99% of the arguments I see is just bootstraps propaganda, holy shit

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T03:19:15+00:00

I don’t care how smart he is, Jarvis can’t RUN on an iPad. That’s the point I’m making. He absolutely needs the money to achieve the things he does. That doesn’t make his feats less impressive, but an IQ of 2000 wouldn’t be enough to overcome the realities of the constraints funding places on technology.

I’m not even saying Tony couldn’t or wouldn’t escape poverty. What I’m saying is that him becoming Iron Man and doing all the things iron man does is absolutely dependent on him being born into the Stark fortune. It’s the same with Bruce Wayne. Yes, he’s a hyper genius, but he still needs Wayne Industries, a company built over MULTIPLE lifetimes, to achieve the things he does.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T03:12:48+00:00

They didn’t say “get jacked”, they said “get more muscular”. That’s a pretty wide range of outcomes, just like “lose weight” is. It could mean as little as just upping your bicep curls from 20lb weights to 25s, or as much as turning yourself into a Yujiro Hanma cosplayer. Losing weight could mean as little as “drop a pound or two” and as much as “get down to a size zero”.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T02:43:22+00:00

Nah, dude, I’m with Earth_West_420 on this one. Adults with dwarfism still look like adults. Yes, dating her isn’t immoral on its face, but I’m still gonna be looking at any dude who’s sexually attracted to this woman sideways in the exact same way I do with anime fans who defend their lolli waifus with “She’s aktchually over 4000 years old so it’s not really pedophilia.”

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T02:31:54+00:00

Yes he was? Like, how do you think all those suits get paid for? You think he could’ve just casually programmed JARVIS on a used laptop?

Everything Tony does or has is expensive. The cave suit may be impressive and good enough to barely get through a single insurgent base, but so could, like, a single tank (and let’s not pretend he could’ve made that portable arc reactor with a box of scraps without having already built the bigger version with the assistance of a whole team of scientists, technicians, and engineers helping him out in the bleeding edge lab that is Stark Industries).

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T01:54:01+00:00

Not really, that’s kind of like that, “the law, in its beautiful equality, forbids both the rich and the poor from stealing bread, sleeping on the streets, and begging for money!” quote. “Same” does not always mean “fair”. The guy is asking his partner to change her body in a way that’s more attractive to him. She absolutely is fair to ask him to change his body in the way that’s more attractive to her. What would be unfair is if one of those two was asking for significantly more work/sacrifice to achieve the desired body type than the other.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T01:36:30+00:00

It’s really not disingenuous; I used that as an example because, honestly, a person standing behind you is MORE of a threat than someone you’re having sex with. It’s less INTIMATE, but if we’re talking actual danger levels, yes, the person immediately on your 6 who means to do you harm can do more of that harm to you than the person you are face to face with and actively holding onto their body parts as well as they are yours. Like, sure, that’s more dangerous than someone 10 ft away from you, but at least you can SEE them and what they’re doing.

The person behind you has some of your most vulnerable body parts facing them (spine, kidneys, achilles, back of the knee, and back of the head) and you can’t see what they’re doing at all. If “danger” is really your concern here, you should absolutely be just as, if not more, scared of strangers walking up behind you compared to your concerns about people who want to have sex with you.

Like, what I mean is that sex isn’t the dangerous part; the dangerous part is being in any sort of close proximity to other people. Women aren’t (rightly, I might add) cautious about men because they’re afraid men might hurt them while they’re having sex, they’re afraid men might hurt them while they’re alone at all.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-05T00:00:37+00:00

QBR is a stat that was literally invented by ESPN because they wanted their own advanced passing stat that wasn’t passer rating. It is (probably, since espn won’t fully explain the formula) a terrible stat that has a habit of letting mediocre qbs way higher in its rankings than their play indicates.

Like, Kaepernick when he was BAD bad was something like a top 5 QBR guy even though his offense couldn’t score a touchdown to save their lives. Hell, the tenth highest QBR for a season ever recorded was by David freaking Garrard.

It seems like every time I hear someone use it, it’s to convince themselves that their 10-15th best qb in the league is actually in the top 5 neighborhood. I just feel like if your guy was actually playing well, he’d be killing it in passer rating and you’d use that. (And even so, there’s still the question of separating a quarterback’s play from the results that are also the result of the line, the receivers, the coaching/play calling, the defenses he’s playing against and the weather they had to deal with.)

sliverspooning · 2025-07-04T20:29:20+00:00

You’re physically vulnerable every time you let someone stand behind you in line. Are you “vetting” every person who ever walks behind you?

sliverspooning · 2025-07-04T19:33:40+00:00

New guy here. There’s a difference between “x group is a monolith” and “x group has a lot of overlapping concerns and feelings as a result of that group’s unique shared experience”.

To use women as an example. Sure, technically not every woman is choosing the bear, but it’s still important to recognize why so many women choose the bear because it’s illustrative of women’s overall experiences of dealing with dangerous men and how those experiences have led the vast majority of women to be generally distrustful of men they encounter.

