niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

oh well). so. if you go to an event about X because the gender ratio is good and you don't really care about X, then it is probably immediately and super clear that you are being *very* incongruous, and it's, like, not a great move? it feels very much like not a great move. so, this is the tree of badness for asking people at hobby events.

when do you learn it?) if they do agree, you have another mess: others might still get jealous and call you a pest, with the standard hansonian dynamics voluminousifying, or leading to sliding into social bullshit; or there might be a less than optimal breakup that leads to one party not wanting to do X anymore. (not success). (this is furthermore worsened by the fact that you are probably not calibrated & smooth and can handle rejection well, or the other person can't handle rejecting well.

(or, more lightly, as being there just to chase skirt/kilt). even if you don't care about your reputation at the event/in the group, you probably care about X, and that people do X, if you creep them out, they will stop doing X. (not success). (how do normal people handle interacting after one has romantically rejected the other? the ~2 times i have experienced it, it was always just __awkward__ and odd, is there no standard social script?

problems with finding partners at an event dedicated to X: if you're interested in X independently of it being good to find partners there, the gender(/sex) ratio is (if you're heterosexual) likely not in your favour (unless you're odd, but few people are odd). furthermore, if you *do* ask someone out, you might get rejected & perceived (and gain a reputation as) creepy, or mistakenly (“mistakenly”) identified as a sex pest

introduction to coq continued, now i have learned what the codebase is supposed to do when it's finished

t's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same
2022-03-27T18:52:59.000000Z so the British colonized most of world, but they also made lots of countries abolish slavery, so it's impossible to tell whether they're good or bad,,,

(see http://lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-revolution/#footnote_79_3108)

it's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same

I also mostly didn't get Chapo Trap House (although the stuff I did get was sometimes pretty funny)

lest i be accused of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is __not__ funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don't have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.

The cooler the bar, the less light there is in the toilet

if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?

generating passwords is like running from bears: if you haven't been singled out, you don't need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority