Last Notes
Yes. 😂
Well, political competitions merely are a subset of marketing, really. Marketing is a subset of rhetoric.
Listening to marketers is always so insightful because they understand decision-making more than anyone. How do you get someone to select something and feel good about sticking with that thing, instead of switching to something else or despairing that they should have kept looking for something better?
You give them a narrowed selection of choices, make the differences clear and transparent, and allow them to select the best of that selection. Then they feel satisfaction and that feeling remains over time.
Who is most unhappy with their selection?
1. People with no options.
2. People with too many options.
3. People who think they were tricked into selecting one option over another, better option.
I'm a whiskey, preferably Speyside. For those, that are wondering.
As you say, she was the one you found _most beautiful_ among a particular subset, rather than in comparison to all women on the entire planet. And you still remember that positive comparison.
With me, it was the man I thought was the _hottest guy on the village football field_. 😁
We are bi-winning, Robert!
And this explains why modern women often have such seemingly haphazard simply arbitrary "selection criteria". They have so many men to choose from (or, at least, that is how they feel the situation is; it's their subjective impression of the dating market), that they struggle to figure out which subset to choose from, so they just go for whatever they think might be generally attractive or create artificial criteria that are effectively random and irrelevant.
He must be 6 feet tall and make 6 figures, is the classic, as if a man who is then 5'11,5" and $99,999.00 in income would be completely out of the question. She wouldn't even be able to determine the difference, in actuality, and he could be quite far away from those stats and still provide her with the same "girlfriend experience". (Which is why so many men simply lie about it, as she can't tell the difference, anyway.) But men also get rejected for seemingly random, one-off things like, "His opening line was only mildly funny." or "He had some spinach between his teeth after dinner." or "He drives a Ford instead of a Toyota."
This "pickiness" is the typical behavior of people who have no branded sub-selection to help them make a decision. They start comparing the penny price per liter, reading the ingredients list and obsessing over tiny differentials like this ketchup as 14 g of sugar and this other one is much much better with its 13 g of sugar. Oh, I don't like the font on this label...
Yeah, that's why I'm spending the day thinning out my app. I don't understand what is going on, anymore, and it was starting to become a mysterious no-man's-land of contradictory spaghetti, rather than my own architecture.
I was thinking about what he says here, regarding decision-making, and how no one is truly happy with a decision until they have done a sort of market-survey to see what the various _appropriate_ choices are, on offer, and get to select the most-appealing one from among them.
Seems relevant to women's modern dating behavior. Especially in a country (such as America) with highly-anonymous and socially-isolated populations and no acknowledged socio-economic classes. That leaves women facing The Entire Male Population as the selection of _possible_ husbands, and each woman has to sort of sift through that mass of men to narrow down the _appropriate, possible_ husbands. And then she still has to test and examine from that narrowed selection, to find the one she can finally "settle" on. She has to sort of iterate her way down, and it typically takes years and lots of women just give up.
The more a woman is grounded within a particular class (subset) of the population, the smaller her iterations are and the faster she can discover the Final Four and then pick the one she likes best because he has the nicest teeth and goofy humour, or whatever the winning trait is, and finally move on with her life, with the feeling that she got a good deal within her personal budget.
Her dating experience is akin to the struggle to purchase a bottle of ketchup at the grocery store. There is no readily-apparent indicator for why one bottle is more appropriate than another. You can stand in front of that stand for 3 hours and just give up and go home without ketchup. Or you find some brand, that speaks to you because of some previous association, and then you just need to select one of their sub-brands, for a bit less sugar or curry-flavor, or whatnot.
Or, to put it differently, most women start "shopping", thinking they have champagne taste and a champagne budget, but they eventually get mistreated by enough champagne-guys that it finally dawns on her that she's more of a craft-beer girl, and then she can finally concentrate on picking her favorite craft beer and just ignoring the champagne stand. And then she finds a craft beer that looks appealing and happily heads to the register.
What social classes, religious sects, guilds, villages and neighborhoods, and similar subgroups provided, was the ability for craft-beer girls to start out looking only at the craft beers and ignoring the champagne. If you were the miller's daughter, you would tend look around at the various miller's sons and throw a fit if your parents tried to pawn you off on Tom Miller instead of Stefan Miller. That was the hill you were going to die on and if they acquiesced and let you marry Stefan, then you felt like you were winning. That someone else was marrying the king, was something far off, abstract, and completely irrelevant to your own existence. At the most, you were eying the butcher's son and weighing if you could level-up like that.