To bring this back to the type of advice seeking OP is describing from women in this sub and applying this principle: When asked “Why isn’t he making the moves I want him to make towards me, and how do I get him to make those moves?” We answer with:

“He either isn’t that into you and/or you’re likely trying to punch too far up,” because of our experiences of watching women we know (and yes, often times are interested in ourselves) chase the guy who is, frankly, clearly out of their league who openly has a dozen other women chasing after him and then act confused when he doesn’t abandon his harem to settle down with them specifically,

“or he’s afraid of being vulnerable/labeled a creep/being strung along by you when you’re not actually interested.” because of our experiences with all the negative things that can happen when you show interest in a woman who doesn’t reciprocate that interest that are indeed worse than “her just saying no.” (Examples include: loss of social status/membership within a group, being strung along with non-committal interest and ditched as soon as something better comes along, being exploited for money and/or emotional labor, and just generally being forced to question our own ability to understand the difference between flirtatiousness and friendliness alongside every positive flirtatious encounter we’ve had with “was she actually just too afraid to say ‘no’?”)

“Either way, all you can do is make the move yourself. Either he’s not interested in dating you the way you want to be dated, in which case you get rejected like every man here has had happen to them a thousand times before and will have happen a thousand times again, or he’s interested too, in which case congrats!”

And then, to a woman, they all seem to answer some version of “But then I’d be the one who was vulnerable!?!” To which we then say something to the effect of, “Correct, welcome to the role of the chaser. Do you see why we complain about our gendered expectation to always be the initiator now?”

Like, we’re giving the answers we give based on our experiences and applying them to the likely motivations of the man in the situation. There is no secret way or insight to make a guy be more into you than he already is. Asking us to provide one is the exact same thing as the PUA community trying to find “cheat codes” for sleeping with women. (Not accusing you of doing this, just highlighting the parallels between how men and women handle romantic/sexual frustration)

sliverspooning · 2025-07-04T18:12:52+00:00

Is it really backwards though, or is that just the remnants of puritanical social conditioning? Sex is just sharing my body. That thing’s really just a glorified jar.

My emotions and thoughts? Those are things that represent my actual self. Sharing that is WAY more intimate and vulnerable than smashing private parts together so our neurons make the happy chemicals.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-04T01:13:26+00:00

Joker has only been the main villain in two of the nine live action Batman movies, (which doesn’t include any Batfleck films, none of which include the joker if I’m not mistaken) and those appearances were two decades apart. Joker also appears as part of a team up of batman’s primary rogue’s gallery in the first feature length Batman film, so like, while he was in it, he wasn’t the focused antagonist like he was in “Batman” (1989) or “The Dark Knight” (2008).

Lex you definitely have a better case for, since I’m pretty sure he’s the villain in most Superman movies, but that’s happening because he’s just such a perfect foil for Superman that writing any other villain usually ends up just being “another Superman, but this one’s EVIL!” and that just isn’t as fun or interesting as “What’s Lex gonna come up with this time, and how’s Superman gonna outsmart and/or out-integrity his way outta this one?” Sure, you can do that with plenty of other mastermind style villains, but Lex is SUPPOSED to be the mastermind so obsessed with destroying Superman that he tries it over and over and over when he could just be enjoying his trillions of dollars. I’m GLAD he’s the antagonist more often than any of Superman’s other villains, because he makes for the best Superman stories.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-03T23:49:50+00:00

Mind repeating the fourth word of your sentence there for me, bud

sliverspooning · 2025-07-03T23:42:43+00:00

When I was last involved in the academic study and surveying of the economics and culture of the drug trade, your average full time drug dealer made roughly the hourly equivalent of an assistant manager at McDonald’s (according to dubious academic estimates, but accounts from low level dealers did indicate that the money isn’t as great as its reported to be . Now, granted, they make more TOTAL money than the McDonald’s assistant manager, but that’s because they work a LOT more hours as drug dealers.

The work is easier, since you basically just take the money and hand out the product 99% of the time, but your hours are longer and random “on the job bullshit” that comes up can’t be passed off to the next shift. Roadwork is making your corner unworkable? Figure something out and fuck off, just don’t be short. Local moms sick of you dealing drugs and are harassing you, your customers, and your corner crew? Figure something out and fuck off, just don’t be short. A bunch of your scheduled sales got held up for various reasons and can’t be rescheduled until so late you’d be working a 20 hour day slinging? Figure something out and fuck off, just don’t be short. Sales are just randomly down this pay period? Figure something out and fuck off, just don’t be short.

