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throwaway66920on Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

I’m not sure this varies by gender

throwaway66920on Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

That doesn’t mesh with my anecdata nor data on the proportion of housework women handle. But I do think the blame comment has merit.

throwaway66920on Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

> Second, there may be gender differences in the perceived causes of breakups. Women blame their male partners more often for breakups than men blame their female partners (Choo et al., 1996). In addition, women more frequently report problematic partner behaviors as the reason for a breakup, such as infidelity, substance abuse, and mental or physical abuse (Amato & Previti, 2003; Morris, Reiber, & Roman, 2015). Men, in contrast, are more likely to claim that they do not know what caused their past breakups (Amato & Previti, 2003).

This feels like the important bit to me. People view their ex’s less favorably if they blame them for the breakup; and women blame men more than men blame women. Women also reported receiving less support from their partners than men. Reading between the lines, men in average like the women more because the women put in more effort to the relationship.

throwaway66920on Women Under the Spell

> Isn't the "God the Father" used to show the maleness of the Chrisitan God?

No, the maleness of Christian God is not something that needs clarification. Appending “the Father” signals the author’s personal beliefs, asserts god’s righteousness, etc. all with plausible deniability

> Does the article make the case that an alignment with Satanism is a bad thing?

Technically correct, persuasively irrelevant. Satanism is without a doubt seen as something blatantly “evil” among his target audience.

> Is the opposition to Christianity a problem for modern Feminism? Even an historical opposition

Aside from abortion probably not. But most religious groups preach conservatism, and are thus anti feminism.

> To me this article simply reads as early feminists rebelled against a society they felt was oppressive to them by adopting what they saw as their enemies enemy as a mascot. I don't think that is particularly disparaging of feminism is it?

Intentions matter. The author’s goal is to create an association between satanism (-> Satan -> evil) and feminism (-> progressive social movements). If we look at this guy’s other works we will find the same agenda. It is enabling a justification of pre-existing beliefs of the basis of rationality because now there are facts, even if those facts have literally zero salience to the issue at hand. To state facts neutrally, but obscure, irrelevant, and persuasively chosen facts is a dirty technique because it’s effective and it gives everyone plausible deniability upon accusations of having a bias

throwaway66920on Women Under the Spell

Lots of arguments about whether this is purely historical or disguised opinion. The last paragraph suggests the author’s intention is to discredit feminists imo. Note the use of “God the Father”, “bravely” and “demonstrates” (the lattermost implying that something is factually true and being proven therein). Sure, maybe this was a part of early feminism. But also, buzz off dude. Don’t need this here at least.

> Dr Faxneld provides a most compelling account of how Satanism played a crucial part in early feminism—primarily between 1880 and 1930—as something employed to vilify and denigrate Christianity, and transform God the Father into an oppressive creator and the ultimate enemy of women’s liberation. This book makes for fascinating reading as Faxneld bravely endeavours to demonstrate the centrality of Satanism in influential feminist narrative during the period in a way nobody before him has ever dared to do. His most enlightening book makes a significant contribution to scholarship.

throwaway66920on Tesla Q3 Financial Results

This is great news. There’s few companies in the world I want to do well specifically. Tesla’s gotta be at the top of the list.

throwaway66920on McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

“Playing politics” is is largely empathy and communication skills. Giving people what they want is actually not intuitive because, again, people are generally bad at communicating what they want. It’s common to hear people maligned for being “political players” but I’ll be honest; if you’re bad at office politics, it generally implies you don’t have people’s confidence, trust, and friendship- often because you’re fixated on the idea that work should stand for itself and not recognizing the massive importance that is working with others.

Being a dick with your influence is a different concept

throwaway66920on McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

Former employee

Edit: I cannot reply to the below, but I will say, that’s a pretty contrived justification for your view.

Communication is hard. Few things done at a corporate scale are easy to implement. People like to point at big consulting firms and say “I could have done that” or “they could have just asked me” but that’s really just a fraction of it.

throwaway66920on McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

Alternatively, this is just some guy asserting that everyone at McKinsey thinks they invented a brand new concept, when in fact, it’s just a heuristic they teach people to communicate more effectively, because communication is hard.

throwaway66920on McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

I think I agree. It’s also just not a very good chart, error aside.

throwaway66920on Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion

One thing I love about anime is that when the authors really want to drive home a thematic concept they throw in these humble observations about the human condition and demonstrate it in the most absurd contexts.

Evangelion does this. I would highly recommend Mob Psycho 100 for this as well (by the one punch man guy, and similar but not sarcastic)

throwaway66920on Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion

The use of Christian symbolism as nothing more than an aesthetic is somewhat common is Japanese fiction. I wouldn’t say it made no sense though.

The bad guys say humanity is fundamentally incapable of opening up to each other. Shinji proves that it can be done and is worth pursuing, although it is fundamentally difficult. He discovers acceptance of himself through his connections with his peers. He acknowledges that everyone must go through life at a pace they don’t get to choose, and that the inevitably of death doesn’t erase the meaning of existence.

throwaway66920on Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red

You mean... unsupervised machine learning? That doesn’t feel intellectually dishonest to me

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

I mean... yeah, that’s correct. The world’s resources are overtly unequally and inefficiently distributed.

