Old Sluts: the Root of Circumcisions

Old sluts are responsible for the circumcision of their grandchildren.  There aren’t any considerable health benefits to circumcision . . . especially when hunter and gatherer societies conducted the act of circumcising before the availability of antibacterial products and anesthesia.  Grandmas helped young mothers raise children because grandma already passed childbearing age and had the time to help.  Grandma, in her old sluttiness, insisted on circumcision being conducted in her grandchildren.

Men have loads of nerve endings in their penis tips so that they will enjoy sex – leading to the proliferation of the species.  Men also have masses of nerve endings in their fingers, so that they can be sensitive to touch.  Human fingers become less sensitive to touch over the course of human lives because the skin over fingers grows thicker and more leathery as man consistently touches rough surfaces.  It’s a protection measure for man’s nerve endings.  Laborers grow thicker skin over their fingers (callouses) than non-laborers.  But, no matter what man’s occupation as he ages his fingers become less sensitized.  The same thing happens to the exposed (circumcised) tip of the penis.  An exposed tip rubs against rough clothing and over time penises lose sensitivity.  The foreskin, if left uncut, protects the penis and sustains its moisture so that it won’t grow leathery and remains sensitive. 

The climax of a woman is more prolonged than a man’s.  It takes her longer to get there.  There’s nothing more disappointing to a woman about sex than premature ejaculation.  High sensitivity in the penis causes premature ejaculation.  Hunter and gatherer grandmothers, over the course of their lives, had multiple partners in the sack.  They spent hours, days, and weeks talking with other sluts about their sexual experiences.  Collectively, they realized that circumcised men lasted longer in the hay, and satisfied women more often than uncircumcised men.  Grandma insisted on the circumcision of her grandchildren.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Culture, Evolution, Parenting, Relationships, Time, World Wide Policy

Learning through fear and failure

I learn more in a tough environment than in a soft environment.  I learn when I work.  I work when I’m motivated.  I’m motivated when I know that I have something to do.  I have something to do when I know that my boss will check if I’m doing it or not.    

In my current employment I take a new group of Soldiers to play war every six weeks.  Building a field problem for 300 Soldiers to train on Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills and their Military Occupational Specialty for 96 hours at a time in a remote location is taxing.  We, at the company level, plan the operations, the food and water needs, transportation, billeting, build an inclement weather plan, etc.  Well, we recently changed Brigade Commanders. 

The former Brigade Commander visited the field problems, knew the process, and understood the standard.  He made on-the-spot corrections, informed my boss (Battalion Commander) if something was not right in my operations, and chaired extensive After Action Reviews following every exercise.  I thoroughly prepared for each exercise a full month from its start point with MDMP, I continuously sought ways to improve my operations, I checked to ensure my subordinates completed tasks, and I scrutinized my actions during the exercise so the AAR would develop in a favorable way for me.  I learned.  I developed.

The current Brigade Commander does not visit the field problems, trusts that we (Company Commanders) are conducting business properly, and believes in a positive work environment.  She asks questions instead of correcting us because she wants to understand our thought processes so she can learn, she does not yell at my direct supervisor when I’m wrong, and she does not chair an AAR after any field exercise.  We build AAR Powerpoint slides to send to her after the exercises and she ALWAYS sends positive feedback for a “job well done!”  I haven’t done anything wrong in months.  I know because she hasn’t told me that I have.  I don’t plan as thoroughly for exercises anymore, I don’t conduct MDMP, and I don’t learn as much as I used to learn during each exercise.  I’m not developing as I did before.   

I need fear of failure to grow.  I don’t have that.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Environment, Lessons Learned, Military, Wisdom

Survival of the fittest just broke Earth’s most lethal fighting force: Competition within the US Army

Army instilling competition within the ranks with upcoming cuts in personnel:

The Army recently re-instituted “block checks” for Lieutenants and Captains.  A block check is a control measure to ensure that Senior Raters (people’s bosses’ bosses) evaluate their personnel properly.  It’s a computerized system making it so Senior Raters can only give a top block check to 49% of the people in each rank (grade) that they senior rate.  This means that 51% of the people that they evaluate each year will be given a “Center of Mass” block check – meaning their performance was mediocre for the year.  I saw a close-hold email today detailing that soon Command Sergeant Majors would be subject to block checks as well. 

The pain will trickle down to the lower NCO levels.  You can be sure of that.

The Army also recently brought back Retention Control Points and decreased the percentage of people that they are promoting yearly.  So, people in the Army need to get promoted within a specified timeline or they are booted out of the military.  For instance, an E-5 in the military has been promoted four times if he entered the military at E-1.  If an E-5 doesn’t hit E-6 by year 13 of his career he’ll get kicked out and receive zero retirement, despite the number of deployments he has.

Yearly evaluations with block checks are used to decide promotions/retention.

Officers that get passed over for promotion three times also get booted out.  I know several Majors that lost their careers within the past month.  They dedicated well over a decade to the people of the United States and now they have to start over.  This is fine.  This is competition.  This is the environment that we are building in the US Army.  Have the most disciplined, hardest charging, proudest, and best trained Soldiers in the Battalion or receive a Center of Mass Block Check on your evaluation.  Look better than the competition or get out of the Army.  Fuck cooperation, right?  Let’s make the Army like the free market where we have individual companies trying to put each other out of business.  That sounds like a great idea. I’m sure we’ll get real far with this strategy . . . Bring it on Iran!

The fact is that we are not the civilian world.  We are one team.  We depend on each other and shouldn’t see others within the ranks as our enemies.  We never leave a fallen comrade, and we’re supposed to lean on our battle buddies when we need help.  But those days are over.  Soldier will soon want to see their peers fail.  Survival of the fittest just broke Earth’s most lethal fighting force.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Economy, Military, Wisdom