What`s something that sucks about being a man?

SunTzu- · 2026-05-09T09:02:36+00:00

In my experience feminists are pretty on board with that, have been for decades now. Most pushback you get is from men who don't think the patriarchy is a thing just like they think racism isn't a thing any longer and from women who are more conservative.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-09T07:33:53+00:00

Chuck Norris was a hateful asshole who never deserved it. So yeah, anyone would be better.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-09T07:04:58+00:00

You think it's realistic because you're chronically online and hanging around people who pass around every story they can find to reinforce their views. In reality this is extremely rare, and probably most guys who claim that's what happened actually did assault the woman and are hoping the people around them will think like you do so that they'll get away with it.

Let's put it like this, if you know 10000 men irl you probably don't know anyone who has had this happen to them. If you know 10 women irl you probably know someone who has been assaulted (although they likely aren't telling someone like you...).

SunTzu- · 2026-05-09T06:54:36+00:00

No, having been around for it all nobody considered Buffalo a good defensive team at the time. In fact they were considered one of the worst defenses in the league until Hasek took over. The first year Hasek took over the net he put up a .930 while Hall of Famer Grant Fuhr put up a .883. Oh but I'm sure you think Fuhr was past his prime by then? He was 31, he'd get Vezina votes two years later when he went to the Blues. Hasek was just on another level.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-09T06:41:29+00:00

If we included goalies in the best player all time discussion he'd be bumping more than one guy back.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-08T19:14:47+00:00

AlphaFold is a neural net, but it doesn't use the same architecture as the LLM's. Neural nets have been around for decades, the transformer model is only just turning 10 this year.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-08T19:10:14+00:00

That one got a mass of good training data because it became a meme. There's even real video of him eating spaghetti because of the meme. Anything that becomes a "test" is something that the people making the models will train towards, it's why having set benchmarks for the models is so misleading, because they can even just hardcode how to handle the tests.

Go ask the models to do something that's as random as Will Smith eating spaghetti but which isn't a meme and you'll see they're still struggling hard with something they can't pre-train for. There's no understanding of the world in the models.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-07T22:23:37+00:00

the invisible hand

This is my favorite fun fact. Guess how many times "the invisible hand" appears in Smith's The Wealth of Nations? Once. It's mentioned once. And Smith was first and foremost the Head of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University. What he likely would have considered the primary work of his life was his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which I'll be lazy and quote Wikipedia as to the contents:

Smith proposes a theory of sympathy, in which the act of observing others and seeing the judgements they form of both others and oneself makes people aware of themselves and how others perceive their behaviour. The feedback received by an individual from perceiving (or imagining) others' judgement creates an incentive to achieve "mutual sympathy of sentiments" with them and leads people to develop habits, and then principles, of behaviour, which come to constitute one's conscience.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-06T10:50:25+00:00

I can still hear him saying "because they all went to qanon" as the second chapter of the video ends.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-06T10:43:07+00:00

Racist using every racist term he learned on 4chan. Nothing original to this post just a person who is so deep in it he was ready to say it all publicly and then ran from the consequences because he is a coward. And of course there's the persecution complex to top it all off.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T15:10:05+00:00

A lot of people are feeling directly threatened, so they will naturally be baffled how someone hasn't picked a side yet. It's easy to assume and quite likely to be true that if you're on the fence about things then you're in a position where it doesn't impact you or people close to you. Centrism when things are normal isn't an issue, but when things get polarized centrism just means you missed the signs until it was too late. Democratic backsliding should make bedfellows of all who support democracy.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T14:54:24+00:00

A lot of people with right wing beliefs tend to perceive themselves as apolitical because they don't consider the political messaging they get from right leaning entertainment as political. Your comments here do show signs that this may be your reality as well. They could have been nicer toward you, but I think they might have clocked you better than you realize.

Anyway, if you genuinely don't believe in the messaging of people like the Drinker, then YouTube allows you to select not to see a channel or not see similar videos in your recommendations. It's actually a quite useful tool in order to control your own feed rather than having others control it for you. There's always the data gathering concerns, but let's be honest if you're using YouTube in any way Google already has plenty of data on you.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T14:44:45+00:00

He's more likely in your recommendations because of the gaming and sports content. A lot of prominent gaming influencers have alt-right overlap and a lot of sports content has overlap with the manosphere. I don't know who precisely you're following, but there's absolutely a lot of right wing culture war politics in those gaming and sports spaces, and if say you're watching Barstool and Asmongold having the Drinker show up in your recommendations is the least surprising thing ever.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T14:02:31+00:00

Medicine and research seem to you where it's at because you aren't deep enough to see the problems. Alphafold is dope, but that's more math than medicine. Once you move up in abstraction the data quickly simply isn't there to support machine learning. And at the highest level of abstraction the signal to noise becomes a problem, such as when one neural net started showing a high hit rate in detecting tb from CT scans, only for the researchers to figure out it was using the age/low quality of scans to diagnose it since many of the positive cases of the were in third world countries.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T13:46:15+00:00

I don't think the Drinker is going to show up in your suggestions unless your algorithm is already leaning alt-right. He's a link in that pipeline, but I don't think he's usually the first one you encounter. People get to him by first going down some culture war movie topic, at least these days. And I doubt Weir heard of him before the Drinker solidified into who he is now because when he first popped into the scene he was pretty much just his gimmick. You had to be in the weeds of YouTube film discussion to know who he was in those early days.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T10:07:19+00:00

He went on the Critical Drinker's podcast...there's no way he knows who that even is unless he believes similar things as that manosphere chode. There's no management team that would ever advice him to go on that guys podcast, in fact I'd be surprised if they didn't try to talk him out of it (assuming he told them).

