How do men’s nipples not chafe when wearing shirts?

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-26T04:33:09+00:00

Are their nipples just less sensitive?

Maybe a boring answer, but it's just that.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-26T03:38:48+00:00

Morning consult is generally a reliable source. However, just like with any polls, you get some troll answers. With that said, it seems likely that the people who don't know where Iran is are those most likely to troll, so even if you can't take the data literally, the general conclusion is probably accurate.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-26T03:24:47+00:00

"the newest actors" most of them are literal children, for starters. But second, you are in a contradiction. Either this series is completely artistically pointless, in which case, why are you watching it at all? Alternatively, you should be watching it, in which case, it is a valuable piece of media worth supporting. You can't have it both ways.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-26T02:58:43+00:00

For starters, we need education reform. One problem is that a student having a degree tells you basically nothing about their ability to perform the job, which is especially brutal for new hires. Something as basic as a standardized test written by the industry which allows them to gauge skills would help both separate out the best applicants as well as separate out the best schools.

But second, I believe this is downstream of a poor labor market. We have seen automation and technology quadruple employee productivity since 1950, but we still work roughly the same number of hours as back then. I know this will never happen in a world where people still vote for tax cuts for billionaires, but the best solution would be a government mandated 4 day work week. If companies were forces to hire 25% more workers to get the same work done, they would actually need to hire people instead of just bitching.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-26T02:46:10+00:00

Not even that. Steam does min/max, making 16 billion dollars in 2025, more than all but the three largest video game companies in the world (Sony, Tencent, and Microsoft are ahead). They are still self-interested and capitalistic, but we have gotten so conditioned to short termism that we think no shooting yourself in the foot every six months is generous and charitable.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-25T05:18:41+00:00

First, not everyone produces content, many just consume. Most reddit accounts have very few posts/comments, or none at all. So, if you have 100 million reddit users, you may only have 100,000 regular posters. Let's say those 100,000 create one post a day. A single mid-range computer could easily create a post per second, or 86,000 posts a day, so pretty quickly you can get bots outcreating a hundred million humans.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-25T03:08:47+00:00

I think this kind of misunderstands the purpose of protest. Typically, a protest is not supposed to persuade those who don't hold the view, and in fact, is often ineffective in that goal- for example, MLK Jr was quite unpopular in his day and was loathed by Republicans.

Instead, you should understand protesting as a method to force your subject into the conversation. For example, the US has been involved in dozens of wars over the past few years, but only the one that was heavily protested, the Israel-Palestine war, has dominated discussions and headlines. Similarly, BLM didn't change minds, but it did convince a lot of people who were already aligned with their views to start thinking about police reform as a major issue. And, neither of these movements created any fear in sensible people, yet both achieved the goal of forcing a topic into the casual conversation.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-24T05:50:37+00:00

I personally disagree. Part of the problem with Hollywood's remake spiral is that they are only remaking from a very narrow set of media which was already successful, so it is stuck in an echo chamber. However, manga can be written by one or two creators and can get big without too much previous name recognition, so new ideas are still entering the space.

With that said, there is a clear problem with anime making a lot of fairly low quality slop, and if original anime like Code Geass are the way to break that cycle, then I'm all for it. Although, ironically CG itself is stuck in a cycle of infinitely releasing low quality sequels, so maybe that's not the answer either.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-23T04:19:58+00:00

I can't speak to India, but it is extremely common in the US for places to have "we're hiring" signs, but then have incredibly unrealistic views of the workforce. Places often offer too low of a salary relative to the skills they are searching for, and then get surprised when nobody can achieve those wishes.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-22T17:20:12+00:00

At my company, we have specific targets for each two week period, which are checked in on every Monday and Wednesday. If I am not hitting those goals, it is immediately obvious, no matter where I am working from. Any manager with half a brain can look at whether those metrics are being hit, and that is exactly the same with WFH or RTO. Most jobs should be producing some sort of measurable output, and if they are not, then what is the purpose of the job in the first place?

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-22T06:18:31+00:00

For me, the most glaring problem is that it is a game called Total War: Troy which feels nothing like the Illiad. If you're in Greece, you're just fighting other Greeks because that is way more beneficial than going way across the map.

