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No, it isn't. It's at the third level (Love/belonging).

I hate that serial killers have gotten such a big place in our culture. The news, entertainment, and social media are so biased toward negativity, so serial killers are naturally overrepresented since they’re the worst of the worst. This makes them absurdly present in people’s minds despite being extremely rare (1 in 40-80 million people). The result is almost that a man is considered a potential serial killer until proven otherwise if he cold approaches a woman, and whatever TikTok tells you: That’s not beneficial for a man.

I’m pretty sure most women don’t realize that it’s to the point where we get aroused by random women we walk past on the street and want to sleep with them just because they look nice.

Could be, but don’t underestimate how repulsed women would be by men if they all found out just how attracted to looks we actually are…

Damn, I didn’t think of that opportunity. I haven’t read anything there from before 2022, I think. Thanks for the tip!

This whole «team women vs. team men, and if a man agrees more with the women on a subject he’s a traitor to his gender!!!» thing is as primitive as it gets. Please stop it. You’re capable of much better than this.

I was just waiting for a comment like this. So predictable.

World's worst-kept secret.

I don’t see how this is a groundbreaking discovery… Try listening to a really girly podcast where they talk about makeup, the Kardashians, or whatever, and see how much you like that.

Banned.

I was so disappointed by the first episode of the new season. So much hype and people claimed it was old South Park brought back to life, and then I got pretty much everything of what imo has made the show worse and worse since the turn of the millennium. I liked South Park when the kids were just being kids and went on funny adventures…

This made me think of this dark monologue from the Norwegian TV series Exit: «Just look around, you know. It just makes you want to scream. Look at all the people who lie and pretend day and night. It just makes you want to grab a baseball bat and start smashing. Everything is constructed. Everyone follows the rules so that society won’t fall apart. You’ve been trained in how you’re supposed to behave… It’s not YOU, or your needs or your genetics or… We live according to inherited, consensus-based guidelines that make it so absolutely NO ONE can be who they really are. It’s exactly as awful as it sounds. You’re not consensus, you’re an individual. People are depressed for one single reason, and that’s that they can’t be themselves. They’re trapped by the worst thing that exists: shame. Inherited shame they can never escape because they’re biologically programmed with a desire to belong. And worst of all: you’re trapped in the desire to live. It’s been welded into your DNA through millions of years. It’s not a good deal, you know, Pål. And somewhere between offense, woke, politics, norms and thousands of years of religion, shame, consensus and evolution, we’ve been destroyed. Lost.»

Lack of integration isn’t the main problem here. I don’t think natives are much better at making friends as adults either. In Scandinavia, your friends are people you grew up with. The ability to make new friends seems to be something we lose as we get older. The fact that we’re so dependent on alcohol to socialize should tell you a thing or two about how dysfunctional the social culture here is. It’s absolutely terrible and needs to change.

I can confirm this 100%. Not prioritizing having female friends has been one of the really really big mistakes that I’ve made in life.

🤣 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.