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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 9 in ~society
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 2 in ~society
Bet LinkTrump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE Act passesTrump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE Act passes
President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down on his push to change voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections.
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
Bet Link ParentLoosely, yes. I’m a millennial, I am solidly middle aged, and this approximate third has been around since I was a teenager. Broadly and haphazardly speaking, in my experience, there have always...Does this resonate with anyone anecdotally?
Loosely, yes.
I’m a millennial, I am solidly middle aged, and this approximate third has been around since I was a teenager. Broadly and haphazardly speaking, in my experience, there have always been roughly three distinct ‘styles of approach’ guys use when interested in a person. The most bizarre yet tenacious of these would be the guys — around a third, again, anecdotally — who seem hellbent on enforcing some sort of apprenticeship dynamic on their romantic relationships.
Most are not subtle in this approach. Literally, word for word, this is how it is often initially presented: “I’m impressed by your intelligence; you seem to have a good head on your shoulders — that’s a rare quality these days. There’s a lot someone like you could learn from someone like me, and there’s a lot I’d be willing to teach you. We need to get your hustle up. If you do as I tell you, you’ll be on my level in no time.”
Yes, this is a form of negging. And yes, it is about as offensive as it is hilarious, but it actually works on people, I have witnessed this with mine own eyeballs, and so it persists.
To be sure, that example is the most obvious version of this; a smoother operator might simply seek out a certain power imbalance and work to sustain that within their relationships. That person might be seen as ‘taking someone under their wing’; ‘helping them realize their potential’.
This dynamic seems to lean quite heavily on a particular type of coercion.
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La Dame Blanche - Veneno | A COLORS SHOW (2021)
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Comment on What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? in ~books
Bet LinkThursbitch by Alan Garner I’d never heard of this book or this author before randomly stumbling across this description of it. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked.Thursbitch by Alan Garner
He was pointing at the most desolate, remote, hemmed in by packed contours, bleakest farm of all, far from any track. By it was the word, “Thursbitch”. The elements are Old English þyrs and bæch: “demon”; “valley”. “Thursbitch” is first recorded in 1384, a time when names were descriptive only. This was no Romantic conceit. For the people of those hills in the fourteenth century that valley was frequented by a þyrs: a demon.
I’d never heard of this book or this author before randomly stumbling across this description of it. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked.
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
An interesting post on r/linux.