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Comment Re:Not the outcome I was expecting (Score 1) 92

>problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together

It used to. But today, games have the same attitude to male heterosexuality that people you hate with such passion have for homosexuality. So the entire structure inverted, and while serving heterosexuals means getting around 99% of the market, making a point not serving them does the opposite.

P.S.

>lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie

That's your projection. Their argument is that it's against commandments of the God. Same as Islam. And no, in spite of the meme of your side being "homosexuality is inherent, heterosexuality is learnt and needs to be unlearned" (notably also found in peer reviewed academic papers in woke social sciences), turns out that instead of becoming gay because you all women have been uglified and masculinized in Western games, instead of going gay heterosexual men just buy them a lot less. Leading to the current crisis in video games industry, where massive projects crash and burn once woke come in and hit every attractive women, including those scanned from attractive models with an uglification demand. We don't even have male and female body/face models any more in fact. It's all "body type A" and "body type B" because of woke, because stating that there are males and females is offensive to them. And and the current ongoing trend is to forcibly fuse male features into female models, because just like you projected above, woke do believe that if you do that, you may give heterosexuals "un-Godlike stiffie" and they become their clients and join alphabet people.

Just because you unplugged the bible from your religious circuit doesn't mean that that circuit doesn't get filled by something else. Something much, much worse. One who hunts monsters beware, for when you gaze into the abyss, abyss gazes back into you. And among destructive religions, top position in genocide, slavery and torture is held by by various Marxist denominations.

Comment Re:How much is really delayed maintenance? (Score 1) 114

I'm sure it is in your magical world. In real world on the other hand, it's the point from the downvolting to 230V, not to even talk about 110V systems where using anything else would necessitate active cooling of cables in most places with any meaningful demand. Try hooking up a small apartment building with residential voltages and watch the your cute hollow core cable melt and burn under load.

>I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

This is why I can tell that you do not understanding anything about grids. Your understanding is that of a person for whom electricity comes from a socket, and you pay for it. So your association is that "you pay grid for electricity, because that's what they base the bill on". It's that of a dumb consumer. This is why the accurate stereotype of a typical green is a person who thinks food comes from a supermarket, electricity from a socket and water from a tap. Because you are just that abstracted from what it actually happening.

In reality, grids are logistical companies that sell logistical services. They're fairly similar to rail companies in how they function, as they're also typically natural monopolies. The fact that their billing mechanism typically exists as a function of amount of goods they transfer doesn't make them people who make money selling goods. They don't sell you electricity. They sell you transit services. People who sell you electricity are electricity producers. In many sane nations, including mine they attempt to cure this idiotic misconception you have about grids being ones who sell you electricity by legally mandating separation of bills. Where transmission companies and producers don't just charge you differently, but you can choose who you buy your electricity from based on pricing. And then you pay a fee per unit of kWh transferred to grid company on top of that. Because you're not paying latter for electricity. You pay it for transit services.

Comment Re:Perhaps it's time (Score 1) 204

That whole text-wall of a post has a very "I peaked in High School, and I'm mad about it" vibe to it.

Ah, vibes. Perhaps your vibe narrative is more involved in your manshaming than you might care to admit.

And since we are analyzing responses, yours has a distinct "I have no cogent response" to it.

I'm angry about nothing. I'm just a person with an interest in male/female relationships, and the deterioration of them in recent years. That interest came about during my many years of work trying to get young women interested in STEM careers.

The same "reasons" were always given for why the young ladies weren't attracted to those fields, and despite that narrative, and always working from that narrative, it didn't budge the interest level - and before you pull another manshaming move, I was a token male - all of the decisions were made by women. But I had a strong interest in helping.

You know what they say about trying the same thing over and over again and it never succeeds.

Some people call that insanity. I just call it letting your narrative control you. But one thing I learned is that after all of my research, people such as yourself have no interest in changing their narrative. So you go do you.

Comment Re:Economic harship (Score 2, Informative) 204

https://www.therecoveryvillage...

Various studies have been conducted around the world to determine the prevalence of gender dysphoria. A Dutch study indicated that 4.6% of 8064 study participants who were born male and 3.2% who were born female-identified themselves as ambivalent to their specific birth gender and were equally able to identify as male or female according to their internal perception of self. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, gender dysphoria prevalence accounts for 0.005–0.014% of the population for biological males and 0.002–0.003% for biological females. In both Japan and Poland, the prevalence of gender dysphoria is higher in biological females.

Actual clinical evidence.

So nice gaslight!

Comment Perhaps it's time (Score 2, Interesting) 204

to face the music.

Here in the west, we have disincentivized male/female relationships to the point where many males have largely given up. Some whack statistics out there.

Marriage If you marry, she can divorce you for any reason, and take your children, most of your stuff, and you get to pay child support, and often alimony, as well as half of your retirement. around 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women.

What person would go skydiving if there was a 50 percent chance their parachute would fail, or make an investment where there was a 50 percent chance of the investment failing, and not only failing, but continuing to fail for as long as they live?

The relationship gap

And for single men, it doesn't get better. There are some really odd stats there 63 percent of men under 30 classify themselves as single, and only 34 percent of women in the same age bracket do.

Wut? Weird as that sounds, there is the so called situationship thing. A study of dating apps show that 80 percent of women find only 20 percent of men to be attractive in any way.

So if only a small group of men are getting chosen for "dating", presumably the pretty boys, by multiple women, while the bog standard guys are ignored, we can see how we arrive at that strikingly different relationship gap between men and women.

The bad boy thing

What most women learned in High school has been extended until their mid 30's. Bad boys. The tingles. Choosing to engage in sex with them and thinking they can establish a relationship.

Background - I was in a band, drag raced cars and motorcycles, motocrossed, and played ice hockey. From personal experience, I can tell you that the bad boy thing was real. Cuz I wuz one. I was the guy the local busybody moms network told their daughters to stay away from. And I never thanked them for the references!

But the young ladies are supposed to grow out of that. Today, those tingles have become an addiction. Since most guys are not bad boys, they miss out.

The risks

One of the biggest forces that have created the so called manosphere is social media, where males have been able to share their stories of personal destruction. We are told to #believewomen, and #metoo, and in the frenzied days after "white" women took it over, many men lost their careers and families.

And yes, an example of what might happen is best exemplified by this little story from Australia 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The story is how a woman decided to accuse her fiancé of rape, destroyed his life, got him sent to Oz's version of SuperMax, destroyed his parent's lives financially and his mother divorced his father.

She then started accusing his father of things that made little sense, a new case was opened, and the new investigator figure out in a short time that the accusations were false, and if not for the idea that women cannot make false accusations, the man would not have been incarcerated, his parents would have still been married and financially solvent. So much for #believewomen

Back to today

Males have perhaps a built in tendency to do a risk/reward assessment. So in today's world, one where if married, she will divorce him, where approaching a woman can get him in trouble, and in any event, unless he's in the rarified class that she finds attractive, he stands no chance, it turns out that a decision to go his own way is not illogical.

Comment Re:Wow, first the non-competes ... (Score 1) 67

This is actually a reduction of the prior liability which was 300% of any leg of the flight that was cancelled in addition to alternative transportation. This basically guts the FAA's current rules on it and is going to leave a lot more people stranded, because now 'regulations tell us' that you get cash and fuck off.

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