Ceramics mostly

She set up a forum, and by all accounts it was pretty decent.

No doubt. I’m not casting dispersion on her. But men screaming “Why won’t anyone fuck me?!” today, having trampled over a woman with the exact same complaint is deeply ironic.

When you get under the hood of a lot of modern incel culture (particularly, but not exclusively, male incel culture) the underlying complaint tends isn’t inceldom nearly so much as it is that porn stars won’t fuck them (for free) and people with anime anatomy aren’t real.

That’s so far afield of the original desire for romantic companionship that made up the seed of the community. And it is driven, in large part, by the commoditization of romance through the same Big Tech and digital marketing companies that promote porn and other unrealistic expectations of beauty.

You were not part of the discussion

Clearly I am now.

where the fuck do you get off thinking that our district supports these programs materially and that a teacher recommendation was sufficient enough to place in the non-segregated TAG program.

Because its exhaustively well-documented.

I can’t emphasize this enough. Fuck you

Seems like your kid is in a healthy and loving household.

Pretty Guy: Does basically nothing and women fall all over him

Nice Guy: Becomes a phrenologist in response

Always worth remembering that the OG Incel was a woman blogging about how desperate she was to lose her virginity.

Unless you’re straight up trying to con someone, everyone thinks they know what they’re talking about. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be talking.

There’s a social element to a lot of this. People want to be seen and included, so they try to add what they think they know. And, outside of an academic setting (or a really boneheaded remark that’s easy to refute with a simple Google/Wikipedia search), who bothers to check this shit?

preclude a discussion on child needs

They indict the system precisely because of how it distributes resources for the children of Haves and Have-Nots.

Our child was referred by a teacher

“I was told that my kid isn’t like other kids” is always the bait at the end of these hooks. You’re not segregating, you’re elevating.

No real need to look back and ask why the broader structural issues of class size, teacher experience, and class room hours aren’t addressed holistically. Maybe the kids you left behind just don’t need those resources like your precious little muffin does.

Idk if I’d even call it “intellectual” so much as “smug”. You find this all over. People self-sort into cliches. And then they get high on their own supply, insisting everyone outside their group is inferior.

You’ll find it over in the Joe Rogan-verse, among the TradCaths, in every ethnic enclave from Cuban expats to the Taiwanese Diaspora. As common among Marxists as Fascists. As common among Americans as Iranians. As common in the board rooms as the barber shops.

Broadly speaking - and particularly as people get older - we develop this entrenched worldview that results from accumulations of vast amounts of personal and peripheral information.

Gifted And Talented was just segregation with extra steps.

You could buy your way in. You could be placed in the group by referral, without any testing. We had a developmentally disabled kid in our GT class, because his parents were rich and GT offered your kid far more resources than the standard school program.

The lowest common denominator of GT programs wasn’t IQ or GPA or number of spelling bee wins, but address and family income.

You hardly have to be a sub to want to wake up to a cute companion grinding on you.

Except isn’t nthis what American zionists want?

There is an American doomsday cult that thinks Israel needs to be demolished, because some 3rd century gnostic who was most likely tripping balls while writing Christian fanfic got his work included in the official Biblical texts.

What this overlooks is how many times the territories in and around Jerusalem have been sacked and plundered, how many genocides the region has endured, and how often the various diasporas native to the region have failed to fulfill any of their goofy eliminationist fantasies.

Armageddon keeps happening. Antichrists keep emerging. Plagues keep ravishing the land. We must be on the twentieth “Second Coming” by now.

That‘s just how Chinese propaganda operates

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

If I haven’t beaten game one, it’ll be more than a month.

But synchronizing patch releases so you’re not bombarded with notifications would be nice, yes.

In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

No it wouldn’t. It’s always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.

Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

Linux guy whipping out the “Actually, it’s a feature not a bug” line is very funny.

within three to five years

That’s tech speak for “never”

The technology, developed by Borui Kang Medical Technology (Shanghai), is designed to restore hand-movement capabilities in individuals suffering from paralysis.

Specifically, the system targets patients with quadriplegia resulting from cervical spinal cord injuries, enabling them to regain hand-grasping ability through the use of a specialised glove.

Incredible technology, nonetheless.

But crazy to think this would be a commercial public service any time soon

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

Unironically. But only on the condition they bring back Google from 2011

Excited to see smear campaigns that become increasingly surreal and disturbing

Walking up to a game of Three Card Monte and saying “It’s pretty obvious he’s palmed the Queen” mostly just gets you heckled and chased away.

Part of the problem with digital spaces is that you’ve got your person setting up the scam, and then you’ve got your layer of people marketing the scam, and then you’ve got your first layer of suckers who think they are coming out ahead on the scam, and then you’ve got the second layer of suckers who all know a tier-one sucker who just got rich. And then you’ve got the bots and the ideologues and the contrarians and the know-it-alls, all repeating the line that the person who set up the scam encourages them to say.

And it’s over all that cacophony that you announce “It’s obviously a scam”. Then Reddit boots you for violating terms and conditions of the platform.