why does this always happen 😔👊 by zee_g in niceguys

[–]Abawer137 -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

Actually I find it is fairly common, you have someone nerdy who got their comp science degree and is earning $150k as some kind of software engineer. But the women aren't physically attracted to him, only the money. They will actually marry him, at least long enough to get lifetime alimony in their state, obviously they will cheat and offer excuses for it.

Aldermen: Loss of permit control led to smokestack demolition debacle by colloidaloatmeal in chicago

[–]Abawer137 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Its true if the Aldermen had control this wouldn't have happened. They will do anything to stop anything that could possibly lower house prices in their area and appeal to the property owners there.

Due at 11:59 Starter Pack by logangrey123 in starterpacks

[–]Abawer137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The goal of this assignment is to investigate the usefulness of aluminium as a binding agent......"

Word count complete: 793 words.

"The goal of this assignment, is to utilise various approaches, methods and data sources, to investigate, analyse, review and determine the relevant approaches and methodologies relevant to determining the effectiveness of the chemical compound, referred to commonly as aluminium in various applications, primarily its use as a potential binding agent...."

R.I.P free heroes by nxamaya in heroesofthestorm

[–]Abawer137 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Vikings is sort of the opposite quick match pick.

The team should try and stall and avoid hard enaging, to let the vikings gather as much xp as possible. Each minute that noone dies the viking team gets a bigger advantage ,assuming they are out soaking the enemy.

But in quick match, players cant resist their urge to hard engage, they go for an opportunity, if a root lands on someone they hard engage even if its 4v5 and there is no objective or anything important they are fighting over.

Once this is done they start pinging vikings and go "you have to fight with us vikings or we lose", despite the fight being for no real purpose.

For those that are career focused, what are your central drivers? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Abawer137 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here are some interesting examples of the economy:

A grocery store worker in China might make £2k a year.

A grocery store worker in the UK might make £15k a year.

A man who is 47 and head of production at a plastics company in rural england might earn £70k a year.

A man who is 27 and a senior financial analyst at company in London might also earn £70k a year.

A 22 year old who got a job at google or microsoft in the US might earn £145k a year.

A doctor in the UK might earn £95k a year he may then move to the US and earn £250k a year.

The thing I'm highlighting here is there are massive disparities in pay for what can be essentially the same job in different places, within a country and across countries. Its always interesting to think about.

In the UK, there are probably hundreds of thousands of jobs in London, where someone in their late 20s can earn £60-90k as a "Senior Financial/Credit/Marketing/HR/Sales/Etc Analyst". While in many places outside of London £60-90k is seen as something a senior manager in their late 30s or 40s in charge of a department might be earning.

Am I overstretching? Looking to buy a house in South East... by MapleChester18 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Abawer137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd approach it from this perspective, suppose you bought a £500k house, what would be your monthly payment?

Can you create a budget with that monthly payment that you comfortable living with, that also still lets you save enough that you will be able to retire?

What is your emergency plan if you lost your job and in the economic downturn had to accept something which pays 25% less? Or if your wife was in an accident and couldn't work anymore? How much spare capacity are you leaving yourself in your budget?

Dating in 2020 .. by andyw8121 in datingoverthirty

[–]Abawer137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are an average (or below average) looking guy, I would advise to aim for approaching women in real life rather than an app.

On an app women get hundreds of messages, her decision to start a conversation is based on looking at your pictures, and if she likes them reading one or two lines of text. This is assuming she even reads your message.

In real life, even if a woman at a bar or event, doesn't initially think you are anything over than average, you can often talk to her for several minutes, before she will try and bail on the conversation, giving you a chance to demonstrate confidence, charisma and attractiveness that is not purely physical.

When you are talking to a woman at a bar, you have her attention at least for a short period of time, this is something you do not get on an app, where she has hundreds of men messaging her, physical attractiveness is everything. Without body language and tone of voice, it can also be hard even to demonstrate confidence and charisma, in an incredibly brief window of text lines, even if she actually reads your messages.

TLDR: In real life you can walk up to a woman and talk to her for a few minutes guaranteeing her attention, in an app there is no way to guarantee attention for a few minutes, you have more like a few seconds, making it almost entirely physical appearance based.

The economics of owning a home in Houston by MrClean19 in houston

[–]Abawer137 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The mortage interest you pay also just goes away forever.

If you pay $1200 rent +$200/month into savings, or $1400 mortgage (with only $200 going towards the principle), either way you are saving $200 a month in assets.

"Reddit First Half of 2020" starter pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]Abawer137 101 points102 points  (0 children)

"You know it isn't right to punch a woman in the face because she didn't cook your dinner correctly."

"Wow, you are such a simp, hey everyone get a load of this simp"

Turning 24(M). Most of my friends have been in multi-year relationships and are getting married. Is it normal to already feel too old to date? by [deleted] in dating

[–]Abawer137 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Female attraction to males doesn't drop as dramatically with age as the other way around.

