1d ago  TheRedPill

@S0me0ne

a girl asks “do you ever think of me when we aren’t talking”

Wait… you found a woman who occasionally STOPS TALKING!?!?!?

She’s a keeper, dude. Practically a unicorn.

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1d ago  WhereAllTheGoodMenAre
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@Typo-MAGAshiv

You explained my hatred for that expression better than I've been able to.

And this surprises you… Why?

Seriously, though, the real problem is that some daffy bint made up an ominous-sounding phrase to equate normal, healthy, masculine reserve with sociopathy.

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1d ago  WhereAreAllTheGoodMen
A Strategist Among Tacticians

@Typo-MAGAshiv @polishknight

I could go either way on this. I don’t hear “giving up” as much as I sense frustration that her search for “Happily Ever After” isn’t giving her the results she wants. Her recent transition to “late 30s” is just the trigger for her current despair. She seems to have only recently recognized that her search may never pan out… but that doesn’t mean that she’s gone “WGTOW” or even that she won’t continue actively seeking.

As for the other half: she’s certainly complaining about jerks (at least one, anyway). The fact that she’s single at least indicates that she views her options as being beneath her, although she doesn’t come right out and say that.

I agree with the choice of possible flairs.

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2d ago  WhereAllTheGoodMenAre
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@lurkerhasarisen

I’ll even concede that using the term “Emotionally unavailable” for men makes about as much sense as using the term, “cis” to describe straight people. Do we really need a linguistic modifier for normal masculine behavior?

You explained my hatred for that expression better than I've been able to.

First of all, psychology itself is a steaming pile of diarrhea, and evo psych is just another turd in the same toilet.

Eh, most of it is. Some of it's surprisingly useful, including evo psych.

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2d ago  WhereAllTheGoodMenAre
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@43b4uck3verybody

First of all, psychology itself is a steaming pile of diarrhea, and evo psych is just another turd in the same toilet. Future historians will look at psychology the way we look at alchemy and marvel that a culture that put men on the Moon and sent a probe past the edge of the solar system considered it to be a legitimate science.

That said, I’m not quite as hostile to the term, “Emotionally unavailable” as @Typo-MAGAshiv is. It’s certainly not a term I would have come up with, but I understand what it means, and that meaning reflects how some people are.

I’ll even concede that using the term “Emotionally unavailable” for men makes about as much sense as using the term, “cis” to describe straight people. Do we really need a linguistic modifier for normal masculine behavior? Sadly: I think we might. Why? The reason I don’t reject its use is that sixty years of feminism has created a generation of men who are so beat-down and brainwashed that normal masculinity is the exception rather than the rule.

(The “Attachment style” language is on much shakier ground.)

I won’t flog the subject any more (barrels of ink have already been spilled), except to reiterate that society punishes men who don’t keep our emotions on a very short leash. For all its promises of freeing everybody, feminism hasn’t lessened the contempt women feel for men who freely express their emotions.

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3d ago  Development Updates

@lurkerhasarisen

The result was that by the time you learned all the answers, they changed all the questions.

Was Rowdy Roddy Piper the guy in charge?

youtube.com/shorts/VTSdjoQfpk0?si=ZfkRfNmeL9k2JNCp

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4d ago  WhereAreAllTheGoodMen
asshole. giga-shitlord. worst mod EVAR.

@lurkerhasarisen error error dectuple returned

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4d ago  Development Updates

@MentORPHEUS

I will note that there was at least a three-year overlap between the first time I used a computer in a class and the last time a used a slide rule in a class.

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4d ago  Development Updates

@lurkerhasarisen

For reference, I was writing programs in FORTRAN on punch cards in college.

In the early 80s, an older computer nerd friend bought some obsolete computer tape drives and got one working with a then-modern desktop computer. It stood almost 7 feet tall, weighed so much that he reinforced the subfloor under his room, and required a surprising amperage of 3 phase power to run. Since this was absurdly expensive to get installed to a residential address, he built a 3 phase converter. The regional occupational center was also auctioning off obsolete punch card readers, which were the size of old school library copiers and also needed a pallet jack or forklift to move around.

While we're on the subject my Granddad once told me about the last project he worked on at Hughes Electronics before retiring. They wanted to record gigahertz radar signals directly to magnetic tape. They could have used a rotary-head Mitsubishi tape drive (like a giant VCR) off the shelf, but the project demanded American supplied hardware. So, they tried to make a big Ampex 1 or 1-1/4 magnetic tape player do the job. They were running the tape at 128 inches per second, and laying the data down through 16 heads staggered across the width of the tape. They aaaaaalmost got it somewhat working, but were running into the problem of by the time they got all 16 heads aligned and calibrated, the high tape speed had worn them out and they needed replacement and starting the alignment and calibration from square one again.

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4d ago  The Hub

@razburyturmymury

products for… manscaping routine

I prefer a weed-whacker… my “Garden Weasel” resulted in a trip to the emergency room and an impromptu circumcision.

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