Especially in Germany, where they have long been able to turn out amazing engineering. Seems that minds that can do that can produce an online shopping experience that would beat all other online shopping experiences.
So what exactly makes Amazon a superior experience compared to one of the popular German webshops in your view?
If it is a bad experience, people will buy more from the other "shops" Pretty simple. DOes Germany regulate how oftern you piss and the amount you have to stop after?
"Citizen! We observe that you urinating 4 minutes and 25 seconds before your allowed legal time! As well, your limit per urination is 1 liter! You passed 1.75 liters!
This is your final warning - another unforgiveable breach instiututes a disregard for social mores, and is simply along the path to social disorder. Obey or face the consequences!"
I'd wager 60% of the people complaining about an aux jack are probably iPhone owners. It was a stupid move.
Also, wireless charging! What a joke, it isn't more efficient and it damn sure isn't wireless. Keep drinking the koolaid.
Probably not. Every iphone user I know simply has not one fuck to give.
And your other whine is just weird. Android users used to strut around like cock-a-whoops because their superior Samsungs had wireless charging and the terrible iPhones didn't.
If you're going to whine about shit, at least know what you are talking about.
Why are they unable to create their own popular online shop?
For that matter, the entire EU seems to be lacking a proper Amazon competitor. I am genuinely puzzled as to why this is the case. There are some bright minds posting on Slashdot - does anybody have a theory for why Europe cannot seem to come up with their own online shopping portal?
They have found whining bitching and moaning to be more in their style.
But seriously - it is a bit of a conundrum. I've asked the same question many times. Especially in Germany, where they have long been able to turn out amazing engineering. Seems that minds that can do that can produce an online shopping experience that would beat all other online shopping experiences.
But hey, let's ban things, institute weird laws presumably to protect people, and try to force the world to bend to their will. How the mighty have fallen.
I want a phone that I unroll like a Roman scroll. I just think that would be so cool.
Or a phone that can roll up into the bill of my trucker's cap that I can roll down like a window shade in front of my eyes.
I could sit here and probably think of a hundred cool uses for roll-up phones, but I'll have to be a little bit drunker. Give me half an hour and I'll get on that.
Pornhub called - they have some interesting ideas for roll up screens and things.
Thank god someone finally realized the problem with today's phones is they are all still to thick! Who needs a reasonable replaceable battery, a headphone jack, or even a functional antenna?
Dood! Look outside - those damn teenagers are on your lawn again. Go yell at them real good.
The headphone jack stuff was just a large marketing failure.
Especially among people who would never buy an iPhone because Apple. Because Fucking Hipsters. Because Ford versus Chevy.
Y'all aren't going to buy one anyhow, so you can rage on all you want. It's like your hatred of all things Apple has forced you to demand wires on a wireless device.
think about what you can do to make consumers select your phone to use for the next 5-7 years.
Headphone Jack
Thicker case to hold a larger, user replaceable battery
Fi compatibility
microSD card slot
Two USB-C ports. One for charging, one for other stuff.
All out of keeping 1/10th of 1 percent of the populous happy. Good luck.
Sure, but let's see you do clown makeup. That's not your skill.
By the way, I forgot to put in my last post that I do enjoy the interesting makeup that is fun to do, and probably very enjoyable for women. https://thewondrous.com/face-a... This guy has some pretty cool stuff - and not just women.
I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
The skill required to do that is worthy of respect, even if it's not your own personal attractiveness profile.
...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
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I take that to be your opinion.
Actually, an analysis of Tinder users showed that males tended to gauge women's attractiveness on a bell curve, which would indicate a normal spread. Around 50 percent above and below the average. Women on the other hand, find 80 percent of men to be below average or unnatractive in looks. Here's the source https://medium.com/@worstonlin...
Fascinating stuff, and kind of flies in the face of the modern day dogma that men are shallow. We'll have to overlook the 80 percent below average math paradox.
Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age.
That is what is generally referred to as the wall, where women hit a point where their sexual marketplace value deteriorates quickly, but men's decline is much later.
I assume you're male. Can it be perhaps that you aren't that busy being pretty the whole day and that hence you don't appreciate your own beauty as much?
Yup, male. I've been told that I am "good looking". I fear that other than keeping in shape, my pursuits are more of the mental sort. So I sometimes come across as aloof to females. I am not a flirter. I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
And truth is, I think that much of my "attractiveness" is more related to my shape, my demeanor, and let us be frank, my money. It is not unnatural for the female of the species to look for a stable male who can provide for her I'm not referring to the more pathological "gold digger" sort, but of a more sensible outlook.
