A Rejection Mind-Set: Choice Overload in Online Dating - "The paradox of modern dating is that online platforms provide more opportunities to find a romantic partner than ever before, but people are nevertheless more likely to be single. We hypothesized the existence of a rejection mind-set: The continued access to virtually unlimited potential partners makes people more pessimistic and rejecting. Across three studies, participants immediately started to reject more hypothetical and actual partners when dating online, cumulating on average in a decrease of 27% in chance on acceptance from the first to the last partner option. This was explained by an overall decline in satisfaction with pictures and perceived dating success. For women, the rejection mind-set also resulted in a decreasing likelihood of having romantic matches. Our findings suggest that people gradually “close off” from mating opportunities when online dating."
Aka why dating apps are bad
Meme - Dilbert running: "Puff puff puff"
Dogbert: "HOW WAS YOUR RUN?"
Dilbert: "GREAT... I FEEL AWFUL"
Dogbert: "PARDON A SIMPLE DOG FOR ASKING , BUT WHY DO YOU RUN IF IT FEELS AWFUL?"
Dilbert: "WELL, IF DO IT EVERY DAY, I'LL LIVE A LONGER LIFE."
Dogbert: "SO, LIFE WILL FEEL AWFUL, BUT AT LEAST IT WILL LAST A LONG TIME."
Dilbert: "UNLESS I GET HIT BY A TRUCK..."
Meme - Romy @Romy_Holland: "I want to take acid this weekend but the idea of having to pump while on acid is extremely unappealing."
Romy @Romy_Holland: "showed the pediatrician videos of my baby's default state of fussing and she was like "wow i've never seen this before" and then she asked some follow up questions and was like "hmm yeah don't think it's medical but maybe you should go to this intervention for kids with ADHD. i've never heard of it for a 9 month old but maybe they can help you." i'm stressed you guys. you do not want a doctor 30 years into her career to look at your baby and say "wow i've never seen this before? it seems like nothing good follows this? ahhhh."
Meme - Katie Chen @dear_kxtie: "My hinge date took me to Hawaii. If you're hot girl in SF, get hinge and thank me later. The men there literally do anything for you"
BDB @BigDickBull69: "Was in San Francisco years ago and a guy I met at the bar kept referring to the women there as "The San Francisco 49rs" Asked him why and he said it's because they are all 4s who act like 9s. I still think about that statement to this very day"
Adam Yoder @amyoder: "Someone one said white men and Asian women can't accurately pinpoint how attractive each other are and this causes a lot of disorientation there"
Bernie Sanders Once Defended Daniel Ortega's Crackdown on Nicaraguan Citizens
Nicaragua's Ortega says 'never again' for elections after two decades in power - "Nicaragua's long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife... The Trump administration has described the Ortega government as a dictatorship, and imposed sanctions on more than 2,350 Nicaraguan officials and their relatives. Nicaragua's last election in 2021 was widely disputed after Ortega detained opponents and business leaders and criminalized dissent. Last year, Ortega further consolidated his power through a series of constitutional reforms that included naming his wife Rosario Murillo as "co-president" and extending the presidential term to six years. He and his wife control virtually every aspect of the government, including the armed forces and the judiciary. The U.N. Human Rights Council has accused Ortega and Murillo's government of transforming the country "into an authoritarian state" and systematically violating human rights. In 2018, Ortega responded to widespread anti-government protests with a crackdown in which more than 300 people were killed."
Clearly, we all know the real reason Nicaragua is cancelling elections and killed over 300 people in 2018: President William Howard Taft intervening in 1912! Once again, America/Israel are responsible for all the world's problems!
Meme - "Nothing about the world we live in will ever make sense to you unless you understand you live under an occupation and are thus subject to the rules of the occupiers. If you do not start from there, you will search for multiple explanations and rationalizations that will lead you to ineffective ends. You are not an active participant in politics and public debate, you are its problem. Public debate is debating why you’re the problem, politics is about dealing with that problem. The opposition in debate simply offers an alternative path to your destruction, the end goal is never resisted. Therefore you cannot seek to influence the debate or enter politics. Your humiliation is the enemies goal. To take a hit and fight on is honorable. To take a beating every day is just sad. Humiliation robs you of your humanity, your will, your reason to fight on. Humiliation takes everything from you and debases it in front of all, it robs you of being worthy of empathy. It has been used by every occupier in history, it’s our natural primal understanding of defeat. The Ottoman practice of Köçek was an ultimate example, similar to the concept of “Drag Kids” in modern America. Köçek were a combination of dancers, clowns and prostitutes, they were young non-Muslim boys taken from their parents and trained to be willful sexual objects… and entertainers for the Turks. The goal was to have the occupied think “if we allow that to be done to our boys what else can they do?” The answer is anything. It is full spectrum domination of the conquered’s mind. Your enemy doesn’t want gay pride parades in your street, drag queens in your adverts, your son transgender, your parents dead from opioids, your daughter in porn, your meat replaced with bugs all while your media laughs at you because they think it’s for anyone’s benefit. They want it because they know you don’t want it but can’t stop them, they want to humiliate you. There isnt any other reason."