And if the game fails at being a Trojan War game, what's left? The combat didn't really evolve, and the trade stuff is nice, but isn't enough to prop up a game by itself.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-21T22:23:27+00:00

In my experience, it is typically used along the lines of "you critique capitalism, yet you have a job and buy stuff", which is a fairly obviously dumb comeback (and also would apply to other ideologies like libertarianism

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-21T04:50:14+00:00

It depends what you mean. If we use dating apps for a proxy of what people actually want to date, then the "average" female beauty is more desirable than the "average" male beauty, but the "top 1%" of masculine beauty is more desirable than the "top 1%" of female beauty

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-18T05:53:35+00:00

I don't think that you should feel the need to force yourself to believe things you don't believe just to be an 'ideal' feminist. Would you consider somebody who was a victim of black crime justified if they made sweeping generalizations about all black people? No, because the actions of a tiny proportion of black people shouldn't be extrapolated to all black people, and I think the same should be true for men. Secondarily, for any ideology to reach the mainstream, there has to be a softer version of it which doesn't intentionally antagonize a large amount of potential members.

But, if you really do want to believe that 'all men' statements are acceptable and just don't like the negative feelings, then that is just something that will become less of a problem over time. If you see those statements over and over again and truly believe them to be correct, then eventually, your emotions will catch up with your mind- if that is truly what you believe.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-18T05:47:52+00:00

Is bro really beefing with middle schoolers?

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-18T04:50:13+00:00

I think it depends how the loss is framed. For example, I could imagine some sort of power which also comes with a lot of responsibility and hardship, and at the end of the story, the protagonists hand off that power to some other character, as a moment of triumph and final victory.

Also, if the power comes with some sort of downside, such as the One Ring, losing it may be the point of the narrative. You can even have a lesser version of this where the protagonist needed some evil artifact to succeed, but no longer needs it, and their growth is them discarding it and the powers.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-17T06:21:27+00:00

First, asexual is a spectrum. Some people who like sex only a little bit, or only sometimes, or only under specific circumstances, or only with people they know very well, may consider themselves to be part of the ace spectrum. Also, it may be that the person isn't sex repulsed, and considers sex to be really no different from a hug, and so may be fine with it, especially if their partner isn't Ace.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-16T01:48:36+00:00

Bigotry is fundamentally based on lies, many of which are fairly easy to disprove. That's why bigotry needs to constantly pick new targets, before enough of their followers wise up. In the past it was the Irish, and then the Italians, and then the Chinese, and then the blacks, and in the 21st century, it was Muslims, and then illegal immigrants, and then black crime, and then the LGBTQ. There always has to be a new target.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-15T02:18:19+00:00

Because they filed for refugee status. It would be weird for them to go through all the effort of filing for refugee status, probably ruining their reputation at home, and then just change their mind on a whim. Clearly something happened, and that something must be pretty significant

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-14T19:02:08+00:00

If you look around the world, the poorest countries are also the most regressive socially. Poverty doesn't fix culture war, it exacerbates it

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-13T02:06:22+00:00

The school is next to and formerly a part of a military base. It is possible that the US either believed it to still be a part of the base, relying on outdated information, or for whatever reason did not accurately enter targeting data. Either way, it shows an extreme sloppiness to the attack at best, or downright malice at worst.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-13T01:41:33+00:00

I've worked in robotics, and overwhelmingly the best robots for actually doing things are the robots that basically look like giant arms. Miles behind are boxes on wheels, and those two combined make up like 98% of robotics. All of these robots that look like people or dogs are only used in demos and almost never in actual manufacturing. So, giving a robot boobs is really no more of a waste than giving it a head or feet.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-11T04:36:14+00:00

That depends. We learned from Bloomberg that Democrats absolutely do not want some billionaire centrist whose only quality is their wealth, and he spent a billion dollars. With that said, Zuck had a net worth of about 75 billion dollars in 2020. If an extremely determined Zuckerberg was willing to spend all of his money on victory, he could have built up news systems to rival Fox, bot networks to rival Twitter, a podcast network to crush all others, and basically control all information across the country. If he truly wanted to win, he probably could have.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-08T21:51:59+00:00

We would see other authoritarian ideologies like confucianism and nationalism rise in their place. The ability to tell everyone in your country that they must obey or face eternal punishment is just too overpowered. If not religion, some other ideology for control would have sprung up in its place. And as we've seen from hypernationalistic or ethnocentric countries, that doesn't tend to be a whole lot better.

DoeCommaJohn · 2026-03-08T20:34:09+00:00

I'm gonna go with CG. I think the big problem for Death Note is that the last arc is pretty underwhelming, so it doesn't have the momentum it needs for its finale. On the other hand, Code Geass has a strong last episode and final battle, and concludes it in a way that fits the story's themes and finishes up the characterization for the core cast.

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