Posts made by zawisza

@ilovethesea said in Women, and Why Men are the Problem:

Before forced conversions to Christianity women were revered for their wisdom and moral leadership.

The idea that pagans revered women more than Christians is wrong with exceptions being pagan oracles/shamans but that's hardly the kind of "reverence" that's in the question and it's similar to the role some Christian nuns played.

Truth is that:

pagans commemorated their own moms at twice the rate they commemorated their own dads

christians commemorated their own moms at four times the rate they commemorated their own dads

christians loved their moms more than pagans.

From: https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1780598601389154632
Based on: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/aa20d671-ac23-48bb-96eb-1538fc7de9dc/content

And:

More generally, women at all stages of life seemed to be treated very badly—starting from birth:

"But when a girl was born, the grandparents stopped thinking about her as soon as she was baptized. They did not even express any sorrow about her death. The young father, too, did not feel much regret over it."

"If the first child is a girl, the feeling in the family is mostly one of disappointment. One of the women might remark: “Oh well, at least she can be a nursemaid.” By the following day, no one gives a thought to the baby girl."

This quote is from book about russian peasantry from c. 1900 so one may argue that they were Orthodox, however, as mentioned in the book, they had little regard for religion and practically were atheist/pagan. In fact, most European peasants, both men and women, treated women terribly for most of the history. The only exception were places were Christian faith had strong roots in the community.

Even when women's role is reduced to childbirth and rearing it's still considered to be of much greater value in Chrisitan society than it ever was among pagans in most of the Western world.

@ThinPicking Indeed. But, at the same time, if you push pendulum far enough it will swing back; after decades of feminization people are becoming more and more misogynistic as a, rightful, reaction. So "misogynistic types" will be grow in numbers and @ilovethesea implying that women should be "revered for their wisdom and moral leadership" does not help with it - it's what got us here in the first place.

More than all, there is nothing more disgusting than female intellectual pride since it's what lead Eve to talk with the snake. Anyone with appreciation for beauty will recoil at such unabashed and grotesque statements about female "wisdom and moral leadership". It reminds me of Landshark's post "Men who appear to hate women merely hate promiscuity, because they love chastity and temperance", so women acting with restraint (in speech most importantly) is an essential step to fix the issue.

@ilovethesea This is historically illiterate take.

@DonkeyDude said in The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition:

I've also met children of total failures who still idolize them as long as the parent in question was even a little bit warm and loving.

Personally, I've never met someone who had any dislike for their parents unless they were divorced, addicts, or acting like children all the time. I think as long as parent tries to be better and spends time with children then it's very very unlikely that they will end up disliking him.

@DonkeyDude said in The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition:

Well, I'm returning to some kind of psychiatric care soon anyway, maybe it does help.

For the sake of my consciousness I'll add that it's very important to be wary of any psych meds and psychiatrists since very few have a moral compass of any sort, but you probably know this better than I.

@Amazoniac I don't find your comment sensible. He clearly have put a lot of effort in running this forum already. If you truly cared about these threads you would have archived them yourself instead of relying on someone else.

@DonkeyDude said in The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition:

What I'm really worried about is that they will hate us for having them. Despite lofty future prospects, their childhood will likely be quite hard and they will have to solve their problems on their own. In a sense, I fell like I'm passing my duty to secure safe and easy life to the next generation. That's probably selfish, and I probably overestimate the problem.

That's understandable, I would likely feel similar if I had a chance to have children today. I think this is something that a good psychiatrist could help with, though it will be hard to find one.

Personally, what parents did or failed to provide is never an issue as long as they're aware of their shortcomings and care and try to improve.

@noseleather said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

This is "lookism". It is attractiveness. This is the biggest and most important thing in incelism.

@mentzersmethlab said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

I didn't have a successful dating life until I did the work to become a man worth dating.

While it's not completely wrong, blaming societal issues on individual faults is short-sighted. People are more and more lonely in most developed countries which is partially why fewer people have children and more people identify as incel (and I don't mean by it a niche reddit/4chan community).

Blaming men for being ugly is not enough to explain the problem. One has to then show that the environmental cause for their ugliness dis-proportionally affects men over women as otherwise ugly men would find their solace in ugly women. Or show that ugly women no longer find ugly men to be enough as they have delusional standards. (Here "ugly" does not purely refers to looks, etc.)

More importantly, it ignores how courtship has changed in the last century. In the past, it was parents' duty to find appropriate spouse for their child; or, in poorer areas, often people married a neighbour or someone else connected to the immediate social circle. When family abandoned this duty people most often found someone through work or school. But myself and many have already finished school and work remotely. The only solution seems to be now to build as wide social network as possible and hope that a friend will set you up. After trying a few hobbies, I can say that it's extremely hard to do outside of a major city for many reasons beyond my control.

Moreover, as a Catholic, I would like to meet someone who is also a Catholic, but, after good few years, I have yet to meet a single women who regularly goes to confession, is not overweight, and mentally sound (this one is surprisingly the most challenging). Without even considering other preferences (e.g.: not zogged, kind, good looking) or that such a women would have to reciprocate the feelings, meeting one already feels impossible.

@Luke said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

To be an "incel" (how do modern people come up with all those fancy terms nowadays?), you would have to have severe erectile dysfunction, live in a very conservative country or be pretty poor (which, to be fair, is not seldom the case). Because if you want sex, you could always visit a hooker. If you don't want that because of moral reasons, which is perfectly understandable and reasonable, you're not an "incel". You've made a conscious and deliberate decision.

Overall, I may not be considered an "incel" by some since I could throw my dignity to a bin and go land whale hunting or pay a hooker, but such argument is an idiotic semantics game and ignores the fact that some people are not degenerates.