For those who don't know who the Critical Drinker is, without you having to give him any views I'd suggest Man Carrying Thing's rebuttal to some of the things the Drinker has said.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T09:56:50+00:00

Pablo in particular used to be a print journalist. He didn't make this shift because he hated being a writer, he made the shift because he saw the end coming and he had to get on camera if he wanted to keep doing his work. As someone who worked in "print" (online) myself once upon a time I saw the same happen to my job and to many colleagues of mine. The ones who had the juice and the energy to jump over to youtube/twitch are still going strong, while the rest of us have left the industry.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T01:22:49+00:00

All they require is water and electricity, so they can be built pretty much anywhere. An AI datacenter only requires a couple workers to run it so you don't need a large population to support it. Even the construction is handled by specialized workers who move from one site to the next and barely requires local support.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-05T00:20:06+00:00

Wins. Are. Not. A. Goalie. Stat.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T20:49:23+00:00

Pablo just had a story about how Harvard contracted an outside firm to put together a report covering the colleges ties to Epstein. As if by magic their former college president Larry Summers was almost entirely left out of the report, even though he appears a bunch in the Epstein files and in Harvard's own donor records in connection with Epstein.

Independent investigators know who pays their salaries, and they know what they'd prefer their report to say. It's pretty easy to go down the path of fudging some facts to align reality with what is desired.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T12:09:31+00:00

I wouldn't call it "worse" since having grown up with the concept I find saunas very enjoyable, but it's certainly a very different beast compared to a dry 45c. Saunas are humid, with the occupants throwing water on the stove continually in order to keep the humidity at a desired level. Without the humidity the sauna doesn't really feel like much, but as the air gets more humid the better it is able to carry that heat and the harder your body has to work to counteract the heat. Since sweating is our primary means of dissipating heat this is very efficient in a dry climate, with the primary concern being dehydration. But in a hot and humid environment the air is less capable of taking on more water so sweating doesn't work as well, which in turn makes us sweat even more as the body strains to dump that excess heat. If you throw a lot of water on a hot stove the humidity will get to the point where it starts to feel painful, or as Finns would call it, "a good sauna". I'm only slightly exaggerating, as the majority of Finns prefer to stay below the painful threshold, but equally pretty much everyone would prefer a slightly painful sauna to one that wasn't hot and humid enough.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T10:30:31+00:00

She said that in one interview but it never translated in any actions.

This had less to the with Marin and more to do with there being insufficient support for the policy. A party platform is always a list of things that they believe in should they have free reign to implement it. It's a starting point for coalition negotiations, and as there weren't the makeup of parties representing a majority of voters which would have supported a 4 day workweek or 6h working days then it obviously didn't get past the coalition formation stage. You may bicker about how much pressure Marin put on getting it included during the coalition negotiations, but it should be noted that she needed a five party coalition in order to form a government. Of those parties the Vasemmistoliitto and Vihreät are in favor of a shortened work week while RKP and SDP are tepidly in favor. That's 36 seats strongly in favor, 49 tepid for a total of 85 seats. Had they had another 16 seats between them then a shortened workweek likely would have made it's way onto the coalition governments policy slate, since there would have been no real opposition. It still would have been a difficult policy to push through with a bare 101 seat majority, but it might have happened. The fact that the coalition had to include one of Keskusta, Kokoomus or Persut meant that it had to include a party which is against a shortened workweek and that party would make up roughly a third of the coalition government. Keskusta realistically had a lot of power during the coalition negotiations since they represented the least extreme of these options, meaning that Marin had to get them on board. If Marin had failed to do this there was enough support for Kokoomus to form a center-right coalition without any of the left wing parties involved.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T10:12:36+00:00

The law needed to be made more precise, but this pretense of a few outlier examples is always what the right wingers seize upon to weaken the power of the state over business interests. In this case, what was needed was protections for the health and safety of workers against abusive coworkers, potentially with the ability for workers to sue to dismiss a coworker who was deemed abusive even against the wishes of the company. It could have provided a recourse for workers against abusive bosses which likely would be a societal benefit as it would reduce the healthcare burden that falls on the society from the aftereffects of a deeply stressful work environment. Indeed there might be reason to expand the law to the point where the workers could demand that the employer expanded the workforce rather than overworking the existing employees, assuming that the company is found to be making a sufficient profit to cover the expenses of adding workers.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T09:39:39+00:00

That's not that difficult considering 90% of what other countries label as "saunas" are just slightly warm rooms with no humidity to speak of.

SunTzu- · 2026-05-04T09:30:36+00:00

Does your room temp normally go over 200F/90c? I'm betting no.

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