Seems I’m going back to my old ways. No, not of getting in constant fights and near-stabbings and such.
I mean, today I read two different books in one day. Short ones, but not YA, both fiction. Mainly this happened because I was traveling. Doubt I will plow through seven books in a single day again, though. That requires reading about twenty hours at a stretch and I just don’t have that in me anymore.
Why a holiday in the US is out of the question.
Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach.”
Trump wants a Golden Dome over America. Here’s what it would take.
Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes.
It’s impossible to be right about Donald Trump’s tariffs because there is nothing to be right about.
I think I see now why so much of the left despises this sort of transition while praising gender transition to the moon.
Getting fitter, improving yourself, is all self-directed. No one can do it for you. Other people can help a little but really it’s all on you; you lift the weight or you do not. You lose the gut or you don’t. It takes a lot of effort over time and there’s very little chance it’ll occur if you do not have motivation and will. It’s as individual as a thing can be in this world.
Gender transition, on the other hand, is something everyone else must agree on: this person is now a man/woman and if you say anything else, you’re obviously bad and evil. The left’s views on trans issues is all about being able to constrain someone to hewing to their ideology in a communitarian manner and to punish them if they dissent1.
It has eluded me until today why the left utterly despises people who get fit, but I think the above insight is a large part of it. The hatred is all because that result is an unauthorized, individual-focused and individual-driven upgrade that no one else has to consent to or agree on. And that it then increases your status enormously in society makes it all the worse (from the left’s perspective).
This is how HR systems are tanking our careers. HR systems are configured by the clueless, monitored by the incompetent, and maintained by utter clowns.
A new record for California’s highest tree.
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole.
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record. Not long ago, this was “impossible.”
Trump Shuns Europe, and Its Defense Industry Tries to Capitalize.
U.S. faces $90 billion tourism hit as Trump tariffs, deportation push drive away visitors pic.twitter.com/QUJbAaSneS
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) April 20, 2025
I mean, who in the fucking world would want to visit this clown show? No one with any brain.
You’d have to be absolutely fucking nuts to visit the United States now.
Just don’t do it. Stay far, far away from this absurd police state.
Wow, Miss Gill is a sweetheart. Should be more teachers like that, and they should be paid more. I never thought I’d live in a timeline where teachers would be demonized, yet here we are.
Someone jump in the time machine and fix this shit.
If I had a robot girlfriend, I’d simply treat her with the respect and consideration any conscious being deserves.
Except when it comes time to assassinate my enemies. Then she better get her big girl robot pants on and attend to business.
Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch.
An unexpected Trump ripple: Britain nationalizes its last steel mill.
Supercells are the king of thunderstorms. Here’s how they happen.
Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump’s tariffs bite. Only the very very beginning of the first wave of far more to come.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains? Police state is here.
Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars.
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar.
First Shockwaves of Trump’s Tariffs Are About to Hit the World Economy.
Boeing jet returns to US from China, a victim of Trump’s tariff war.
Trump Moves to Levy Chinese Vessels in Widening Trade War. This has moved from moronic to mostonic.
The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia.
Soon, as we enter firmly into a long and gridning depression, the 1990s are going to look like even more of a belle époque.
And inevitably even more goofuses will come out of the woodwork claiming that, “It’s just because you were a kid!” Even though I and many others observing how comparatively nice was that era were full-ass adults during most of that decade. I spent half of that period as a paratrooper in the US Army, which is no one’s idea of an easy life.
It’s just another example of a basic denial of reality in service of substitution in of ideological astigmatisms.
But such is modern life.
It’s amazing that in places like Reddit clownishly incorrect comments get upvoted. It’s as if people have an allergy to anything being even vaguely right and to reality itself. Like this asinine comment.
Unemployment in the US reached 10.0% in October 2009.
I care more than anything about having the actual, real data in my mind. And being right. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong as that leads eventually to being correct. But I just cannot tolerate clueless clownishness, which is the mode most people seem to operate in.
I want no part of that which is why I do not enjoying being around people in general.
Every time I see crap like this I’m so very glad I never had kids.
I do not tolerate that sort of thing very well at all. Anyone who breaks my stuff is my enemy.
There are people who say things like, “You can’t possibly keep the sleep schedule that you do and survive.”
Then they stay with me or are around me for a bit and see that it’s true — that I have no discernible circadian rhythm and only take naps. It’s funny how often in my life that has happened. I don’t know why I am the way I am. Just am.
But it’s not hard for me. In fact, the opposite. It’s quite easy. I don’t get jet lag and I sleep when I am tired. Nothing difficult about that at all.
