I thought this was just a typo on your part…then I read the article and noticed that its author used the term. I hesitate to put much stock in what one who uses “polygenic” when he, presumably, means “polyamorous,” writes.
Monetizing poverty incentivized low-income women to boot men from their families because of the money coming from Uncle Sam. After that, inventive came from no-fault divorce, which is why the social problems discussed spread to the white lower and middle classes. It also became kewl and acceptable to have these problems.
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I assumed it was some new-age use of “poly”, but I have a hard time keeping up with all the pronoun and identity bs so just went with it.
I think dismissiveness is an easy way to maintain a mental status quo, and to each their own.
There are plenty of sources to research Viking sexuality, culture and relative equality of women in Nordic history as it relates to the conversation at hand.
An interesting twist, they were kicking everybody’s ass they came in to contact with, with female warriors in the mix and presumably held in equal esteem.
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Then Alfred entered the field.
Isn’t this based on one grave that was discovered? And even that burial doesn’t definitively prove she was a warrior.
Sort of. He won a few battles and ultimately divided his kingdom, granting Viking rule over half of it. I’d call this a Viking victory personally. But, they didn’t take his entire territory, so.
It’s my understanding there have been multiple graves unearthed with females whose skeletal remains showed signs of battle and who were buried with warrior regalia. I guess this doesn’t prove there were female warriors beyond a shadow of a doubt though.
There were also numerous sagas and songs dedicated to female warriors, and in the pantheon of Norse mythology there key warrior related entities who were female.
You can twist all you want, but the evidence is stronger for than against.
I would argue the evidence is stronger against. A handful of remains for a period of time that was several centuries long, says that female warriors were not a thing of much significance.
And plenty of mythologies have female warriors, the Amazons for example, but they’re called myths for a reason. They even tried it recently with the Woman King which was based on a distortion of the Dahomey Amazons and their capabilities and function.
Technically, Alfred was the king of Wessex and he successfully defended his kingdom. The Vikings went back to Northumbria. So no, Alfred did not grant anyone rule over half his kingdom.
The Emirate of Cordoba would disagree.
I’ll leave the surmising to you. The facts are that females have been unearthed with skeletal battle scars and Warrior regalia and are enshrined in stories and legends of the day. I don’t really care enough to argue in circles about which interpretation is correct until someone finally gives up, so you can win.
Akshually, the Treaty of Alfred And Guthrum, King Alfred was officially ceding both land and rule of law to Nordic control and influence, which was ultimately enshrined and continued through the history of British imperialism.
If I came to your house and took over half of it while instilling my rules, you didn’t win. Even if you got me a couple times along the way. You may have won the battle, but not the war as the saying goes. It’s stupid to argue this point any further.
I have no doubt you’ll be able to find one-off losses in an effort to hold a point, but by and large the Vikings were the physically dominant force imposing their will. Let’s, again, not lose the ball.
And speaking of not losing the ball, to the broader context of the conversation that Nordic culture was introduced as a discussion point, women had relatively significant rights and societal equality, including power via sex with “trial marriages” and an ability to divorce should a husband not be able to give her an orgasm.
As stated, while they didn’t necessarily subjugate men, they were tolerated largely as equals with power to control their part of what we would consider the dating scene, and the nords were a legitimate and influential culture that still exists today despite this.
While I understand this flies in the face of female subjugation, it is what it is. And this is a scenario where the stupid phrase actually fits.
And, if anything, it just demonstrates a need to be strong yourself. It takes a weak man to feel a need to subjugate a woman through societal pressure and law alignment.
Women, in my experience, are naturally submissive creatures and will fold in to you willingly if you are the stronger the rock, while maintaining themselves. And you can lift each other to new heights this way.
And, orgasms always bring them around.
Anyways, I’m not going on a spin trip all day. The historical data is all there.
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An insignificant number that shows it was the rare exception and not the rule.
He did not cede any part of his kingdom of Wessex. The Viking king also converted to Christianity.
Only that did not happen.
They were not close to that, at all. They were raiders who surprised attacked civilian populations and monasteries. They have a losing record against legit militaries.
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I personally see this as a positive. It basically means that we don’t have to worry about fucking or marrying liberal women who will cheat on you and claim that they are “polly”. I bet we will also see a decrease in STDs.
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Right…Ironically, they’ve become conservatives, too. Fucking dumb shits.
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Thank God that stupid trend is dying off. TikTok nut jobs really beat it to death.
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In other great news…It looks like the cesspool that is TikTok will more than likely shutdown in the US early next year…
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I’m sure other apps will step up, but do you think anyone will be able to replicate the ability to suck people in as well as TikTok? Aren’t they considered to have a particularly…advanced? targeted? algorithm that makes it so addictive?
Dude, Instagram Reels
The algorithm to keep people engaged is no where near as sophisticated.
Yeah, it will be hard to replicate exactly. Rumor has it, the algorithm deployed across western countries (particularly the US) was designed with the specific aim in mind to weaken the American psyche (note, this is from warnings I have seen about the app because of my job). By a lot of measures - it may have succeeded in that goal which is why the Chinese holding company would rather keep it then sell the tech to a US investor for them to go in an reverse engineer the code.
For the collective mental health of the nation, it’s probable best to get rid of the constant feed of quick dopamine hits though.
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My PhD thesis before I left was a dead-ringer for this type of software. I was doing Behavioral Nudging & Machine Learning, which is largely “how do you modify people’s behavior at scale” (this falls under behavioral economics and thus the economics department rather than CS weirdly).
Recommendation algorithms like these are actually pretty straightforward from a conceptual standpoint, you basically are just training a machine to optimize for keeping people watching. You choose which videos to show by predicting the probability of someone leaving the app based on the context you have.
There’s no reason to think Tik-Tok is particularly special from a technical standpoint, I’d guess that the real special thing it has is the audience. It’s an audience of people who self-select based on the question “should I download this famously addictive and brain-dead app”. The people who answer yes are going to be particularly vulnerable to whatever you want to do tbh
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TikTok and IG Threads are cesspools of mentally unstable whack jobs… 99% liberal weirdos
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Incredibly accurate and also hilarious.
Good work sir! 
I find it funny because of all of the links to videos I get from friends on facebook throw me to the app store, and I always go “Nope.” and move along.
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I’m glad you like it, but I’ll also note that you ought to be careful with FB too (as well as any social platform).
FB has really really really (can’t emphasize that enough) significant anti-bot challenges which mean 3rd parties can systematically bait you with comments or content that will make you engage in the same way that any other recommender system will.
For anyone who doesn’t like being lied to to their face and repeatedly manipulated I heavily advise just minimizing overall screen-time. This forum is probably the website I’m most active on and I’m barely here
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