I can finish a medium-hard 200 page book in about two hours. I can get through a difficult 300-page book (prose) in about five hours.
I can finish the average potboiler book in an hour and a half. The last time I read a book on a flight, I started and finished Tilt by Emma Pattee on a one hour and 21 minute flight.
Sorry about all y’all’s limitations, but they aren’t mine. Not in this realm.
In this instance, if someone says they're reading 200+ books in a year, you can assume some combination of:
– Audiobooks they're half paying attention to
– Reading but skimming boring parts
– Counting manga/comics that take 40 min to read as "a book"
– Reading too fast to retain…— _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) November 10, 2025
Bro, I used to read 200 books in 7-10 weeks. It’s not actually that hard if you read fast and can devote a lot of time to it.
This is a great example of just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean that I can’t do something. And I promise you I understand those books better than you do when I’m finished, even if I read them three times as fast.
I read more than 200 books a year now despite the fact that I hardly even pick up books anymore (for me). Back in the day, I’d 12-16 hours a day nearly every day.
No matter the other sins of Elon Musk, I still enjoy how enraged launching an old Tesla into space made a buncha clowns.
That was a good one.
That Proto-Indo-European “ghel” is everywhere.
“Glitter” and “gold” both sinuously trace their origins to that root.
Work, After Work: Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break.
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The Future the Left Wants is Equity Smashing Civilization.
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If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe? Nope.
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People tweet things like this before they realize that one purpose of travel is to meet people to date https://t.co/WFrMDoHPHe
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) November 9, 2025
Yep. Only men get criticized for being “passport bros” but plenty of women do the same thing — they are just lauded for it generally rather than demonized. A friend of mine is considering becoming a passport bro-ette because she is in a country with few good male options. And I think she should!
Remember when it was common for the Fat Acceptance losers to claim that women who were clearly overweight were “extremely skinny” and “probably starving?”
Glad that hasn’t been seen much lately. To them, anyone who didn’t need a joist and hoist to get out of bed was on the verge of expiring from hunger.
Refusing to be baited into something that can only harm you is a skill that more people should learn. Hell, I should do better at it. Sydney below shows how it’s done.
The left hates Sydney Sweeney because she is attractive , knows it, and doesn’t apologize it
What they hate is anything that reeks of natural hierarchy. Of being superior in every way to the grey lump that composes the indistinguishable and uninspiring mass of our “equal” and… pic.twitter.com/FMCZBEoEZ6
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) November 6, 2025
I think this is largely true. Sydney is attractive, intelligent, clever and business-savvy — and is not apologetic about any of those things. This damns her as far as the left goes as they have a horrible case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. They deeply, deeply desire to punish anyone who is obviously exceptional in some way.
That’s also what is behind all the buffoonery lately regarding the claims that everyone is exactly the same and no one is smarter than anyone else (and if they are, it’s for bad, “fake” reasons, and if the reasons aren’t fake, they should be, dammit).
Sydney is everything they wish they could be but are not; that galls them and makes them want to hurt her.
I hate audiobooks. Just not for me in any way, shape or form. Just a total turd of a format in my, uh, book.
Not reading and not radio. Just a big nothing.
Chicago could see historic double-digit snow as an Arctic blast spreads across much of the US.
Evil descends upon part of the country once again. Nothing worse than cold weather. At least it’s still reasonably warm here in California.
How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR. Someone needs to. Could’ve been Obama, but he only cared about getting rich.
The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight.
Women can read age, adiposity and testosterone level from a man’s face.
American Airlines CEO says the government shutdown is impacting holiday travel bookings: ‘Nobody wants to put up with hassle.’ I was condiering visiting a friend this month. Not anymore. Sorry, friend
Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans. Social contagion ending.
Shutdown means another missed jobs report Friday. Here’s what it probably would have shown.
About those vampire-wannabe identical twins I mention here, a friend of mine at the time — who had quite the way with words — said this about them:
“Those girls are as pretty as a picture. You look at them and think, ‘How could the universe have created a thing such as this, much less two?’ Then they open their mouths and they get real ugly real quick.”
Which was completely accurate.
Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China.
Shutdown ‘Far Worse’ Than Expected, White House Adviser Says.
Is AI Too Big to Fail? OpenAI’s Finance Chief May Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud.
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations. Ours will likely be among them soon.
TV increasingly designed for second-screen viewing.
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people.
‘Stratospheric’ AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers.
Army Sets Out To Buy A Million Drones By 2028.
Retail Merchandisers Are Laying Off Staff Just to Pay Less.
If the rumors are correct, Verizon’s ‘bold’ new direction may apparently include mass layoffs.
Why every backup strategy is doomed to fail. I love the commitment to nihilism.
No, you can’t stop it. I think people get obnoxious tattoos for the same reason that they start doing hard drugs: they know it’ll destroy them and their lives and make things harder in the future, but they secretly crave that. They want the obliteration, the nullification of the self.