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  1. 25 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    90% of gen z have social media.

    ”mostly listening” is subjective. I’m not sure how you derived at the arbitrary number of 3 photos but go off.

    It’s not a scientific formula, just pointing out that the Finsta and public account mostly used for following and very rare active posting is a thing. They don’t use it like those of us who got Facebook with an .edu address did, it’s cringe to post a bunch of photos and stuff about yourself unless it’s highly curated because you’re trying to be a creator or influencer or something. 
     

    Anyway this is mostly orthogonal to the discussion. 

  2. Someone at the Columbia protest has a bright future making DoD slide decks. 
     

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    There is really weird overlap and interplay between activist speak, HR speak, and biz school process mapping gibberish, I’ve noticed. Total cultural domination by the MBA set. 

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  3. 24 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

    That was the crazier part to me as well. Having raised thousands of goats in my life, it makes no fucking sense. That describes damn near every billy goat ever. To do it right after shooting your puppy for doing puppy things reeks of her having gotten some sense of pleasure out of killing the dog and wanting to maintain that “high”

    Dumb AF, and also with the dog.  Take him to sale barn or slaughter and freezer him if it’s that big of a problem but “go the gravel pit and shoot him twice cause you messed it up the first time” is psycho behavior. 
     

    Sometimes country people do have put down dogs for killing livestock, usually getting in with newborn calves, lambs, and goats.  Killing a purebred wire haired pointer for killing chickens is nuts.  “We have a dog that’s not cut out for the working life, does anyone in town want a pet” is the solution. 
     

     

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  4. I agree with Helobious on this, many Gen Z folks are on social media but mostly listening. They’ll have an Insta page with maybe three photos and a few stories that they use to follow everyone, then have a small private page with a nickname where they post uncurated stuff for close friends. 

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  5. I’m even more mystified about the goat story. You decided your farm needed an intact billy and then you got angry when it became a massive stinky asshole that attacked anything that got near it? Why did you get and keep the goat? What kind of farmer are you to be surprised at this? 

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  6. 11 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    This thread on Twitter parallels this but from the whore realm.  She makes the case that one reason women are leaving the profession is because of decreased demand due to generational differences regarding sex.  Interesting angle that I never really thought of.  The Boomers were huge and seemingly DTF.  Gen X, while still DTF, is significantly smaller, but the Millenialls and younger just aren't as DTF.

     

    It is not an observation unique to me that the current social-political-cultural trends that you see among young people bear all the hallmarks of a Evangelical-Puritan Great Awakening just with all the Bible stuff stripped out and replaced with radical politics and social justice. But the OS is the same and the country has been due for one. 
     

    And that’s down even to the current poly fad. All those previous revivals were accompanied by weird sex stuff too, all the way from mortifying the flesh up to and including free love type groups that were basically the “polycule.” And in those, too, the sex was secondary to the ideology, just like when you read these articles about folks doing poly but seemingly never actually getting down, it’s the least sexy thing you can imagine. 
     

    Not many of us are ready to acknowledge that a lot of those prior religious upheavals were absolutely progressive and not reactionary.  It’s all even coming from the same place (New England and Mid-Atlantic elite circles, with parts of Cal as an outpost of the same group) and then trickling down and getting super enthusiastic once it hits the prole class.  And Puritan revivals generally don’t encourage horizontal dancing. 

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  7. 15 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/26/ut-austin-arrest-fox-7-photojournalist/

    Texas DPS could pursue criminal investigation into photojournalist arrested at UT-Austin protest

     

    The FOX 7 employee is accused of hitting a trooper with his camera, but the arrested man told reporters he was pushed and didn’t hit any officer.

    This is shithole country behavior. You have cops that do this type of thing everywhere but only the shitholes double down instead of just trying to forget the whole thing happened. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

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    AfD is completely lost, it is basically a fifth column at the leadership and insider level. Goes beyond Russia, too.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-afd-party-russia-china-spy-claims-bundestag/
     

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    The scathing criticism of the AfD comes after revelations on Wednesday that German public prosecutors in the city of Dresden had initiated preliminary investigations over allegations that Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s lead candidate for the European election, had accepted payments from Russia and China “for his work as an MEP.”

