Balding to men is similar to aging for women. The more attractive folks take it badly because society starts treating them worse.
*the formerly more attractive folks
Social justice for the bald man
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Re: Social justice for the bald man
#72Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…
Then we have social justice for fat people, dumb people, lazy people, people with anger problems, people with personality disorders, criminals, and so on. Where do we draw the line? I argue we don't draw the line at all. Rather, we treat everyone with compassion and respect, and find / judge everyone on their true strengths and weaknesses (vs. those characteristic of whatever group they belong to). Discrimination is…
> i.e. you wouldn't let an idiot or a hot-headed person control a nuclear warhead
Uhhhhhhh… don’t pay too much attention to politics do you?
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#73Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.
It reminds me of a 'well done' essay by an unimaginative 15 year old honors student. Someone not talented or really smart, but someone able to grind out the work. Maybe not even unimaginative, perhaps they were given a task by the teacher write about a type of prejudice that affects our world and they came up with this as a way to subvert expectations. Although this kind of subverting expectations is also like the lowest level of imagination, which wouldn't matter so much if it were done well. But the essay is boring.
Assuming it was written by an adult I would not argue its merits, but make fun of it.
Assuming you are correct it is by an AI, which I think you probably are, it's pretty impressive - looking at this page https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html makes me think you are correct because of what it says at the bottom "Stakedy is a product from digital people within Celody. Celody is a digital world powered by music."
Re: Social justice for the bald man
#74It has nothing to do with being bald or short or tall or anything else. It has to do with other people needing to define their own self worth based on someone else’s traits.
Someone is bald and you have tons of hair. Boom, you feel better about yourself. You are super tall so you must be better than anyone else.
Don’t define your self worth based on other people. Base it on yourself and the life you are living.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
That story is about 36 hours old. Why would you assume there's manual manipulation to remove old stories from HN?
It's historically important, unlike most stories on HN which seem recently to be about navel gazing outdated hardware. But HN does HN - y'all are millionaires and I understand many topics of actual revelence to the majority don't have much affect on the nouveau bourgeoisie here who are primarily white, male, and straight. I guess I answered my own question. Good luck with being uncomfortable bald. Maybe it's not the…
The HN algorithm doesn't know whether a post is historically important or not. It knows the age and the votes (and some other stuff like flags and comments and the domain).
Re: Social justice for the bald man
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another theme I’ve seen is that games with a bad, brutish, or scary guy as a protagonist tend to have him be bald. My sample size is too small (just my own limited gaming experience) though so this might not be true if I collected data properly.
That makes sense, the levels of the androgens in "androgenic alopecia" they would have to get that much muscle (and that aggressive) would make Elvis go bald.
> the levels of the androgens in "androgenic alopecia" they would have to get that much muscle (and that aggressive) would make Elvis go bald
According to One Punch Man, the following daily exercise routine will make you bald (and more powerful than anyone else in the universe):
100 push-ups 100 sit-ups 100 squats 10 kilometer run
Re: Social justice for the bald man
#77Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.
Are you sure? I read https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html and it sounds like the articles are (or at least can be) written by people.
I am honestly not sure, but the article are at the same time all exactly the same and weirdly uncanny in how they resemble actual meaningful text, yet contain no actual information or meaning.
Re: Social justice for the bald man
#78I’ve had a few male friends approach me about my baldness and how I manage to live with it. Usually they’re noticing that they’re thinning or their hairline is receding, and they’re genuinely scared about what life will be like. I could take it offensively, but I started balding so early and I’m so used to it that I’m totally over it and I welcome the questions about their fate. It’s a little striking in some cases b…
I mean, some men can pull it off. Most cannot. I know I couldn't. I'm already unattractive as it is, being bald would be brutal.
If you have a pronounced jaw, strong features, you can do it. Weak jaw, receding chin, well ... not so much.
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#79As a Mexican mid-class bald, I can confirm we are seen with some kind of disrespect.
You have to get money, attitude or being smart to get some authority.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then we have social justice for fat people, dumb people, lazy people, people with anger problems, people with personality disorders, criminals, and so on. Where do we draw the line? I argue we don't draw the line at all. Rather, we treat everyone with compassion and respect, and find / judge everyone on their true strengths and weaknesses (vs. those characteristic of whatever group they belong to). Discrimination is…
This is the way.
this is a reddit comment and I have been noticing them much more frequently