*Caste and honour systems encourage high rates of marriage, irrespective of media access, and female education, income and employment differ markedly between regions.

Most people want to have kids under ideal circumstances but there's nothing more disgusting to a woman than having this framed as an obligation or the desperation of male conservatives.

Meanwhile lots of men do not want kids and in the past women sometimes forced them into it (still do, but I think at a lower rate,) and also people accidentally had kids they didn't want in the same way but the former thing - men being lied to about contraception etc - is not a conversation anyone wants to have.

Conservatives complain about abortion but don't question if some people might be better off not having kids because their kids won't thrive in the nightmare world.

I've seen this pointed out by many men but we do not have conversations about male ambivalence only female for some insane reason. A lot of men do not really care about having kids or relationships they are doing other stuff instead.

They're busy getting killed by gangs of men in columbia who are pissed off about sex tourism or finding a South East Asian woman to divorce them after getting a green card lol no. It's video games mostly.

Men and women want different things from a relationship. Men want submissive feminine women who boost their ego and talk about how masculine they are all day while doing all the housework, maybe have kids, and wear cat ears (cat girls) and women want submissive feminine men who boost their ego and do all the housework (maidboys,) wear cat ears (catboys,) and carry and give birth to children (omegaverse,) let them have strap on sex oh wait. They want the same things xD

Lol no shitposting is fun though. There is some truth to it always. Just not the whole picture.



Love the part where she's finished with one half of the BORING academic explanations/justifications and just plays the credits but then carries on.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with any analysis I've seen on this topic because it always has to portray women as victims to some degree. It's a denial of sadism to some extent.

Men engage in that more than anyone. 'It's just a revenge fantasy no women would really enjoy being sadistic... They're all submissive massochists, unlike men who are just monsters by nature.'

I always get that vibe.

I think it's wishful thinking.

MRAs do the complete opposite "all women are evil" it's better but still wrong.

"Despite all of the potential of omegaverse it is still, most often, a universe where cis white men experience misogyny and oppression. It's still about characters who look like the typical everyman who has always been the protagoist of media. Some have argued that the potential subversive power of slash and omegaverse will always be limited so long as they continue to centre white male bodies. Even if they're supposedly stand ins for marginalised bodies because is that not a way of erasing those actual marginalised identities?

As I said I haven't engaged with that universe much but I do enjoy some cis male misogyny/objectification in other similar stuff. I'm no better than most men.

I'm the most reasonable one. I just want a 1970s rock star with long hair.



I found this gif again while looking for the omegaverse video quote from a previous post I made lol.

I mean he can work in a library if he owns a pet rabbit I think. My standards for women actually seem to be much higher. *thinks about Sabrina Carpenter* Usually.. Unless they're trans. I can offend everyone I think. What a superpower.

I say 'can' but no you should be in a library ideally I think. Its like an urban forest. Because of all the paper. It's also kind of like a church which again works well from a corruption pov. Also like how Aella had sex with a woman on top of a church once. Taboo. I think most libraries are more like places you go to use computers or print stuff now which is unfortunate because its harder to eroticise. Not impossible but just different. I mean eroticising technology and robots isn't too hard but you know libraries and books go together better.

Unless you're Sabrina. I know this is controversial but I think she might be too hot for libraries to work for her in this way, but it's hard to say. I think she looks better being arrested on the beach and being kind of manic. Like she could play Loki or something that kind of vibe. She's not wearing glasses so that factors in too. I dunno there's much to consider about body language and vibe etc imo.

I mean Emma Watson played Hermione so.

I like older women sometimes if they're yelling (specific gif.) Or Lilith. I actually only like people in gifs and music videos or playing music live lol. Mostly guys. But there are less guys I stumble on these days unless they're a weird Nick Fuentes fan I guess. Not a musician just a long haired skinny guy. /shallow

Cause I don't meet people irl but even when I did it didn't work out with guys.

Not 100% sure on this but I think North East Asian people are a lot more cautious and that's why they have the lowest rates. They have lower rates of other impulsive behaviours I think too.

But while the specific mechanisms are up for debate, the proliferation of singledom and its role in cratering birth rates shows that while financial incentives and other policy tweaks*can nudge birth rates higher, they are labouring against much stronger sociocultural forces.

