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Post by wpietri »

enko wrote: post #233
quinnchr wrote: post #230

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The real world? http://www.seductionscience.com/2010/negging-women/

Congratulations on discovering human psychology. I don't have a blog post at hand exemplifying how bosses "neg" potential hires to get them at a lower rate, but I assure you, it is a Thing. "Negging" is a negotiating tactic and you have failed to show how it is linked to misogyny in any way, shape or form.

If somebody harms people's self esteem to get something out of them, that person is an asshole. If that person is a boss, they are an asshole boss. If they are carefully studying how to be an asshole to women, I'm ok calling them misogynist.

I accept their rationalization might be different. But it always is. Everybody thinks they wear a white hat.

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Post by hacker789 »

wpietri wrote: post #310
hacker789 wrote: post #305

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This thread is not the place for a debate about whether life has historically been (or currently is) easier on men than on women. So I'll simply say that it shows a remarkable lack of empathy and understanding for you to call those desperate men who resort to PUA tactics "powerful". Almost by definition, they are acting from a position of weakness. I realize it's currently trendy to break the world down into large, t…

The "let's not argue, so let me argue just a little" is bullshit. As to your non-argument argument, I have plenty of empathy for the desperate. But I can still condemn them using what power they have to manipulate other desperate people. Further: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

> The "let's not argue, so let me argue just a little" is bullshit.

Huh? You tried to start an argument. I acknowledged it, noted my disagreement, and moved on. What's "bullshit" about that?

And yes, I've read John's blog post. He portrays the world through a remarkably lossy lens, and his pattern of gleeful refusal to look at situations and scenarios individually (e.g. male privilege at university vs. female privilege at university) leads me to believe he can't possibly believe a word he wrote.

It's masturbation material for himself and other extremely rich and influential white men to help them feel even more superior to their peers.

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Post by prawn »

jakejake wrote: post #301
prawn wrote: post #282

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Tipping etiquette is far from basic and almost downright intimidating. Even when I thought I had tipping at restaurants under control, I then lived in fear of embarrassing myself not tipping people in hotels and I'd stayed in a dozen hotels before I suspected that the maid cleaning the room expected a tip! Once got caught without change in a bathroom in a club in Hollywood and was so embarrassed that I handed over $1…

Restaurant tipping in the US is fairly standard and shouldn't be too confusing or stressful. But I know exactly what you are talking about with other situations. For what it's worth, Americans are sometimes uncomfortable and don't know what the heck to do either! Hotels can be especially confusing. Basically restaurants are the only place where tips are absolutely expected and you can make yourself look bad by not ti…

I've been to 30+ countries and the US is the only one where you'd need to research tipping beforehand. The notion that you'd need to hit up a forum to learn how to supplement certain wages in very specific situations in a hotel is pretty silly!

You even admit that locals barely know what's expected in some situations!

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Post by crusso »

e12e wrote: post #208
crusso wrote: post #158

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but I always feel very guilty every time I go, because I see firsthand how badly the staff are exploited You have to consider any situation holistically. What you call exploitation is often a tremendous improvement over the alternatives those folks have in their countries of origin. Go on the cruise, tip well, and be polite to staff.

> You have to consider any situation holistically. What you call exploitation is often a tremendous improvement over the alternatives those folks have in their countries of origin. To consider the situation holistically would mean to look at the global system of capitalism bootstrapped by years of outright colonization and exploitation that lead to the situation where doing low-skilled manual labour is considered an…

why delude yourself that exploiting people is ok

I don't accept your interpretation of "exploiting".

They have jobs. They get paid for their jobs. They're getting paid more by doing their jobs than whatever alternatives they had since this isn't slave labor.

You're redefining what "exploiting" means and you're casually throwing concepts around like the perpetual victim status of entire societies due to colonialization.

Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the USA were colonies too... we got over it.

If there's an evil in the whole colonial relationship, it's do-gooder Westerners who think they should care for and dictate to other societies rather than just letting them get jobs, sell their products, sell services, compete on the worlds stage, learn lessons, improve their lot, etc.

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Post by crusso »

pjlegato wrote: post #303
e12e wrote: post #273

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True enough. I've never considered socialism much of an alternative, but I do think both (modern) anarchism and communism holds great promise. As for the more fundamental question of "why can't we just all get along?" -- we'll just have to keep working on it...