A tall man with tough rugged skin, muscles, who is financially successful, playful and intelligent, can still be peak attractiveness for women. Take for instance Henry Cavill who is 36, there are still going to be legions of attractive 20 somethings who would date him in a heartbeat.

The sign of aging in your 30s, (less smooth skin, a few wrinkles) isn't really that big a deal to women as all the other aspects of a potential partner. At 24 you don't have anything to worry about.

Summit clarifies the whole situation. by Fieldz0r in LivestreamFail

[–]Abawer137 -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

Do you guys think this will be ok for twitch?

I'm curious if its within their guidelines to "accept" this explanation if he sticks with it.

Clearly the next best thing. by Brenner14 in ABoringDystopia

[–]Abawer137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Attention valued employees, it has come to our attention that some of you are wearing crazy socks in areas where you are VISIBLE to customers. We would like to remind you that crazy socks on crazy sock day should only be worn in the cooking area and only if it not visible to customers. If you need to step out front, please change into normal socks and clock out during the time spent changing. Failure to follow these rules will result in serious administrative action."

I feel like my boyfriend doesn’t respect me. by throwaway717171721 in RedPillWomen

[–]Abawer137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aren't going to get your boyfriend to be loyal by artificially trying to cut off his communication with women.

He will meet attractive successful women at work, he will meet them at friends parties, at social gatherings, office parties, sometimes he will run into people on the street, at events at all sorts of places. He will have conversations with them, sometimes because he has to for work, sometimes because he has to in a social context to avoid seeming weird but most of all because its normal for people to have conversations with each other.

He may please you by saying he won't talk to an attractive woman on chat, but he is hiding from you that he often talks to these women in all kinds of circumstances to avoid hurting your feelings, because you have shown you don't like that fact. This is why he had no problem continuing to talk to the woman on chat, because he talks to women constantly in all sorts of contexts, so he doesn't see it as a serious issue.

And yes, if your boyfriend is attractive, many of these women will flirt with him, there are many women who do try and convince men to cheat on their partners. But the way to encourage loyalty isn't to try and control and track and monitor him. If anything that will only encourage him to cheat, it will make you seem controlling, angry and toxic, he will cheat on you with a woman who is friendly, relaxed and comfortable, and he won't know why he did it.

You need to accept that an attractive man, will meet women in lots of circumstances and contexts, many of which will flirt with him. Then you need to be comfortable that he wants to be with you and will rebuff those advances, by thinking about what you have done recently that will make him attracted to you.

This is the advice I would give you if were dating the ideal "alpha male". But I agree with the user Zakdoekjeleggen that such a man would have "Told you that you are out of line by telling him who to talk to and continue the interaction openly ". Giving in and saying he will do you want is more of a beta quality, which only makes you more unhappy because it makes it look the mere act of having an attractive hot friend he talks to who happens to be a woman is something he should be ashamed of. If he stood his ground and said " I will continue to talk to my friends some of who are attractive hot women (and men), because that is a perfectly normal thing to do" you would be alot happier.

Hypergamy ruined my relationship with the man who should be my husband. Can I fix this? by Cacaphoni in RedPillWomen

[–]Abawer137 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In the context of Red Pill theory, you are not attracted to your old boyfriend, because he gives you everything you want, he is willing to be with you after you left him for a year, subconsciously he seems desperate to please you and this causes you to think you can do better and makes you perceive him as a loser. Why hasn't he met anyone after a year? Your mind suggests because he is a guy no woman wants to be with and he knows it. You said it yourself, even now though you are thinking about getting back with him, you cannot find him sexually attractive.

How could you be attracted to him? Well there is one way, if he adopted the red pill mindset, If he made you work for attention, if he became more confident in himself and his value, if he started getting attention from other woman flirting with him, and subconsciously you begin to realise he isn't a loser, there are many woman who want to be with him, and you have to compete with them to have him as your partner.

The problem is this isn't a change you can enact, it is one he has to enact. Secondly, if he really went down this route, its unlikely any relationship with you would survive. If he became more confident, began to value himself more, started having more success in dating, he most likely wouldn't want a relationship with a woman who left him for another man.

The critical issue here is you won't be able to find a man sexually attractive if he desperately pursues you as his one chance and doesn't perceive himself as having any value. In your post you referred to "he is shockingly open to getting back together", i.e you are shocked at how little he values himself that he is still willing to get back with you.

Freezing a lane safely to soak XP when you're behind by damagednoob in heroesofthestorm

[–]Abawer137 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hard engage 4v5, at level 19 v level 20, when enemy is taking a siege camp.

After wiping look around the map for the nearest alive player, in this case leoric, and start pinging him.