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

You could argue that purposely designing things to last only a year when they could last ten years is purposeful destruction though

throwaway66920on McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

I believe this is the actual article

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i...

Broadly it seems to be less extreme than Bloomberg’s summary and more nuanced to particular conditions.

I like how exhibit 6 is rotated to encourage reading it from either direction. Haven’t seen that before in charts.

throwaway66920on The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

https://youtu.be/8tCC9yxUIdw

A wonderful 1 minute snippet of David Bowie explaining how huge of a deal it’s going to be to a skeptical interviewer in the 90s

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

Fast fashion is bad. But I think the broken window fallacy is poorly matched to modern times. It’s useful to demonstrate why war is bad even if it boosts our GDP, but there’s so much nuance to things like repairs, obsolescence, globalism, switching costs, etc.

If something is bad for economic growth, whose growth matters? Ecological arguments are perhaps one of the better things to consider because at the end of the day it may kill everyone. shrug

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

The money would go into something else, but it would probably be something stupid. A lot of the dumb startups we see now that are burning cash on obviously bad strategies exist because at a global financial scale, there’s not enough opportunities to invest all of the capital in. There’s obviously lots (LOTS) of work to be done that could use capital still but current financial system want to believe in a high rate of return so they look to things like Uber. Note, Uber’s of the world are a drop in the bucket still, but the symptom is growing in prevalence. This is also not to say that fast fashion is a good idea or an efficient use of resources. It’s not.

The people... well this hypothetical is extreme so it’s hard to say. But populations of workers have been abandoned in the past before and it varies. It’s fully believable that they would just not have anything to do and would... idk... protest.

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

Sure, me too. But historically, and also literally right now, lack of economic growth leads to revolutions and protest if people are poor.

throwaway66920on Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

Well, for one, that would vastly reduce economic growth. But aside from that, there’s not many things that fit X in the scheme of things you purchase frequently. Packaging / containers of consumed items is a big one. Fashion might be but probably not.

The example I hear a lot for some reason is power tools. Yeah it would be great to share power tools because you only need them once or twice... but you only buy them once or twice otherwise. It’s a good idea to help poor communities consolidate resources but it’s hard to help large communities reduce their eco foot prints

throwaway66920on The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

> Disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because when they are first launched they “undershoot” user needs. The first telephone could only carry voices a mile or two. The leading telco of the time, Western Union, passed on acquiring the phone because they didn’t see how it could possibly be useful to businesses and railroads – their primary customers. What they failed to anticipate was how rapidly telephone technology and infrastructure would improve (technology adoption is usually non-linear due to so-called complementary network effects). The same was true of how mainframe companies viewed the PC (microcomputer), and how modern telecom companies viewed Skype. (Christensen has many more examples in his books).

Skype feels like a bad examples it was always fairly obvious video chat would be prevalent eventually. It was never obvious that Skype was the best answer, and there were Skype alternatives with similar offerings which have failed.

Skype itself may not last the long run if it can’t keep up with zoom or whatnot.

throwaway66920on BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers

You’re writing this with the assumption that they were not explicitly told what to do by the Chinese government.

throwaway66920on Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

I’m suggesting it’s stupid to think you’ve learned nothing but false truths from advice.

Edit: but for what it’s worth even in this stupid example. To learn from experience that you must look both ways does imply you suffered the consequence of not knowing it beforehand. Be that being hit or coming close. Pedantic w/e

throwaway66920on Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

So did you get hit by a car before learning to look both ways when crossing the street? Or did someone tell you?

throwaway66920on Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

I grew up being taught to view elders as wise and thoughtful people who should be respected above all others. However my experience with most people over, say, 85 has been highly entitled, highly incapable, easily manipulated, and uninterested in doing anything but watching tv. Now of course, I recognize there are many old people who do not fit that mold. I also personally know plenty who are active and engaged.

But I also cannot think of anyone who fits that image of a sagacious, wise elder. Nor, upon reflection, do I think anyone I know, myself included, is likely to be that person when old.

I totally buy that wisdom accumulated in years 0-60. I feel it will on average hold or drop thereonafter

throwaway66920on NordVPN confirms it was hacked

I have a non technical friend who did this citing CNET. It felt like kind of a shit thing based on how it was being advertised, but I couldn’t actually see anything that warranted saying nord was bad.

How would have expressed this in laymen terms (before this compromised thing was revealed obviously)?

throwaway66920on Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red

It shouldn’t. Yellow lights are supposed to last an amount of time based on the speed limit at that section so this doesn’t happen.

Traffic simulations are generally quite complex. In your proposal, if your approach is not detected correctly, you either stop traffic for a car which isn’t there, or you never stop traffic for a car which is there.

throwaway66920on Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company

Boeing didn’t create the MCAS system because they thought it was a superior design or a labor saving mechanism. They did it to compensate for bad design of the physical plane.

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False advertising?