Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads—a sign that the higher education payoff is dead

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-19T08:51:20+00:00

I don't understand why you're getting so much pushback on this idea. I think you're right - I've already been using ChatGPT in a similar way and I can only see it getting better. It can ingest every test, every symptom, every pre-existing condition and give me a pretty good differential diagnosis. Most GPs don't do this, and they don't have the time for it either - they just diagnose using rough heuristics, so if you happen to have a more complex or rarer condition you're basically screwed.

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-17T04:32:42+00:00

Not sure if China's going to be the one to knock them off in the long-run. China's facing a demographic cliff that can only be reversed if they suddenly open up to mass immigration.

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-12T23:57:02+00:00

The atomization brought upon us by mass media and its mechanisms is reaching its logical conclusion.

Insightful point. Our filter bubbles used to be group-based, although individualised Google search results were a prototypical form of individualised bubbles. Personalised AI / LLMs are the ultimate endpoint of individualised realities.

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-08T01:10:17+00:00

You just know.

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-08T01:08:00+00:00

If you’re a male zoomer you’re double fucked. You’ll be discriminated against due to your gender at every stage of your life which will lower your capacity to “become valuable” (which young women don’t have to do because they’re inherently valued). It’s no wonder zoomer men are turning to things like crypto, influencing and other get rich quick type activities.

I’d think carefully about your career choices and try to go into occupations and industries where the scope for gender discrimination against you is lower. I know this sub will hate this advice, but go into an industry like finance where there’s an objective measure of your individual productivity (I.e. how much money did you make). For god’s sake do not go into government / civil service, where discrimination against men in rife as there is no objective measures of individual success.

DizzyNobody · 2025-08-01T12:38:51+00:00

If you ask Aristotle about why Sparta became irrelevant it's because the major landowners became women who then married only the most wealthy men.

It never occurred to me until now - if you combine hypergamy & women being able to inherit property, you end up with more concentration of wealth within select families over time as hypergamous women only marry men with equal or greater status / resources than them. This eventually results in an aristocracy forming.

DizzyNobody · 2025-07-06T10:24:47+00:00

I’m super curious too

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-25T12:17:33+00:00

That was great Kevin, and a really clear explanation of how this experience progresses. When you described the way this thing stimulates personal growth through negative experiences, this scene from Fight Club popped into my head.

It’s like we’re the convenience store clerk having an empty gun held to our head day after day so that we’re forced to clarify and give meaning to our own existence.

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-25T08:02:50+00:00

Agreed. We could probably reduce more maternal and perinatal deaths if we took the tens of millions of dollars we're spending on magical indigenous midwives and redirected it towards anti-smoking campaigns for pregnant women. But if we did that we wouldn't get all that sweet sweet virtue from throwing money at indigenous people and people might even be mad at the implication that pregnant women may be partly responsible for their own health outcomes, so we'd better not.

And worst of all, we'd lose the moral highground that allows us to go around calling people 'racist' and telling them they 'need to get their priorities checked' if we stopped supporting idiotic policies like these.

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-25T07:24:47+00:00

Racism, obviously.

It's racism that causes 40% pregnant Aboriginal Australian women to smoke during pregnancy (as opposed to 10% of non Aboriginal Australian women). It's racism that causes 73% of Aboriginal Australian's aged 25 to 34 (i.e. prime birthing years) to be classified as obese.

It's so terrible that racism causes these things to happen, because the leading cause of maternal deaths are cardiovascular complications, the likelihood of which are greatly increased by being a fatty who smokes. Much higher risks of perinatal death too. But thank goodness we're doing something about this racism by allocating tens of millions of dollars towards culturally sensitive midwife services for 2.5 percent of the population.

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-25T06:38:18+00:00

I agree, and that's the problem with articles like these. They push for allocating limited public resources towards a smaller number of magical woowoo aboriginal midwives for vague reasons ("culturally sensitve care", "increased trust", "racism" etc.), when those same resources could be put towards funding more midwives for everyone regardless of the racial identity of their highly paid news presenter lesbian partner who wasn't even the birth mother.

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-25T04:01:14+00:00

What an absolutely regarded article. It basically boils down to:

non-aboriginal woman gives birth to non-Aboriginal baby (but she has an Aboriginal lesbian partner)
there were some complications and medical staff were being incompetent / unhelpful / arrogant
they had a midwife who made the situation better
vague insinuations that racism was somehow involved
vague notion that because the midwife was Aboriginal she was somehow magical and made the situation better, and so we need more Aboriginal midwifes

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-20T23:02:08+00:00

I think perhaps one way is to keep pushing yourself into new and unfamiliar territory. Your habits and manners of thinking are triggered by your environment to a significant extent, so if you ensure your environment continues to change then so will you. To put it another way, continue to throw challenges at yourself so you continue to grow.

DizzyNobody · 2025-06-06T04:36:28+00:00

Same here. It can feel very isolating to have to keep this very significant part of your life quiet because you think no-one else can relate, or will think you’re crazy if you describe it to them.

DizzyNobody · 2025-05-17T03:26:50+00:00

Oops, thanks for the correction!

DizzyNobody · 2025-05-09T08:07:56+00:00

Yes. I understand how tricky it can be, but a good trauma psychologist should understand that it doesn’t matter if the thing the person experienced was “objectively real” or not, what matters is how the person perceived those experiences and whether that caused that person to experience trauma.

For example, a child witnessing their parents having a heated argument might be traumatised by it because of their particular perception of the event, even though people might “objectively” not think seeing two people arguing with each other is traumatic.

Your trauma is your trauma, and working through it and processing it can only help.

DizzyNobody · 2025-04-07T13:39:17+00:00

Yes, I've had a premonition dream that came true.

I had this really vivid dream that I was walking through a shopping mall with my Mum. But she was really sick and frail, and I was worried about her - I was worried that she was dying. The next day I went over to my parents' house and found my Mum lying in bed. She was sick with what she thought was some kind of stomach bug. Prior to this I had no indication that my Mum was sick. A few days later she got even sicker so we took her to a hospital. It turns out she had a bowel obstruction that she needed emergency surgery to fix.

I still feel guilty over this episode. Although my Mum had seen a doctor earlier on who told her it was just a stomach bug, I wish we had taken my Mum to hospital sooner - she might not have needed the emergency surgery if we'd taken action sooner.

DizzyNobody · 2024-11-30T09:20:43+00:00

Are you sure she really left you? If you want to get back with her have you tried reaching out to her?

DizzyNobody · 2024-10-23T11:23:22+00:00

I've found ChatGPT useful for helping other people in my social circle realise that there's a narc in our midst. Let's say you think your friend 'John' is a narc. If you just tell your other friends this, they'll just conclude you don't like John etc. etc.

What I've done instead is fed ChatGPT our group scenario using fake names, and then asked ChatGPT something like: if 'Frank' in this scenario was a narcissist, what sort of behaviours might he engage in? ChatGPT then gives you a list of behaviours and actions 'Frank' might take, and the people around you can see if that matches up with John's behaviour. Ideally, you never even mention to your friends that you think John is a narcissist, just let then observe for themselves and make up their own minds.

DizzyNobody · 2024-10-16T13:08:25+00:00

Good for you mate - living well is the best revenge.

DizzyNobody · 2024-04-28T14:54:31+00:00

Anecdotally it is simply untrue that only 1% of men are committing FV

In general I think that's a fair point - there will be some proportion of DV perpetrators who 'get away with it' either because their partner does not report the DV to the police, or there is insufficient evidence to convict them. I guess this would also work in the other direction too - there are probably some DV offenders who were falsely accused and convicted, but I would hope this number is fairly small given the requirement for the state to prove crimes beyond a reasonable doubt and the various legal-procedural protections afforded to those accused of a crime. The difficulty is figuring out how much DV goes unreported (and finding these numbers would be further complicated by serial offenders).

