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Comment · 3 years ago
Fitting username, I suppose. If you imagine mine is "radicalrightist" then the above comment might be less surprising.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Coming soon: "I hired 50 people to do damage control and write flattering comments about me on HN"
Comment · 3 years ago
What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me:

>In the evening session with Hannah I picked up where I left off for my job and then went breakdancing. When I came back to my apartment, the internet was out so I read two chapters of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them until the internet came back on, after which I completed a lesson in the UI/UX course I’d enrolled in.

What a weird, weird detail to include.

Comment · 3 years ago
That doesn't follow. You were implying that the women are not aware of the men's motives, and going along with it out of naivety.

That your daughter is rejecting them outright would suggest that it's either a futile plan anyway, or that the women are already on to it so the announcement would be pointless.

Perhaps your daughter doesn't need or want to cash in on her attractiveness for academic favours. Others will, quite readily. Men sure as hell aren't saints, but nor are women.

Comment · 3 years ago
Adult daycare? An expensive way to delay the onset of adulthood a few more years? An elaborate proxy for an otherwise-prohibited IQ test?

Mostly it's a piece of paper. For many professions, no matter how pointless the journey, that's a very necessary piece of paper.

Comment · 3 years ago
Why would you think that?

Young women aren't oblivious to their own charms. They know what they're doing. They're getting free 1-on-1 tuition from a nerd, and the nerd gets to be within 3 feet of an attractive young woman - maybe even more than that, let's not be naive about college campuses - which might otherwise be impossible. Everybody wins.

You might even upset the women most of all! When the quiet part is said aloud, you take away their plausible deniability. You're calling them out even more so than you are the men.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's not binary. Mark Potok of the SPLC has a poster on his wall tracking the demographic decline of Whites in America. You don't need to look far - official population statistics, your kid's school, or your local Walmart - to see this massive, rapid demographic shift in action.

You're welcome to argue the absence of causation.

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