    But for the AfD, those preliminary investigations may be just the tip of the iceberg. Earlier this week, German police arrested one of Krah’s parliamentary aides over claims he spied for China.

    At the same time, Petr Bystron, second on the AfD’s list for the EU election, is also facing allegations, reported on extensively by the German media outlet Der Spiegel, that he received €20,000 from people with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to spread Kremlin propaganda.

    All these little populist-extremist parties on both the left and right across Europe are completely infected. AfD is getting the press because it’s in a big, capable country.  But all of Central and most of West Europe has collaborators in exactly the parties you’d think. 

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  9. 13 minutes ago, Bevo said:

     

    Life can get pretty crazy. I was a 22-year-old guy, pretty well built, muscular but not ripped. We were on spring break at Lake Havasu. At a drinking contest on the beach one day, I met a girl named Kimmi, and she was gorgeous - blonde, tan, ample breasts and attractive legs. Well, one thing led to another and we found ourselves back in her hotel room, going at it pretty hot and heavy. She taught me things I’d never even thought of, and the sex was incredible.


    Well, 20 years later, I came home, and my wife, who is a former ballerina, was drinking wine and having a good time with a new friend. I started drinking, too, and before you know it, we’re playing a game of Truth or Dare. Maybe we were drunk, I was definitely horny, and watching my wife, a brunette, talking to her friend, a beautiful well-proportioned blonde, and I thought. Well, you all know what I thought. So, I dared her to make out with me. At first she refused, and interestingly my wife got upset, and things became a little awkward. So, my wife's new friend gave me a kiss - nothing romantic more of a gentle kiss on the lips. But, it was really nice, if a little wet. I really don’t know what I was thinking at that point.

    At that point, my wife leans over and gives me a kiss too, and put her hand high up on my leg. I have got to say, I got a little excited. In the past, my wife was into more of the conventional stuff. This was way outside her comfort zone. I don't know really what happened next. Things got kind of lusty and we went to our bedroom and turned the lights low. It was freaking crazy. The best sex of my life. My wife said the same thing. Just fucking incredible.

    Did I mention, the girl's name was Kimmi? Similar figure to the girl I messes around with 20 years earlier. Was it the same girl? Did she look me up after all these years? Shit, I don't know what to do next. But, I can't wait for us to get together again.

    Type it again, but slower. Less information about what you looked like at 22. 

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  10. 19 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    It really hasn't changed in college.  My son and his male college mates had, "I'm in class, will call you later" as a cut and paste, and kept their phones on silent. He would not be able to hold down his job if he was still dating the last one. He is transitioning from dating college girls to dating women with jobs that understand that you have to be left alone during working hours.

    There still is hope out there. We won't be going on a dive trip this year, CHIEF Jr. is in three different weddings and a traveling bachelor party, and it will use up what little personal time he has earned at work. At 26 about a third of his friends are married already, with probably half in long term relationships. Mostly small town guys marrying small town girls. I would be curious to see if this is a more urban or rural phenomenon. 

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    That horseshoes back around once you get married. 

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Disgusted =/= afraid. OTOH, when you’ve got to go, you go.

    I worked at a Y in college as a lifeguard and lifeguard instructor and there was one old guy who would walk around stark naked in the locker room, and he’d go over to the hand dryer and use it to dry his junk before getting dressed. 
     

    For a while I’d smirk but then I realized- that old dude was more alpha than a passel of Andrew Tates (we knew nothing of Tate or Alpha at the time). 
     

    Log the fuck off and dry your ballsack at the locker room hand dryer. You’ll be owning life and a total boss. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

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    Teen or 20-something me would have been been in heaven to have access to the apps/sites that could make that happen.  Cheryl Tiegs’ swimsuit collection in the Sears catalogs could only do so much.  To be fair,if you gave teen me access to today’s porn…

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    This makes me sad. A locker room is one of the few places where you can publicly strut your stuff and not be arrested.  

