The Monks In the Casino for, um, one meaning of the word "monks"
The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals. Aporia notes that this is strong evidence against the Sociosexual Hypothesis. I don't have numbers, but I do have a career of observation of a subset on the group. Borderline and Antisocial personalities have high percentages of bisexuality that I used to characterise as omnisexuality, pansexuality. Both sexes, children, animals, fleshlights, vacuum cleaner hoses...anything. They were often traumatised by relatives, which brings in questions of environment vs genetics again. Were those parents also antisocial/borderline? Is there more than one wheel turning here? Should we take them out of the studies or are they the far extreme of the same spectrum? I do not have an opinion.
That was a serious subject, so lets be insensitive and consider it from a light perspective by that beloved children's author Shel Silverstein.
Copycat effect of mass shootings. Like plane crashes versus auto deaths or drowning in a flood vs a bathtub, we fear things that are much less likely to happen. Mass shootings take up an enormous amount of media space, fundraising, and legislative time, but the odds of you dying in one are vanishingly small. Because they often involve (seemingly) random victims who are entirely innocent, it offends our sense of justice and control over our worlds as well as our realistic fear. B ut paradoxically, our obsession with keeping them in the news makes them more likely.
The survival of Swiss watches Quartz watches were cheaper and more precise, but a small number of watchmakers kept Swiss watches alive after two-thirds of the watchmakers had already gone out of business.
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I was given my grandfathers retirement-gift Swiss watch, but keeping it running for everyday wear got expensive, so now it sits in a case with clear lid. So it is seen and not used.
I see from my ebay purchase history that my return to wearing a (MUCH cheaper) mechanical watch was in spring of 2022. I've only had two comments on that, a young person noting that the hand was sweeping not stepping by seconds, and my dermatologist making small-talk by asking what brand it was, and if I was a watch aficionado/collector.
A few years Rolex started a watchmaker apprentice program in Lititz PA, and they've just started another in Texas -- jump-starting it with free tuition and housing for the duration of the comprehensive coursework, with a free trip to Switzerland for the final examination which is also certification as a master watchmaker.
I did a quick read of the 'dark side' links and combined with your observations came away with the impression that it's much more bisexual attraction and/or activity that is Dark Triad than pure SSSA so I don't know that it entirely disproves the sociosexual theory of SSSA. I doubt the aggressors in prison rapes consider themselves to be SSSA. I wonder if a society with zero SSSA (assuming human bonding occurs on a continuum from asexual friendship to pure lust) would be able to form stable complex single sex groups like teams. I'm imagining one of those quadrant diagrams where the most functional have high social skills and clear heterosexual attraction, another smaller quadrant with good social skills and high SSSA ('guncles') and the least functional quadrant almost indifferent to sexual partners and highly antisocial.
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