@DonkeyDude I'll take a different angle:

The nature of marriage is ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. One cannot then fully conform to the nature of marriage without children when he's physically able to have them.

It is then unethical to not have children in marriage.

@ThinPicking said in Automatic Periodic Archiving of All Topics:

@zawisza do you have a copy for your ML endeavours you could bucket? I'll try and set this up anyway, but it won't cover the past.

No. I won't be trying any time soon either.

@Mulloch94 said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

Some people say "well about Brave or Chromium" blah blah blah blah blah.

Other than fighting Chromium's near monopoly, Brave will be better for most people. Also, if you're paranoid, Chromium will allow you to blend into crowd better since it's more popular.

@Mulloch94 said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

Self-hosted is best

Why? Sure, it's "anti-big-tech" to self-host but it's not any more private or secure - in fact, it's probably less so. Loads of hassle and you won't be able to use encryption anyway. That's why Gmail is quite nice, because everyone has it and emails will be encrypted so only Google will read them. IMO, for most people, someone sniffing your traffic on your probably poorly configured email server is bigger risk than Google. It's not uncomman to be forced to send medical information or tax stuff through email, with Gmail it will likely be encrypted. I guess best is then to have Google and MS accounts and use the one that the addressee is using.

Using Gmail is also a constant remainder that email is not private and you shouldn't be using it for communication.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

more sex positive

This is gay-speak free zone. Go to reddit with stuff like this.

@ThinPicking This thread never was constructive.

@C-Mex I guess I was not only right about Zoominfo but also about the schizophrenia...

@C-Mex This is not at all comparable. Websleuths is owned by Websleuths LLC that is officially registered. RPF does not have any official ownership AFAIK like that.

Also it seems to me (although I haven't looked deep so I might be wrong) like they got the address wrong. There are only two LLCs in Texas with "Websleuths" in name: WEBSLEUTHS TCN LLC (active) and WEBSLEUTHS. COM, L.L.C. (inactive). Neither is registered under that address.

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

They get their info from business records, just read Zoominfo's website and they describe this.

I have read their blog How ZoomInfo Gets Data: Top Privacy Misconceptions Debunked and they never mention "business records" or anything similar. What they say is "Our teams collect data that is relevant for business professionals to connect with one another."

They collect business relevant data which is NOT the same as "business records" and it does not clarify anything about what and where from they scrape. From blog I first linked, they scrape the all web (not just "business records") and, as corroborated by their blog, they scrape free-tier subscribers' emails.

So, in the end, my hypothesis that they got RPF address from user post still stands above your conspiracy theory.

@yerrag There are two reasons why that might have happened: you run out of memory (see this post) in which case you should have had received an email (but maybe they bugged and "forgot" to send it); or there was some bug and your data was lost and then restored to some previous back up (see this). The latter is more likely if the PDFs were somewhat recently added (or reorganized in folders(?)) and older data is still there.

Unlikely option would be that they removed it due to terms violation as hate speech and misleading content is against terms of service, but in this case you should have too received an email.

Side note: it is funny how they state their ToS:

2. Program Policies
   We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our Program Policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review content, so please don’t assume that we do.

Please don't assume we scan your content but we will delete if it's not cool. Kek.

Anyway, software is shit. Buy a hard drive or two.

@C-Mex And you still have to answer how it is possible to scrape RPF org. address when it's redacted on ICANN? Where did Zoominfo get their address from?

If you can't answer that then your entire theory is trash. (It is.)

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

an impartial third-party business reporting site

Amazing how you're willing to defend Zoominfo just because your entire silly conspiracy theory is hinged on it.

Why do you so unquestionably believe in it? If it had even the thinnest connection to pharma and health you would be calling them liers and claiming that they're getting paid by Bill Gates.

You're too deep in it to even maintain a facade of objectivity. And all while crying "topic dilution" you've shifted the thread from Charlie and RPF to Wellcome whatever.

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

it would explain the absolutely bizarre circumstances surrounding the RPF

No, it would explain nothing. Why would a supposed malicious actor use address of pharmacology dept.? I know that you posted loads of supposed connections to the place but the person who would be setting up the honeypot would not be working in pharmacology dept. and, if as you insinuated he would be a state funded actor, he would know better than to use real address connected to him. Most likely he would make sure that any address used for registration is private, for example by using cloudflare... just like "Charlie" did which is why you have to resort to terrible services like Zoominfo.

To summarize, you are implying that the malevolent actor is at the same time connected to the best founded organizations (or government 3-letter agencies) with long tract record of censorship etc and at the same time he is completely incompetent to a point where Zoominfo can find out his true address.

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

My understanding it that the algorithms search business records and possibly business-associated e-mail addresses among other data, but not user content.

Your understanding is incorrect as I said before. If only you would have cared to read the article I sent, you would know that it compiles data in two ways:

• Scraping the web for company and contact information through their proprietary web crawler called NextGenSearchBot.
• Through email plugins that collect email signature information such as name, title, company, phone numbers and email addresses.

"Scraping the web" means that they are scraping everything in the forum including user content.

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

What if the intelligence agencies just didn't forsee what data the business reporting sites would be able to collect and aggregate?

In your spite you unquestionably believe some scammy data-scraping company that maliciously intersects users' emails and think that somehow they got one over CIA and other glowies. This is pathetic.

@ilovethesea said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Technique #3 - 'TOPIC DILUTION'

Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and non-productive issues.

Is this your attempt at this technique to redirect peoples' brainpower and waste it on such retarded topics instead of doing something helpful? Do you get paid for this?