This is a terrible trend. Even my anti-social ass used to love to go to the arcade when I got the rare opportunity to do so as a kid. That we’ve just collectively decided to sit at home and scroll on phones is so, so evil.
Ineffectual
Obama was a terrible president who screwed up anything he touched — except for making a boatload of money right after he left office. That he excelled at, because it was his real goal anyway.
Working in IT
Describe working in IT to normies.
That’s perfect. I’ve had this happen numerous times in my career:
User/Manager: When will [major project] be completed?
Me: This is the first I’ve heard of this project. When was it scoped and what is the goal of the project? Who is running it?
User/Manager: Oh, I thought you knew. [Major Project] is due in a week. Your team should get rolling to meet the deadline!
Me: Looks like about six months of work even if we bust ass. Not gonna happen.
User/Manager: Why is IT always so useless?!?!?!
Clined
Not a good thing.
Why How
I know I am way, way behind the times. But how do so many people do so much on their phones? Why? Again, how?
Do you all hate yourselves and love corporate spying?
Look Grunge
This just is not true at all. Women did have their own grunge style. I was there. I remember.
As usual with fashion, women just had more options for “grunge” gear than men did. While many women in that era did in fact also wear ratty t-shirts, a flannel overshirt and Doc Martens (my very close woman friend’s garb most days!), women had other options than the male uniform for the grunge look. They were often in babydoll, mini or slip dresses with dark tights and boots (usually Docs), often paired with flannel, a leather jacket or an oversized cardigan.
It’s a bit Hollywood-ized (as it’s from a Hollywood movie), but this Bridget Fonda outfit below would’ve been pretty typical of the female grunge aesthetic back then, including the hat.
The idea that there was no common women’s grunge look back then is fucking ludicrous and 100% wrong.
Blam
Damn. Really frigged up that frigate.
Looks real, but could be AI? Why would that be released? Not typical as it gives away capabilities and contact procedure.
Eternal Offer
Does anyone think the modern left has the best interest of anyone in mind other than themselves as atomized individuals? Their only guiding light seems to be their own self-aggrandizement and proving they are the most moral, the most righteous and that they are the most fecklessly forgiving human who has ever lived.
I have no idea how such suicidal pseudo-empathy develops.
As for me, to the enemies of civilization I offer an eternity below the ground. For everyone else, friendship.
ZAZ – Éblouie Par La Nuit (live 2011)
Quelle perf ! J’aime bien qu’elle soit en sueur et un peu décoiffée.
Pol Nuke
Poland needs nuclear weapons both because of the Russian threat and because when France becomes Islamicized — which is almost inevitable at this point — a radical Islamic regime will have nukes inside Western Europe.
Poland is far less likely to become Islamicized and thus needs some deterrent in that dark future.
Net Contrib
That is indeed insanity.
This is why our electricity bills are so high right now.
Why China Is Doing So Little to Help a Friend Under Fire.
Poland Will Eventually Seek Its Own Nuclear Weapons, Tusk Says.
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes.
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity.
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy.
Only Way
Muslim and North African unrestricted immigration is a huge net loss in many, many different ways.
Allow no more; send the current invaders back, with prejudice. That’s the only way to save Western civilization at this point.
Colo
All true. Some of the worst, most backwards countries never experienced any significant amount of Western colonization or even attempt at same.
Censor Sensor
And a decade prior to that — in 2006 — it was even freer. That was the heyday of blogs. By 2015 the internet was already quite censored compared to 2003-2006. It is indeed far worse now, though.
The gatekeepers are returning, in a way. Admittedly they are stupider, less conscientious and far more venal than before. But as I’ve said in the past, the huge project being undertaken now is the elite striving very, very hard to get the information genie back in the bottle again. And they will not stop until that is accomplished.