Other something vaguely like that.
https://youtu.be/QBznUHAopxU
#society #dating #marriage
🤣🤣 hilarious confusion
I'm a bit ambidextrous, yes.
You see that zap? I don't even remember making it. Primal just put the zap button in the main scroll path. 😏
#nevent1q…wefc
Happy Mothers' Day, to you, too!
It's crazy, the sort of freakish side effects that can plague people after injuries. 🫂
Of course.
> Modo fac, id quod est humanitatis tuae, ne quid aliud cures hoc tempore, nisi ut quam commodissime convalescas.
Congressional hearings. I assume it's sworn testimony, but nobody seems to go to prison for purgery, anymore. I guess he can claim that he managed to revise his testimony during the hearing, before she submitted the next bit of contradictory evidence.
And the Fed chairman hasn't even changed, yet. This is still the relatively conservative one.
Decided to finish it and write about it.
#naddr1qv…vluz
I made it nearly halfway through, but she talks like a deranged crack hoe, so I think I'm going to listen to the podcast about Moldova, instead.
https://youtu.be/kaOq_VmWqSo
https://i.nostr.build/IJGsMatEqNObvT3R.webp
Found it. The stats are hilarious.
https://youtube.com/shorts/NjgMR-IsOGQ?
#USA #politics #Bayer
Still plenty of money. It's just more concentrated.
Well, corruption eventually becomes endemic.
The French and German soldiers were way better than the mercenarial Africa Corps (formerly: Wagner). If nothing else, they weren't using the local women for sport and only goodness knows what all else brutality they are now notorious for.
#Mali #Africa
Oh dear. I made the mistake of searching for the definition of that term. Thanks for the knowledge. I guess.
Yeah, but the premium users are mostly married men, apparently. They're also the richest demographic, so it makes sense that they're spending the most money.
Sad, tho.
That's a pathetic thought.
I wonder how many of these women are AI? Seems like an easy exploit and many men don't seem to mind that everything is just made-up.
Like a sexual video game.
I was trying to put the sums into perspective against the size of the adult male population, but it's true that it's not so evenly distributed.
Americans spent over $2.6 billion on OnlyFans, last year. That's about $23 per adult male.
#society
To be fair, we often found the human slop, but bug-fixing is expensive and tends to create new bugs, or would be obsoleted by tickets in the next sprint, so we sometimes just left them in.
We had entire boards full of known-bugs that would not get fixed. Those boards are probably 10x longer, now. AI bug report spam.
Wow, thank you, guys! 😊
And a special thank you to @npub1gmh…94ea, who got our Geyser fundraiser filled up. The guys are all animated, now, and things are finally moving.
https://media.tenor.com/lab8sFoR-6sAAAAC/hearts-taylor-swift.gif
Oh, duh, I was trying from my PWA. 😂
Woops.
Computers are hard.
GitRepublic 0.1 and Alexandria 0.2 are server-first tiered, engineering projects. Which is a lot more work, a lot harder work, and a lot more time and money. But, it's worth it.
We have prototypes up, but this stuff won't be very smooth until we focus on the data-engine and the machinery.
And my task for next week is to reparse the Project Gutenberg database and get it into wss://theforest.nostr1.com. I had it up on my Orly, a couple of months, ago, but I took it back down to rework the parser, and then decided to wait for @npub10np…tl5h to make his server really ginormous because we need a ginormous server because TheForest 🌲 is friggin ginormous.
Wer heute Floriansfest nachfeiert:
**Schönen Gruß und frohes Fest!**
> Gott zur Ehr, dem Nächsten zur Wehr.
https://www.feuerwehr-bubenreuth.de/images/Sonstige/Verein/florian-front.jpg
#christian #catholic
I will see it on mine. I think Amethyst users also see it.
Christianity has no struggle with extra-terrestrial life. It'd be a theological curiosity, is all.
I might try to get my personal Alby working, again. It comes with a Bitcoin on-chain wallet, which is convenient.
I couldn't afford to keep opening channels.