wagesj45

wagesj45 , 6 months ago to Men's Liberation in I Interviewed Hot Guys About ‘Pretty Privilege’ For Men - "According to new research, being an attractive man improves your socioeconomic position more than being a good-looking woman."

That might not be entirely the case here. If you are far enough up the looks-ladder to be considered "good looking", that puts you in a much higher starting position relative to everyone else, especially other men. Because according to women, most men are ugly (or at least "less attractive than average"). I'd assume that if you're that conventionally attractive, you're going to get better treatment from other men too, even straight ones.

"Good looking" men are just very rare, it seems. It makes sense to me they'd get a bigger boost in socioeconomic rating from that alone. Less to share the spoils with, as it were.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago to Politics in Son of US Sen. Kevin Cramer crashes during police chase, killing North Dakota sheriff's deputy

That's not enough.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago to Politics in President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors

Sounds great on paper but there's tons that can go wrong. Don't forget all those billions that got paid or for national Internet infrastructure that the cable companies just pocketed.

I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago to Politics in Son of US Sen. Kevin Cramer crashes during police chase, killing North Dakota sheriff's deputy

As it should be.

wagesj45 , 8 months ago to Politics in Trump drops lawsuit against New York fraud judge

I don't think he really has the mental capacity to have his ego be crushed. He might rail and rage at perceived injustices, but I'm not sure that he actually can sense a bruised ego. I doubt he can feel doubt about himself for the same reason he says stupid, self destructive things.

Trump gets a lot of shit for being dumb, but I'm not convinced. At least not in the way people seem to think. I think he does and says the things he does because his mind is literally broken in some fundamental way that doesn't allow him to act in his own (actual) best interest. I've made the argument before that he's actually pretty on the ball when it comes to attacking someone and having a keen eye for what makes others weak and how to exploit it. But the blind spot when it comes to himself is debilitating and he's only coast along in life because of a combination of (inherited) money, chutzpah, and bringing out people's most base and selfish instincts (another thing he excels at).

I think he's broken. He says dumb stuff cause he brain just won't let him see his own flaws.

wagesj45 , 8 months ago to Work Reform in Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike

Oh yeah I get that. I wasn't hating on you. Just making my own little side point that they're squeezing as much as they can from the patients. Giving more to the labor side wouldn't make patients have anymore to give. Blood from a stone and all that. :)

wagesj45 , 8 months ago to Work Reform in Demands on Waffle House - Union of Southern Service Workers

Oh man, if service workers can unionize, we may finally be able to rid ourselves of this tipping culture we all hate so much. God speed, service workers. Really pulling for you.

wagesj45 , 8 months ago to Work Reform in Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike

Kinda yes. But also kinda no, because they're already trying to squeeze as much as possible before everyone breaks. Anything they can do, they were going to do already. They might have something new to blame it on, but I don't think any particular squeezing will be the fault of the striking workers.

wagesj45 , 9 months ago to Fediverse in "It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin

and if the content is not interesting, it falls by the wayside with no votes. the creme rises, the cruft falls. with more volume, your will get more cruft, but also more creme.

reddit gets tons of spam and absolute garbage posts, but the volume and user voting brings good stuff out.

there will be some shitty blogs, but i think that's an ok price to pay for more content being posted.

wagesj45 , 9 months ago to Fediverse in "It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin

It's time to start posting links to our own blogs, again. Reddit brainwashed us into thinking that "self advertisement" was a bad thing. What they actually wanted you to do was instead turn your content into text posts on reddit itself so that we'd get locked into the platform.

Self advertise. Write interesting things on your blog and then share your posts here.

wagesj45 , 9 months ago to Men's Liberation in Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears

That's what worries me.

wagesj45 , 10 months ago to Fediverse in Stepping back from the Tusky project

They're certainly shitty instances. They're free to block them if they want, since you can always just fork the source and remove that bit.

But I don't think that the project is associated with any particular instance that it allows you to log in to. They're taking a definite negative stance. They're associating themselves, just as anti rather than pro.

Personally, I think it's a little silly. Despite the term being overused (and not even being a bad thing usually), its a classic example of the annoying kind of virtue signaling. Doing a silly little thing that makes no difference at all while trying to make yourself look good to peers. It's like they want credit for taking on the "extremist" instances, by doing a bunch of nothing other than some mild finger waggling.

wagesj45 , 10 months ago to Fediverse in Stepping back from the Tusky project

Husky is a good alternative.

wagesj45 , 10 months ago to Fediverse in Stepping back from the Tusky project

They have hard-coded list of domains to disallow logging in. Logging in will redirect them to a rickroll video instead of the instance's login interface.

wagesj45 , 10 months ago to Men's Liberation in Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears

I'm just hoping that the actual majority is at least mildly progressive so we can keep things moving forward. And it is definitely time for that progressive majority, if it exists, to stop being silent. Part of having free speech is the burden of speaking up and flooding the public square with good and honorable speech.