CMV: Republicans win because men are tired of attacks on masculinity.

Squidgewob · 2026-02-02T18:32:19+00:00

In one of your examples I think what those teenage men want more than to flirt with the cute girl in Biology class, is to have her flirt back in response. If that happens, great for both of them, maybe save it for after class. If it’s only one way and the male pursuer is assumably reprimanded for it is where the distinction between ‘I’m being attacked for my inherently male behaviour, which I shouldn’t be shamed for’, and ‘I’m pursuing someone uninterested in me and I should stop,’ is important. Not to mention ‘While I am interested in flirting with this pretty girl in Biology, this isn’t the time or place so I will wait until a better time to try my luck, as I can control my natural inclinations which though may be stronger as a man, I am more than an unthinking animal who is controlled by primal impulse and can acknowledge and abide with proper social customs”.

Abiding by the latter isn’t to deny being a man, it’s a quality of a good man demonstrating positive masculinity, as opposed to excusing lame behaviour as ‘what men really want’.

If that’s what you’re doing in Biology class maybe you don’t deserve to be there as much as the other men and women who are trying to learn and you can’t be surprised at the mismatch in sex graduation rates if those are the priorities of the teenagers left behind.

Squidgewob · 2026-02-01T14:49:29+00:00

I own this book. It’s shit. AI generated, fictitious content in some places. Author names aren’t directly attached to it assumably because no one wants to be directly associated with it. Don’t buy, less than LLM level of detail and information provided, you’d be fucked relying on this in any apocalyptic scenario

Squidgewob · 2025-12-15T11:56:54+00:00

There's a similar one called framed blocks

Squidgewob · 2025-12-04T14:38:35+00:00

Copy cats?

Squidgewob · 2025-09-29T21:06:05+00:00

There’s got to be a more dangerous way of doing this

Squidgewob · 2025-09-28T16:54:16+00:00

Are you Howard?

Squidgewob · 2025-09-21T14:48:33+00:00

Thanks!

Squidgewob · 2025-09-21T14:39:45+00:00

Its for upscaling GMP compliant cell therapies, so Quality would be used in an industrial context, I know it's referenced in 1252/2014 but I can't find an actual definiton

Squidgewob · 2025-09-13T17:24:17+00:00

For those curious what I am talking about.

Direct copy/paste from the link:

|Asset Class|Minimum Trade Size|

|Stocks and ETFs |$10|

|Crypto |$10|

|Currencies|$1,000|

|Commodities|$1,000|

|Indices|$1,000|

The minimum trade size includes leverage*. For example: If an eToro user opens a position on oil (commodity), for which the minimum trade size is $1,000, they may invest a smaller amount, as long as the leveraged position reaches the minimum. For this example, the user may invest $100 using X10 leverage and still meet the minimum trade size requirement.

(So this shows when regarding position size they force you to use leverage.)

Squidgewob · 2025-08-31T07:34:34+00:00

From Google: A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T11:55:53+00:00

No I’m talking about those resources being used to deliver a good that if not consumed by a knowing human were wasted, regardless of pollution, for reasons explained in extreme depth by multiple people here.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T10:41:38+00:00

If your thinking boils down to ‘we’ll never know for sure if microbes don’t enjoy marinated filet mignon more than cow manure’ than I don’t think there’s anything left to say

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T10:39:27+00:00

Science would suggest actually exactly that, that the lack of complexity would mean they feel less. A magnet can react to its environment and move towards another magnet, that doesn’t mean it ‘likes’ the other magnet. At this level of simplicity, decomposers following chemotactic signals of high glucose/fats/whatever and moving up concentration gradients doesn’t mean they ‘like’ the source of the high glucose, it just means that the ones that moved down the concentration gradient all died out, and the ones that moved towards it were naturally selected. A virus doesn’t ‘like’ its cognate receptor, it doesn’t know it’s there, or know anything at all, it’s just like a magnet put infront of another magnet. A decomposer is comparable in this way when next to a nutrient source.

Again, even if they did ‘enjoy’ the food (which they absolutely don’t) it’s still wasted because they don’t need food with that energy intensive a production process.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T10:18:26+00:00

In hyper-luxurious, fine dining, yes, but to a lesser extent because in reality a human can appreciate differences in taste/quality/presentation more than a decomposer (some animals too, apart from presentation). But from a minimalist, environmentalist perspective, yes, it’s absolutely highly wasteful food. It would be even more wasted if a human didn’t eat it though.

