How much is a little girl worth?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T17:24:19+00:00

I've never been judged so hard for simply wanting a housekeeper before.

I'm not being all that serious here.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T17:03:07+00:00

Nah it's cool, I barely ever met her. I went because the family would all be there. It was like a little fun vacation for me.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T16:54:08+00:00

Always keep them guessing.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T16:35:28+00:00

I've watched it several times now and I don't get that impression at all. He's prepared for the question. The things he is saying are not off the top of his head.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T16:12:47+00:00

I... just don't want to overpay.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T15:10:57+00:00

Hmm, two grand?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T15:01:13+00:00

I went to PA because my aunt died.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T14:54:09+00:00

It's hard to read with those colors.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T14:36:32+00:00

This literally just happened a week ago to an older unattractive white woman who was also killed by her boyfriend and absolutely nobody gave a fuck. It's in one of my comments from the other day, I'll have to go look.

I am not saying it's a pleasant truth, but people do care because she's attractive. I don't personally wish I could have sex with her, I mean she's a goddamned kid, but it's just she had a lot of potential that's wasted. You can go far on a pretty face.

And people wouldn't care if it was a dude. I don't think race though has anything to do with it, a pretty minority girl would get attention too.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T14:27:48+00:00

This attack kinda seems like terrorism.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T14:15:16+00:00

Well, Tuesday I flew back home. So many people today don't remember when flying was a pleasurable experience. I was searched and patted down. Luggage searched. My cigarette machine is kinda weird looking on x-ray.

For $60 extra bucks I get to have a seat that my legs fit in. The seats on the shuttle were more comfortable, I need to bring padding next time. And you're jammed into the passenger next to you, luckily the return trip the seat was empty so I didn't have touch anyone shoulder to shoulder.

The flight up there was a woman next to me, that's slightly less awful because they're smaller. But two men next to each other in those seats is really more contact than I want from a stranger.

It didn't used to be like that at all, used to be more like what they have for first class now.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T13:58:05+00:00

Yeah, his family seems complicit too.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T13:54:58+00:00

Expensive toys are expensive.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T13:46:57+00:00

Exactly. People just need to accept that's everyone cares so much. They don't have to like it but they can stop bitching about it already.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T13:41:52+00:00

It's white text on a purple background... With green titles. You would have loved MySpace.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T13:10:27+00:00

My cousin looks like that and he's in insurance. Unless that's his cover story 🤔

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T12:52:49+00:00

And perhaps the most important takeaway is that this means PBS is compromised. Gates just bought an ad--this-- on PBS. That's fucked up.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T12:50:53+00:00

It's to make Gates look better, damage control. He didn't say anything new, he just pimped his charity -- AND if you recall Gates was once criticized for how little he gave, that's why he made his Gates Foundation in the first place.

He repeated the same thing that's already been approved for release about Epstein while seeming uncomfortable about the situation, which he was probably coached to do. To make him seem more human and relatable. The message seems to be: Here's a bad situation Gates kind of stumbled into, but it was for a charity, and he really didn't do anything wrong.

Now that might not work on you, you see this video as confirmation of your own beliefs, but you're not the target audience. People on the fence are. People without strong feelings on the subject anyways. It seems like a reasonable explanation if you don't really care one way or the other.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T12:17:23+00:00

Are you people seriously falling for this? He approved the questions beforehand. This is PR on PBS because his foundation is a sponsor.

This wasn't a gotcha, this was planned. Think about why they did this.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T12:10:15+00:00

I'm sure that exacerbated the situation, but conscripts would have joined the army willingly if they had actually wanted to be in a war. Same issue in Vietnam, except nobody wanted to surrender to the the VC.

It's one of the big advantages of using volunteer armies instead, the officers don't have to constantly force men to be somewhere they don't want to be, doing something they don't want to do.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-23T00:06:32+00:00

I'm not sure they were trying too hard, my great uncle was drafted into that army. He surrendered the first chance he got.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-22T23:57:56+00:00

Internet women come and internet women go. One day you'll be laughing about this with #15.

