adam-l
about a day ago The Public Square
I can understand the guy. He's David Buss, he has been doing pioneering research in evopsych for decades, and here he is, in the climate of Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Feminism, trying to balance between having a carrier, leading a field, telling the truth, and not being canceled by either side. Not an easy task. It is understandable that he buckled.
That doesn't mean he's beyond criticism, though. After all, there are scientists like Roy Baumeister that have chosen the other side, of telling hard truths, accepting the risk.
adam-l
about a day ago The Public Square
@MentORPHEUS I've read the first hcapters only. I don't know if he did the titling or the publisher, but his content is definitely biased. Poor women get exploited by bad men - not that they actually go after them etc etc.
carnold03
about a day ago The Public Square
Does that mean you're okay with a brunette becoming blonde, or a blonde dying it black?
Genuine question
I've got to agree with @goodmansaysfuckyou. I'm a fan of women going with their natural color, but I'm perfectly fine with a blonde going brunette, or brunette going blonde, though I generally prefer gingers and redheads. As long as a persons hair is a hue and color known to occur naturally for humans; such as blonde, black, brown, red, ginger, grey, or white, I see no reason to be overly concerned.
However, if you come across people with hair that is either neon or every other known color on the rainbow outside of an anime or video game character cosplay event, you wouldn't be in the wrong to be weary of them. The same can be said of the obese, tattooed, excessively pierced or people with any varying combination of the four.
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about a day ago The Dark Winter
Remember when Obama made fun of Romney over Russia?
I remember not only the incident, but the Zeitgeist when this happened, and Romney bringing up Russia was considered a curveball at best even by mainstream Republicans at the time. Russia was a traditional enemy to conservatives, but the Berlin Wall had fallen 22 years before and even the most hawkish 50s Red Scare Republicans (like my Dad who would scream at the TV if a Russian athlete medaled in the Olympics) considered Russia a failed superpower that couldn't handle their own shit much less stand up to the entire world once again.
I'm not a fan of Romney, but definitely credit him with being way ahead of the curve on Russia compared to even his own party at the time of his remark in that debate.
MentORPHEUS
about a day ago The Public Square
@adam-l I haven't read the book, but I happen to know its actual title reads, "When Men Behave Badly" (emphasis added.)
Does the actual content of the book really read White Knightish when read with a Red Pill POV, or are we just gonna run with a biased retitling and condemn it on that basis?
adam-l
about a day ago The Public Square
Today it's one year since Dr. David Buss published "Bad Men: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault", turning himself from the most respected evolutionary scientist into the Arch White Knight.
MentORPHEUS
about a day ago The Dark Winter
Dude posted links to his own posts, declared them awesome while ignoring the critiques and rebuttals that were posted, then blocked me again instead of engaging in any meaningful way.
This is the Conservative brand's cultivated mindset in a nutshell. I've experienced it in numerous completely independent off and online ecosystems I've substantially engaged over 3 decades now.
Whatever else its membership does and believes, the American Conservative brand has essentially become a death cult, that has wholesale adopted the values and morality of the fossil fuel industry and ruthlessly applies these no matter how obvious it becomes that doing so works against humanity long-term. Even mundane run of the mill conservatives who aren't interested in any of these topics, at this point support what has become a self-interested maniac with a clathrate gun to the head of every living thing on the planet, yet is tolerated because it provides a useful thing cheaply like a meta-Nestle. Only a small number of oligarch-class individuals at the top of this fuckpile will be shielded from the effects of ever-increasing fossil fuel use toward inevitable yet predictable bad ends, yet the rank and file who pay and suffer fight to accelerate this very system. Irrational death cult.
Read MoreMentORPHEUS
about a day ago The Public Square
It sucks to search for pants though.
Made me think of the time I (Nordic ectomorph) stopped at a Target store in a mostly Latino zip code needing a pair of jeans. Trying to find a 33-36 in a sea of 32-28s. (¬_¬)
MentORPHEUS
about a day ago The Dark Winter
@destraht Carbon is emitted from the oceans when it warms. You speak as if this is something "the environmentalists" never knew or even considered, and that it somehow "solves" the matter of atmospheric carbon balance.
Reality is, the ocean is one of Earth's main mechanisms for regulating CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The excess carbon that mankind has been unsequestering for almost 2 centuries has mostly gotten absorbed by oceans. That process has reached a point of saturation, where not only will future emissions remain in the atmosphere resulting in a persistent spike in CO2 and greenhouse effect, but ongoing warming accelerated by said greenhouse effect causes a net release of carbon from the oceans. Hello, positive feedback loop and runaway reaction!
As far as desert reclamation, I DID address that in my response to that post. You present it like some brilliant innovative idea the lefties never even thought of, when in reality all manner of desert reclamation and forestry restoration projects including urban forest heat island initiatives are constantly in the works. These alone, even scaled up 10X their current massive worldwide collective levels, will be nowhere near enough to process all the carbon projected to be burned over a few short decades, even IF the oceans still had decades to go before reaching the current carbon saturation point.
Right now there is so much dissolved CO2 that coral and shellfish struggle to precipitate sufficient calcium to make shells because of what carbonic acid does to the pH. Even at current high concentrations, the carbon can't and won't precipitate out as carbonates at a rate that could exceed carbon getting added to the atmosphere.
Absurd of you to think you can declare the whole thing solvable by "Just reclaim the sahara desert with an irrelevant sprinkle of Milankovich cycle woo."
Read MoreMentORPHEUS
about a day ago The Dark Winter
@destraht "You're correct, I don't actually engage you in meaningful discussion, by willful pre-planning. Watch me carry on exactly as described above."