The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
I was watching television the other day, and saw that women now have freaking airbrushes to paint their faces
My wife wears a relative minimum of makeup, mostly a little eyeshadow and mascara. Point is, it was never a surprise to see what she looks like in the morning.
Similar here except that my wife wears no makeup at all most of the time. She has little time and no real interest in painting her face for vanity and she's allergic and/or sensitive to a lot of that stuff anyway. I think she's beautiful with or without makeup so she doesn't have to wear it on my account. If I don't find her attractive in her natural state, no amount of makeup is really going to fix that.
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
Women aren't forced to wear makeup but the certainly are influence and coerced into it by a variety of means. Many of the influences actually have little to do with men directly. Women's magazines are a common example. Women influence other women as much or more than men do on the issue. There is nothing wrong with wearing SOME makeup just like there is nothing wrong with dressing nicely.
Of course not. Way back in the beginning of this gawd forsaken thread, I noted that my wife wears a little eye shadow and mascara. But she doesn't make a mask for herself.
Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves.
You think that is somehow independent of the influence of men or society? Sure many (not all) do enjoy it and there is nothing wrong with that but let's not pretend that social pressure doesn't play any role here.
Who's pretending? Most of this social pressure is not coming from men however. Other than when funning around, the major purpose of normal makeup is to make a woman look younger. There is a subset of women who wear makeup in ways that are not attractive to most men - but that is another form of a mask.
But why would a woman want to look younger than she is? Oh - because men find younger looking women more attractive, of course.
But let's ask these men if they are attracted to a woman who is young, or one who is purposefully presenting deception about her age.
There are differences between wanting to look nice, and intentional deceit - which eventually ends up with the "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" look.
Men decorate themselves too, just in different ways. There have been times and places where men were expected to wear makeup thanks to social pressures. You think all those teenage boys wearing Axe body spray are doing that for any reason other than self decoration?
I wear deodorant - does that fit within your definition of "decoration"? I do it so I don't offend. It's also why I take daily showers. Is removing dirt and sweat therefore decorating?
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
Strawman. I don't think very many people think that at all.
Hold on - I was responding to a very specific writing where a poster wrote:
"The creation of this "expectation" that women will always wear makeup in public - it's an astonishing triumph of a vile and misogynistic industry. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets. And yet - women not only accept it, they all but enforce it on each other."
Read the thread sjbe - has it become a strawman to respond to a very specific accusation in context with that accusation, and you can jump in and accuse me of a fallacy? I don't care about the exact numbers - but a response to someone's posting indicating that they thought exactly that. What the hell?
The instant you realise that we are not that special and that we ARE just animals, mmm what a day that will be.
Humans are indeed animals. With all the accoutrements that come with that fact. While we are capable of some pretty impressive thoughts, there are certain part of our existence that are based on how we evolved. Our tendencies toward aggression and how we kill each other without a thought. And the size of our "clans' and how we identify the "other". Sexual attractiveness as well. There are always outliers, as well as people who rebel and deny, but what humans find attractive is largely hard-wired.
Which makes machinery like the one in the story here understandable. Occam's razor isn't always right, but the idea that many women try to look younger than their age because men find younger women more attractive is simple, and stands up to the nature of the human animal. Otherwise some weird complicated patriarchy forcing women to do this just doesn't make anywhere near as much sense. It also condemns women to a model of mental weakness, and substitutes new marching orders for the old ones.
The folks who deny this nature of the species are channelling the same thing as young earth creationists. Denial of evolution.
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
Says the incel who thinks women are just obeying their animal natures:
I don't think you read my other posts. I'm neither incel, nor MGTOW if you planned on going there as well. Been married over 40 years.
Or maybe you don't know what the term incel means.
In his pants -- how will you explain that to customs at the airport?
Just happy to see you TSA agent!"
Side note - some years ago at the local disco, a fellow injured his leg somehow. He was pretty drunk, and they took him to the local hospital as a precaution. When they took his pants off to get a look at his leg, they found he had a kielbasa stuck down there. He became a legend, though not the way he wanted to.
Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
Someone will hack this thing and use it to, first, apply freckles - as many as you want. The Trill look could be a big thing. Next, they'll use it to apply patterns. Nazca lines. Circuitry. Hell, mix in some metallic powder and they could paint actual circuit traces on their fizzogs (That's a British colloquialism for "face, btw, and probably not what you thought).
