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🤣 Seriously though: Once, I gave my then-girlfriend some insight into how attracted we men are to women’s looks. She was really shocked and I knew immediately that I had made a huge mistake. The relationship didn’t last long after that… I’ve also been top honest about other (non-sexual) things to other women I’ve dated and they lost attraction permanently. My impression is that it usually doesn’t take much to give a woman the ick, and there’s usually no way back from that, so I think it’s a good advice to be careful with truth if you don’t want to lose her.

This discussion made me rewatch this one. Not so much focus on personality in itself, but it seems like at least 50% of it is genetic. The rest is due to individual experiences, like friends etc. How your parents raise you and the home you grow up in are basically irrelevant for your personality, except in some very rare cases. It's pretty logical really. Just think about how different personalities siblings often have even though they grew up in the same home and share 50% of their genetics.

Because our minds aren’t adapted for the rejections we experience in modern society. Our emotions are adapted to a pre-historic society, where rejection was something that could lead to isolation and thus death. No wonder why it hurts like hell.

Isn’t it obvious that this is really individual and depends on your genetics, personality, circumstances, interests, tastes etc.? One thing’s for sure: nothing makes me feel more alienated from my friends than when they claim that high school is the best time in life.

Jesus. It never ceases to amaze me how bad Reddit is.

This makes me think of Javier Hernandez, a Mexican footballer who earlier this year went on social media and accused women of exterminating masculinty and said something like that they should stay at home and serve men. It just made so much sense to me that he would do this, because he has always been famous for being short and having a babyface. It’s so characteristic in his case that he is called «Chicharito» (little pea). That look is almost exactly how I imagine certain someones on this forum with similar views on women…

In other words: The rich and powerful always crush the poor and weak. Not my thing! (Yeah, I know it’s more fair in the NHL than here in Europe, but still)

This. I see way too many MBTI references everywhere and way too few Big Five ones, which is scientifically far superior. I guess Big Five just isn’t as fun to talk or vibe about… Here in Norway, there is a podcast where they talk to a celebrity in each episode about their results after taking the Big Five. It’s so amazing.

No, you’re not. You’re just pointing out why you personally don’t like European culture. How’s that debunking? I personally disagree with you on this and I bet most people here do too.

Good old «If something doesn’t fit my worldview, it can’t be true!» ChatGPT: https://files.worldhappiness.report/WHR25.pdf People in many Western European countries, especially the Nordic ones, consistently report the highest life satisfaction in the world. According to the UN-backed World Happiness Report, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden are always at the top of the rankings, showing that citizens in these countries experience life as more fulfilling than in most other regions. https://digitallibrary.un.org/nanna/record/4040333/files/hdr2023-24reporten.pdf?withWatermark=0&withMetadata=0&registerDownload=1&version=1 Western European countries consistently score highest on the Human Development Index (HDI), which measures health, education, and income. Countries like Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland have the top HDI scores globally, indicating that citizens have access to strong healthcare systems, high-quality education, and sufficient income to cover basic needs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42495-025-00158-2 Research comparing welfare systems worldwide consistently ranks Nordic and Western European countries highest in terms of social security, equality, and access to health and education. These countries combine comprehensive social policies with effective institutional frameworks, resulting in reduced poverty, lower economic inequality, and higher overall living standards — showing that they have the most well-functioning welfare states. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-020-02565-8 Western European countries provide significant freedom for individuals to make their own life choices. International analyses measure “freedom to make life choices” and consistently show that countries like Finland, Norway, and Denmark score very high. Citizens in these countries enjoy both the economic and institutional conditions needed to decide independently how they want to live, from education and career to housing and lifestyle.

My problems with hockey, and pretty much all the other big team sports other than football, are the too predictable results (especially over a season) and way too many games. The more games, the more predictable the season becomes too, so they're related. Because of this, American football is the only sport besides football that I've been hooked on in the past.

Yeah, this video was definitely for us who are already fans. My girlfriend wanted to check it out after I sent her the link when she asked what I was doing, and she has never seen any of the other videos. I was not happy about that after seeing it!

This quote is 10/10.

I can never get over how similar Christiano Ronaldo and Homelander feel.

You pull out one thing you don’t like about European societies, present your extremely one-sided negative view of that thing, and then that’s supposed to be a good argument for why European societies can’t be more developed than the rest of the world? Forget that the people there are the ones who answer that they’re most satisfied with their lives of everyone in the whole world when asked, forget that they’re the ones who have their basic needs met to the greatest extent, forget that they have the most well-functioning welfare states, forget that the people there have the most freedom to live their lives as they themselves want: They have women in bikinis that make men horny, EWWWWW, shit societies!!!