Policies aimed at facilitating relationship formation might be more effective than those aimed at helping couples have babies.

A world of rising singledom*is not necessarily any better or worse than one filled with couples and families, but it is fundamentally different to what has come before, with major*social, economic and*political*implications. We are faced with a conundrum: is this what people really want? If not, what needs to change?

Anything to stop the upper class having to do anything about the ever widening economic inequality eh?

It should be pointed out that, in this context, "single" means not "unmarried" but "neither married nor cohabitating". People aren't more reluctant to marry their partners but less likely to even have a partner to marry.

I appreciate the clarification. One thing I hate about these statistics is that they usually just mean whether someone is married. I'd also like to know how many people are truly single like not even dating someone and for how long and so on but finding this info is suspiciously hard a bit like how they obfuscate employment statistics.

It feels intentional sometimes especially with employment stuff if it comes from official sources. I don't know.

There's a big political divide between men and women. Men want conservative women and women want men that affirm their freedoms. This contributes

My ex literally said this to me "you're like my therapist and slave.”m" He tried to deny it but I heard it clear as day.

Edit: he confessed after driving me somewhere dark and secluded some of the most disgusting things to me including cheating on me while I was pregnant.

Jesus.

Also not the same commenter as above it is insane how many women I've seen talk about this next quote. Unfortunately it's because a bunch of women actually are into that but most women hate it and guys get the wrong idea:

I gave up on dating for a lot of reasons, but the big one was the last few guys I dated putting their hands around my neck when going for a FIRST kiss. Over it. It’s easier and safer to be alone.

Hearing this stuff also contributes obviously. There are articles about it too. Like just engaging in hardcore bdsm without conversation...

I'm trying to be vague here too as that comment isn't conveying the worst of it.

I didn't like being kissed without consent let alone this.

How is any guy this r*tarded? it blows my mind.

Obviously some guy's are predators but one woman said she freaked out when a guy did that and then when the guy realised 'oh this is a fucked up thing to do out of the blue' he broke down and started crying and apologising. I suppose you could cynically assume its an act but she didnt seem to think so. A lot of people are not OK.

Is already hard enough to find someone compatible, with no vices, healthy, humourous, good looking and a good cook, let alone a good [BEEP]!

Women can be all those things you described if they have enough incentives to. Men in the west do have it harder when it comes to providing those incentives.

No actually. Everyone has vices so that's unrealistic and its telling that they assumed that they were talking about women. Who doesn't want someone who can cook, is good looking and really humour is more attractive to women than men tbh so....

Let’s say that billionaires are decently confident that they will have radical life extension sometime in the next 20 years.

Let’s also say that they know they can’t keep it from the masses.

Wouldn’t you also try to engineer a society where the birth rate fell so low that we’re in no danger of people live 200, 300 years or longer?

Isn’t the easiest way to do this through the dating app hellscape, insanely high housing prices, low relative wages, since so many people feel like they need to “make it” before settling down…

As well as whatever the hell is going on with Gen Z and relationships.

Just food for thought…

No they know medical science is no where near achieving that. Elon who is the most tech-bro one afaik doesn't seem that into the idea either. Its mostly being pushed by wealthy transhumanist and Sillicon Valley folks who are wealthy but not billionaire level.

Elon only supports pronatalism to get more workers for Mars. He doesn't have the social skills to hide his intentions well. He literally posted that lol before he started posting about the topic regularly. He really only cares about his own ego and his personal projects (space exploration being the main one.)

Dating app hellscapes, high housing costs, and low wages have one simple thing in common... corporate greed

I always assume incompetence and self-interest over complicated long-term plans. The billionaires aren't as smart as everyone thinks

They look out for their own interests as much as everyone else. They just have the power and resources to have a bigger negative impact when they do so.

They have long term plans too they just don't all agree on those long term plans

The life insurance industry in the US is hands down the best example of corporate greed. So I'm not surprised by recent events given people's increasing desperation. It's an industry that maximises profits at basically all costs and the cost is literally Human lives in the most direct way. Most industries just passively kill people indirectly with what's the term 'plausible deniability' that's it. Those guys literally decide if people should live or die to make more money.