I still want to know if it washes off, or if you can use it like a 3D printer to slowly change your facial geometry and avoid the attention of security cameras.
In Victorian times, women would give themselves "beauty marks" using silver nitrate. A dab on a swab, and light would darken the silver nitrate. The effect would last several weeks.
My wife doesn't wear makeup. At all. She uses lip balm, but that's it.
The creation of this "expectation" that women will always wear makeup in public - it's an astonishing triumph of a vile and misogynistic industry. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets. And yet - women not only accept it, they all but enforce it on each other.
And don't even get me started on cosmetic surgery.
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
When the real reason for makeup is two different things. The first is that in various species, one or the other sex is more decorated, more beautiful. Sometimes, as with many birds, the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite. Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves. Jewelry is one item, clothing is another. Looking at men's fashions they have changed very little over the last century. Women's fashions are all over the map.
Makeup, which is not good or bad within itself, is another form of decorating. Where it becomes an issue is when women go overboard in order to hide their age. Just like this article. The reason they do this is that the male of the species is inherently attracted to women during their most fertile years. That's just the effects of evolution.
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
They want to look younger than they are, and that's about it.
I know many men, and the ones I have talked about women's makeup do not like it at all - they consider it dishonest, and some like myself, simply love freckles - covering them up is unforgivable. So either start understanding that not everything wemen do is men's fault, especially when men don't like what they are doing.
Or you can get on over to Jezabel - you'll have agreement there.
My wife wears a relative minimum of makeup, mostly a little eyeshadow and mascara. Point is, it was never a surprise to see what she looks like in the morning.
But I'd be interested in what men's reaction was the first time they saw their wife or girlfriend without makeup. Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
She does have one friend who's husband has never seen her without. She puts it on in the morning, sleeps in it, then washes her face and goes through it again.
Just curious - women hiding behind excessive makeup to me is the equivalent of a male wearing a braunschweiger in his pants.
The practice is pretty much discouraged today, as many of the pigments are poisonous.
And if they had an inkling of that, which they probably did, it could explain why they had presumptuously expendable women lick the brushes; congratulations, you played yourself.
Evolution shows that men are the expendable sex, and humanity evolved in that direction. This is the great irony of modern feminism. As modern women try to emulate men, feminism has convinced them that they actually want to downgrade to the lesser sex.
If I had a fleet of commercial (and expensive) drones buzzing around making me money and the wireless charging made programming easier (don't have to dock exactly to a charging port) and caused less wear and tear on the landing struts, etc., then I would probably be interested in $120,000 wireless charging solution.
Don't hold your breath. This probably has some troubling interactions with RF.
Pretty much this. There are some big issues with efficiencies - near field and far field RF physics has not been invalidated that I know of. The amount of power that is needed to flood a narrow field with enough joules of energy to charge at a rate that allows 30 minutes of flying time with 8 minutes of charge time is about as impressive a feat as I can imagine.
To the point that Ima calling provisional bullshit. This sounds the same level of believability as the devices that magically condense incredible amounts of water from desert air.
And you found the dumb TV where? I haven't seen a dumb TV bigger than the 32-40" class in years, and even there it's becoming hard to find if you want a decent display.
Newegg was my second google result for "signage lcd", which I figured would get me some hits. I went for "commercial lcd" on amazon and eBay with good results as well.
You were pretty kind to him, after he let himself wide open for a burn. I'm impressed.
This sort of business strategy is as old as the hills. I'm not sure why this particular example is all that surprising or reprehensible.
I wonder how many people here remember the old AOL computer bundles. Shortly after W95 made Windows computers a lot easier for the masses to use, AOL and I think Compuserve would subsidize part of the cost of a computer. You had to sign up for a few years of their service.
The "right to be forgotten" is typical of legislation where no one thought about the side effects.
Boy howdy this! We have right to be forgotten, we have the EU mandated Articles 11 and 13. The EU is working it's way toward total control of the internet. Anyone want to bet they won't be screaming about a list of books that they want to be erased from the internet soon?
After all, if censorship flows in one direction, it will flow in the other. Does the EU really want Saudia Arabia determining what web content is allowable in the EU?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
This has likely not even occured to these folks. But given the history of the area, they aren't about to change their thinking about the world. I would suggest that they set up a few common points that all of the internet traffic enters and exits, and implement whatever control and censorship they see fit, and not try to enforce the triumph of their will upon the rest of the world.
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Especially in Germany, where they have long been able to turn out amazing engineering. Seems that minds that can do that can produce an online shopping experience that would beat all other online shopping experiences.
