psivchaz

To be clear, I'm not using attractive here to mean "physically beautiful" but instead "possessing qualities the other person wants in a partner." Weird was a word choice for humor but I was essentially saying, "have more attractive qualities than unattractive qualities." While recognizing that what one person finds unattractive, another might find attractive, and vice versa. By definition, simplifying a complex interaction of human wants and desires into one dimension, rendering it intentionally useless as advice, for the sake of trying to be funny.

Nah I think it's a pretty simple algorithm still: don't be weirder than you are attractive. It's just that there's really wildly varying ideas on what's weird or attractive.

I think that's called "appeasement." It's worked great throughout history.

He went on an unhinged racist rant about Black Lives Matter in 2023, ending with something along the lines of "white people get as far away from black people as possible." More details on his Wiki page but that's the high level.

It was a wild character arc. Paraphrasing heavily...

90s "Corporations are stupid and abusive to employees"

2001 "What if we're all just fragments of God? Why do we fight each other?"

2009 "Place bets on the people you hate most, they always seem to win."

2023 "Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group."

2025 "Trump will fix everything. Also please get me into a medical trial daddy."

I was really holding out for the redemption arc but alas.

I'm a little sad about it. I liked his writing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Very anti-corporate. Imperfect but fairly progressive. It seemed like he was just a hippie at heart. I wish I understood what happened to him. From the outside looking in my best guess is falling victim to his success, he began to think too highly of himself, and maybe a bit too much paying attention to Fox News. It was a wild turnaround from my perspective.

I'm sorry, you're still being too optimistic. Protecting the economy COULD include things like "free vaccines" or "wearing masks" to keep workers from getting sick. What I learned was "don't trust doctors or vaccines, all your body needs is Natural Immunity and veterinary medicine" is a real take shared by an alarming number of people.

The big issue I don't see talked about enough is how the image of masculinity is set by advertising. There are traits that have been traditionally masculine for generations, sure, but linking those traits to actions is a role western society has abdicated to advertisers.

There's no genetic reason a big truck is masculine. That was sold by advertisers. For a while there actually, conserving nature was viewed as a masculine responsibility.

I wonder if I could become a big Antivax YouTuber but just leave in little oopsies to try and convince people subtly that I'm wrong.

At the rate he's making them, I'm pretty sure they could introduce a new one every day.

My go to is generally "I will be" because it's true over a long enough timespan I guess.

I do this but with two trips exactly because of produce and such. I try to do a lot of fresh vegetables so like half my cart is usually produce but then I had to throw things away too often. Two trips seems like the minimum.