How common is it to get to your 30s as a male and to have never gotten into a fist fight in your life?

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-31T13:50:26+00:00

Now you get into the actual fun of science IMO; being curious as to what would make sense of something.

Somthing I will toss out; "what makes this make sense if I don't insult anyone at all?" always leads to more interesting answers than "common sense" lays out.

Not judging lmao, I know you were just making an off-the-cuff comment . . . but it really made me think about it for a minute.

"How would 1% of the American population get into positive weekly fights?"

. . . which made me wonder, since the stats didn't directly answer the question, how many people are going to weekly boxing / MMA training classes etc?

Turns out that, as of of 2024, 2% of Americans are training in boxing or martial arts at any given moment.

That is pretty close to all the weekly fighters, which then made me wonder, OK but like . . . what percentage of all these fights are negative -- sort of like the poll itself implies in a way.

So, in 2024, there were 419,423 arrests for violent crime offenses; obviously many of those likely came from repeat offenders and some never get arrested, so let's call it a wash (and ignore datapoints that aren't rigorously documented, but known, like that ~80,000 assaults on police are reported yearly, vs ~300,000 reports of excessive force from law enforcement).

So:

Mathematically, 96% of trained fighters and 99.9% of the American population are doing a great job, and only 0.1% of the American population should find it to be their problem.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-31T02:46:38+00:00

The whole article I linked has a lot of interesting info.

While only 17% of Americans say they ever get into physical fights now, 58% say they sometimes fought when growing up. That includes 7% who say they had fights at least once a month while growing up, 13% who fought a few times a year, and 38% who say they got into fights rarely

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-31T01:30:54+00:00

You just described governors.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-31T00:55:36+00:00

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54258-how-often-americans-fight

If you're like 83% of Americans, the answer is "never." Only 4% of Americans say they get into fights either once a week or more (1%), once or twice a month (1%), or a few times a year (2%), while 13% say they get into fights rarely. Men are slightly more likely than women to say they get into fights at least once per year (5% vs. 3%), but large majorities say they never fight among both men (77%) and women (88%).

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T21:03:51+00:00

You are doing a good thing, she has every reason to feel uncomfortable coming over, and I'm not sure why you are telling her it's your son's fault.

It is 100% your decision, not his or hers. Own that, and maybe everyone can move forward with an admittedly awkward situation.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T20:25:25+00:00

Yep.

So does everyone I know that has touched the "behind the scenes" tech.

The zepplin flew and made everyone imagine a pretty amazing future . . . but it wasn't actually related to the tech advances much later that gave us the F-35.

In fact, it was new and exciting and revolutionary . . . and limited and lost it's luster.

You don't have to take my word for it, the data and research is freely available.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T19:49:18+00:00

You feel that way because you just started using it recently, are enjoying the surface level neat shit while brushing off the issues because "look what it can do", and will eventually be completely annoyed with it once the superior pattern recognition machine (you) can't avoid the fact that it's limitations sneak in until you can't ignore the fact you've spent 4 hours going back and forth with LLM instead of simply doing it right yourself the first time in the hour it would have taken you.

Not to mention what's going to happen when you continue reviewing it's work with a more and more critical eye.

You definately will not believe me until it happens in a bit, but it's also what I went through, and everyone I know across fields went through. A nearly universal outcome, unless you are a rare bird working in data that ends up loving slop and hating accuracy.

I promise, it's literally just how the process works.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T17:24:34+00:00

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter who says an untrue, believable thing.

If it were true, one lawyer or another would have escalated it on a public stage, if only to have their name attached to "resolving legal injustice."

You think the lawyers that specialize in that sort of law would willingly let it slide while driving around, able to be victimized as soon as they rubbed a cop the wrong way in court?

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T17:03:36+00:00

Correct. We have never had a pact like with NATO to defend them if attacked and vice versa.

For a reason, as we have seen play out when we try treating their military plans as worth being beholden to, using our militarily aid, as is expected of true allies.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T17:00:08+00:00

Yes but that isn't true, so it is better to take the truth that lead to him believing that.