So what exactly makes Amazon a superior experience compared to one of the popular German webshops in your view?
If it is a bad experience, people will buy more from the other "shops" Pretty simple. DOes Germany regulate how oftern you piss and the amount you have to stop after?
"Citizen! We observe that you urinating 4 minutes and 25 seconds before your allowed legal time! As well, your limit per urination is 1 liter! You passed 1.75 liters!
This is your final warning - another unforgiveable breach instiututes a disregard for social mores, and is simply along the path to social disorder. Obey or face the consequences!"
I'd wager 60% of the people complaining about an aux jack are probably iPhone owners. It was a stupid move.
Also, wireless charging! What a joke, it isn't more efficient and it damn sure isn't wireless. Keep drinking the koolaid.
Probably not. Every iphone user I know simply has not one fuck to give.
And your other whine is just weird. Android users used to strut around like cock-a-whoops because their superior Samsungs had wireless charging and the terrible iPhones didn't.
If you're going to whine about shit, at least know what you are talking about.
Why are they unable to create their own popular online shop?
For that matter, the entire EU seems to be lacking a proper Amazon competitor. I am genuinely puzzled as to why this is the case. There are some bright minds posting on Slashdot - does anybody have a theory for why Europe cannot seem to come up with their own online shopping portal?
They have found whining bitching and moaning to be more in their style.
But seriously - it is a bit of a conundrum. I've asked the same question many times. Especially in Germany, where they have long been able to turn out amazing engineering. Seems that minds that can do that can produce an online shopping experience that would beat all other online shopping experiences.
But hey, let's ban things, institute weird laws presumably to protect people, and try to force the world to bend to their will. How the mighty have fallen.
I want a phone that I unroll like a Roman scroll. I just think that would be so cool.
Or a phone that can roll up into the bill of my trucker's cap that I can roll down like a window shade in front of my eyes.
I could sit here and probably think of a hundred cool uses for roll-up phones, but I'll have to be a little bit drunker. Give me half an hour and I'll get on that.
Pornhub called - they have some interesting ideas for roll up screens and things.
Thank god someone finally realized the problem with today's phones is they are all still to thick! Who needs a reasonable replaceable battery, a headphone jack, or even a functional antenna?
Dood! Look outside - those damn teenagers are on your lawn again. Go yell at them real good.
The headphone jack stuff was just a large marketing failure.
Especially among people who would never buy an iPhone because Apple. Because Fucking Hipsters. Because Ford versus Chevy.
Y'all aren't going to buy one anyhow, so you can rage on all you want. It's like your hatred of all things Apple has forced you to demand wires on a wireless device.
think about what you can do to make consumers select your phone to use for the next 5-7 years.
Headphone Jack Thicker case to hold a larger, user replaceable battery Fi compatibility microSD card slot Two USB-C ports. One for charging, one for other stuff.
All out of keeping 1/10th of 1 percent of the populous happy. Good luck.
Sure, but let's see you do clown makeup. That's not your skill.
By the way, I forgot to put in my last post that I do enjoy the interesting makeup that is fun to do, and probably very enjoyable for women. https://thewondrous.com/face-a... This guy has some pretty cool stuff - and not just women.
I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
The skill required to do that is worthy of respect, even if it's not your own personal attractiveness profile.
I laugh respectfully?
...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
Quote>
I take that to be your opinion.
Actually, an analysis of Tinder users showed that males tended to gauge women's attractiveness on a bell curve, which would indicate a normal spread. Around 50 percent above and below the average. Women on the other hand, find 80 percent of men to be below average or unnatractive in looks. Here's the source https://medium.com/@worstonlin...
Fascinating stuff, and kind of flies in the face of the modern day dogma that men are shallow. We'll have to overlook the 80 percent below average math paradox.
Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age.
That is what is generally referred to as the wall, where women hit a point where their sexual marketplace value deteriorates quickly, but men's decline is much later.
I assume you're male. Can it be perhaps that you aren't that busy being pretty the whole day and that hence you don't appreciate your own beauty as much?
Yup, male. I've been told that I am "good looking". I fear that other than keeping in shape, my pursuits are more of the mental sort. So I sometimes come across as aloof to females. I am not a flirter. I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
And truth is, I think that much of my "attractiveness" is more related to my shape, my demeanor, and let us be frank, my money. It is not unnatural for the female of the species to look for a stable male who can provide for her I'm not referring to the more pathological "gold digger" sort, but of a more sensible outlook.
