The first one is too. That reporter has balls of steel, continuing unphased as 20 stage lights of Damoclese dangled precariously overhead.

So weird seeing people disagree with you, and then go off spouting shit about subjective benefits while married.

Objectively, by the numbers, in terms of who benefits if the marriage ends, it's pure win for the woman and pure loss for the man.

It's practically a carrot dangling in front of them daring them to divorce.

eg.

Woman wins :
Woman = Here's 30% of his income for 20 years and 50% of assets, and you get to walk away with no obligations.
Man = You get to keep all your financial marriage obligations for the rest of your productive life while she gets her divorce.

Man wins :
Man = Here's $500 for 6 months. You are an able bodied person and you can take care of yourself after that.
Woman = Pay him $500 for 6 months, then you have your divorce.

... and women win practically all the time.



So considering that most women 'marry up (financially)', and most women don't sacrifice personal life for career (to the extent that men do)... they benefit financially from marriage.

Then the divorce is massively skewed for their benefit.

So in the end, they win in marriage, and win in divorce.

And since it's the men paying for those wins, the men are losing and losing.

So yeah, I think your description is totally on point.




Marriage is so screwed up that I wouldn't even consider marrying anyone that has any adverse indicators that suggest they are even slightly disloyal or temptable. Don't care how much I like them otherwise.

Long dating history? Too much risk
Tends to have short relationships? Too much risk
Likes attention? Too much risk
Single mother (non-widow)? Too much risk
Any mental issues (depression, bipolar, narcissist, anxiety, etc)? Too much risk
Older (why you still single...)? Too much risk
Likes to party? Too much risk
Drinks? Too much risk

When the consequence of failure is immediate total financial annihilation, and a heavy financial burden for the rest of your productive life, you better F'ing choose carefully.

Or just don't get married.

(Or change the law so a divorce is actually a divorce for both people. No obligations. Just everyone go their own way.)

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But because I can never remember if Ulm is capitalized or not, I just shorten it to p@ssw0rd.

Why is the Republican party so afraid of the NRA? How much money can they donate and lobby? Why can't the anti-gun side mobilize and match the donation like 2~3 folds and dangle the money to the GOP to silence the NRA? Of course it's a gross oversimplification of the issues (NRA can go "mental" and threaten any Republican's families, etc. if I go all cynical), but money is a good start...

Ban assault rifle, raise the price of guns. the manufacturers still make as much money.

Amendment right? Well what about my right to own a nuclear baseball? Anthrax and Agent Orange? It isn't it my right to have them? Stop with the BS amendment right argument.

Oops....guess he forgot about Trump tower Moscow, which was in the works until mid summer 2016....or that every person working for his campaign was hand picked by the Kremlin while they dangled that project in front of Trump.
What a maroon.

$314 million for one bomb that does more damage to terrain than any enemies.

You could have dropped 1000 cluster bombs for the same price and done way more targeted damage, or 10000 JDAMS / Laser guided bombs.

This is all just Trumps ego. He wanted to show how serious he is, and nobody would let him drop a nuke, so they used his short attention span to dangle this MOAB in from of him to make him feel good.

"Yeah, yeah, it's the biggest one we have"

He's not even good at war mongering.

What a load of shit.


There's a spindly tower, somewhere in Russia, without one single teenager dangling by one hand off the top? Complete load of shit. Where's the dash cam shots? So un-Russian.

Well that analogy doesn't hold up. No, I don't think detectives should have the moral latitude to dangle people off buildings.

But I'll tell you what the movement to police comedians' senses of humour really is: anti-intellectualism.

Like the parents groups who want to ban books with swearing, or sex scenes, or drug use from school libraries; like the SJeW vermin who want to dictate the design of videogames they don't have the skill to make for themselves; like the athenian jury who murdered Socrates: it's about idiots who are too stupid to understand or value art, and want anything they don't understand suppressed.

The Red Back reminds me of the dangle tentacle things from Half Life. Hit one and up Freeman goes.

I felt the same way until the one guy started texting while dangling by the other hand. Then I just lost my shit.

That's definitely a big factor and maybe the only one in his mind, having the time to rest your muscles and work some of that lactic acid out.

I still think the other thing can also be a big factor. It's not for learning strategy, but it's a big motivator to know how quickly you must go in order to win a million dollars. No matter how fast you think your fastest is, when you have that huge carrot dangling out in front of you, it gives you a good kick in the ass and you're able to push yourself to go even faster than your fastest.

Similar to the mother lifting a car to get her baby out from under it.

Rather than "I hope my fastest is fast enough," you are forced to push yourself to "I am going to beat Popeye's time!"

How about those forearms, man. Sick impressive.

While I could believe that the Tasmanian Devils greet each other by biting I don't think his little experiment with the camera proves much. I dangle just about anything in front of my Ferrets and they'll start chomping, I've heard that it's just how they interact with the world, perhaps it is similar with the Devils.
Also, a little Sympathy for the Devil might have been appropriate, poor lil devils.

Feels like a carrot dangling right in front of yet another privacy nightmare...