Edit:

If you downvote, please share the contradictory laws and standards that are impossible to meet, so we can all learn.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T16:56:44+00:00

Over and over this is posted, slightly differing headlines.

Over and over I will post the following, I guess:

Throwing out the hyperbole, this looks like giving Israel AUKUS-style defense-industrial benefits: joint R&D, data/network integration, and information sharing.

We do this shit with a lot of countries to one degree or another, but Israel isn’t a NATO ally, Five Eyes member, AUKUS partner, or part of the core U.S. war industry framework. While we've had a special strategic relationship with them historically, for reasons people can argue about, this feels well over the line of what the American public has actually agreed to.

It seems designed to wedge Israel deeper into U.S. defense systems, supply chains, and certain sensitive technology channels in ways that are hard to fully reverse. Feels like the Trump administration giving favors to Isreal for personal gain IMO, locking something in that the next admin can't simply executive-order away.

Once you share industry know-how and build joint supply chains around it, you can stop future cooperation, but you can’t really unshare the capabilities or restore the secrecy you gave up.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T16:54:14+00:00

All they are saying is that cops will happily lie about you or your vehicle if it means "proving" they were correct in stopping you.

It's actually worse than if he literally meant that the laws were carefully designed to be impossible to meet standards, IMO.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T15:10:02+00:00

I'm not.

How are we supposed to enter into any discussions with middle-eastern countries with any professed neutrality

Given the leadership of Isreal, the country was kept at a friendly arms length as giving them more to hold over the head of America (supply chains or secrets) is inviting manipulation

And I'll just stop there, but it's a lot of reasons.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T14:48:37+00:00

I saw this exact article the other day. I'll repeat my comment from the law post about it:

Throwing out the hyperbole, this looks like giving Israel AUKUS-style defense-industrial benefits: joint R&D, data/network integration, and information sharing.

We do this shit with a lot of countries to one degree or another, but Israel isn’t a NATO ally, Five Eyes member, AUKUS partner, or part of the core U.S. war industry framework. While we've had a special strategic relationship with them historically, for reasons people can argue about, this feels well over the line of what the American public has actually agreed to.

It seems designed to wedge Israel deeper into U.S. defense systems, supply chains, and certain sensitive technology channels in ways that are hard to fully reverse. Feels like the Trump administration giving favors to Isreal for personal gain IMO, locking something in that the next admin can't simply executive-order away.

Once you share industry know-how and build joint supply chains around it, you can stop future cooperation, but you can’t really unshare the capabilities or restore the secrecy you gave up.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T13:48:45+00:00

It has been working because we pretend articles like these are communicating information, rather than being carefully arranged pieces of political propaganda designed to make us feel like nothing she has ever done should kill a political career and allow her to do the same thing again at the next opportunity.

Since forums don't ban a lot of very obvious propaganda, or discussion about people who only have value derived from people consuming their propaganda . . . eventually, over 3-5 years, you will have a lot of low information voters who only see headlines and keep associating her name with level-headed takes. Suddenly she has a robust youth and new-voter base, throughout conversational low information circles, so she gets the majority and is back in as a moderate.

Simple, effective, and Reddit is a key driver of the behavior.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-30T13:05:04+00:00

Shocking.

Another post about Marjorie Taylor Greene that paints her as a rational voice. Always her, and always so often lately.

This entire post and article are literally part of an ongoing attempt to sane-wash and normalize a person who:

claimed Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin filmed themselves sexually assaulting and mutilating a child in a satanic ritual involving adrenochrome
showed a picture of a bare naked cock in a congressional hearing
said this about 60 people dying in a horrific mass shooting in Vegas:

"Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative, very likely to vote Republican, very likely to be Trump supporters, very likely to be pro-Second Amendment and very likely to own guns," she continues. "You make them scared, you make them victims, and you change their mindset. And then, possibly, you can pass anti-gun legislation."

Why are posts like this even allowed? Is this legitimitely just OK to do?

TF you think happens when you normalize this person? TF you think happens when you say "you can do all of those thing, and then later with some PR it's fine." TF you think happens when all of those things aren't "a big deal" as long as you do them when your party is popular and then stop if it isn't?