"We don't kill them. It's illegal for hospitals not to treat them. We just give them the choice between crippling debt and poverty (which we know leads to a lower life expectancy especially in the US and UK because its worse in countries with greater inequality between the richest and poorest,) instead of the service they've been paying for for years"

This is why CEOs with children get assassinated.

It's a problem with nationalised health care too. If they think something isn't economically viable they can avoid it which can lead to death again. Like in the UK with the chickenpox vaccine although thankfully the risk was very low.

Another issue is choosing not to fund health care in the first place. Or a lack of experts in the field leading to poor care.

Even then when you consider results and cost nationalised systems are cheaper for better results overall. But not perfect.

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Also I am dictator of the world atm and I solved the problem of war globally and everyone gets free mermaid pillows with a celebrity of their choice's face on and 3 marshmallows each. Except vegetarians and vegans who get three tiny mushrooms or maybe vegan marshmallows but they probably still have to be mushroom flavoured. Mushroom burgers are really good so I feel like this logic must extend to all substitutions of this kind. Also mushroommallow sounds cute. Honestly the fact that nobody has proposed free universal marshmallows before. I mean it's disgusting. So I can give myself citizenship of three countries. As a treat. But Alien country only counts as one (it's just called Alien country now it's official,) since Japan and UK are just going to be one country anyway according to the real new world order.

You know it's funny because my brother decided to talk to me today about marshmallows and apparently there's a whole bunch of lore involving them. I was just being dumb with this post though. Like they used to be made of a plant called marshmallow but aren't anymore in their commercialised form and manafacturers replaced that with gelatin.

The word "marshmallow" comes from the mallow plant species (Althaea officinalis), a wetland weed native to parts of Europe, North Africa, and Asia that grows in marshes and other damp areas. The plant's stem and leaves are fleshy, and its white flower has five petals. It is not known exactly when marshmallows were invented, but their history goes back as early as 2000 BCE. Ancient Egyptians were said to be the first to make and use the root of the plant to soothe coughs and sore throats and to heal wounds. The first marshmallows were prepared by boiling pieces of root pulp with honey until thick. Once thickened, the mixture was strained, cooled, then used as intended.[3][4][5]

Whether used for candy or medicine, the manufacture of marshmallows was limited to a small scale. In the early to mid 19th century, the marshmallow had made its way to France, where confectioners augmented the plant's traditional medicinal value. Owners of small confectionary stores would whip the sap from the mallow root into a fluffy candy mold. This candy, called P?te de Guimauve, was a spongy-soft dessert made from whipping dried marshmallow roots with sugar, water, and egg whites.[6][7] It was sold in bar form as a lozenge. Drying and preparation of the marshmallow took one to two days before the final product was produced.[8] In the late 19th century, candy makers started looking for a new process and discovered the starch mogul system, in which trays of modified corn starch had a mold firmly pushed down in them to create cavities within the starch. The cavities were then filled with the whipped marshmallow sap mixture and allowed to cool or harden.[9] At the same time, candy makers began to replace the mallow root with gelatin, which created a stable form of marshmallow.[4]

My brother also said something else about them I've already forgotten and might not have been any of that info from wikipedia.

Anyway my post was mostly inspired by the fact that I like the word marshmallow and the fact that people often cite the Standford Marshmallow experiment when making grand claims about genetics, culture and Western civilisation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfo...low_experiment

The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a study on delayed gratification in 1970 led by psychologist Walter Mischel, a professor at Stanford University.[1] In this study, a child was offered a choice between one small but immediate reward, or two small rewards if they waited for a period of time. During this time, the researcher left the child in a room with a single marshmallow for about 15 minutes and then returned. If they did not eat the marshmallow, the reward was either another marshmallow or pretzel stick, depending on the child's preference. In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores,[2] educational attainment,[3] body mass index (BMI),[4] and other life measures.[5] A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half.[6][7] The predictive power of the marshmallow test was challenged in a 2020 study.[8][9] Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test "does not reliably predict adult functioning".[10]

My brother was like "I know something that just seems like fluffy pillows has this entire backstory. Now you are burderned with this knowledge too." Lol but I already was aware of another dimension unfortunately.