You should stop being so negative, or at least stop sharing it, for your future interpersonal relationships if nothing else. This girl liked you and it was too much for her, people who don't like you want to deal with it even less.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-22T23:16:20+00:00

I wrote that a year ago.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-22T20:24:46+00:00

Now she's gone for 6 months for somethin because of an argument and thinks coming back after 6 months is gonna help heal the relationship lol

They don't do that for the relationship, they do that so they can see if it works out with a guy they met. Probably picked the fight that started your argument.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-22T13:11:14+00:00

I love garlic, that's already a staple in my diet. I've noticed that my BP actually gets a little low if I drink tea, I assume because of its mild diuretic effect. Specifically Jin Xuan tea, milk oolong, although I don't know if that matters.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-22T06:50:06+00:00

That's why this is such big news, truthfully. It's called pretty white girl syndrome although this wiki article was renamed to be more politically correct. Lots of women get killed by their boyfriends, like Janell Ferrara a week and a half ago, that don't become huge stories like this.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-21T22:36:34+00:00

High blood pressure runs in my family, it's not something that can be fixed with diet and exercise. Pharma is shady af but not all medicines are bad.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-21T00:40:42+00:00

If 95k people need to die so I can have a beer, so be it.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-20T18:29:35+00:00

30,000 to 100,0000 years apparently.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-19T12:45:57+00:00

Heya Noam, how's it going?

Hope you're feeling ok

I run on medications now, bring on the Covid.

Are they salty sailors, or psalty pirates?

Teens, it's all about teen sexuality. Well, at least adults playing teens wrt to the movie. Weird at my age to think about.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-19T12:07:22+00:00

Don't worry, they don't let me fly the plane.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T14:14:10+00:00

She's cute.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T14:08:53+00:00

Fear Street series

She was in Fear Street? Totally missed that. I loved those movies even though they're geared towards the YA crowd. I used to read RL Stein as a kid, including his Fear Street books.

Thank god the movies hired all legal age actresses too, it wasn't an accident there's a lot of prominently displayed boobage and mild sexual themes. It fits with the author's books.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T13:49:43+00:00

Tylenol, I'm pretty sure, has killed way more people than the vaccines. Just food for thought.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T02:49:22+00:00

I don't know anything about my own slavic culture beyond Wigilia and Gołąbki. What is the significance of different geographical locations of slavic peoples? I have never identified with Bulgarians, Serbians, or Macedonians though. Never thought to.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T02:24:48+00:00

I don't know why you feel the need to share your personal dislike of posts instead of just skipping past them, but the proudamerican.site has been an issue lately. We could have automod remove them, but they're popular.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T02:15:06+00:00

There's no video, the link just points back to itself, so I'm going to remove this.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T01:49:20+00:00

Sedation sounds nice at least.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-18T00:40:44+00:00

I have no idea, never heard of one but I guess there's a first time for everything.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T11:34:06+00:00

Okay, I didn't think there were any lyrics but I'm not going to delete it just because the title lies.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T11:26:03+00:00

Just block people you don't like, it saves everyone a headache.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T11:17:43+00:00

You're never going to get invited to the really good parties with that attitude.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T11:10:25+00:00

Those videos are hilarious but it's always just ~20 college students from conservative colleges chanting.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T11:05:26+00:00

Can't blame ya there.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T07:05:11+00:00

I'm just curious if there are any guys here who are into geek fandom and how being gender critical has affected things for you.

You mean incels?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T06:59:14+00:00

Her husband is a pedo with a record.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-17T04:46:39+00:00

I constantly get angry low-POD responses from users like Chipit

I get that from Chippy too, and I already lost my temper over it once. I don't comment on his posts anymore. But he's a good contributor even if I'd rather go to a dental appointment than talk to him, I still upvote his stuff I like.