The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
I was watching television the other day, and saw that women now have freaking airbrushes to paint their faces
My wife wears a relative minimum of makeup, mostly a little eyeshadow and mascara. Point is, it was never a surprise to see what she looks like in the morning.
Similar here except that my wife wears no makeup at all most of the time. She has little time and no real interest in painting her face for vanity and she's allergic and/or sensitive to a lot of that stuff anyway. I think she's beautiful with or without makeup so she doesn't have to wear it on my account. If I don't find her attractive in her natural state, no amount of makeup is really going to fix that.
Speaking of no makeup - here is Taylor Swift without it: https://i0.wp.com/youmeandtren....
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
Women aren't forced to wear makeup but the certainly are influence and coerced into it by a variety of means. Many of the influences actually have little to do with men directly. Women's magazines are a common example. Women influence other women as much or more than men do on the issue. There is nothing wrong with wearing SOME makeup just like there is nothing wrong with dressing nicely.
Of course not. Way back in the beginning of this gawd forsaken thread, I noted that my wife wears a little eye shadow and mascara. But she doesn't make a mask for herself.
Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves.
You think that is somehow independent of the influence of men or society? Sure many (not all) do enjoy it and there is nothing wrong with that but let's not pretend that social pressure doesn't play any role here.
Who's pretending? Most of this social pressure is not coming from men however. Other than when funning around, the major purpose of normal makeup is to make a woman look younger. There is a subset of women who wear makeup in ways that are not attractive to most men - but that is another form of a mask.
But why would a woman want to look younger than she is? Oh - because men find younger looking women more attractive, of course.
But let's ask these men if they are attracted to a woman who is young, or one who is purposefully presenting deception about her age.
There are differences between wanting to look nice, and intentional deceit - which eventually ends up with the "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" look.
Men decorate themselves too, just in different ways. There have been times and places where men were expected to wear makeup thanks to social pressures. You think all those teenage boys wearing Axe body spray are doing that for any reason other than self decoration?
I wear deodorant - does that fit within your definition of "decoration"? I do it so I don't offend. It's also why I take daily showers. Is removing dirt and sweat therefore decorating?
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
Strawman. I don't think very many people think that at all.
Hold on - I was responding to a very specific writing where a poster wrote:
"The creation of this "expectation" that women will always wear makeup in public - it's an astonishing triumph of a vile and misogynistic industry. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets. And yet - women not only accept it, they all but enforce it on each other."
Read the thread sjbe - has it become a strawman to respond to a very specific accusation in context with that accusation, and you can jump in and accuse me of a fallacy? I don't care about the exact numbers - but a response to someone's posting indicating that they thought exactly that. What the hell?
The instant you realise that we are not that special and that we ARE just animals, mmm what a day that will be.
Humans are indeed animals. With all the accoutrements that come with that fact. While we are capable of some pretty impressive thoughts, there are certain part of our existence that are based on how we evolved. Our tendencies toward aggression and how we kill each other without a thought. And the size of our "clans' and how we identify the "other". Sexual attractiveness as well. There are always outliers, as well as people who rebel and deny, but what humans find attractive is largely hard-wired.
Which makes machinery like the one in the story here understandable. Occam's razor isn't always right, but the idea that many women try to look younger than their age because men find younger women more attractive is simple, and stands up to the nature of the human animal. Otherwise some weird complicated patriarchy forcing women to do this just doesn't make anywhere near as much sense. It also condemns women to a model of mental weakness, and substitutes new marching orders for the old ones.
The folks who deny this nature of the species are channelling the same thing as young earth creationists. Denial of evolution.
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
Says the incel who thinks women are just obeying their animal natures:
I don't think you read my other posts. I'm neither incel, nor MGTOW if you planned on going there as well. Been married over 40 years.
Or maybe you don't know what the term incel means.
In his pants -- how will you explain that to customs at the airport?
Just happy to see you TSA agent!"
Side note - some years ago at the local disco, a fellow injured his leg somehow. He was pretty drunk, and they took him to the local hospital as a precaution. When they took his pants off to get a look at his leg, they found he had a kielbasa stuck down there. He became a legend, though not the way he wanted to.
Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
Someone will hack this thing and use it to, first, apply freckles - as many as you want. The Trill look could be a big thing. Next, they'll use it to apply patterns. Nazca lines. Circuitry. Hell, mix in some metallic powder and they could paint actual circuit traces on their fizzogs (That's a British colloquialism for "face, btw, and probably not what you thought).
I still want to know if it washes off, or if you can use it like a 3D printer to slowly change your facial geometry and avoid the attention of security cameras.