    Our elders had some things rights. Back in the 956 we didn’t even have doors on the shitters in the locker room. And at a visiting locker room that will go unnamed (it was Weslaco), you didn’t even have stall dividers. Just a row of latrines and you sat side by side. 
     

    You cannot be a leader of men if you’re too afraid to crap next to them. 

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  13. 40 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    The girl in college that showed attention had slept with the offensive line of two separate universities so he definitely could have if he wanted to but he didn't have confidence to do it with someone that experienced. The out of his league girl was an excuse really.

    He’d have had a much better chance with the out of his league girl if he’d slept with the other one. 

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  14. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    We old farts have said it on here multiple times: bathe.  Dress decently.  Learn how to carry on a conversation with another real live human being.  Get out of your cave and be able to discuss something other than your latest Call of Duty escapade.  There.  That's it.  Do that, and you've already vaulted into the world of "dudes chicks will consider going out with."  The bar is pretty fucking low....but you still gotta clear it.

    One thing I’ve been wondering about has just been the general state of the young. There’s a college campus near work and I see young (under 30 people) and DAMN. They are a bunch more in rough physical shape than I remember. And I’m on the wrong side of 40 and absolutely in the zone where most young women look hot.

    And this isn’t just calling the youth uggos. I have the over 40 dad bod of a man who gets in three good workouts a week and likes beer and BBQ more than my workout. And I notice that if I let myself slack too much or go overboard on the beer and BBQ the mojo and drive goes down. 
     

    I don’t imagine that being super unfit at 23 and probably toking all the time and eating like shit is good for chasing tail. 

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  15. 5 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    I've been using the internet since 1989 when my folks got compuserve. I've been on the internet way, way longer than you. I've been on all sorts of boards, I quite literally grew up alongside chan culture and all that shit, when stuff like something awful was the nexus of the internet and fark was actually a thing. The default mode of the internet for 30 fucking years has been aggressive irreverence, "being serious sucks," whyucare bullshit. Perhaps, get this, we're fucking tired of that shit that you seem to still find so funny? Perhaps, just perhaps, it's not outrage culture that has lead us to where we are, but rather this worship on "funny above all else"? Because, honestly, what you find funny isn't. The vast amount of humor on this site is cringe-ass 40 year old tough guy bullshit.

    The vast amount of posters are cringe-ass 50 year old guys so we’re actually doing pretty well. 

  16. 6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    how do you feel about the inclusion of a Palestinian flag (and the fact that only one of those flags' people are actually, right now, currently being herded into camps and starved to death?)

    I have some pretty simple rules— don’t walk around with Nazi slogans and imagery. Don’t say or walk around with signs that have the n-word or nooses. Don’t use homophobic slurs. There’s just not a way to “context” your way out of it. 

    At best—at best—you’re being deliberately edge-lordy.  That’s maybe one percent of all cases, most of the time it’s just people who want to flout norms and decency and are excited to do and seek negative attention. There’s not a single reason to ever give someone with a “Final Solution” sign the benefit of the doubt. It’s pretty pathetic to trip over yourself to do so, and expected since you believe Hamas is an “emancipatory force.” 

  17. 32 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I don’t know, man. IF (huge qualifier there) the point is to use a very pointed phrase to call out the hypocrisy of the Jewish state appearing to be engaging in an ethnic genicide, that seems like fair play.  However, that sign is vague with regard to which country is/is not or should/should not be doing that to the other country. 

    It’s almost like— and hear me out— people are looking for ways to be ambiguous and put “Final Solution” next to Jewish imagery and they shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt.

     

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  18. 2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    You're incapable of looking at this issue objectively. There is no clear indication here that the term is being "tossed out at Jews" as you're claiming. The Palestinian people, huddled masses dependent on foreign aid due to decades of oppression and apartheid and, in the case of Gaza, life in an open-air prison, do not have anything close to the institutional power required to organize, much less carry out, a genocide.

    You are justifying shithead behavior in the United States.  The person who made that sign has the right to do it and he is also a complete garbage person and people who try to make up excuses for it are also garbage. 

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