I just find the idea that something as simple and silly as marshmallows is involved in such dramatic, serious discussions kind of amusing.

But given their origin I guess it's kind of fitting. 🤔

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My friend was talking about this video he saw that was on the 'Runescape housing crash' and he was like 'what's going on in Runescape that this video exists?' So I told him about the other similar videos I've come across in like Habbo etc and that it's sort of a genre then started talking about this one channel I'd stumbled on years ago that had a video on the number of employed people in Whiterun in Skyrim which I loved and then he brought up some of that guys more recent videos. (Also he has a bunch of the employment rate in different games.)

So it seems he now has a video of himself in the videos wearing tons of hairclips and has more videos along those lines. I really love this:



I asked my friend about the hairstyle in case he knew (since this isn't the only video where he has that hairstyle) but he said he's not sure if it's personal style or just the persona for the videos which is even better.

This is one I saw before that's great (he has a bunch more like this one too):



Kind of envy that I didn't come up with this random stuff myself.

Also my friend mentioned he has investigated certain things but cannot reveal his findings. We will all have to wait for this important news. I will try to remember this post later but will probably forget by that time lol.

[Nyctophilia]

Yeah aside from the healthcare issue in the US the increasing degradation of creative works has been the most bleak and ironic for me. Like even the stuff they exploit as distractions is just getting worse and worse in quality because of greed. The Sims 4 being a very obvious example. They're not going to create the sims 5 so you just get game breaking bugs that they don't fix since last summer that they're aware of and still haven't fixed for some reason (probably the endless focus on releasing new packs.)

A billionaire, a regular worker and an immigrant are sitting at a table. 100 Cookies get served. The billionaire takes 99 and says to the worker. Look the immigrant wants your cookie.

In the US some of the billionaires (I'd prefer another ideological term seeing as it's not just billionaires who use this ideology,) say that the immigrant is more skilled and Americans (or just white working class Americans,) are lazy:







You know Elon is probably actually doing this to distract from what he's doing to America since he has more control of the US government via Trump.

This is interesting (this is from the US I think but there are similar trends elsewhere):

Women's contact with the criminal justice system has trended upward over the last several decades, while comparable figures for men have trended downward.

This includes higher arrest rates for women (41% higher in 2019 than in 1980) and higher rates of jail incarceration for females (12% higher in 2019 than in 2010).

The share of female arrests is up in part due to trends in arrest rates for violent and drug crimes. In 2019, the women's arrest rate was 63% higher for violent crimes and 317% higher for drug crimes than in 1980.

The women's prison population is aging; 2022 imprisonment rates were 83% higher than in 2007 for older women (ages 60 to 64) and 62% lower for younger women (ages 20 to 24).

In 2016, 58% of the women in state and federal prisons were parents to minor children, compared to less than half of the men (47%).

Racial disparities in female imprisonment rates narrowed from 2000 to 2022. In 2022, the imprisonment rate was 69% lower for Black females, 18% lower for Hispanic females, and 18% higher for White females than in 2000.

Females released from state prison systems were less likely to recidivate than their male counterparts. By 2017, 63% of females released from 34 state prison systems in 2012 had been rearrested, compared to 72% of males.

(and apparently prison does more for women than men. Or they were just less criminally inclined in the first place. Can't really get a control group for that one lol. I mean it's a majority of both that reoffend anyway.)

I don't just mean the bolded part is interesting the whole quote is but I highlighted that to post the song.

[Nyctophilia]

Did Nietzsche resent his girlfriend for working everywhere while she was playing at home with her friends? Will he hate his ex-girlfriend and not pay attention to him? No one likes to play dress up in bed together😩

I don't think philosophers generally have partners or children.

This is all you need to know about Nietzsche:



That tweet made slightly more sense than the average tweet.

Nietszche would approve of my startup. It's to create a mercenary force of Dutch body builders to [redacted] migrants, and strip into a naked circle around your home interlocking into a ritual Magick seal, to trap demon in you in the void

I think you're getting Nietszche confused with Bronze Age Pervert.