In defense of anonymity, the guard dog of free expression - "Among social media commenters, columnists, and even heads of state, it’s a typical refrain: If we just rid ourselves of that pesky internet anonymity and pseudonymity, we will have a cleaner, better, happier world. Anonymity, the common sentiment goes, is the weapon of the evil and the cruel. Despite some prevalent misconceptions, anonymity is not an invention of social media, email, or the internet age. The American founding fathers, for example, took great advantage of pseudonymous and anonymous expression, as have denizens of Rome for hundreds of years on the city’s “talking statues.” Opposition to anonymity is not new either — far from it... There are some figures, politicians especially, who advocate an end to anonymity with ill intent and the specific desire to curb public criticism. Look back through history, one week ago or one millennium ago, and you’ll find frequent attempts by the powerful to diminish the right to anonymous speech as a means to attack political speech. The reason is simple: Without the protection anonymity offers, critics may be far less likely to risk the punishment that may accompany challenging power... the notion that anonymity is largely to blame for ugliness online is not particularly well supported. South Korea actually legislated “real names” rules in the early 2000s, with various developments culminating in a 2008 law requiring real names from commenters on sites with 100,000 daily visitors. The results were not what supporters expected. Research found little to no evidence that the requirements made a difference in the amount of cruel and ugly comments posted and “consensus across these studies was that the real name registration policy did not deter wild and unfounded positions from being promoted online.” Not only that, but South Korean websites became “prime targets for hacking both from in and outside of the country” and “a series of high-profile cyberattacks made it clear that the real-name system was untenable,” including one hack affecting 35 million people — over half of the country’s population. (These are exactly some of the privacy concerns that FIRE has raised about burgeoning age and identity verification schemes internationally and in the U.S., which will also diminish anonymous speech.) Four years later, the Korean Constitutional Court overturned the law on free speech grounds. “Real name” supporters are wrong for another big reason, too. Anonymity and pseudonymity are not weapons trained upon the vulnerable. Rather, anonymity is the protector of the vulnerable, the shield between them and consequences ranging from embarrassment to social fallout to the worst forms of government oppression. So who, exactly, is anonymity for? It’s for a teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is too embarrassed to meet with a school nurse. It’s for a 45-year-old who hasn’t drunk in years but is realizing that he’s struggling with his sobriety again and needs to talk privately about it. It’s for a woman coming to terms with the fact that her boyfriend is abusive, and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge. It’s for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about the human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words, or repression following him abroad. It’s for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job. It’s for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he’s ready to tell them. It’s for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about mastectomy. It’s for a priest dealing with depression who doesn’t know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish. It’s for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea, or emotion that they need to express but aren’t ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, acquaintances, or authority figures. We need to abandon the tired conception we have of anonymity — the cheesy 90s-era stereotype of a hacker in a hoodie typing away rapidly in a shadowy room. Anonymity is for anyone who has ever needed the protection offered by a barrier between their ideas and their identity. It’s a guard dog that allows freer communication, truth-seeking, and soul-baring. A difficult truth we need to accept is that in a free society we cannot just restrict the rights of others based solely on our fears and nightmares."
Damn far right extremists!
Alexander Dugin on X - "The very concept of the success is deeply immoral. If you are successful the other is loser. We shouldn’t accept it. We should prosper or suffer together. Otherwise it is satanic."
mike hock on X - ""ayn rand villains are unrealistic""
Pathfinder on X - How is Jack a nickname for John?"
Merriam-Webster on X - "John ultimately comes from the Latin name Johannes. Here’s the journey ⬇️
-Johannes shortened to Jan.
-The diminutive suffix -kin was added to make Jankin.
-The first n was dropped to make Jackin.
-Then shortened to Jack."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Islamic scholar in California says the quiet part out loud: “Islam is not just a religion. It is a complete political, social, and economic system. Anything that is not Sharia, we will not obey. We are superior to everyone else, and we will dominate the entire world!”"
