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Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by wiseowise »

beebmam wrote: post #162
iamnotsure wrote: post #146

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No disrespect, but I am not sure if casinos are in the business of helping mankind. Therefore, it is not only the casino clients that behave badly. The fact that money changes hands means nothing.

Humans have some deeply self-destructive tendencies. It's not just a predator/prey or an oppressor/oppressed relationship. I'm not sure that if we ban all outlets for self-destructive behavior that something good will come of it. Offering some amount of consentual self-destruction is absolutely in the business of helping mankind, in my opinion.

Ludomania is not “outlet for self-destructive behavior” it’s a decease. Those parasites should be highly moderated, at the very least.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by mvncleaninst »

quacked wrote: post #121

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> "Woe is me. I lived as a night-walking member of the underworld, and although it was terrible I found it alluring, in a way". Yeah, everyone else who lived in that world justified it to themselves that way, too. You all deserve each other.

Maybe you should visit a massage parlor friend ;)

It might make you sound less pissed off... just a thought

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by vorpalhex »

gricardo99 wrote: post #118
vorpalhex wrote: post #100

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There's a community of people who really seek out "AI girlfriends". Once or twice a year I sort of peek in and see what they are doing. What surprises me is how bad the tech is. It's "mediocre chatbot" level currently and yet these people are VERY happy with it, spending hundreds a month and having all sort of custom artwork done. For a meaningful percentage of the pop, very low fidelity tech, even at an extreme pric…

that’s fascinating. can you point to anything where one could start exploring this area further?

"Replika" was the app most of them were buzzing around last I checked. There was some boondoggle with paid plans, I think the app had tried to focus on that subcommunity as whales (singly focused big spenders).

Probably start there and see where they've gone now.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by wiseowise »

projectazorian wrote: post #155
BlahNeedle wrote: post #150

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> Do you think in providing those things, men then become entitled to sex or attention? You seem to have skipped the take the risk of being rejected part of that comment when reading.

If the ego damage of getting turned down by a prospective romantic partner is a risk worthy of any note at all then you need to be in therapy, not on the dating market.

Ok, mr. thick-skin, not all of us are Supermen.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by jakeinspace »

ThrowAway1922A wrote: post #160
ink_13 wrote: post #159

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Is there no balm in Gilead? No value and no skill? My foot. There's more to life than generating value for the economy.

All animals can have sex, most without thinking. It’s the definition of skillless work when even a mouse can figure it out and most humans get it for free. Some guys are lonely and will pay for any hole to stick it in, but that doesn’t mean the work has any real value. Make no mistake that’s what they see her as, some random hole to enjoy and she’s trying to cope with that.

Classy

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by dotnet00 »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #170
beebmam wrote: post #162

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Humans have some deeply self-destructive tendencies. It's not just a predator/prey or an oppressor/oppressed relationship. I'm not sure that if we ban all outlets for self-destructive behavior that something good will come of it. Offering some amount of consentual self-destruction is absolutely in the business of helping mankind, in my opinion.

In my opinion, humanity would be better off fighting our self destructive tendencies instead of letting those with power take advantage of their situation and squeezing the ignorant dry.

Fighting them means offering less destructive ways to release those urges, and for the vast majority of people, that's what casinos are.

If we're talking about destructive urges, another popular one would be alcohol, and yet we have many many examples of how it needs to be accessible to an extent to serve as a release, even if sometimes it still causes serious damage.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by [deleted] »

selestify wrote: post #87
throwanem wrote: post #69

> I felt little of the camaraderie I once did while working night shifts. I’m unsure why I felt this dissonance, and it occurs to me now that it could have been more self-imposed than anything. I doubt it. I've worked days and nights at different times in the same place, at a couple of jobs in different parts of the country. There's a real difference between what people are like in the daytime and nighttime worlds, a…

What do you think causes this difference?

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Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by wiseowise »

XorNot wrote: post #154
trealira wrote: post #152

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I have to admit I'm a bit tired and don't know where you're going with this. They're not saying that making the first move entitles one to sex; they're saying the standards are higher for men. I do think that there are a lot of men who feel bitter that they'll never have sex with a woman, but I don't think anything in mainstream society condones such feelings. It's more of a subculture of lonely men turning misogynis…

The article on question here is literally about prostitution. Sex can be bought for resources, people are selling it - the world's oldest profession. It is also cheap. So the notion that the problem is "men who will never have sex" is fairly obviously false.

When people say they’ll “never have sex”, it means they’ll never have sex with a romantic partner that wants them as much they do.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by flangola7 »

lmm wrote: post #140
bell-cot wrote: post #129

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> Have men been told they're entitled... Well...it is nice that you seem unaware of Andrew Tate, and the millions of boys and men who are eager followers of him and similar creeps...

I've literally only ever seen him mentioned for the sake of ridiculing him. I'm sure some followers of him exist just as I'm sure some neo-nazis exist, but is it anything other than a tiny fringe of irrelevant weirdos?

His YouTube channel alone had millions of subscribers.

Re: We are all animals at night

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Post by wiseowise »

mvncleaninst wrote: post #182
quacked wrote: post #121

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> "Woe is me. I lived as a night-walking member of the underworld, and although it was terrible I found it alluring, in a way". Yeah, everyone else who lived in that world justified it to themselves that way, too. You all deserve each other. Maybe you should visit a massage parlor friend ;) It might make you sound less pissed off... just a thought

Are they wrong?
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