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[Sticky] Open Thread #424: Misc.

Aaron "Sleazy" Elias

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30 thoughts on “[Sticky] Open Thread #424: Misc.”

  1. What should you do when all your friends have either gotten married or are in relationships, and you’re the only single person left and you feel lonely?

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    1. Just wait. Statistically, you will get some of your friends back. Also statistically you’ll lose some of them again, but then get nearly all of them back again.

      In seriousness, I know it is hard to make new friends in adulthood. It’s hard trying to force friendships to form as opposed to how they form more organically in youth.

      Best course of action, learn to enjoy your own company. Or maybe get a pet if that’s practical for you.

    2. Another alternative is to get a really time-consuming hobby to sink almost your entire spare time into, but this probably only really works if you are on the autism spectrum. If not, then you probably need a bit more variety. I have friends in similar situations who enjoy traveling (if they have a lot of money) or hiking (if they want to keep their money or need to be mindful of their budget). Some older adults, and retirees in particular, seem to really enjoy doing ridiculously large jigsaw puzzles. There is always the option of just working harder and longer, and see what comes from that.

    3. Aaron,
      Is there any benefits to male friendship? I’ve never understood why men have often complained about the lack of male friendship. Its something I never quite understood since I’ve always been loner my entire life, and I’ve never had any issues. I never cared if I was accepted. Perhaps, I’m an anomaly compared to the average guy.

    4. In my view, for young men friendships are little more than a means to an end to facilitate socializing, and as you get older, these friendships basically disappear. You will likely stay in touch with just a few guys, and even with these interactions may be limited to a phone call twice a year, i.e. around each other’s birthday, provided they are sufficiently far apart. At some point, life just gets in the way. Working a demanding job is already enough in many cases but once guys settle down, their social life gravely deteriorates. The same is true for women, albeit they start from a position of many more but much more shallow contacts.

    5. Gerd,

      What stops you from making new friends or finding a women to have a relationship and live with?

      Although it’s harder when you age, but age is most certainly it’s not a block for that.

  3. About that Jet crashing in India. People were pointing out how the building it stuck to and exploded on didn’t collapse. Making fun that India must have superior architecture compared to something like the twin towers. I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation, though.

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    1. I am sure that all buildings in India were reinforced after 9/11 to ensure that such a devastating attack could not happen there, or perhaps Western architecture has been engaging in so much navel-gazing that they simply did not consider simpler options. After all, India embraces “jugaad” as a way of life.

    2. Jugaad is crazy. You might not believe this, but I just recently had an Indian guy say about S. Korea’s extremely low birthrate that perhaps they’ve reached a population ceiling. However, he failed to acknowledge India’s population is nearly 30x that of S. Korea’s while the fertility rate is around 2.0. Apparently the replacement level needs to be around 2.1 for them to keep up this astounding pace, so I’m sure some Western interference can perhaps help.

      What I mean is, the US reportedly granted India 10 billion dollars in food aid to combat famine from about the 1950s-70s. Even Churchill of all people noted that Indian’s breed like rabbits, suggesting this was bad practice. This is direct tampering with natural selection, while importing Indian’s to the tech sector in the West modern day is only going to help to increase their numbers further.

      So, what the Indian fellow fails to realize is that Korean’s (and Europeans) are K-selected, and that importing the third world to the West coupled with the increased competition in the work sector it brings, as well as a worsening economy, is going to result in lower birth rates for native populations. Meanwhile, Indians will continue to breed at twice or more the pace.

    3. Also, it’s insane how the elites argue to white civilizations that deindustrialization is necessary to save the planet while also encouraging those populations not to breed to cut down on fossil fuel usage, or even because whites, for example, might feel hopeless about the future and choose not to bring a child into the world as a result. The apocalypse, after all, is always around the corner. The religious among us are always worried about the rapture while the more atheistic have fallen for climate hoaxes etc.

      R-selected types do not give a shit about these types of sentiments and will continue to breed, I figure. What’s so astounding is that the elites will argue that it is our moral obligation to feed the underclass of these groups while simultaneously encouraging deindustrialization. However, by importing these third worlders and by advancing their societies we only place more strain on our global energy requirements.

    4. This is a very good point. What is worse, it is quite obvious that for many decades if not at least about a century, the Western world has slowly been adopting a YOLO mindset. There was a time when rulers strove for financial stability. Prussia, as an example, had a history of amassing enormous financial resources while the country prospered. The current model, though, is to bankrupt both governments and citizens. I am not aware of any Western country making any attempt at paying down their debts. Sweden is a great example: housing is so expensive that the standard approach is to take out an essentially indefinitely long mortgage where you only pay interest, effectively renting your house from the government. Meanwhile, the government apparently has enough money to support an overabundant welfare state.

