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"This also illustrates how important good fathers are to young women. There are things that, for the most part, only a mother can provide for her children--but there are some things that only fathers can, and single-mother homes will be destitute of them. One of those vital fatherly things is a true understanding of male sexuality.

A good father won't let sleezy guys date his daughter, because, as a man, he knows their intentions better than she does. And sometimes it's necessary for a father to help his daughter(s) understand the emotional difference between female sexuality and male sexuality, because they're not the same."

Agreed. Although I do worry whether the men growing up today are aware of these differences so that when they become fathers they can impart that wisdom to their daughters.
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"Broadly speaking, Femininity is the wellspring of life itself, and Masculinity is the guardian of that wellspring that has evolved or been created to protect it, our societies are shaped by the interactions between them, walls are built to defend it. Modernity has forgotten the inherent value of femininity and forgot its roots, seeing women as interchangeable objects and men not as guardians but as disposable future-problems to be neutered and penned, though women are seen as just as disposable these days too but that's more at a surface level, deep down society / the public conscious still has a more or less subconscious rejection of that idea, stronger than the rejection of the masculine as men have always been the somewhat more sacrificial sex that has always been on the font lines and has risked death for the preservation of women and children. When the nobility and heroism behind that sacrifice is lost, men are left out to dry, and left confused as to the purpose of aggression and physicality as problems to be tamed."

This does make me think... have we forgotten these roots, if so... how do we remember them again?
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@Jagahati a little from column a, a little from column b

@Dan_Ramos 20cm in 120 years, not exactly" the day after tomorrow "

@Dan_Ramos nah that's what actually happened, but it's in mm, pretty tiny change

in the rest of the source article they bang on about how it's effecting people by the coast - erosion by waves and the sinking of tectonic plates are the reasons they give, which seems a bit beyond human cause

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@skells @augustus @lain

Definitely, for a long time he was the person I would most like to meet in real life.

Never meet your heroes, they say, I think it's also better to not follow them on Twitter either.

@jcbrand @augustus @lain I think he strikes a much harder pose in twitter

love his books though, will always have a soft spot for the guy, hugely influential in how I think/act

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@skells @Pat @lucifargundam

That post is a nice example of the level of understanding and sophistication of the average Covid vaxxer about the risks involved.

Like the polls that show how liberals vastly overestimate the lethality of Covid.

>In March 1939, Neville Chamberlain issued a war guarantee to Poland. If Germany attacked Poland, Britain would fight on Poland’s side.

>Fortified with this war guarantee from the British Empire, the Poles stonewalled Hitler, refusing to talk to Berlin over German claims to the city of Danzig, taken from her at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

>On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler attacked and Britain declared war, a war that lasted six years and mortally wounded the British Empire.

>And Poland? At Yalta in 1945, Winston Churchill agreed that a Soviet-occupied Poland should remain in Stalin’s custody.

@jcbrand @augustus @lain and he has a point
> I want to be able to be as flawed as possible while remaining antifragile
so on his own terms I'd say he's smashing it

the good thing about his methods is that they are robust to his conclusions:
youtu.be/gAlHjWctpLw

if you watch this and ignore his bias, keeping in mind what we're seeing in myocarditis and mysterious deaths correlated with the vaccine, the conclusion speaks loud and clear despite his opinion.

@Pat @lucifargundam your callous arrogance is matched only by your ignorance.

I wish you good health, in all seriousness.

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@lucifargundam @skells

Didn't know there were any anti-vaxers still around. I thought they all died off.

thinking about all the people who tried to push me to get vaccinated

yeah.

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