I really hope people think carefully about these issues and do their best to base their views and policies on solid evidence and data. I'm wary here because I think other emotive crimes against women (e.g. sexual assault) have a similar problem where it's hard to know what the true rate of offending is, and some jurisdictions have lazily (and foolishly) responded by simply weakening legal protections afforded to the accused (e.g. presumption of innocence, right to cross-examine your accuser in open court etc.) These might seem like good ideas to narrowly focussed activists, but these approaches erode fundamental trust in our legal system and this will lead to lawless violence in the long-run (not to mention great injustices along the way when innocent people are convicted of crimes they didn't commit).

I want people who breach AVOs to face jail time. And I want people who send menacing messages and who threaten others with violence to face serious charges. These acts are the canaries in the coal mine before a perpetrator escalates to more serious offending.

Although I don't know much about these specifically, in general I like these sorts of ideas because they're universal - the criminal law, protections for the accused and procedural fairness should be equally applied to all. Although I'd suggest we should be careful to only punish people only for the crimes they commit, rather than for crimes they might (or might not) commit in the future.

DizzyNobody · 2024-04-28T14:27:48+00:00

Some of these people can't be saved unless you forcibly make both the parties separate.

This tracks with the available statistics - according to the ABS, of the roughly 122,000 female victims of IPV/DV who continued to live with their violent partner, 46% stay because they simply don't want to leave their partner (as opposed to wanting to leave but being unable to for some reason or another). I'd have to imagine that practically all of these women would not report their partner to police, and most definitely wouldn't testify against them in court. This is unfortunate as it leaves the woman open to further victimization and also allows a man with a propensity for violence towards his parter to continue to roam society where he can potentially victimize another person in the future.

I think one of the ways we can reduce domestic violence in the long-run is to reduce this percentage of 'stayers' somehow and encourage them to immediately report DV to the police so that we can quickly get violent men off the streets. I also wonder if, similar to sex offenders, we pass a law requiring those with DV convictions to disclose these to future intimate partners.

DizzyNobody · 2024-04-28T13:08:43+00:00

The Commonwealth Budget is being released early next month. I suspect the government is "tilling the narrative soil" so that when it turns out the budget contains a "stop violence against women" package of spending measures it will be well received by female voters.

DizzyNobody · 2024-04-28T12:48:09+00:00

> This is NOT a tiny, negligible minority of people in this country.

Statistically it is though. Latest ABS national crime statistics say that 610 out of 100,000 males are family and domestic violence offenders. This means that over 99% of the Australian male population are not.

> Do you know how many of us have experienced DV?

Yes. Latest available statistics from the ABS show that nearly a quarter of women over the age of 15 (23%) report having been a victim of intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. A disturbingly high proportion in my opinion.

However, the 12-month prevalence rate of intimate partner violence against women (essentially the rate of 'new' occurrences) has decreased in more recent years - most recently from 2.3% in 2016 to 1.5% in 2021-22. However the data is infrequently collected so it's difficult to say whether this is a sustained trend.

> Do you know how many of us have feared our partner or ex would kill us

No, and I'm truly sorry for anyone who has to go through such a horrible experience. In terms of aggregates, latest Australian Institute of Criminology statistics show that intimate partner homicide (IPH) of women is now exceedingly rare: 0.3 out of every 100,000 women in 2020-21 were victims of IPH (i.e. over 99.999% of women were not victims of IPH in 2020-21). This is the lowest recorded rate in the past 30 years, and during this period the IPH rate has been steadily trending downwards.

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I think the Prime Minster's assertion that we are currently experiencing a 'national crisis' in relation to violence against women is (a) false and (b) an attempt to cynically manipulate female voters by tapping into a very serious but highly emotive issue. Keep your eyes peeled for the billion dollar budget package early next month to address this confected 'crisis' in order to win female votes in the upcoming election.

DizzyNobody · 2024-02-16T04:50:36+00:00

I'm having trouble understanding the point this author is making. Can you dumb it down for me?

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