I'm sorry you were removed as mod, I think you did a great job although I get what Axxa is saying, you do get in a lot of protracted fights with people and these are people you now have power over.

On the subject of post removal, I don't think that was a big deal but I don't think that's what this is about either. Although there's really not enough volume to be caring much that 5% of the posts are dupes. Either way I mean.

We do have different ideals of moderation. You seem to want a heavily curated space, and that's fine, but there's already so many of those out there. I favor a more hands off approach, let the people decide what they want to see and not have me tell them what they should see.

One isn't necessarily better than the other. It's just we already have so much of the one and so little of the other.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-16T23:33:08+00:00

You shouldn't need to tag, Op will get top level replies regardless.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-16T23:28:38+00:00

People are quitting one place to go to another though, lateral move. Mostly, some won't take the vaccine. These places were already run without excess staff is I think the underlying problem. Any place that wants to add experienced staff has to poach it.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-15T21:32:35+00:00

The vaccine doesn't prevent the variants very well, but the hospitals are full and they're so short on staff they're paying ridiculous bonuses right now.

The vaccine may not work on prevention but if it helps reduce hospitalizations it's a good thing. That's the logic anyways, it's pretty simple.

I'm not shilling for the vaccine, this situation indirectly benefits me.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-14T22:20:30+00:00

Have you ever maintained a pool? It's a lot of water, you don't just dump it like old bathwater and refill it, you treat it constantly and that's a fairly intensive process. The goal is how do you turn that muck into crystal clear clean water.

I think that's an interesting topic because I have maintained a pool and it's a pain in the ass even when it doesn't look like a swamp.

I figure he'd probably want to use a flocculant to drop everything to the bottom, sweep it out, shock it, probably fucking repeat that until it's clean again with lots of filter cleaning in between. It's a lot of work, probably a multi-day process.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-14T21:24:02+00:00

Hmm, stuff we rely on from China for we can't get. We really need domestic production of essential items for national security if nothing else. From zippers and steel to plastic and computer chips. Yeah, we can't do it as cost effectively as asian nations, but if we don't, they can hobble our economy whenever.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-14T21:18:12+00:00

They said this last time.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-14T20:15:09+00:00

I'm familiar with the saturated fat argument, that doesn't run counter to anything I said. That's adding to the subject, thermodynamics still applies, you can't lose weight without a calorie reduction. But some things make dieting easier, like avoiding carbs.

The video, I just spot checked it, is a little misleading in that while fats are essential, you get all the fats you need without trying, even on a low fat diet. 10% of your calories, as a rule of thumb, need to be fats for proper hormone regulation. But log what you eat and tell me you ever need to add fat to hit that goal, it just happens.

Also, protein is the best fuel imo, not fat. Really easy to test, eat the same amount of calories for dinner two nights in a row, once with just bacon and once with just chicken breast. Say 500 calories total. That's like 6 pieces of bacon vs. 3 chicken breast halves.

Although whether saturated fat is not as bad as we thought is an interesting argument. I don't think anyone can claim to be 100% certain about that. Nutrition is just very difficult to be certain about anything because of all the variables and the most effective tests can only be done on animals.

Personally I'm for running a dietary experiment on prisoners, allowing them to opt into a dietary study where they'd eat much better food than typical prison fare, but wouldn't have access to the commissary or outside food. We could experiment on large populations controlling everything they eat, and everyone benefits.

I know experimenting on prisoners is iffy.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-14T00:17:32+00:00

Obesity can be cured by simply jogging three miles a day and eating a balanced diet

Jogging 3 miles is going to burn about the same calories walking 3 miles will. It seems counter intuitive, since the latter is less intense, but it takes longer. Obese people don't need to become skinny people with fucked up knees.

Also that's burning roughly 300 calories either way, or about two cans of soda, or 4 cookies. It is so much easier just not to eat that in the first place than it is to exercise.

All people need to do is not eat as much. It doesn't even have to be a balanced diet, you can whatever (even those cookies and soda) as long as you're at a caloric deficit overall.