Time to jail him for promoting Islamophobia
Plane passenger invoked Sharia law to not sit next to woman, hit stewardess: German police - "A plane passenger "invoked Sharia law" to avoid sitting next to a woman, then hit a flight attendant, according to German police. The incident occurred on a flight from Turkey to Dusseldorf on June 1, and reportedly involved a 29-year-old Turkish migrant living in Germany... The passenger allegedly slapped the flight attendant when she spoke to him... The passenger confessed the crime to the police, but insulted the officers in Turkish. One of the officers spoke Turkish, resulting in the passenger being charged with insulting the officers, in addition to assaulting the flight attendant."
Time to condemn the toxic masculinity of European men and demand that they do better and/or blame Islamophobia
Pirate Wires on X - "Heather Cox Richardson has more subscribers than Jimmy Kimmel has viewers. And every night, or thereabouts, she tells her 2.7 million followers that America is sliding into authoritarianism. Trump is a dictator, MAGA is inspired by Nazi political theory, and right-wing violence is a deliberate attempt to maintain control despite their fading popular support. She’s built a media empire by offering her audience, who treats her like a pastor at the pulpit, exactly what they want to hear: a morality tale where they are always the good guys, and the other side has gone insane. Some of her subscribers claim to spend their Social Security checks on her newsletter because subscribing is an act of patriotism, an endorsement of the facts. But in Richardson's telling, the facts always skew left. When it was revealed that Charlie Kirk's assassin was not the right-wing extremist she claimed he was, she never corrected the record. When Biden's debate performance was so bad The New York Times called for him to drop out, Richardson claimed he “thoroughly” proved his competence. When an assassin murdered Minnesota lawmakers, it was "horrific," but when Luigi Mangione assassinated UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, it was a moral protest. And yet Richardson has been embraced by mainstream media as a “distinctly unruffled” voice of reason. She’s a historian, after all. Today in Pirate Wires, @dodgeblake and @default_friend report on HCR’s revisionist history and what she represents: the choices we all make to numb ourselves to the “other side.”
gen0m1cs on X - "Some factions on the right get flak for engaging in too much conspiratorial slop, and sure, that's a rightful criticism. But at the same time, there exists an entire world of predominantly educated, credentialed professional liberals who engage in nothing but the most utterly deranged, conspiratorial, just mind-numbing slop. And because it is dressed up in academic liberal speak and peddled by professional people (e.g., tenured professors), it's seen as "thoughtful analysis.""
Blake Dodge on X - "things that Heather Cox Richardson has written:
- members of Trump’s inner circle are creating “a system” that will make it possible for them to “retain control over the country even without Trump"
- Biden did good in The Debate: he’d just listed the accomplishments of his administration "in such a hurry that he was sometimes hard to understand"
- Charlie Kirk was shot by a right-wing, white man from a Republican, gun enthusiast family
- Republicans were attacking those who celebrated Kirk's murder in order to “mobilize violence” against their enemies, “a tactic suggested by Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt”
- 9/11 kicked off GOP efforts to suppress voters
- Budget cuts are a prelude to an authoritarian takeover
- recent Supreme Court decisions are a prelude to an authoritarian takeover
- Trump deploying troops to DC is a prelude to an authoritarian takeover
this is someone who has been embraced by traditional media as a “distinctly unruffled" voice. i think being a watchdog is generally valuable. but if these takes — that we are literally losing our democracy to an authoritarian regime — are now mainstream, we shouldn't be surprised when there's political violence. you may have never heard of her, but HCR is the most successful independent journalist in the US at 2.7 million subscribers. that's 1 million more people than Jimmy Kimmel’s average audience size, and just shy of Hasan Piker’s 3 million streaming followers."
Time to censor the "far right" for spreading "misinformation"!
Report: Cori Bush is under investigation for funneling tornado relief money to her campaign PAC 👀
Meme - "In 1999, the movie Dick (about Nixon) came out, and it didn't stop playing at this drive-in theater all year long
"THE HAUNTING
DICK
MUPPETS FROM SPACE"
"ANALYZE THIS
DICK
BIG DADDY "
"10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
DICK"
"DICK
VIRUS
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE"
Meme - NPC: "We can't trust ordinary people with freedom."
SAME NPC: 5 Minutes Later: "We should trust the government with Al, surveillance, healthcare, education, and all our money."
