Box Of

I’ve been observing that for years. Unless a house is completely custom-designed and custom-built to very rigorous specifications, a $5 million house is constructed with the same low-quality shitbox materials as a doublewide trailer. It just has more floor space.

Makes no sense at all. But that’s the way it is in the good ol’ USA.

Evaluating the Impacts of Federal Subsidies for Early Childhood Education and Care.

Before Oct 7th, I was a naive adherent of IslamoLeftism. A lifelong Democrat, I believed what I was told.

Cars.com to Lay Off 11% of Full-Time Workforce Amid AI Push.

YFQ-44 Fury Fighter Drone Wraps Contested Operations Test That Could Accelerate Its Fielding.

Great white sharks are overheating.

An Indonesian fisherman just pulled a 3.7-meter torpedo-shaped Chinese spy sensor out of the Lombok Strait, near Gili Trawangan.

There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash.

The 3rd world mentality does not understand what it took to build the 1st world.

Heed Ukraine, or Lose to the Enemy You Underestimated.

I can disassemble the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird into its component parts.

โ€˜We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men todayโ€™: higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market.

The British Museum taking things was not "theft" but preservation.

Commonality

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

Really? I felt I had nearly nothing in common with my mother or father. There was hardly any ground we shared. Not absolutely nothing, of course. My dad liked computers and my mom liked reading horror books. Other than that, we were just about strangers in most respects.

Anyway, the Rawlsian veil in this sense was not what John Rawls was talking about and is not really applicable in this context.

Tractability

Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) / X

Wil is right; tons of feminist scholars believe that if you’re attracted to someone sexually that somehow means you believe they are not human. Especially if you are male.

And that is really fuckin’ stupid. More Gen Z types believe this than older generations, by the way. It’s really pernicious and makes no sense. That I am attracted to someone or think they are attractive has no bearing at all on how I think of their humanness. Why would it?

Most of the left is just damn idiots. I wish it weren’t true. But it is.

Q Prob

It is very nearly impossible to explain to most people that quantum probability is not and cannot be the same as classical probability and why.

I really do think that to understand certain things, you have to have a fairly high IQ — no matter how much that pisses the idiot left (et al.) off.

Clown Point

SpaceMoth๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@spacemoth2500.bsky.social) โ€” Bluesky

Bluesky clownery is freakishly clownish. Why would this be a point of pride? What do they think this will get them? It just disadvantages them in the world and means they don’t even have an inkling of what they are talking about. Fewer competitors with me, though, so it’s not wholly bad.

Left What

100 men were asked….

Ha, you can tell how little I care about breasts as I looked at this image for like 30 seconds trying to figure out what the joke was. Or why the left position would cause someone to be prettier. Was it because she was framed better by the arches in the background? Slightly closer to the (non)camera? Better lighting? Less clutter in front of her? Better hairstyle (they are slightly different for the same “woman”)?

They both are AI-generated, though. Hard to find that appealing at all.

This is probably a made-up stat anyway, but in both images I find the Asian pseudo-woman prettier for what it’s worth.