In Victorian times, women would give themselves "beauty marks" using silver nitrate. A dab on a swab, and light would darken the silver nitrate. The effect would last several weeks.
But modern women have beaten you to the whacky! Here's some of the weirdest makeup trends that males have supposedly forced on women. Looks like shit to me, although I laugh too. https://blush.media/the-most-r... https://www.chaostrophic.com/t... http://www.whiskeyriff.com/201...
My wife doesn't wear makeup. At all. She uses lip balm, but that's it.
The creation of this "expectation" that women will always wear makeup in public - it's an astonishing triumph of a vile and misogynistic industry. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets. And yet - women not only accept it, they all but enforce it on each other.
And don't even get me started on cosmetic surgery.
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
When the real reason for makeup is two different things. The first is that in various species, one or the other sex is more decorated, more beautiful. Sometimes, as with many birds, the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite. Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves. Jewelry is one item, clothing is another. Looking at men's fashions they have changed very little over the last century. Women's fashions are all over the map.
Makeup, which is not good or bad within itself, is another form of decorating. Where it becomes an issue is when women go overboard in order to hide their age. Just like this article. The reason they do this is that the male of the species is inherently attracted to women during their most fertile years. That's just the effects of evolution.
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
They want to look younger than they are, and that's about it.
I know many men, and the ones I have talked about women's makeup do not like it at all - they consider it dishonest, and some like myself, simply love freckles - covering them up is unforgivable. So either start understanding that not everything wemen do is men's fault, especially when men don't like what they are doing.
Or you can get on over to Jezabel - you'll have agreement there.
But I'd be interested in what men's reaction was the first time they saw their wife or girlfriend without makeup. Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
She does have one friend who's husband has never seen her without. She puts it on in the morning, sleeps in it, then washes her face and goes through it again.
Just curious - women hiding behind excessive makeup to me is the equivalent of a male wearing a braunschweiger in his pants.
The practice is pretty much discouraged today, as many of the pigments are poisonous.
And if they had an inkling of that, which they probably did, it could explain why they had presumptuously expendable women lick the brushes; congratulations, you played yourself.
Evolution shows that men are the expendable sex, and humanity evolved in that direction. This is the great irony of modern feminism. As modern women try to emulate men, feminism has convinced them that they actually want to downgrade to the lesser sex.
If I had a fleet of commercial (and expensive) drones buzzing around making me money and the wireless charging made programming easier (don't have to dock exactly to a charging port) and caused less wear and tear on the landing struts, etc., then I would probably be interested in $120,000 wireless charging solution.
I'd be really interested in perpetual energy too.
Don't hold your breath. This probably has some troubling interactions with RF.
Pretty much this. There are some big issues with efficiencies - near field and far field RF physics has not been invalidated that I know of. The amount of power that is needed to flood a narrow field with enough joules of energy to charge at a rate that allows 30 minutes of flying time with 8 minutes of charge time is about as impressive a feat as I can imagine.
To the point that Ima calling provisional bullshit. This sounds the same level of believability as the devices that magically condense incredible amounts of water from desert air.
And you found the dumb TV where? I haven't seen a dumb TV bigger than the 32-40" class in years, and even there it's becoming hard to find if you want a decent display.
Newegg was my second google result for "signage lcd", which I figured would get me some hits. I went for "commercial lcd" on amazon and eBay with good results as well.
You were pretty kind to him, after he let himself wide open for a burn. I'm impressed.
This sort of business strategy is as old as the hills. I'm not sure why this particular example is all that surprising or reprehensible.
I wonder how many people here remember the old AOL computer bundles. Shortly after W95 made Windows computers a lot easier for the masses to use, AOL and I think Compuserve would subsidize part of the cost of a computer. You had to sign up for a few years of their service.
The "right to be forgotten" is typical of legislation where no one thought about the side effects.
Boy howdy this! We have right to be forgotten, we have the EU mandated Articles 11 and 13. The EU is working it's way toward total control of the internet. Anyone want to bet they won't be screaming about a list of books that they want to be erased from the internet soon?
After all, if censorship flows in one direction, it will flow in the other. Does the EU really want Saudia Arabia determining what web content is allowable in the EU?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
This has likely not even occured to these folks. But given the history of the area, they aren't about to change their thinking about the world. I would suggest that they set up a few common points that all of the internet traffic enters and exits, and implement whatever control and censorship they see fit, and not try to enforce the triumph of their will upon the rest of the world.