aboycanakwqysdream: sarpedom: ...: " I don’t really believe in authenticity as opposed to artifice, but that’s a philosophical distinction...
The point is not about the look or the makeup. It’s about the effort. Why should I work out? My muscles aren’t authentic, I didn’t get them sitting at my office job. Why should I learn a second language? It’s not authentic, I didn’t learn it growing up, I studied it in a classroom. See, when you apply that logic to literally anything else, it becomes transparently false. Sure, there are women who can be gorgeous without makeup. And men who can be ripped without spending a day in the gym. And people who can start a successful business without ever going to college. But let’s be real - you and I, we are not those people. They are the exception, not the rule."
Seems Legit.
Seems Legit.
Insectoid preying mantis machines told me that everything is made out of magic. — SUPERNATURAL RIVER
Secret Law is Not Law - Boing Boing: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn is on fire: "Let’s be clear: Under international human rights law, secret “law” doesn’t even qualify as 'law' at all." The US Government and agencies like the DEA, NSA, TSA and FBI conduct mass-scale domestic surveillance on the basis of laws whose interpretations are held to be state secrets and matters of national security. From No-Fly lists to the FISA court, the US has adopted the principle that you are not allowed to know the law, but if you break it, you will be punished under it...
The breadth of the secret law is astonishing. For instance, only after the Snowden revelations did the government first admit its legal theories -- that its mass spying relied on outrageous secret interpretations of section 215 of the PATRIOT ACT and section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act -- neither of which even mentions mass surveillance much less authorizes it. We also now know about the NSA’s domestic telephone records collection and a past program that collected cell location information but we still don’t know the NSA’s full use of section 215...
Sometimes there’s no “law” at all. The NSA’s foreign collection processes, which are much more extensive than their domestic collections, are only ostensibly justified by an Executive Order, currently Executive Order12333. While E.O. 12333 is public, it’s not law at all and it certainly does not mention mass surveillance of millions of innocent people around the world. None of the government’s legal interpretations of it are public either. We've now seen evidence that this non-law with secret interpretations is the basis for the NSA's mass surveillance of communications not just in one place, but at nearly every step of their journey: from remote access to computers, to man-in-the-middle attacks on messages in transit, to attacking direct service providers like Google, to tapping into the undersea cables."
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Stereotypes exist for reasons. Studies show: Men are superficial, attracted to beauty, youth & cheerfulness. Women are attracted to bad boys, guys who don't like them back, married men and status. It's worldwide/cross-cultural and lasts until you die. The science of sex: 4 harsh truths about dating and mating - The Week: "To make the best decisions, we cannot delude ourselves. I've posted many studies offering hope and inspiration but to be honest and fair, we also need to look at facts about people many like to deny. And that's where the science of sex comes in. If you wish to retain illusions that the realm of sex and relationships is pure as the driven snow or that outside of physical dimensions there are no fundamental differences between men and women, turn back now as I am about to open a large can of peer-reviewed whoop-ass. Naive romantics, I warn you one last time: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE...
Those things we say we hate actually make us more attracted to people. When someone plays hot-cold, keeps you guessing, makes you constantly uncertain? Yeah, that makes you even more attracted: Participants in the uncertain condition were most attracted to the men — even more attracted than were participants who were told that the men liked them a lot. Uncertain participants reported thinking about the men the most, and this increased their attraction toward the men. [Psychological Science] Playing hard to get? It works. Had it up to here with narcissists? No, we haven't because they really are more attractive. You know what we like about them the most? The worst parts — their entitlement and exploitativeness: …narcissism leads to popularity at first sight. Second, the aspects of narcissism that are most maladaptive in the long run (exploitativeness/entitlement) proved to be most attractive at zero acquaintance. [Journal of Personality and Social Psychology]
...The science of sex tells us that the romantic comedies lie. Sex is an area where nice guys do finish last: In one survey of men, Trapnell and Meston (1996) found that nice guys who were modest, agreeable, and unselfish were disadvantaged in sexual relationships. Men who were manipulative, arrogant, calculating, and sly were more sexually active and had a greater variety of sexual experiences and a greater number of sex partners. [Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy] Women are very often attracted to bad boys like James Bond. In fact, research shows young women sometimes prefer out-and-out jerks: In the end, young women may continue to claim that they find certain qualities in a "good guy" nice guy as highly desirable and that they want to be in a committed relationship with one man as their ultimate goal, but, at the same time, they seem content to spend "the meantime and in-between-time" going out with fun/sexy guys who may or may not turn into "jerks."
...Happy guys, it seems, can be a turn-off: …happiness was the most attractive female emotion expression, and one of the least attractive in males. [Emotion]
...What do studies say can make a man more attractive? Among other things, a flashy car and throwing money around. Yes, that works. Women find married men more attractive than single men: …a group of women again rated photographs of men for attractiveness. The photos were accompanied by short descriptions, and when the men were described as "married," women's ratings of them went up. [Connected] And they find sexist men more appealing than non-sexist men, too...
Little of the above will be changing anytime soon. This is the science of sex, not the culture of it. Most, if not all, of these things are true around the world. In a study of over 1000 participants in three dozen cultures it was consistently found that men are focused on looks and women on status: Several standard sex differences replicated across cultures, including women's greater valuation of social status and men's greater valuation of physical attractiveness. [Personality and Individual Differences]
But we grow out of it, right? Nope. Our tastes do not mature as we get older: In fact, when men and women are in nursing homes, the guys are still looking for hot younger women and the ladies are still interested in men of high status: Across the life span, men sought physical attractiveness and offered status-related information more than women; women were more selective than men and sought status more than men. [Psychology and Aging]"
Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'They will open the gates of hell', 'This is ISIL versus mankind': "It's not just that ISIS is a threat to the region. It's not just that ISIS is a threat to America. ISIS is now a threat to all life on earth, or at least all human life. They are the hell-bringers. They are Ebola, plus the Nazis, plus a comet strike.They are catastrophic climate change, except Sen. Lindsey Graham believes in them...
It's like the Lindsey Grahams of the world cannot exist without the Next Hitler. There always has to be another Hitler, at every moment, and we are always on the cusp of national or worldwide defeat by that Hitler if we do not respond with military resolve to every last thing, except the things we are not supposed to respond to because that would be interventionism, and if you have been able to discern a pattern between the two other than "does a Democratic leader support the thing?" then you need to write your theory up as a comprehensive explanation so that the rest of us can award you an applicable Nobel Prize."
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