My verdict after reading my e-book for an hour: I need a much, much bigger screen so I'm not turning the page every five seconds

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) March 18, 2021

Fuck yes. Getting an e-reader with not a pitifully tiny screen was so very much worth it. On the small e-readers, I have to turn the page every 7-10 seconds. That sucks so much.

So You Want to ‘Save Women’s Sports’?

What a load of hooey. Another variant of the “false choice,” just this one by someone slightly more educated so she covers it up well.

Unfortunately in this universe, there are biological facts. And no, 1 out of 2,000 people being intersex and there being variation doesn’t negate those biological facts. One of those facts is that, on average, male humans are stronger than female humans — in upper body strength particularly.

For instance, it took my partner two years of working out to get as strong as I was just being a schlubby lump. But don’t believe the anecdote. As they say, believe science. Yes, some of that can be explained by men being more active than women in general, but by no means all of it. No matter what, men are going to be on average about 10-30% stronger and faster in most areas.

Even years of estrogen do not erase those strength and speed advantages.

Biological facts. Might suck, but still true. Ideology won’t erase them. Liberal tears won’t negate them. Must be dealt with as they are.

Hmm, where’s that prophesied apocalyptic mega-surge of DOOOOOOM?

Just wait till the weather warms up a bit more. Then those numbers will really start crashing.

God forbid anyone have fun anymore https://t.co/UxCtKDHyZo

— Doctor Strangemind (@nihil_ode_am) March 24, 2021

Fun? Get thee to the pod!

I love those car clubs. Seriously, walk up and ask the scariest gangsta-looking motherfucker about his car, he’ll gush about it like a 10-year-old about her first pony.

I think a lot of white liberals just hate any community-building in general, no matter the color of the participants.

Man dies after jumping off Panama City Beach hotel balcony with parachute.

That’s 14 stories, or around 140 feet. That’s not high enough for any chute to reliably deploy, so that he died is not surprising at all. Darwin Award winner.

The below is something I’ve been thinking about a lot:

I don’t believe any of the current narratives actually really work for why some countries experienced drastically different outcomes than others with Covid. Yes, I think masks work, but perhaps only on the margins in many cases. And the same with test and trace.

My pet theory: there are two main factors influencing better outcomes with Covid. The first is past exposure to similar respiratory viruses, ones that didn’t cause mass (or any) sickness, but thereby granted sterilizing immunity to much of the population. This would explain most of Asia and even Australia and New Zealand’s results (much travel from the region both ways). They defeated Covid simply by having a vastly easier battle.

The second important factor is age composition of countries combined with obesity. If your country is old and fat and you lacked any pre-existing immunity, you were gonna have a bad time.

This is the only way I can make sense of any of the data. Sure, lockdowns have some effect (especially early on), yes masks do work, yada yada, but with a highly-transmissible respiratory virus, only on the margins.

I bet I am right, but it’ll never be confirmed because it contradicts existing narratives and doctrine.

I pay for tinder and bumble, swipe right on 85% of the girls I see. I'm lucky to get a match a week across both platforms. Of these matches, I have had one successful friendship, apart from that 0 that have even gotten to a single date. I've been swiping for 7 years.

— Cole Osborne (@BKDenied) March 21, 2021

Women don’t realize it, because they get so, so many offers (if they are not in the bottom ~5% of attractiveness), but that’s the average man’s experience dating.

Average woman: gets approached 2-3 times a day.

Average man: gets approached 1-2 times in his lifetime, gets rejected constantly starting from childhood.

Quite a difference! It’s no mystery why some men get bitter about it all. It’s an extremely asymmetric and bad experience, for life.