Meme - "When Sweden plays Denmark, the scoreboard reads SWE-DEN. The unused letters spell DEN-MARK. The same works with the following countries: BHU-TAN leaves TAN-ZANIA CYP-RUS leaves RUS-SIA POL-AND leaves AND-ORRA"
Meme - drac @eversnevers: "two minors a car and a dog"
Addict @strbrkrr: "disney really gifted us with some fine ass women" *Kim Possible, Jasmine from Aladdin, Sally from Cars. Lady from Lady and the Tramp*
Singapore Has 2x Hong Kong’s GDP Per Capita. Its Citizens Have Half the Wealth. - "There is a chart that has been circulating in finance circles and Singaporean social media for years. It claims that despite having one of the highest GDP per capita figures in the world, the typical Singaporean holds less personal wealth than their counterparts in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and South Korea... why does a country with the third-highest GDP per capita in the world — roughly 2x Hong Kong’s, 2.4x Taiwan’s, 2.6x Japan’s — have median household wealth that ranks middle-of-the-pack against its own peer group?... Singaporean households missed the equity boom. Not by accident — by design... In the United States, roughly 68% of household assets sit in financial instruments — equities, mutual funds, retirement accounts. American households are massively more exposed to equity markets than Singaporean households are. Over the past decade, the S&P 500 has returned approximately 13% annualised in USD terms. CPF Ordinary Account returns 2.5%. Special and Medisave Accounts return 4%. Singapore residential property has appreciated meaningfully but with much lower volatility than equities. Americans owned the asset class that ran. Singaporeans didn’t. That is most of the gap. CPF prioritises retirement security over capital appreciation. HDB ownership prioritises near-universal homeownership over speculative gain. Both choices come with real costs in foregone wealth growth — and real benefits the median wealth comparison doesn’t show."
Meme - Lewis: "My dad's been liking every hot girl's Instagram posts, so I figured I'd give him a heads-up that everyone can see it. I don't think it worked."
"Hey Dad... you know people can see every time you like all those hot girls' Instagram posts, right? You might wanna cool it a little."
"Why would I care?? They're putting pictures out there, and they deserve to know I appreciate their hard work. if I didn't they might stop. I'm doing this for everybody"
Meme - "Female influencers after being called fat or ugly in the comments *crying Jean Grey*
Male shitposting page admins getting called r*tarded in the comments (ragebait is working) *smiling Cyclops on huge ass cordless/old mobile phone*"
Meme - *Bronze Medal Meme*
*USSR*
USA: "first manned lunar landing. first humans in lunar orbit. first docking. first proper mars landing. first manned rover. first venus orbiter. first planetary flyby. first useful satellite."
USSR: "boiled a dog in space"
Meme - Basil the Great: "Bluesky put an "intolerance" label on a post disagreeing with paedophilia"
Pericles @pericles.bsky.social: "Intolerance"
"I may get a lot of hate for this on BlueSky, but I do not agree with the pedophile lifestyle"
Time to call Trump a pedo and non left wingers pedo supporters again
Meme - "Pixar movies used to be a special event but now there's one every two years about girls of increasingly specific and obscure latin descent discovering their family's hidden ability to like shapeshift into furniture as some metaphor for getting fat during middle school"
Postmodern beliefs linked to left-wing authoritarianism
This also explains why the woke are so violent. If there is no truth, it's all a power game
Real Peptides on X - "Everyone's heard of the famous Wolverine Stack (BPC-157 + TB-500), But not many really understand how it functions. Here’s a breakdown of one of the most comprehensive recovery protocols in peptide research: (1/11)"
Real Peptides on X - "People are claiming that BPC-157 healed their: Tendon. Gut. Bone. Ligament. Muscle. Nerve. And after 30 years of animal research and three small human studies, nobody's found a serious adverse effect yet. It's one of the most remarkable compounds we've come across."
Greed, betrayal and medical misconduct at North York General - "The labour and delivery nurses were suspicious. Five pregnant women, all in rapid labour, arrived at the North York General Hospital triage on the same day—a Saturday in May 2016. The deliveries were happening fast—too fast—and because it was the weekend, the nurses were short-handed. One patient, at term in her first pregnancy, was fully dilated just an hour after being admitted and gave birth 25 minutes later. Another arrived suffering from uterine hyperstimulation—when contractions come too frequently or last too long, a serious complication of being induced. As a result, her baby’s heart rate was slowing ominously, and the staff had to deliver it via emergency C-section. But the patients all said they hadn’t been induced, and their charts showed no indication of induction, either. What those five women had in common was their doctor: Paul Shuen, a highly respected ob-gyn and gynaecological oncologist."
