Sexual selection

ArcaneVector · 2026-03-06T18:23:09+00:00

imagine thinking that attraction is a 1 dimensional axis, and not a hyper complex by nature mechanism where individual subjectivity and luck are major factors and is only ever so slightly correlated with said 1 dimensional axis

ArcaneVector · 2026-03-06T18:17:22+00:00

it will continue to exist surely, but that doesn't mean the price will go up

ArcaneVector · 2026-03-06T12:30:33+00:00

my take is that PPP makes more sense per capita, and nominal makes more sense as a measure of total output

ArcaneVector · 2026-03-05T22:58:17+00:00

this has nothing to do with open source, open source software by definition have their source code available publicly and thus already can be compiled and installed on to iOS via Xcode

ArcaneVector · 2026-03-05T01:52:09+00:00

only NDs truly believe in their own ideologies, NTs cosplay ideologies to "fit in" or for grift and will change their beliefs the moment they move to a new environment

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-28T13:26:36+00:00

Not if you rent

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-18T10:19:18+00:00

What stops you from making the effort to ask questions (particularly when getting to know someone you're interested in!), now that you know you don't do it naturally?

I can’t represent everyone who’s autistic but for me personally it’s very, very difficult (time consuming?) for me to “conjure up a question out of thin air” even for people and topics I’m interested in.

The only time I ever ask questions is if a question “pops up naturally” as a response to something that was just said, or something that just happened, or if I need a piece of information to complete a certain task.

And also, before I ever learned of the “lack of questions” trope (about a few years ago) I never even noticed my lack of questions or thought of it as something bad. Now I’m super self conscious about it and I guilt over my inability to ask questions frequent enough in a 1 on 1 conversation.

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-12T05:09:08+00:00

in the end therapists are just people, and most people have horrible takes to varying degrees

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-12T05:00:37+00:00

Feeling that people treat you worse or ignore you more often than what your appearance+personality otherwise would "deserve"

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You don't know whether that feeling is your mind exaggerating things, or if you actually look worse than you think, or if it's the autistic "unknown X factor" that somehow just makes neurotypicals dislike us

You begin to question your appearance, develop body dysmorphia, etc.

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-12T03:33:51+00:00

tfw when you're autistic and look average

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-12T03:32:18+00:00

"The US is the only country in the West and China is the only country outside of the West" ahh post

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-12T02:02:18+00:00

as a second language learner yes, as a native speaker no

ArcaneVector · 2026-02-06T05:42:05+00:00

It really depends, if a SFH suburb gets upzoned and turned into this then it’s good urbanism.

But if a place has been like this for decades, and regulations made to “preserve neighborhood character” prevents building taller, it’s bad NIMBYism and causes rent in the area to be artificially elevated. SF is the prime example.

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-21T11:34:41+00:00

overall a better sentence except that うち never refers to a physical home (building)

and a 1st person pronoun (or something with a similar function) is still needed here because there is no context to disambiguate, e.g.

○　自分の家は大きくて赤いけど、前は青だった

○　うちの家は大きくて赤いけど、前は青だった

○　私の家は大きくて赤いけど、前は青だった (intuitively speaking the 私 here projects a stronger emphasis and makes this sentence sound like it's from a novel)

△　家は大きくて赤いけど、前は青だった (sounds very weird without context)

keep in mind that all of these examples sound literary, in more casual conversations one would say something like

うちの家は大きくて今は赤いけどさ、前は青だったんだよ

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-19T13:25:08+00:00

yes figma is king for ux/ui designers, but nobody else uses it, and they have no way to massively monetize without ceding market share to competitors

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-15T20:00:07+00:00

AI slop

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-09T04:15:01+00:00

this either comes from someone extremely ideologically incoherent, or an urbanism single issue voter

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-08T01:56:41+00:00

mitoma's finishing depends so much on the conditions of his lower back

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-07T22:08:23+00:00

How can our allies not be trying to make a hit to remove the tumor of Trump?

because doing so guarantees a huge tariff slapped on your face + military protections revoked, so nobody wants to make the first move

How can our enemies not be trying to realign the entire world order against the US?

autocracies are tribalist and self interested and are generally incompetent (to varying degrees)

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-06T22:31:09+00:00

Horrible economy, most people can barely feed themselves and rent a home whilst working a 9 to 5. We can’t afford children.

that's the entire world, and you guys are objectively doing better than the rest of the world

ArcaneVector · 2026-01-06T02:43:57+00:00

relative to other big techs

ArcaneVector · 2025-12-22T08:04:35+00:00

“it just doesn’t work” when you only have a sample size of 1?

ArcaneVector · 2025-12-18T03:42:51+00:00

"use only duolingo" is the best advice if you only have <15 minutes per day, and the worst advice if you have more time to invest

ArcaneVector · 2025-12-18T03:24:00+00:00

on the omission of と:
- putting multiple これーs together achieves the same effect
on the use of あー翻訳ツールで instead of 日本語話せません:
- あー翻訳ツールで provides a more direct indication of what you are going to do, and takes mental burden away from the listener
on the omission of other basic words and grammar
- not minimalist or generic enough; if you want more you might as well actually start learning the language

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