StringedInstruments

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Most of them are borderline retarded and unemployable otherwise.

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Is this the thread where we talk about why college is unnecessary and more people should just jump to the trades?

To live?

I love NYC way more than LA, but you can’t beat Southern California weather.

Just saw the video on X.

Holy frick. I consider myself pretty desensitized to all the bad shite you can find in the internet, but that got to me.

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Do people not recognize Layla Kiffin?

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Pretty funny how many he hooked with that one.

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Your thoughts? Anyone else here watch these videos and find them as fascinating as I do?

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I'm in my 40s, happily married with kids, and have no desire to ever go on the dating market.

I keep up with all of the latest conversations on dating stories, intersexual dynamics, and relationship statistics. It's fascinating to me to see how our society is shifting, particularly when considering the world my kids are entering into.

I think feminism has done good work in some areas. Women should be free to work, get educated, and choose the lifestyle they want to live. The opposite viewpoint would be akin to Afghanistan where women are completely subjugated within a patriarchal system. Those women need feminism, and their men need it as well.

The problem is that feminism--like most ideological and theoretical frameworks--splits into sections that favor extremism. I remember the 90s throwing in some jokes about "man hating" women. There was the Futurama episode of the Amazonian society where men didn't exist except to procreate. Or in Jurassic Park:

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Dr. Ian Malcolm: "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs."

Dr. Ellie Sattler: "Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth."

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In today's society, social media distributes such rhetoric with a velocity that is difficult to contain. There is a large segment of women who speak openly online about how much they HATE men. They are fearful of men. They believe men should be lonely or that they should disappear. They pinpoint isolated groups of men (who also suck BTW) who write demeaning and perverse comments on women's pages. Then they extrapolate the behavior of those small groups of men onto the entirety of men. They conclude that men hold no value.

There was a recent viral trend where girls would ask if it was worth it to get married. Plenty of single cat ladies would say, "NEVER!" But what was alarming was how many women would say, "I'm married to a wonderful man, and we're living a fulfilling life. But I would NEVER encourage a girl to get married."

Why?

Because they've been poisoned.

I think women have a natural disposition to desire caretaking from their partner. It makes sense, right? Women want to nest; men want to provide. That leads to an air of unaccountability because women want and will communicates those desires perpetually. In a harmonious relationship, men enjoy providing, and what might come across as "nagging" is actually an organic characteristic of building a family. It's not nagging when the partners are giving and taking with compassion, care, and respect.

When social media enters the picture, women are told they are they only ones giving and the men are taking. They are the only ones with compassion, care, and respect and the men are selfish, obstinate, and oppressive. They are the ones who can blossom in this world; men are merely hindrances to their ability to thrive.

Hence why women believe they deserve a 6-6-6 man. Because how else can they conceptualize value when they believe all men are worthless?

Anyways--I'm writing too much of an essay here. I don't think it's going to get better for a long time. And I do worry about the future when men feel so ostracized by women that they feel the need to retaliate.

Corruption in Slidell?!?!

No way.

TikTok has memes, funny videos, girls with big boobies, educational videos, fitness content, recipes…I’m struggling to see why anyone would not watch TikTok.

We have a gross issue in our bathroom. I have noticed an odd, musty smell for a few years since we moved in. It only flares up when it’s really hot outside.

I opened the light switch and found a mound of droppings. ChatGPT says it’s roach droppings. We did have a lot of large cockroaches in the house when we moved in, but Orkin took care of that problem.

I cleaned the light switch and sanitized with chlorox wipes.

It helped the strong smell a good bit, but the smell is still there.

Any suggestions?

I’m thinking about using a borescope to look behind the light switch box, but from what I’ve read, droppings typically fall to the ground.

Oh, and we had the attic insulation sucked out, vacuumed, air sealed, and also added blown in fiberglass insulation. So there shouldn’t be anything leftover in the attic.

There’s no signs of any active infestation anywhere.

I tried hybrid training for a while. I couldn’t get through it consistently. I’d squat or deadlift heavy and then my legs would be heavy sludge sacks for my run the next day.

I think if I had gone up to 4000 calories a day it might have been better. I didn’t want to gain body fat though.

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Never heard of her.

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I think she’s that cute mousy chick on Ted Lasso.

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Multiple tear gas canisters will get those squaters out pronto.

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What’s crazy is that you would go to jail for it,

I have no idea why our laws have made it possible for squatters to ever exist.