    5. I mention all this because I initially had a thought about sexbots and realized that without artificial wombs and genonmics, which I doubt will come as a package, it’s probably going to end with more population decline in K-selected groups. Like, I get the argument that modern women are fat, tattooed, ugly and obnoxious/insufferable, but I also get the sense that sexbots would end up being yet another highly subversive tool.

    6. Another interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed in the US is that in my field a lot of African women AKA “international contractors” have are being shipped in at relatively low rates. For one, the are some of the sleepiest motherfuckers I’ve ever witnessed. They are just always falling asleep. They are almost 9 times out of 10 likely to end up pregnant almost immedIately as soon as they’re imported. I wonder why?

    7. “…it is quite obvious that for many decades if not at least about a century, the Western world has slowly been adopting a YOLO mindset.”

      I have more to say about this from a personal perspective at some point.

  4. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YUYQNyJ12z4

    Heh, this would be heaven for us, wouldn’t it? Back when Bars and Clubs were mainstream, the best ones (heck, even if your goal wasn’t to pick up, but just enjoy the scenery) were the ones where the women outnumbered the men. the higher female-to-male ratio, the better.

    But imagine if the world was like that? I wonder what would that be like. I’ll definitely check this manga out in a bit.

    I’d certainly like your thoughts, Aaron. haha.

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    1. Aaron, do you think American soldiers will end up in Iran? It’s so obvious who really controls the USA. The American people are in abject opposition to 99% of our “representatives “

    2. I think that the plan was for Israel to attack Iran, and the US to come in to “finish the job”. Seeing how well Iran is able to defend itself from Israeli aggression, presumably with the help from allies like China, Trump may have second thoughts. Right now, I do not think that US solders will end up on the ground in Iran. A good question is what would happen if Iran is able to take out the US’s most important ally. I could imagine Trump to dump everything he has on Iran. It would perfectly fit the pattern we are observing: lies, deception, emotional responses, indecisiveness. What does this remind me of?

    4. No more wars.

      I’m going to just speak for my people.

      We’ve had enough fighting for Israel. Too many problems here to be changing Kosher diapers.

  6. I was trying to find something on substack and blundered into this:

    “Traditional forms of career coaching marketed to women have a tendency to promise big results by fixing whatever is wrong with you. Sure – being accountable is useful, but so is identifying *systemic* problems. And, even more importantly, recognising the value of taking on that struggle with the help of others.”

    Translation: Why Improve Yourself When You Can Just Blame Men and Burn It All Down? A Motivational Seminar

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    1. Narcissism. It’s the easy way out to blood suck others. Improving one’s self is much harder. Yet much more rewarding.

    2. When white men ask why they aren’t doing better, the botnets chant at them that it’s a “skill issue” and they need to grind harder. And they tend to believe it, because conveniently enough they’ve been raised on the gospel of individual responsibility.

      Anyone else asking the same question is told that it’s white men’s fault and they need to get together and go REEEEEEEEEEEE and/or set some things on fire until they’re handed yet another accommodation.

      Meanwhile…
      https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-documents-show/

    3. Completely. I remember growing up without any excuses in the world. But if you’re black, Mexican, female, homosexual, it’s hands across America.

    1. Damn that place looks good. Haven’t been there. I wish it was there went to State.

    1. Who would have thought a few years ago that a game like this would become one of the most significant releases in gaming? The mods look very good. I have been wondering if there are similar mods for games that cater to a Western audience, such as Forspoken, Saints Row, The Last of Us, and Horizon: Zero Dawn.

    2. I have the game wishlisted, so I will grab it for the right price one day. However, I’m not planning on getting into it until I’ve beaten DMC 1-4, Bayonetta 1&2, and the Ninja Gaiden trilogy which are all in my library already.

      I haven’t done a ton of gaming recently. I’ve been playing guitar and doing music related stuff on my laptop for 4-6 hours a day. My most recent gaming included getting back into Sea of Stars for the free DLC that recently dropped, then I went back and got the true ending. I really enjoyed that game overall, and seeing the true ending after taking a break from a couple years was kind of emotional (gay, I know). I’ve really been wanting to play a new RPG for some reason. I’m kind of just sort of getting over the whole super difficulty gaming experience of souls games and shmups. After playing so much music, a nice RPG to settle into before bed sounds relaxing. There’s a game called Star Ocean The Second Story R I picked up on sale a while back and kind of forgot I even had.

      Just for the record I definitely intend on getting back into shmups hardcore at some point. I also have a massive library of the best shmups ever to attempt to 1CC. I’ll probably never need to buy another one but there are some interesting ones coming out soon. One in particular called Earthion is even getting a Sega Genesis cartridge release at some point after initial release: https://youtu.be/PP59afi7FD8

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