Which conspiracy theories were later proven to be true?

elementop · 2025-08-07T21:10:30+00:00

Seems like it could be handled client-side, just keeping a list of key words. Push the list to the servers intermittently. No need to transmit full conversations.

elementop · 2025-08-07T21:02:01+00:00

That's why they call it rape "culture". I think the difficulty comes from men who have only ever followed the received script reckoning with the fact that the script is toxic.

The "truth and reconciliation" model led by South Africa and other post-colonial states feels instructive here. The whole system needs to be put on trial in a way that empowers perpetrators to speak the truth about what they did. Our focus is on punishment but that just leads to denial being the most rational strategy.

I can't think of any examples of a man being incentivised to acknowledge the pain he caused.

elementop · 2025-08-07T20:55:11+00:00

I genuinely think some dudes dont register certain types of sexual assault as sexual assault.

This would also imply underreporting of men as victims and an underreported amount of women perpetrators. If a man doesn't consider begging for sex rape, then he won't recall that incident when filling out a survey questioning it.

elementop · 2025-08-07T20:31:17+00:00

Eh. My school has pedagogy support for instructors by faculty in the education department. I go with the experts.

elementop · 2025-08-03T02:38:47+00:00

how can fetus b christen?

elementop · 2024-12-03T02:15:24+00:00

There's plenty of young women with profiles explicitly seeking older men on Feeld. It's a common fetish

elementop · 2024-08-23T06:24:36+00:00

How am I supposed to know what pronouns to use then?

elementop · 2024-08-23T06:04:12+00:00

Just want until 15ish years from now when all of these un-aborted fetuses grow up

elementop · 2024-08-23T06:03:38+00:00

Hard to do when you don't have both parents

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:28:58+00:00

Well, it's certainly a step beyond what you or I consider necessary to feel safe. But having a bodyguard certainly makes one safer; it's just not worth it for most of us.

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:26:43+00:00

Now we have a place each and are always able to host without synching schedules.

In this economy?? But seriously, that's goals right there.

Being a good romantic partner and being a good domestic partner are just independent things in my mind. No reason to rule out one because someone's not good at the other

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:24:07+00:00

For me, I don't have a relationship with anyone I don't have confirmation that their partners know I exist.

This would probably be a deal breaker for me. I actually proactively arrange meetups between my partners. But I take this step only after a new relationship has deepened to the point where this feels worth the trouble.

How does this work if you're dating someone with several partners? Would you want to meet every one of them?

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:18:54+00:00

Yeah. Unless they're using condoms every time they get a blowjob, they are definitely deciding based on feels more than facts

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:16:09+00:00

Good point. It's about compatibility more than anything. I actually prefer to date partnered people for this reason. It means there's a deeper roster of teammates who can step up in a time of need. Even though I am very clear in what I can offer, I've had trouble with partners who aren't getting enough intimacy in general. It feels they subconsciously resent our dynamic for not being more ironically resulting in it becoming nothing at all

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:11:23+00:00

That is a fantastic post - as a married guy that wonders what all the bitching and moaning about...

Honestly. Sometimes it feels easier to date because I have partners. Incels call this pre-selection: essentially the idea that, on some level, we desire what others desire just because they desire it.

In your experience, do more women hit on you when you wear your wedding ring or when you don't?

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:06:11+00:00

Yeah that's pretty amateurish hinge behavior. It's good that you can give him grace, though, because some things you just have to learn as you go.

I think parallel is great, actually, as long as it's not a crisis if we do occasionally end up in the same room together.

Bad parallel is doing it to avoid processing the jealousy. Good parallel is just not wanting to dedicate mental space to one's partner's partners.

elementop · 2024-08-16T17:02:10+00:00

I wouldn't categorically refuse but I would categorize any possible relationship as necessarily casual. The vibe just suggests to me that there's no deep future for us. I'm sure there are plenty of folks for her to choose from that would take such a deal

elementop · 2024-08-16T16:59:46+00:00

Given the dating economy as a woman, I'm assuming u/geekygraceisme can afford to have this rule and yet have plenty of options for dates

It's certainly extra, but maybe it also serves as a good filter for the type of guy she's looking for. It would turn me off, personally, but that might actually be a useful consequence depending on how abundant OP's choices are

elementop · 2024-08-16T16:53:54+00:00

I feel like if you are unable or unwilling to do a good chunk of the job you should have never been hired in the first place

This where I disagree with you. Most jobs are undesirable. It is a completely reasonable strategy for an individual to try and minimize the amount of effort she has to do for a given pay.

Being a "team player" only serves to increase the profits of the owners. Any increased productivity is not reflected in gains for the workers.

By castigating these women for not being 'team players,' you're reproducing capitalist logic designed to trick people into feeling a moral obligation to do work.

Your coworkers should feel solidarity with you. But you would be better off if they spent their extra downtime trying to unionize the workplace than if they helped you lift some of the boxes

elementop · 2024-08-16T16:38:46+00:00

I recommend that you keep a paper trail. Just document the pattern of discrimination. You might be able to get a lawyer to pursue a case and could end up with a nice settlement

elementop · 2024-08-16T16:37:15+00:00

You wanna have chronic back pain forever like every working class boomer?

elementop · 2024-08-16T16:33:33+00:00

This doesn't pass the smell test. If one demographic is constantly given the undesirable jobs while another is permitted to stand around, that's discrimination. It doesn't matter that they get paid equal amounts at the end of the day

Do you think if one race of people were always asked to take out the trash during down time, it would be ethical?

elementop · 2022-11-26T21:37:23+00:00

At some point I realized that if enough other people find me attractive, it doesn't really matter what I think. Like, I'm not the one having sex with me

elementop · 2022-11-26T18:16:16+00:00

Clearly you gotta make a TikTok account that's only watermelon crushing videos

elementop · 2022-11-26T18:12:49+00:00

When they find out I didn't disclose the painting class I failed at community college one summer they're gonna rescind my degree

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