There was a (in)famous leaked email from ~15 years ago. A sorority leader was absolutely laying into her sisters for not being fun and approachable during mixers with the frats. It was profane, crazy, and hilarious.
There are two kinds of brotherhoods: the individual fraternities/sororities themselves, and the brotherhood of Presidents of those organizations. I served back in the email days, so there is a listserv archive full of emails like this from me. The one I am proudest of demanded that everyone come to that week's chapter meeting, then listed all of the problem sets and exams I had that week, then closed, "if you tell me you have too much work to come to the house meeting, make sure to have a change of clothes, because I will laugh in your face until I puke."
It’s weird to me people reply to tweets or to replies to tweets at all anymore. Like, what are we expecting to accomplish by telling off the “who’s watching the kids” gal? Might as well be talking to the naked man on the train platform. There are deeper issues and you’re not going to solve them here.
I think it tickles the part of the brain that wants to have a responsive conversation, but doesn't know that it's responding to bots who look like people and people who look like bots.
I think subscribers’ comments on articles are a bit more like participating in a community whereas Twitter always seemed to me like strangers yelling at each other. I guess the similar feature on substack is the notes? I don’t use those much.
Re: the Fit Mom, the issue isn’t the fitness, it’s the 4 babies in 4 years part. That’s objectively not healthy, you need to space your pregnancies further apart! I’m glad it worked out for her but that’s an excellent way to lose all your teeth and bone density.
The AI fat-woman bridge-destroyer video reminds me of how scam messages used to have obvious problems to cheaply filter out people who would never fall for it.
I wonder how many of the Reel replies were bots, how many were people performing a response to feel connected, and how many were actual sincere responses cheering on the cartoonish child rescue.
Come on, man, it’s not like there isn’t a large subset of men out there who don’t run to the comments or wherever being like “well *I* enjoy cunnilingus and my wife thinks I’m So GrEaT” every time box munching is mentioned. Men don’t brag like this about getting their female partners off with their hands, or their penis, or anything else. It is a large-scale thing that happens and it’s virtue-signally as hell and I don’t have to have my pleasure decentered in my own relationship to notice that there are a lot of guys who love to do this shit. Which is why I was asking who you were bragging to, especially since your wife seems to be having a lovely time.
The emails that went out on our sorority list serve circa 2011 make this text look like a hug from your mom (if your mom was telling you to eat box).
There was a (in)famous leaked email from ~15 years ago. A sorority leader was absolutely laying into her sisters for not being fun and approachable during mixers with the frats. It was profane, crazy, and hilarious.
Reading that was like a good chat with an ex. Horrible and nostalgic at the same time 😆
There are two kinds of brotherhoods: the individual fraternities/sororities themselves, and the brotherhood of Presidents of those organizations. I served back in the email days, so there is a listserv archive full of emails like this from me. The one I am proudest of demanded that everyone come to that week's chapter meeting, then listed all of the problem sets and exams I had that week, then closed, "if you tell me you have too much work to come to the house meeting, make sure to have a change of clothes, because I will laugh in your face until I puke."
You can't just leave us hanging like this ...
Imagine the cunt punt email but about showing up for the PB&J fundraiser with the PiKE boys.
It’s weird to me people reply to tweets or to replies to tweets at all anymore. Like, what are we expecting to accomplish by telling off the “who’s watching the kids” gal? Might as well be talking to the naked man on the train platform. There are deeper issues and you’re not going to solve them here.
Yes! I am fascinated by the personality type of the person who does stuff like this. Who is this for? is it for virtual high fives? what is going on
I think it tickles the part of the brain that wants to have a responsive conversation, but doesn't know that it's responding to bots who look like people and people who look like bots.
Yeah! And those weirdos commenting on Substack, too.
I think subscribers’ comments on articles are a bit more like participating in a community whereas Twitter always seemed to me like strangers yelling at each other. I guess the similar feature on substack is the notes? I don’t use those much.
I showed the FDR one to my cat and we both laughed!
More cunnilingus is actually a good thing. Good for the men!
In one of Sherlock Holmes' most famous stories, the clue was the dog didn't bark in the night. We live in an age where the dog always barks.
Your bit about the fit moms reminded me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2071/
Twitter really is just a machine for generating these, huh
Re: the Fit Mom, the issue isn’t the fitness, it’s the 4 babies in 4 years part. That’s objectively not healthy, you need to space your pregnancies further apart! I’m glad it worked out for her but that’s an excellent way to lose all your teeth and bone density.
I'd bet there's a little bit of inventive math being employed there.
The AI fat-woman bridge-destroyer video reminds me of how scam messages used to have obvious problems to cheaply filter out people who would never fall for it.
I wonder how many of the Reel replies were bots, how many were people performing a response to feel connected, and how many were actual sincere responses cheering on the cartoonish child rescue.
I am irrationally--or entirely rationally--incensed by a plot that has a y-axis range of 0 to 100 with no additional context.
BAD PLOT
No Tyler Cowen virgin AI actress comments?
Meta as a company feels like leaning fully into AI slop - like instagram now has some AI bots like “your mom” too…
And knowing multiple ppl working there, i have such a mixed feeling lmao
Regarding Fit Mom, I reckon a good practice is to not assume every happy/successful person is doing it *at you.*
the world wasnt ready for anime mecha squadron commander fdr
My two heroes of the week: Frat Master Luis, and Dr Humblebrag Freud
Assuming these are random hookups I kinda get why they wouldn’t want to lol
Ok, "visiting the red light district" is my new term for going down on my wife.
Sexual virtue signaling on substack is wild. Who are you trying to impress?
Come on, man, it’s not like there isn’t a large subset of men out there who don’t run to the comments or wherever being like “well *I* enjoy cunnilingus and my wife thinks I’m So GrEaT” every time box munching is mentioned. Men don’t brag like this about getting their female partners off with their hands, or their penis, or anything else. It is a large-scale thing that happens and it’s virtue-signally as hell and I don’t have to have my pleasure decentered in my own relationship to notice that there are a lot of guys who love to do this shit. Which is why I was asking who you were bragging to, especially since your wife seems to be having a lovely time.