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Radically Pragmatic

Truth over comfort.

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Blaming men for botox is anti-feminist

There are no “beauty standards,” only desires to escape death.

The political dating filter: how educated women narrow their mate pool beyond reason

And why Usha Vance is hated

Walt Bismarck on moral laundering & status arbitrage

I got back together with Walt Bismarck to discuss his status game theories and specifically his view of feminine power and why he’s a moral relativist, which surprised me.

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Female social control and interpersonal narcissism with Nathalie Martinek

And a real life burn book

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The Associated Press Reports: Happy Wife, Happy Life

Ancient Problemz and I on tradwives, the prestige economy, and the moral valence of flirting

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America isn't a patriarchy

American women's choices are not materially constrained by men.

Politics is downstream of language: the degradation of English by perfection

We stopped thinking a long time ago - LLMs came to finish the job

Why most software is shit: benign racism, hierarchy, and H-1Bs

Managerial capital and Hindu upper caste culture are symbiotic

The H1B system betrays the luxury beliefs of the professional class

We've virtue-washed an exploitative system in progressive language

'Pick-me' and 'slut' are doing the same work, and it's not for patriarchy

It's about social enforcement, not sexuality

Listening still isn't reading - it's intellectual cosplay

No matter what Harvard or Amazon claim, effort matters