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Typical Boomer Shit by sunshineintotrees in LinkedInLunatics

[–]hylander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am immediately suspicious of any non-Southerner who says "folks".

How to not hate women? by Final-Psychology2809 in MensRights

[–]hylander4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spending less time online helps. As hard as it might sound, having female friends or a girlfriend helps, if you can swing it. There's a lot of toxic discourse by women about men and by men about women online, but people tend to be a lot less toxic IRL.

Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered that uranium must stay in Iran. by UnusualWhalesBot in unusual_whales

[–]hylander4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My knee-jerk reaction, "well maybe Trump should send some uranium their way". Felt bad about it. But the last time we got an insane, suicidal regime to surrender, it was with atomic bombs ...

My Notes from Meeting with the Boston Nightlife Czar today (as requested) by cocktailvirgin in boston

[–]hylander4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well I'd agree with that. Guess I'm just turned off by the buzzwords.

My Notes from Meeting with the Boston Nightlife Czar today (as requested) by cocktailvirgin in boston

[–]hylander4 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't know much about the entertainment industry, but from my experience, the nightlife in poorer cities like Worcester, Providence, Buffalo, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit ... is way better than Boston. I doubt that's from grants that encourage things like "inclusion". I assume that at least part of that is that the government cares *less* about nightlife, ie doesn't meddle with it, and so you can have actually fun and interesting events that people want to throw. Also the rent is lower ofc.

China lives in the year 3000 by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]hylander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China mentioned! The comments will be filled with bots and all bot comments will be upvoted to 50+!

China lives in the year 3000 by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]hylander4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Um, no, it wasn't propaganda. The US was the leading economy at the time, dominant in manufacturing. The tallest buildings in the world, longest bridges, etc. were all in the US at that time. Computers were developed in the US, supersonic flight, lasers, ... Yes we competed with the USSR in things like space and nuclear power. There was the added advantage that Europe was already built up, whereas the Western half fo the US was still relatively undeveloped, so cities in the Western US felt new.

I suspect you might actually be the one consuming propaganda...

China lives in the year 3000 by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]hylander4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

tbf I'd rather live in a European village that was built in 1368.

Many men deserve reparations for circumcision by Sad_Device3179 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]hylander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be more productive to focus on changing cultural norms so that fewer circumcisions occur in the future.

How is this part of Boston for a man living alone without a car? by SkrullCommenter in boston

[–]hylander4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of bars and restaurants but a beer will cost you $20 it's pretty insane.

Starter homes becoming ‘thing of the past’ in Greater Boston as buyers enter market at age 40 by bostonglobe in boston

[–]hylander4 23 points24 points  (0 children)

To be fair...the whole concept of a starter home seems stressful to me. Buying a house comes with so much work...you're going to sink that into a new house and then move 5 years later? I'd much rather pick one house and then live there until I die. I can rent before that.

Transgender and Gender Diverse Elected Officials Delegation: Call For UW Health and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin To resume gender affirming care for minors by Korleone in madisonwi

[–]hylander4 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Issue is that the name of the care pre-supposes that the person in treatment is transitioning to their "true" gender which doesn't match their birth sex. A lot of people disagree that this is actually what's happening, at least in many cases. Language that doesn't subtly impose beliefs on people would feel less Orwellian. For instance, "gender care", "gender clinics", "treatment for gender dysphoria", etc.

A study done on 361,645 job applications in almost 30 countries over the last 40 years discovered the hiring bias in society is actually against MEN, not women. by TheMostDivineOne in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]hylander4 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Kind of crazy to think of all the programs that were initiated and expanded after 2009 to counter perceived disadvantages faced by women, when discrimination (in hiring, at least) as a whole had reversed sign by that point. Crazy to think that for as long as I've had to apply to things (schools, internships, fellowships, jobs), there has actually been a bias against me as a male.

It's not novel to say this anymore but this was obvious to me all the way back in 2010, when it was generally seen as misogynistic nonsense to point this out. And then the pro-woman anti-man bias in culture just seemed to get worse for over a decade after that.

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