There is no Elon musk in China
There is no Led Zeppelin in India
There is no Steve Jobs in Africa
There is no Christian Bale in Guatemala

What a bizarre mixture of people to put together.

I bet Led Zeppelin were in India at some point. Misleading.

I also feel like even as annoying as prog rock fans in general can be (stereotypically,) I'm not surprised this guy is a weird esoteric far right racist guy who likes long hair and elves and has tweeted several times about Led Zeppelin.

I mean it was never going to be Rush but it also can't be Rush cause.. You know... Twitter guy is anti-semitic too. Actually that was like 50/50 because of the weird niche/bubble he's in.

Also no one is ever gonna be like:

"There is no Steven Wilson in Malyasia."

Because they've never heard of him in the first place. Which is amazing for me. (This is more of an injoke than reality at this point haha although still lots of people haven't):



Not that amazing though:

The Overview will have its world exclusive premiere accompanied by a specially commissioned film at the BFI IMAX in London on Tuesday 25th February. Tickets go on sale tomorrow

Steven Wilson presents The Overview
+ Q&A

Steven Wilson launches his new album with the first ever spatial presentation of The Overview with this 360? audio event accompanied by a specially commissioned film created for the UK?s largest screen.
Tuesday 25 February 2025 18:00
BFI IMAX
Sold out!

I only heard about this now 2 days after those tickets went on sale so I knew it would be sold out already lol. There are only 500 seats. I couldn't even get decent seats to watch Dune 2 over a large period of time (I still haven't watched the first Dune film lol I was planning to before/if I went though.)

The first few rows of seats are sort of pointless generally too because of the size of the screen and how close they are (not sure why they exist,) though I would have bought them for this since it's music and better than nothing. It was easier from like 2013-2016~ to get tickets in a decent position for some reason and I'd even gone before when there weren't that many people around. But for Dune 2 when I was looking it didn't matter what time of day it was all the decent seats in the middle and far enough back were taken.

The only good thing is it doesn't operate according to general cinema showings so you can watch older films now and then when they decide to show them again. Or they do random stuff like a marathon of all the Indiana Jones films in one night etc.

Tbh though I wouldn't have asked any questions anyway because of anxiety lol.

But back to nonsense I guess:

My disgust for self-victimization is so great that I blame all matters of the world I deem unsatisfactory on myself. Inversely, my concietedness leads me to view everyone else as hapless animals devoid of accountability. I feel an immeasurable weight constantly upon me thereby.

I only (occasionally - hard to say percentage wise,) take responsibility for things my enemies accuse me of for fun and power.

Like this nonsense:

LA is undeniable proof that liberals will literally burn the world to the ground, if left unchecked.

The West is entering a forced form of speciation that could completely eradicate the pathological altruism that has been the bane in our side for years.

If your home being scorched to the ground in replacement of DEI/WOKE commissars cannot wake you up, then GG Darwin.

^ We need to find a way to utilise this to 'prank call' twitter posters. The medium doesn't tend to allow it to have the same impact though unfortunately.

Like that prank call person who would call into religous call lines, orders pizzas, tech support scammers, and banks using Elder Scrolls characters but just on twitter instead.



Should have played this:



I appreciate if you have no idea who these characters are this would prob be annoying or something but I can't help but think this is hilarious. Of course it would be a feature if it was annoying to far right twitter posters really.



I don't think the Sheogorath guy really figured it out - he recognised the sweet rolls because it's a famous Skyrim quote but I don't think he knew it was Sheogorath.

Also "Master Chief calls flood insurance XD"

[Nyctophilia]

OK this is just sad:





I always thought ghostwriting was weird and I feel like this is slightly more depressing. Since games are supposed to be fun...

"Hello fellow gamers."

I like how Hasan is surprised that it was this and not all the other crap that created such a big backlash for him haha. I mean sure but well, were you not here for gamergate?

edit: I dunno I think not noticing you're out of mana for 10 seconds if that was the actual time frame while attacking (and I've not played this game actually,) just seems incredibly slow for gaming in general. Even as a casual player really. It's very basic element of a lot of rpgs in general. I mean I guess he knew just very slow/not observing. Mm OK I looked at a timestamp someone made on reddit and it seems ridiculous to me. But you know it doesn't matter I do a lot of dumb stuff too while gaming + I would be rusty now if I was playing something like WoW due to not playing in a decade and also I only ever played casually.

