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#81
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Jan 10, 2026, 10:42 AM
QuoteBy focusing on achievement-related money attitudes, the study highlights how men in particular integrate their partners' perspectives into how they evaluate their own professional success. For wives and girlfriends, this trend was significantly less pronounced.

So if a married couple is aligned on what money means to them, the husband tends to feel more fulfilled with his job. If a couple has totally different perceptions of money, that workplace fulfillment dissipates.

Interestingly, Merchant noted, men's fulfillment was lowest when couples were only moderately misaligned on financial values, not when they had completely opposite views.

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-men-job-satisfaction-money-values.html#google_vignette
#82
books / Re: Book Club
Last post by prime - Jan 09, 2026, 12:03 PM
QuoteIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

https://pemberley.com/etext/PandP/index.html
#83
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jan 09, 2026, 11:55 AM
DiversityWatch (January 9): fatphobia, slibs fail riots, and the post-diversity economy.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-january-9-2026/
#84
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Jan 09, 2026, 10:09 AM
QuoteTaglianetti, an ex-Marine, became enraged when he discovered an explicit email between his wife, Mary, and Reed. The two had had a brief relationship in 2010 and had rekindled their romance online.

Taglianetti drove 350 miles from Woodbridge, Virginia to Clymer in September of 2012 and shot Reed three times outside his rural Clymer home, where he lived alone.

Reed, 51, was a divorced father of three children. The killing shocked the small community, where Reed was commonly described as being popular.

https://www.btpm.org/crime/2014-02-24/taglianetti-sentenced-to-25-years-to-life-in-prison
#85
notions / Translating NewSpeak to Realis...
Last post by prime - Jan 08, 2026, 08:57 PM
Quote85.9% of those possessing a firearm, when they committed their crimes, purchased or obtained the firearm from somewhere other than a licensed dealer.

Firearm-related homicides are largely related to socioeconomic disadvantages and poor upbringings.

https://ammo.com/articles/stolen-gun-statistics

Translation:

QuoteFirearm-related homicides are largely related to [diversity] and [low IQ].
#86
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jan 08, 2026, 01:19 PM
DiversityWatch (January 8, 2026): Minnesota meltdown over smoked car rammer, new military strength for the West, diversity redistricting failure.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-january-8-2026/
#87
notions / Affirmative Action and Dispara...
Last post by prime - Jan 06, 2026, 10:32 AM
QuoteNearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being "found out." Research links impostorism to worse mental health, higher burnout, and increased thoughts of dropping out. Supportive environments and shifting beliefs about intelligence may help break the cycle.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165811.htm
#88
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jan 05, 2026, 09:17 AM
DiversityWatch (December 5): Cuban meddling, exit Walz, warmth of collectivism.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-december-5-2026/
#89
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jan 04, 2026, 09:20 AM
DiversityWatch (December 4): Maduro downfall, Minnesota frauds, Chinese robot armies.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-december-4-2026/
#90
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jan 03, 2026, 12:14 PM
DiversityWatch (December 3, 2026): Maduro smoked, Mamdani lionizes Communism, Europe burns from migrant riots, and Minnesota welfare scandals detonate.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-december-3-2026/