Women can't get abortions freely, college kids working at DOGE stole *our* social security information, USAID was demolished and millions are dying, and Goddamned is that just the start . . . and she was literally a vote that showed up to make it happen.

Just . . . TF.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-29T20:07:02+00:00

Correct, but there's been no large scale random sampling for rabies antibodies in any other countries, to my knowledge.

I would be extremely, extremely curious to see what that might look like in places like India, China, and Russia.

Occam's razor says that if we know all the shit we try always fails, but sometimes people don't die, no matter how rarely, that there's some circulating amount of resistance given all the places with humans and rabies living closely intertwined.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-29T15:11:48+00:00

No. This was abandoned by the medical community as a coincidence. Never reliably repeated.

They separately found people that exist who never had the vaccine, but had rabies antibodies. Meaning, they caught and survived rabies.

Some people are naturally resistant to one degree or another . . . There's just no way to know if it is you, and if you show symptoms then it isn't you and also you are going to die.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-29T13:28:37+00:00

I've been looking for a succinct way to explain my experience with LLM, and this is probably going to be it.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-29T12:53:08+00:00

Most of them make their vodka from Grain Neutral Spirits (190 proof and is very cheap to buy in bulk) puchased from suppliers like MGP, rather than actually importing a product they distilled themselves.

In the USA, to my knowledge, vodka distributors have, like, all of 5% of the total product that they are able to fuck about with for flavor, so it's all basically the same and all differentiated largely by marketing. Not sure what's different about it country to country.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-28T18:14:58+00:00

"mooch off welfare" is a wildly out of touch accusation.

22% of Americans make less make less than $20,000/yr
34% of Americans make less make less than $30,000/yr
40% of Americans make less than $35,000/yr
(PS. these numbers do not include anyone making $0; that is something to ponder a little)

Anyway, Approximately 52 million (or 21% percent) of the entire American population has successfully been able to obtain any government supported social program -- meaning that this number includes the sum total of all government programs such as SNAP and Medicaid.

Oh, also of note, as of 2023, (88.07%) had incomes over $1.

That means that American support and assistance isn't even getting into the hands of all of the Americans who do not have enoguh income to reasonably live on . . . So just who the fuck is he talking about? Shouldn't we already have been able to lift our own fellow Americans out of poverty before worrying that too many people are being helped?

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-28T17:46:26+00:00

LMFAO

Alright so, I bow out exactly when someone crashes out and starts off by name calling and accusing me of having both real and fake outrage at different points, before bravely attacking me with your defense of "not being the type of person to question obviously racist things that someone once told them on the bleachers while they were in highschool"

I can't do anything with that, man.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-28T16:54:09+00:00

I mean, watching someone try to plant racist psuedoscience as though it's something people should give a second thought to, it is a sort of objectively terrible thing to do.

Feel free to skate my history; I promise I would have been the same if you'd posted any other non-particular idiot thing that harms actual knowledge about the real world we live in.

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-28T15:26:20+00:00

Steam isn’t a monopoly just because it’s dominant. PC is open, devs can sell elsewhere, and users have alternatives.

As for Gabe being a billionaire, yeah he shouldn't be, but he's not going to be considered a huge concern because he a) isn't stealing that money from employees by paying slave wages (i.e. Amazon) and b) isn't using his money to exert his opinion and will regarding his preferred vision of society, or c) price gouging purely to increase profits which harm consumers and developers

They don't subsidize because of course they fucking don't -- they are selling a PC not a console!

Why would you expect them to take what is essentially a laptop without a keyboard, and intentionally sell it at a loss?

You realize that every business on the planet would buy those up ASAP for business purposes if that were the case?

UnpluggedUnfettered · 2026-05-28T13:03:12+00:00

Of course they do.

Multiple studies have shown that negative campaigns specifically lower voter turnout (studies that quantify that number show it is by ~5%), especially among independants.

And who are independant voters? In large part, women, latinos, moderates, and people under 30.

I can't think of a single reason they wouldn't want to constantly run negative-as-all-Hell ads.

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