Seriousness is probably the rarest commodity on the planet. I often chastise myself for being insufficiently serious. Then I look around and realize in horror that I'm more serious than almost everyone.

The woman downstairs sobs like she's doing it for the first time, and is still figuring out how. It's awkward. Ungainly. And so, for all her wailing and moaning, the tragedy is absent. It doesn't reach me. She needs to learn to cry properly if she wants to stir any pity.

Are words just totems loaded with charged energies to you?

What surprised me after holding multiple offline meetups with people from the internet was that the probability of someone turning out to be reasonable in person is higher for those whose online behavior is rough or abrasive, compared to people who spout nothing but platitudes.

People with few friends have the characteristic of "having few people they click with." This often stems from having niche hobbies or unconventional ways of thinking, leading to situations where "there aren't many people I get along with." When they talk about things they like, the people around them get bored, and they don't really understand or feel interested in what others are talking about either. So, they prefer staying home doing things they enjoy or gathering information alone, rather than hanging out with everyone. This type doesn't feel lonely when they're "alone," and even though their energy is usually low, when they meet "someone they really click with and get along well with," they talk a lot and become cheerful.

Northernlion you have 5 days to provide me with wife or I shall unleash an unrelenting miasma of negativity and regretted crewmate seconds, days, centuries even, that will permeate through and poison every corner of this cruise ship in all its enterprise. Thus you are warned.

Sound design is the gooning of music production.

No disrespect to wizards who believe themselves to be wiser than the council, but that could never be me. I am far too wise to do something so foolish, perhaps even wiser than the council.

One of those little black pills is that most people can't learn about an idea without also believing it, and they also don't think anyone else can do this.

Dude behind me at lunch ordered "The usual." Got hit back with a "and that would be?" Has to be absolutely devastating, can't even imagine.

I investigated a wife having an affair via a married people's app; she met up with the guy, headed straight to a hotel, and emerged in less than an hour, all clingy with him, but the man, casting a sidelong glance at her, looked eager to get away and hurriedly parted ways with her in front of the station.

The guy didn't head straight into the ticket gate but walked to a park instead, where he settled on a bench and started reading a book --- a complete turnaround from the predatory gleam in his eyes when they first met; now, as if he'd left every impure thought back at the hotel, he sat there with a composed, dignified poise, reading almost motionless for two hours before heading home to his waiting family. About halfway through, he looked so statue-like that it was like witnessing the epitome of post-nut clarity.

Eventually, the drawbacks of Orientals having evolved through harsh winters will even out, as the Orient is becoming increasingly abundant in resources. Sexual dimorphism, an abundance trait, will increase over time.

Attraction is tied to hormonal and behavioral traits adapted to specific environments. The core difference is attraction to estrogenic features vs. attraction to low-androgen features. It's sensuality vs. neoteny. Intensity vs. stability. Promiscuity/sluttiness vs. materialism/dependence.

Human attraction is rooted in survival instincts molded by ecology. Oriental men show lower tolerance for female promiscuity but greater acceptance of transactional relationships, prioritizing group stability over individual passion.

@arcticinstinct's Arcticism theory illustrates this. Natural selection among Orientals favored traits like introversion, conformity, and low-risk behaviors to maintain social harmony during long, confined winters in close quarters. Exaggerated ovulatory/estrogenic cues in women typically intensify male intrasexual competition, disrupting group cohesion and reducing collective survival odds in resource-scarce settings.

The future is bright for Orientals, as we'll become more sexually dimorphic while retaining the strengths forged in the cold, such as high IQ, superior teamwork capabilities, the ABCC11-AA (low body odor) genotype and low hirsutism.

The great tragedy of death is that you won't be able to see yourself in the mirror as a hideous and grotesque corpse.

The most unforgivable sin you can commit against the cult of the artist: having an imagination.