Although some foods keep you full longer and it's absolutely miserable to try to eat at a deficit and fit crap foods in there, you absolutely can do it in theory.

The whole point is, your biggest asset in losing weight is your basal metabolic rate (BMR). Exercising, besides marathons and mountain climbing, is a pittance compared to what your BMR does even just sitting on your ass doing nothing.

People don't know this. I did not know this for a long time. Even in school they teach nonsense about it. Dieting is a big industry, so there's even more deliberate obfuscation going on there. Add to that the move against fat shaming, we try to pretend fat can be healthy.

But it is a basic unavoidable truth: If you are fat it is because you eat too much. Full stop.

Losing weight is unpleasant, like quitting a drug, so people look for gimmicks to make it easier, like quitting a drug. You just have to want it enough.

If your monkey bar moat plan goes through I'll probably just invest in a trebuchet.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T18:28:48+00:00

I can't even believe some of the shit I write, but out it comes. I feel like Mel Gibson.

You should email Margot Robbie, she might want to do blow with you and your wife. That would be one hell of a story.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T18:13:11+00:00

Thanks... I think.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T16:47:53+00:00

Definitely, it is terrible style. He's middle aged and probably bald now, I wonder if he still tries the mismatched blazer thing lol.

I have been tempted to wear some of my jackets when it gets cold just because I have no reason to wear the things besides weddings and funerals. Just get some use out of them but the women in my life tell me NO.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T16:37:33+00:00

Oh, is this supposed to be a secret? Ooops lol

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T16:33:00+00:00

Shit, Skeeter I was just saying hi. I have the same problem. People can pick out my writing, makes ban evasions pretty impossible. Even on here as Dinosaurysus people figured me out almost immediately.

So, how are things?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T16:26:34+00:00

Are all your other accounts banned, why are you pretending to be someone else?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T16:09:08+00:00

I gotcha, you're one of us.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time (The Dark Tower 7)

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:57:02+00:00

Oh wow, I really like that song. You're giving me suicide vibes, or maybe it's the song, or maybe it's just all this goddamned vodka. You ok?

You're stayed here for me? That's really touching if you're not fucking with me.

I didn't know Haskell was a language until I googled it. Looks like C. I taught myself Pascal then C and assembly. I have an idiot savant talent for diagnosing complex systems. I'm good at figuring out what's wrong with cars, although I'm otherwise mechanically inept (thank god for yt vids), people's medical problems, and bugs in hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I guess that's how I predicted this crypto crash.

Anyways, I got burned out in college. I haven't touched a compiler in well over a decade.

How's your situation going if you don't mind me asking? I am legally a reverend in case that's relevant to any potential ongoing legal situation, I'd think clergy privilege would apply.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:43:37+00:00

You type so distinctively. It's like a fingerprint.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:34:02+00:00

I'm not sure this is actually correct but it's interesting speculation.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:16:46+00:00

I know dude, I'm a total chad. It's pretty cool though.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:14:37+00:00

I know you're having a hard time right now. I don't want to kick a man when he's down. I'm not going to do anything besides ask you nicely to treat me well as you should do for every person.

If you want to talk, I'm here dude.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T15:12:30+00:00

u/Jasoncarswell what do you think of her?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:57:12+00:00

I'm asking you nicely.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:56:44+00:00

There isn't anybody who wants to be married to me, including my wife. Yeah, they just use me. But I don't like to think about that.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:50:23+00:00

Totally agree but.... i did know a dude who wore a blazer with whatever just to get pussy and it worked. Now, he was a handsome fucker anyways, probably wouldn't work for most people.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:45:06+00:00

Are we sure the cops didn't do this?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:43:47+00:00

When I look down from heights I often get nauseous and dizzy. I think that's wrongly called vertigo sometimes but I could imagine something dumb happening to me on a balcony because I wasn't entirely ship shape.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:39:46+00:00

Its also going to wreak havoc on the dating scene

My female doctors fall in love with me just as readily as the girl at the liquor store.

