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My experience as an Australian work-holiday maker
At one point, the (male) professor said something like “But beyond all this, women are just better than men, and I think we all know it.” This offended me, and I fumed to myself internally, thinking that if he’d made the opposite claim he’d probably get in trouble with the administration of the college, etc.
He probably offended the feminists too. See feminists’ reaction to Roger Ebert’s “Women Are Better Than Men” column.
How are you going to pay for this?
Do you have any LW sockpuppets?
.I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a great idea killed because the project leader or someone else with veto power didn’t want someone else’s idea or someone else’s area of expertise to appear important.
The TL;DR of why I stopped quit my university’s atheist club.
But even if so libertarian ideals let alone practice are something we’ve been on net moving away from them on most matters in the past century at least, but moved towards them when it came to sexuality, this seems an anomaly.
In the United States at least, prostitution and incest were legal until the twentieth century. The trend towards consensual sex tolerance is young and could easily reverse.
You aren’t under legal obligation to have sex with your married partner,
That’s a grey area. Spouse visas, the biggest marriage subsidy, require you to convince immigration that you are having sex with your spouse. You can go to jail if the prosecution can prove you aren’t marrying your spouse for the sex.
Divorce courts can also punish people for their sexual behavior during marriage. If your spouse doesn’t approve of you sleeping with other people, ze can get a favorable divorce settlement that gives zir a larger share of the assets and possible child custody (even if your sex life posed no threat to your children). Not having sex with your spouse can also hurt you in court.
I’ve always found it funny how modern society is basically formally libertarian about sex and not nearly anything else.
Are we? Western republics put a large subsidy on long-term heterosexual monogamy. While the law is difficult to enforce, marrying someone without romantic intentions is a felony in the United States.
Age of consent laws are supposed to protect children, but selective enforcement is often based on the sex of the perpetrator. (The sex of the victim doesn’t matter as much. Men who sleep with boys generate about as much outrage as men who sleep with girls, while women who sleep with boys generates as much outrage as women who sleep with girls.) Sometimes the age of consent laws themselves are discriminatory. The US Supreme Court has held that because girls risk pregnancy, states can impose gender-based ages of consent even for oral and anal sex. And while we’re talking about anal sex, Canada’s age of consent is higher for anal sex than vaginal, unless the anal sex is between a husband and wife.
Incest laws are interesting because they contradict the progressive narrative of a widening tolerance for different kinds of consensual sex. Politicians speak of incest as if it were always non-consensual, such as when they defend abortion rights for cases of “rape and incest”. But even in cases where consent is recognized, this is not always a legal defence.
Can’t forget about prostitution laws.
Polyamory is legal if you don’t seek the government subsidy, but local regulations often prohibit too many non-relatives from living together. Actually, any alternative lifestyle can be crushed if it offends the homeowners association.
There is a blog that I would care never to read again, even in moderation. I added the blog to my localhost list so now I can’t visit the blog anymore. But my lizard-brain has found a workaround: if I google the blog I can read Google’s cache. Is there a way to block Google’s cache of the blog without blocking the rest of Google’s functions?
It’s not just a stereotype, it’s the (exaggerated) truth. For example, in polls about whether citizens approve of whatever war is happening that decade, men are generally more in favor of the war than women.
EDIT: Changed “not a stereotype” to “not just a stereotype”.
I am so confused by that second paragraph.
Then you get 7 points of counterfactual happiness on a 10-100 scale (Layard2005) twice, one instantly, and one after two years, total 14 points.
If the scale starts at 10, how to get to a 7? And where does the happiness come from? Does it come from having sex, or from not having a kid?
I’ve never been to Singapore but from what I’ve read they don’t hire many English teachers. (English is their official language after all). If you have a “third world” nationality it will be even tougher. Generally preference is given in the following order: American, Canadian, British, Irish, Australian, Kiwi, South African. If you don’t have one of those passports you would probably need to find illegal work.
Aaronde corrected me. I should have said “things that use your willpower”.
Yeah that’s a better way of putting it. Reading Less Wrong might be work for some people, but it’s not for me it probably isn’t for CAE_Jones.
If I ‘work’ for forty hours next week on reading LW
Reading Less Wrong is consumptive, not productive. You need to have something to show for your work, ex. a novel draft, a fitter body, a cleaner house.
If you want to accomplish anything in a post-forager society, you’re going to need to learn how to plan, and how to follow through with those plans. How are you going to get anything done if you don’t have the discipline to put in the hours?
And yes, self-discipline in one area is linked to self-discipline in another. You have a “tank” so to speak of self-control that gets depleted when you are doing something difficult, and gets renewed when you are resting or leasuring. Using your self-control in any area depletes the amount of self-control left for another. If you have small tank (low self-discipline) then you run out of fuel faster (you quit working sooner). In the long run though, you can increase the size of your tank by by doing difficult tasks, such as working for a specified number of hours each week.
Well yeah, maybe work your way up to 40 hours. But you should have an upper-limit on how much you work.
So using a little algebra, I’m deducing you’re 24 years old. You’ve got plenty of time to turn your life around. The most important thing is that you keep going.
I am not disabled so I’m doing a lot of other optimizing here. But this is based on what I’ve read from Scott H Young and Cal Newport.
Write yourself a weekly schedule. Commit yourself to doing 40 hours of work next week. No more, no less. The work can be anything productive, ex. writing fantasy, exercising, house chores. The important thing is that you learn the meta-skill of working on a schedule.
Once you achieve this, your confidence will rise and your obstacles will be easier. It is the first step of a success spiral.
Who the blazes upvoted this comment? I was hoping the troll toll would cut back on troll feeding, but it won’t work if people keep upvoting trollish behavior.
(And yes, sam0345 behavior is trollish, even if they earnest hold these views. There is no reason hijack a conversation about CEV into a MRA talking point regarding an explosive political issue)
Would one of the mods please kill this thread before we get a pile-up?
Edit: Looks like I’ve been karmassinated, as several of my old comments in unrelated threads are getting downvoted.
I don’t know what it was like in the 70′s and 80′s, but smart people seem to enjoy plenty of coolness today. I’ve seen people bullied for being gay, having poor hygiene, being poor, being opposed to pornography, and being too religious. But never for being smart.