Following up on this, has anyone tried this and seen how well it works in practice?
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What social metric in particular? Also, for better or worse, social metrics are easily gamed. While a basket of goods can also be gamed, it's easier to see what's going on and to explain it to people, since it's composed of concrete goods. Also, a basket of goods can be expanded if we want to increase the baseline as living standards in society improve, which we do - a smartphone should now be part of that basket, even though they barely existed 20 years ago.
I don't think I would exactly call these men "monks". It has been pretty normal throughout history for a fairly large proportion of men, especially those lower down the economic ladder, to be permanently single or not marry until pretty late in life. These days, they don't have to work as much to avoid complete destitution or starvation, they're not as likely to die young, and they've largely replaced visiting cheap prostitutes with gooning, but otherwise this is not any unprecedented phenomenon.
It does mean that the economic growth that allowed most men to be a plausible marriage partner in the mid-20th century no longer obtains, which is a bad thing, despite the small comfort of consumer goods being cheap enough to alleviate some of this pain.
Fortunately, these days, men who don't want to play by "the women's rules" are free to find (and even have legally recognized) companionship with other men with similar concerns.
Ehhh- if these men really wanted companionship, they could find it. It only takes a little social courage, and accepting others (as they wish to be accepted). They are not being canceled because they don’t play by women’s rules.
The fact is, these men are deeply confused and push away as they pull in.
My suggestion would be to lean into monasticism and not just use the term ‘monk’ as a euphemism for not having female relationships. I don’t think anyone should be a monk long-term, but use it as a transitional period to examine and explore why they are so confused and come to terms with it.
Blaming women for their problems just makes it intractable because their problem is within themselves
> Ehhh- if these men really wanted companionship, they could find it. It only takes a little social courage, and accepting others (as they wish to be accepted). They are not being canceled because they don’t play by women’s rules.
I know at least one guy who refuses to "settle" for anything but his ideal woman - and frankly, that ideal woman is out of his reach, mostly but not entirely due to his personality.
So yes - men could absolutely find companionship. But a lot of them refuse to accept anything that's not a supermodel whose day consists of administering on-demand blowjobs.
This is a severe oversimplification of young men (and women).
There's no way you could possibly know what this "one guy" wants. What a person finds ideal is going to be way more complicated than they can communicate in a few words. There's absolutely nothing wrong with chasing it. The refinement of that ideal is precisely what it means to have a relationship.
The real "problem" is that some people have a hard time seeing the potential when they're young because it takes a lifetime of experience. Instead of committing and working with what they've got, they just find another person until their ideal has been shaped by enough experience.
Long term monogamy can definitely be just as unhealthy and foolish. Most of those kinds of people jump into the deep end too early and overestimate their abilities and knowledge. Depending on how stubborn and egotistical they are they may double down and create a huge mess for themselves. They're lucky if their partner is forgiving, but make no mistake that's suffering not love. Either way everyone ends up knowing the same things.
I don't understand why these debates keep coming up on the internet since even our great grandparents could have said every word I just did. Old news.
> There's no way you could possibly know what this "one guy" wants.
What do you mean? He used to be a good friend. We've literally talked about this. He's talked about it with other people, including women, and the rest of the friend group has also discussed this. It was more than "a few words".
I mean, in one sense we can never truly know what's going on inside someone's head, but unless we just take the slide down to solipsism, that doesn't really get us anywhere.
> I don't understand why these debates keep coming up on the internet since even our great grandparents could have said every word I just did. Old news.
Our grandparents lived in vastly different times. Yes, the huge choice of dating partners in the modern world is a detriment, but it's better than living in a small town and knowing that you have two people you could potentially marry, or stay a bachelor (which isn't a choice often granted to women.) One grandparent in my family literally married a man to escape her abusive family; her love for him was strongly shaped by the fact that he was the only man in her life who didn't beat her, and offered to take her out of the situation by joining the military.
I do think the original commenter could've elaborated more, but asking for citations in this type of thread seems strange. It's not like politics where you can link to a statement from <representative of political party> to prove a point. There is no single representative of men or women.
> It's not like politics where you can link to a statement from <representative of political party> to prove a point.
Yes, a quote from a party representative is not the kind of evidence called for, but “women control the culture” is a fact claim which does call for some kind of evidence (either directly provided or as a citation to someone else who has provided it.)
Not sure how bad it is these days, but Adobe Reader used to open pretty slowly (and if you had Adobe Acrobat open your PDFs by default, it was even slower), so an in-browser PDF viewer was appreciated for that purpose.
Also, it can be useful to keep the PDF in the context of the app you opened it in. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a window manager that surfaces the fact that, for example, one macOS Preview window was opened from the browser, another from Slack, another from Finder, etc. Compare to iOS, where opening a PDF viewer from an app will result in a button at the top-left corner to go back to the app you opened it from.
1. Meta has released primarily open models until now.
2. Meta's models have always been somewhat behind the cutting edge, and the gap has grown wider as of Llama 4.
3. The AI orgs at Meta are in well-publicized shakeups, so investors are naturally skittish about the chaos there.
That’s true enough, but at that time whites were 90% of the US population, so there was arguably enough wealth then, definitely enough wealth these days, to extend entry-level jobs to the remaining 10%. When 40% or more of your population is descended from post-1965 immigrants, the competition for good jobs goes up a lot in most industries, unless enough economic growth makes up for it - and even with growth, housing scarcity is almost always an issue.
Is this the first time Waymo has partnered with Lyft? I’ve only heard of Uber partnerships before? From what I can find, previous Lyft collaborations were only pilot testing, not commercial rollouts.
Also interesting that it's not exclusive - they're saying you'll be able to use either the Waymo app or the Lyft app (and get a Waymo at random, presumably). I believe the previous deals with Uber have all been exclusive - no Waymo app in that market.
Threads like this want me to throw my laptop into a volcano and lobotomize myself. I have a bridge if you think an LLM can reliably generically redact passwords. Especially given the intersection of password quality and the type of person to let their passwords leak into output of a recorded terminal session.
I love leaving my baseline security in the hands of a hallucinating, unreliable token generator.
I'm sorry, I don't even know how to explain that this type of feature would be such a mis-feature, it's hard to even know how to explain it to somehow for whom its not obvious.
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