Once, there was a peaceful anarchic village, where everybody was perfectly equal and there were no laws or rules. People shared everything freely and never fought. Then, one day, the neighboring village invaded, killed all the men, raped all the women, and enslaved all the children. That was the end of that. Even if somehow the whole world were to switch instantaneously to the state of anarchy, it would be a very sho…

I like the Communism on the horizon concept. I'm always suspicious of any government types who have a "better new way". They always have some new plan to get us to nirvana. That new plan always take a lot of funding, has no real scientific basis, no benchmarks, no accountability for the implementers, and no way to undo the damage once the plan fails. Despite the failures of similar masterminds in the past, the next plan will be the one that really fixes things and solves all our problems... always on the horizon.

it would be a very short matter of time before someone internally decided to take over and enforce rules with the threat of violence

Maybe, but then again that's what the conventional wisdom said about the Americans a couple hundred years ago. It was thought by intellectuals that so much individual freedom couldn't last very long. Yes, we've shifted pretty far toward socialism for the past hundred years. But I'd argue that if it weren't for the evil seed of slavery, we would never have had the Civil War and we wouldn't be dealing with the steady advance of the state.

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Post by AlexMuir »

mherdeg wrote: post #107
AlexMuir wrote: post #5

I too work from a lot of different places, but I find that I absolutely need internet to be productive. Pulling a Gem for instance, or checking Stack Overflow. My favourite places to work are all-inclusive holiday resorts. Lanzarote and the Algarve most recently. Being all inclusive means there is no thought process in eating or drinking. Nor any need to shop, clean, cook. The most difficult thing is finding out what…

Can I ask how you spend per day in Lanzarote? We were just there for a weekend and "splurged" on an €88/night property, but it seemed like we could have done just fine at €30–40/night. What an interesting place.

Probably around 50 EUR last time I was there, at a decent 3* all inclusive. In Portugal I was paying 60EUR a night half board at a five star.

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Post by e12e »

crusso wrote: post #315
e12e wrote: post #208

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> You have to consider any situation holistically. What you call exploitation is often a tremendous improvement over the alternatives those folks have in their countries of origin. To consider the situation holistically would mean to look at the global system of capitalism bootstrapped by years of outright colonization and exploitation that lead to the situation where doing low-skilled manual labour is considered an…

why delude yourself that exploiting people is ok I don't accept your interpretation of "exploiting". They have jobs. They get paid for their jobs. They're getting paid more by doing their jobs than whatever alternatives they had since this isn't slave labor. You're redefining what "exploiting" means and you're casually throwing concepts around like the perpetual victim status of entire societies due to colonializatio…

> Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the USA were colonies too... we got over it.

For Canada and the USA at least, I think it's a little strong to say that the indigenous inhabitants "got over it".

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Post by parasubvert »

tynan wrote: post #297
ceol wrote: post #213

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Nobody's buying it, man. PUA techniques are for the socially awkward the same way blown glass pipes are for tobacco smokers. What people claim and what the vast majority use it for are two different things. All you have to do is look at the OP's profile to find this picture.[0] That sure doesn't look like some poor bloke who has trouble talking to people. [0]: (slightly NSFW) http://www.pualingo.com/wp-content/upload…

I don't look like a "poor bloke who has trouble talking to people" because I learned pickup and learned how to talk to people. I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and be taken under the wings of the best PUAs. As a result I went from being a VERY shy socially awkward guy to being generally comfortable around people. Pickup changed my life for the better-- one of the best things that happen…

This echoes my experience with myself and acquaintances who learned pickup (though I only read a couple books). My fiancé even respects and uses PUA techniques for gaining social power as a female executive in a male-dominated industry.

The point is that at its best this stuff is about learning to evolve how you handle yourself with others to have more success in social endeavors. Ie. most things that don't involve staring at a screen.

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Post by GFischer »

yaddayadda wrote: post #293
stephen_g wrote: post #222

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Sorry on behalf of them! I knew about the tipping culture because my grandfather was a general manager for a branch of a US based multinational company and had to travel there a lot, and my father had traveled a bit to use scientific instruments there (like synchrotrons). But to the average Australian - we have a very decent minimum wage and ridiculously good penalty rates (like, work a public holiday and you get dou…

"...I think people just don't expect that the US would treat people so much worse than we do..." The US would be in much better shape if your expectation was correct. Sadly, many Americans [1] think that tipping is a good thing for servers because if they work hard then they'll get good tips. [1] I've lived in the USA almost my entire life, and have never understood why "we" are "Americans" when there are many, many…

Well, we call ourselves Americans too :) (here in South America), and we call people from the USA "Estadounidenses".

You might see on many left-wing president's speeches, they start with "Hermanos Americanos" ("American Brothers"), which definitely does NOT include the USA :P .

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