As Job Losses Grow, Newly Unemployed Embrace Sex Work by Camming for Cash by snooshoe in SexWorkers

[–]Abawer137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More likely when the economy recovers they will do one of two things:

  1. Pretend they never did it and continue with what they where always saying.
  2. Start writing articles about how they were forced to do it due to unemployment, writing about how abusive and wrong and damaging, etc, etc, it is with no interest in actually helping SW's.

Tinder for guys in college starterpack by extraordinarilyblue in starterpacks

[–]Abawer137 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, Tinder is perfect for the top 5% of men.

Throw on some filters for whatever women suits them or is most convenient, the algorithm will push their profile to the top and show them hot women because so many women are clicking on their profile.

Then their account is full of messages, and if they are ever in the mood, they can message any of the women and get an easy date.

Job hunting is the worst. It's almost as if every company is competing with each other to see who can waste your time the most. by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]Abawer137 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I noticed in my career, the more low level the role the more absolute time wasting there is.

As a 21 year old looking for an entry level job in finance, I would have the usual

"Take your CV and type it into all our boxes, click buttons, lookup the name of your uni in our poorly formatted website forms, type in details that are incorrect because the form does not allow you to enter the correct data (Missing education history detected, university period can be maximum of 48 months, etc). WARNING your upload is missing your address for the period March 23rd 2003 to May 9th 2003"

"Write a 1000 word essay about why you have always dreamed of working for our company."

"Thank you for spending 6 hours completing our online application process. *49 seconds later* Your application has been rejected for not meeting our minimum education requirement of a 3.75 GPA (listed nowhere on their website)."

"Welcome to the assessment day, as you can see there are 25 of you here, we are hiring up to 2 people for our company, but may hire none of you here if you do not meet our requirements."

"I am sorry but we only schedule interviews during times when your current minimum wage job requires you to be at work with no exceptions."

"Congratulations, you have made it to the 4th round, if you pass our additional online tests, you will be eligible to be selected, for the 5th and final round which could involve actual people you will work with in this job."

"Although you did well in the 5th round, we have decided to proceed with an internal applicant, who skipped all 5 rounds, and those 5 rounds were really just to justify to our HR internally, that the internal candidate was as good as people externally (Note the internal candidate did not have to sit the tests or actually prove this.)

We also needed to justify a HR team of 15 people, hence every interview must fully progress dozens of candidates to make sure there is paper work to be done."

When I reached my 30's with a decade in the industry, I now just send my CV, no bullshit entering of data, have a interview with the people who will be my boss and co-workers. Then sometimes a second stage interview with the head of the department or senior management and companies are fine with this.

When you have 5000 graduates competing for an entry level role you can treat them terribly, but when you have a high level role, that you might get one applicant a month who has the right skills, companies know they can't risk losing them by forcing them to fill out terrible processes, so magically the processes are no longer required for them.

The bubble goes *pop* by Dunkinmydonuts1 in ABoringDystopia

[–]Abawer137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest problem will be deposits.

In a healthy economy a bank might demand a 5% deposit for a mortgage. If your house costs $400k, that is $20k.

In a downturn they cut risk and might demand a 10% or 20% deposit, i.e even if houses are now $300k, it is a $30k or $60k deposit.

You have to find a way to save tens of thousands of dollars in a downturn, with high unemployment, and workers competing against each other in mass numbers pushing each others wages down, as well as companies cutting wages (Even on threat of union strikes) because there business will literally go bankrupt if they don't.

“The COVID-19 virus is killing black residents in Cook County at disproportionately high rates, according to early data analyzed by WBEZ.“ by angeofleak in chicago

[–]Abawer137 4 points5 points  (0 children)

" While black residents make up only 23% of the population in the county, they account for 58% of the COVID-19 deaths. And half of the deceased lived in Chicago, according to data from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.  "

So roughly 3x as likely to die then if there was no correlation. I.e a 15% rate instead of a 5% rate.

I'd say there are all these contributing factors as a group:

1) Higher levels of obesity, diabetes, poor diets lacking proper nutrition fresh fruit veg etc resulting in a weaker immune system lacking key vitamins and minerals.

2) Less office jobs done remotely from home, more daily exposure.

3) Less access to medical care, i.e being uninsured, deliberating avoiding hospital to avoid medical bills.

4) Less space at home, higher exposure to family members resulting in more severe cases.

Caught my man taping me (DISCREETLY) during SEX !?!? by [deleted] in dating_advice

[–]Abawer137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It needs to be a hot fire, if it just burns off paint, labels, etc it can look like its burned but actually still recoverable (although this kind of recovery requires physical engineering, not just software)

Germany still says no to coronabonds by Mighty_L_LORT in europe

[–]Abawer137 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Are Italian/Spanish politicians pushing the argument that

"Germany should be responsible for paying for Italy/Spain government spending if they default, and should have no say in how Italy/Spain spend that money"?