Just be humble and say you like playing casually but you're not that great. How hard is it.

In WoW your character will tell you if you're doing something wrong or you've run out of mana etc. You can turn that off. It's funny for blood elves to say that cause they're supposed to be addicted to mana.

Elon's stream would have been a lot funnier with this in the background honestly:

"You can't sit with us!"

xD

I guess Nicki Minaj was right:

"I hold the control like the gamers"

Elon what's your Spyro speedrun record? xD

I think the world record for Spyro (the first ps1 game) for a 120% run (yes I know but yes 120%) is 1:20:23 according to speedrun.com but to get that you need to do lots of little exploits not just play the game normally and quickly. Like this except not this you probably want to do it near Town Square not from the start:



This is useless for a speedrun but cool. There is a mod if you play on emulator where the gems and stuff are randomly placed and one location they can appear on is those mountains that aren't meant to be reached:



Yeah this is the guy who has the world record in speedrunning playing that mod:



So the 2nd highest 120% speedrun time is 1:20:56 then the 3rd is 1:21:56 so it's all fairly close lol.

My record is probably like 3-5 hours lol and not really using any of the tricks others use, but I don't remember now because it's been years (I'm going to say 4-5 hours to be conservative. I will maybe try again soon and make a note. Oh nevermind I found an old post elsewhere 'about 3 hours' so yeah. That's better than I thought lol. I'm still going to try again at some point to compare.) I don't stream though so I'm not on that website. 3 hours starts at 329 and then goes down from there. It looks like it slips down to 4 hours at about 357 and then just 5 positions later (362) slips down dramaticaly from 4:38:58 to like 8 hours. Probably at the lower end lots of people have completed the game in a similar time but just haven't uploaded. Personally I don't think I'd bother streaming unless I was in the top 100 or something maybe. I was going to say 2 hours but honestly the top 200 are all under 2 hours. 2 hours is 205 on that leaderboard lol. I don't think I'd do 2 hours either tbh cause of the anxiety from streaming. xD requires a bigger incentive for me.

Streaming doing anything for 8 hours seems insane to me though. Though people do.

I feel like having an audience would be a large distraction too. I have played with my brother doing speedruns but the anxiety etc (I make gaming videos but it's different when you're live and even recording + uploading videos results in some anxiety.) I would probably not chat with them much.

Presumably at a certain point you also hit a limit that it's impossible to beat but the guy who is in first place I think is usually in first place and has been doing this for years with very slight improvements. I have mentioned in 2020 the world record was 1 hour 22 minutes and something.

Elon seems like someone who can't lose any competition. Someone needs to trick him into pretending to be an expert on Sims lore for my entertainment.

It would never happen because it's a 'girls thing' but it would crack me up.

Would have to include Knut Futa and Vidcund Curious somehow.

Elon do my customised version of the apocalypse challenge in the sims 3 where you start in perma winter and can only eat food from the neighbours and rummage through their garbage once a day (maybe not getting food.) You can't build walls (or anything from build mode) until you've completed the architecture career. You can only salvage furniture from a scrap yard but you can't go out when it's dark. You can't cook food without completing the culinary career and possibly others. If you're late for work once you have to quit and then can't work in that career track again (later generations can though.) All the other rules I can't remember off the top of my head. (It's partly from the original challenge and partly edited bits I came up with.) It's basically impossible lol.

The original wasn't that hard (I guess if you've never played The Sims before in your life it might be a bit difficult. Mostly the issue is remembering all the rules I think.) I almost completed it once but the thing is I tend to get bored before finishing stuff if it doesn't activate flow state or takes too long. Cause you're stopping and starting over long periods with a lot of these challenges obviously.

Elon how quickly can you eat a chocolate bar?

To be serious though the sad part is he obviously lied about being in the top 20 Diablo players in the world to be cool to kids so that they listen to him and his other ideological opinions since they're really into gaming. Well they have been for decades but especially gen z and younger were/are. It kind of took over music as well as teenagers favourite subcultural thing.