If you're having a problem getting a chick it's probably not because of their education.

Women's choice of mate is strongly influenced by what her female friends will think about him

Then why do they like "bad boys" like me?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:35:36+00:00

The Church of Satan is basically a nicer form of Christianity. It's commonly assumed to be the same as devil worship but that's a different thing.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:34:02+00:00

I don't think that's the point he was making, but you're right and it's not talked about openly a lot but it's actually common advice for women not to tell anyone they're pregnant for the first 20 weeks because miscarriages are common.

Sorry, I didn't mean to send you 3 messages in a single thread, just kinda happened.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:29:40+00:00

The Church of Satan is a better version of Christianity. It's not so much a joke as a protest

Cc: u/Earendil

Although specifically for you socks, and this is controversial, but I'm not sure women's rights has ever been anything more than a ploy to pay people half as much and to have an easily influenced voting bloc.

It hasn't really been a good thing if you think about it. I mean I like having women to be able to tell how to vote, don't get me wrong, and I don't want them mistreated, but overall equal rights has been kinda a disaster.

Maybe it's just my recent adoption of Ferenginar ideology.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:22:30+00:00

Then no. A 2 month old embryo is not human life.

I'm not trying to kick a dead horse here, but fuck, it would become human life.

You're a smart guy. I don't think I need to argue with you, I think now you're going to work it out on your own and come to the rather obvious conclusion.

As an aside, pro life has really shitty PR. They never explain it well. They come off sounding backwards and weird, and it frankly looks bad they care the kid is born but then give zero fucks about it.

But what they're doing is giving the kid a chance. A chance to live as you and I are.

Although if you're like me you never asked to be born and you occasionally wish you were dead. But we have that choice.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:12:21+00:00

Right. But aborting an embryo is not killing an infant

I agree with everything you've written until here. That's bullshit, if someone killed you as an embryo you still wouldn't exist. The problem is that it's going to be a life if you don't fucking murder it.

Now, don't get me wrong, although it's morally reprehensible and murder, I actually do believe in pro choice. I'm just okay with killing kids. I mean fuck, really, you should be able to late term abort them until they're 18.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:04:01+00:00

I'm looking for this money you speak of.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T14:00:54+00:00

Texas is a "right to work" state, that means they can fire your ass for anything. States that need a reason to fire you can make your job so goddamned miserable you quit.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T13:31:08+00:00

Holy fuck no. The assholes there would just come here and this place would suck just as bad. I mean, maybe you only have 40 people to talk to here, but they're good people. Mostly.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T13:28:18+00:00

Oh, hi Skeeter. How's it going?

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T13:19:43+00:00

What, two women at the same time? It's a lot of work. I don't know how mormons do it. I'm not sure one of them is alive right now, always kinda a surprise with that one. I mean I worry, I know that writing was cavalier but holy fuck I do. The other is a little mad I forbid wearing clothing.

I mean, I guess we all have to go through life one way or another, you know? And if that means you're true to yourself but none of your women want to talk to you at the moment, I mean so be it.

Women like assholes. My only problem has ever been too many women. And I totally don't deserve it.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T13:11:56+00:00

Fucking A man. Qa'plah!

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T12:26:39+00:00

It's hard being a beautiful genius. I think pretty much as soon as I hit puberty I had women trying to fuck me. It ... Took me a while to realize. Luckily my teachers kept it in their pants. Two of them not so well but they did.

I haven't been alone since I was 14, usually older women. Then there's the women who fall in love with me online.

I don't hurt anyone. I try to leave them better than they found me.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-09-08T12:18:41+00:00

What? I'm working on getting those two to get along, this is kinda surprisingly unusual. She's #15 (the fifteenth girl, she's not 15) and everyone else all got along. This is the first time the other guy and my wife haven't been okay.

Normally it works out really well, although I guess when I was 14 the first couple women probably shouldn't have done that. But it's a fine memory now.

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