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Chill Regular-ass Post

What is a specific, nostalgic feeling from your childhood that you would pay an embarrassing amount of money to experience just one more time?

Going to various record shops in Gainesville, Florida, with my friend when I was 17 on Saturdays. She was as crazy about music as I was and we’d spend hours pawing through all the CDs and looking for concert flyers.

We’d usually get up early, drive to Gainesville in the morning, hit 3-4 record shops, then finish out our excursion at Tony and Pat’s for pizza and pasta for lunch. Then go to a park, and next back home to listen to the new CDs.

What a foreign place all of that feels now. But how free it felt at the time.

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Chill Amusing, Annoying

This ignores that women are tested in other areas1 (though not as much as men, no matter what women think, especially today), but yeah, women don’t get this trivially simple problem correct not because they are stupid, but because for them such assessments are irrelevant. Every woman above the level of “actual cave troll” knows she has inherent value that is immanent to her no matter what she answers she gives on some silly “gotcha” type test.

So she just checks some random box after thinking about it for no time at all and goes about her day. It’s perfectly understandable.

In areas that women recognize don’t actually matter, they give minimal effort. Just enough not to get someone angry at them.

However, men know we’re always being tested so minimal effort is never enough. If we don’t go all out all the time, it’s pretty much done for us. Men are to this day defined by what they can do and what they can achieve — and that is reflected in effort everywhere.

  1. Mostly related to beauty and being “nice.”

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Chill Evil

Iryna Zarutska didn’t even see her attacker before she was stabbed and killed.

Debrina Kawam was asleep when she was immolated.

Not sure how to “avoid eye contact” any harder than sleeping. Liberal idiots need to be all shipped to Somalia where they can then “avoid eye contact” all they like.