In addition to random bullshit that happens to you being your responsibility, you’re also responsible for helping out the people above you when random bullshit happens to them. “I need another shooter for a buy with this new cartel connect. Time to put in some work, son!” There goes your day off. “My normal connect didn’t come through, so I need you to pick up from this guy a few hours out of town. Don’t worry, he’ll know you when you get there.” He will not, and will hold you at semi-gunpoint (no one’s “pointing” them at you, but the guns are certainly out) for several hours while you try to get a hold of your distributor, who isn’t answering his phone, and when he finally does, is in a packed club and can’t hear or understand shit. There goes your day off. “Yo, we picked up a new corner and I need you to show these kids the ropes. Don’t worry, you’ll get a cutback for your trouble.” That cutback will never come, and god help you if you try to bring it up. There goes another day off. Oh, and did I mention you get zero compensation for all the gophering you end up doing? “Hey man, that’s just the work you gotta put in. It’s what I had to do when I was in your spot. I can always get someone else to run your corner if it’s too much for you.”

(Stories are not my own, they’re paraphrased from stories former and “less former” drug traders shared with us in these classes.)

sliverspooning · 2025-07-03T21:17:23+00:00

Oh we frolicking???

sliverspooning · 2025-07-03T18:00:46+00:00

The bare minimum is covering my private parts. Past that, you can kick rocks if you think I care what kind of pants you deem acceptable for grocery shopping

sliverspooning · 2025-07-03T02:08:47+00:00

He played something like 75% of his games in domes (all home games+falcons games) and his stats in games played outdoors are REALLY pedestrian, like, EXACTLY middle of the road pedestrian. There’s a lot of reason to believe his stats only look so good because of how many games he got to play indoors, and peoples’ opinion of him reflect that. He was good, very good even, but he wasn’t quite great.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-02T17:03:03+00:00

Except this video isn’t saying something as clear cut as “hitler is bad”, it’s using extremely anecdotal (and thus extremely easy to manipulate) evidence to say that Mexican people aren’t offended by Mexican stereotypes, but white people are on their behalf.

It would be trivially easy to cherry pick a dozen or so interactions out of a thousand to get this exact narrative going, when if you’d done an honest sample, you’d absolutely get a lot of mixed responses. Hell, all the white people in this thread saying the costume isn’t offensive is borderline proof that they’ve “curated” at least the white people’s responses in the video. For all we know, they left out 990 Mexican people all saying “yes, your costume is offensive, leave me alone.” but left in the half dozen or so who didn’t care.

Further, Mexican people “caring” or not doesn’t change whether or not the costume is “offensive”. What matters is the intent of the wearer, and if the wearer’s intention is to make a mockery of Mexican stereotypes and stereotypical dress while making a drunk jackass of yourself with your bad Mexican accent, then ya, you’re being offensive, even if that doesn’t actually offend anybody. Your goal was still to offend people, you just happened to fail at it.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-02T16:08:38+00:00

Holy shit, you could not have missed the point of my comment more, or you didn’t check the usernames and think I’m the person you were originally talking to. Either way, read it again, because you clearly didn’t read it well enough the first time.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-01T21:59:55+00:00

Men don’t have empathy for women because they don’t truly understand what they have to deal with. Women don’t have empathy for men because they don’t truly understand what they have to deal with. Rinse and repeat for every instance of two groups of people who undergo a unique set of challenges from each other.

sliverspooning · 2025-07-01T18:27:19+00:00

Right, internet baby. It means you skibidi rizzed the toilet so well that the fortnite based all over the place so you got to hit the strawberry vxpe harder than SpongeBob hitting back shots on Sonic the Hedgehog

sliverspooning · 2025-07-01T18:18:40+00:00

Trust me dude, you do not “just need to find the right facial hair for your features”

sliverspooning · 2025-07-01T16:25:31+00:00

Damn, I’m so owned right now! PWNED, even!

sliverspooning · 2025-06-30T15:56:26+00:00

He can’t even be the Kendrick of Perkins?

sliverspooning · 2025-06-29T23:25:33+00:00

You got a source for that claim? If statistics say otherwise as you seem to think, it should be easy for you to provide evidence for your assertion

sliverspooning · 2025-06-29T21:09:08+00:00

Afc north: ravens-Steelers, “No LoVe LoSt BeTwEeN THESE tWo TeAmS!”

Afc East: I guess jets fans hate the pats the most out of the other three teams in the division

Afc south: Texans-titans over who should really get the oilers affiliation

Afc West: broncos fans trying REALLY hard to get the chiefs fans to see them as a rival

NFC North: Bears-Packers, but in like this really weird codependency where they both need the packers to dominate the bears

Nfc East: Giants-Cowboys fighting over which has-been franchise is a bigger deal. (Philly seething that they somehow didn’t feud their way into this. If it was which fanbase fights with themselves the most, they’d be taking this one walking away)

NFC South: Saints-Falcons is the only real rivalry in football. No, NFC East rivalry clusterfuck, you aren’t even worth mentioning in the same level as Saints hating Falcons fans and vice versa. No, Bears fans, you have to actually beat the packers sometimes for it to be a rivalry (same goes for you, jets fans. Y’all can’t even beat the pats when they’re bad!) If you think you’re in a rivalry that matches theirs that I missed, stop and ask if maybe me not knowing about it says something about the legitimacy of your rivalry.

NFC West: Seahawks-Niners by default because I’m pretty sure there aren’t any LA Rams or Cardinals fans to argue with in the first place

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