Natasha Tori Maru

AI slop now. Thank riddence I binned google as a search engine over a year ago. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

I lean into this. Much more pragmatic take. Stripped down of inflated hype and dreams.

I use duckduckgo, startpage and kagi (paid though). I used to use Brave but it's been turd lately. Not sure what changed there.

Do I? Or do I have my own truth? If you haven't noticed, across our dialogue, and all dialogue with others on this forum, you rarely ask questions about others worldview to try to understand in earnest. Let alone mine. You simply never drop frame and insist on your own. Again and again. And again. And again and again. And that's fine, you can do that if you will. Because you won't ever abandon your worldview in earnest open enquiry, to really try to understand someone else's, you misunderstand others. And this is why you don't understand Ralston. You demonstrate it with almost every statement you make. You also ask others to teach you about Ralston through their own lens of interpretation. Further removing you from understanding him. My suggestion is, if you really want to participate in a real teardown of Ralston - you're going to have to batten down the hatches and read his books.

Respect. I must be shit 🥹

No worries ! Thank you for the support

It is part of the story he tells himself

Yep. Also he HEAVILY advocates for the need and (current gap) for strong male role models men can get behind. The role of "fathers" is really important. He doesn't advocate for returning to a previous system, or trying to change others. I like how he is more focussed on how men can cultivate integrity and worth through changing themselves and not blaming external factors. I think it is a self empowering message to run against the hopeless nihilism much of the younger generations are faced with in current culture. He emphasises how a lot of male suicide is punctuated common narratives around feeling "useless" and worthless. Pointing toward males having a deep need to provide value for their themselves as a natural manifestation of masculinity - and not because they are forced to be value providers by external incentive structures (that's not to deny there aren't significant external incentives at force, more that this is actually a positive masculine trait that produces positive self worth when fertilised). Less 'society needs to fix this' and more recovering male agency, meaning & competence. This is too simple and falls into the reductionist trap. He says alcohol is one potential way to assist with socialization but its a mechanism to loosen up - and there are others. You've also twisted his message of cultivating purpose and value into straight making money - he never claims this is the only way to actualise as a man. This is just your stripped down interpretation.

Okay Jan, go tell someone on the street they are dumb and see what sort of reaction you get. Nice mental gymnastics to justify doing whatever the hell you please. Not discussing this any further. You know the rules - do it again and test them at your peril.

I agree with this - it's a loaded term. When it's thrown around in debates like this, additional work has to go into stripping it of meaning that users bring, AND THEN reconstruct what others mean by the term. You double your work having to educate and redefine it. I don't ever refer to societies structures in a gendered way.

I agree. It reads like dead perfection of human prose. Like a simulacrum of a human mind's thoughts. It sticks from a mile away. I question a lot of its uses in general - is it enhancing our active participation in life - or is it removing us to be more of a 'witness' or 'observer'? We are devolving into spectator chimps of our lives, rather than chimps engaged and involved with the chimping

The internet has degraded in quality. Flood the zone with shit. Misinformation and disinformation is too widespread. Vetting is becoming harder and harder. I've been on the internet heavily since mid-90s when DIALix existed in Australia. It's been a slow boil. Reddit is actually foul. The group think there is really pervasive. And I swear to GOD LLM's are vomiting up consensus from that cesspool

Porn can be addictive. There is no arguing around this.

🫪🫪🫪🫪 Hur de dur 😃

@Willy Phallicus peace, dude. Don't let this scramble the eggs. It's just an online conversation.

Just don't be rude. It's not hard.

AGI talk gone quiet - isn't it supposed to be here by now?

@James123 I don't care. Observe the forum rules. Don't use truth to justify behaving in a nasty way.

Keep those nasty thoughts to yourself. Don't make such negative character judgements toward other users.

This shit is backwards. Biology and the differences between men and women are real. Some liberals and feminists live on other planets. I have no idea how these individuals come to these sorts of conclusions without group think and borrowing concepts. There is no critical thinking.

@Willy Phallicus I don't really care about continuing a dialogue with anyone so entrenched in a frame they cannot drop it for pure conceptual understanding. I'm literally too employed for this Peace

ROFL - that tender skin though?! Fucking nightmare fuel man if I tried that on my labia I would have nothing left but tattered curtains Yep thats what I would imagine would be the challenge. Maybe any other dudes might have advice? Respect though, a purists device

I use one - the drawback is you have to be very careful regarding angle, speed & you have to do multiple passes. The cheaper cost, and less wastage, comes at the cost of speed imo - a cheap bic razor or gillette turbochad razor is essentially providing a strip of lubricant and multiple blade passes at once (depending on 2, 3 or 4 blades in one). Fuck man you use it on your face? FUCK. That's so many angles to pass over. I would slice the shit out of myself. I already have trouble not dicing up my achillies due to the angles on the lower part of the leg. I have to be much more focused, mindful and attentive with the safety razor.

@Willy Phallicus Hahaha I don't have an axe to grind I'm trying to steer the argument to point out blind spots and fallacy (pointing out hypocrisy is a fallacious argument - you wrote the words, but don't seem to be able to understand what you wrote) - but I am not going to argue a case, because I know that won't work for you - you are, as I said, too full of certainty. You cannot fill a cup that is already full. These topics tend to devolve into straight bias. I am pointing toward areas that you need to inspect. And I am intelligent enough to know that insight is the only way for someone like yourself to grasp a counter point. You should be able to see both sides of a perspective and not suffer so much cognitive bias.