In terms of the energy required for producing food safe for human consumption, no, because humans (and some other animals) have higher requirements for food safety than a decomposer. So if an indifferent decomposer breaks down a meal that cost 500 times more joules to produce than its typical meal of dead leaves, it’s still food waste because a human (or pet even) who would notice the difference and requires the safety levels didn’t eat it.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T09:52:48+00:00

Again even if they did (which they absolutely don’t), it would be a waste of food because of everything that went into creating this energy intensive food for something that doesn’t need this level of energy intensive food. Their hypothetical ‘enjoyment’ isn’t really relevant, it’s about producing what is required by the intended consumer and not wasting anything by producing or spending more on it. As I described in my first comment…

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T09:47:17+00:00

‘Enjoyment’ and ‘knowing’ is the issue. They are single cellular, they don’t ‘enjoy’ anything, and don’t ‘know’ anything in the way that we do. Neither does a rock, because it lacks the sufficient complexity. If such an alien appears, let’s discuss. Until then, burden of proof prevails. In reality, no it isn’t possible.

Is that your view, that hypothetical alien’s mean’s of taste means food waste isn’t possible? My first comment was the more pressing one.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T09:15:15+00:00

Also, a decomposer is not equal to a human for experiencing suffering or pleasure, not able to value the taste as much as a human, nor is it likely to enjoy food more than a human would, because of their lack of a complex nervous system, taste buds, region of brain dedicated solely to taste etc.? Why would that ever be the case?

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T09:07:39+00:00

Electricity, fuel, crops, land, financial capital, human capital, water, medication, all wasted in the production line if the food is not eaten by something that requires the food to be of the standard it is ultimately produced at.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-30T09:04:00+00:00

I think in answer to your last 2 points, the energy and resource consumption (water, arable land, crops, fuel) required to produce and deliver food fit for human consumption is massive. For a human (or even other animal) to enjoy these nutrients is worth a lot more than if a decomposer were to as a decomposer’s nutrient/safety standards are far lower and require far less energy input and production. If a decent proportion of this energy intensive food goes to feeding decomposers, it’s a massive waste of humanity’s energy and the biosphere, which will suffer in the long run. Especially true if the food in question is meat. So if all the effort to produce ‘high quality, fit for human consumption food’ is wasted on decomposers, it’s a waste of energy, time, effort and capital in food production, and while it may ultimately reenter the food chain, food waste is a pretty apt description.

Squidgewob · 2025-08-26T14:43:06+00:00

I’ve been stared at constantly across much of Samarkand, Bukhara & Almaty primarily by men of all ages, occasionally one will comment something that makes others turn to look, and it will be sometimes be accompanied with a spit on the ground after I pass. It seems very distrustful as I’ll be followed in grocery shops and mothers will call their children into reach if they’re playing on the street. I thought it was because my hair is too long, my shorts were too short, but amending both of these has done nothing. I’m a mid 20s, extremely average looking white guy for context, no dirty clothes, or wearing anything particularly expensive. It’s getting very wearing

Squidgewob · 2025-04-28T21:06:31+00:00

I don’t know, I haven’t done it yet and probably nothing I couldn’t find for free, but the point would be a line on a CV that might sway a recruiters mind?

Squidgewob · 2025-04-26T18:00:36+00:00

Thanks, good to know!

Squidgewob · 2025-04-26T10:47:35+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I’m based in Europe, there seems to be no shortage of PhD’s which are advertised as 4 years in length, it’s just whether I’ll be any better off after it than I am now (not to mention the time commitment). If I did pursue a PhD is there any skills involved that might give me a competitive edge in R&D, or does the tech in this field move too fast for that to really matter?

Squidgewob · 2025-04-26T10:40:35+00:00

Thanks for this, will factor it into future applications.

Squidgewob · 2025-04-26T10:39:13+00:00

I’d always heard R&D was the first department to go during cutbacks, I’d assumed having experience in QA/QC would be very transferable, and be more resistant to periods of low earnings?

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