Suffer Then

Chill Annoying, Evil

_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) / X

First, that’s not what happened. The girl in question said she was uncomfortable with any man being in the store at all. And last I checked, VS was open to all sexes and genders. I’ve been asked at least twice in my life by women to go there and get something for them. Did not in fact see any “Women Only” sign at the entrance.

Second, it does indeed sound like a lot of women are just begging to go full burqa/sharia. And let them, I guess. I don’t think they’d like it much, but a lot of those clowns do seem to crave Islam already for some ignorant-ass reason.

Let them suffer.

Ten Up

Chill Amusing, Annoying

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

I played against a low-ranked professional tennis player once (about 1,500th in the world if I recall correctly). He could beat me so easily that he didn’t even really need to look at the ball or do anything. I was no more effective against him than I would be at fighting a T. Rex. It was laughable.

Yes, pro athletes practice, but practice is not what makes them a pro. He was (like all pro athletes) simply far more physically genetically gifted in a way that even good amateurs are not. Because he had no illusions about his skills or prospects (he basically played tennis for fun), I asked him how much better Roger Federer (the #1 at the time) was than him. He said that Federer could not likely defeat him as easily as he did me, but he’d be “lucky to even beat him [Federer] in a set one out of a hundred times, and I’d have no chance of winning a match ever.”

People have no fucking idea how much better pro athletes are than even good amateurs. Just none. It’s an absolutely staggering world of difference.

For the pro I am talking about, I only managed to get one ball by him and that’s because he stumbled once on the rough court. That is the only reason I got anything at all past him. If we’d been playing on a good court, it would’ve been zero.

I’ve Seen

Chill Evil

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

That’s right. I don’t love Israel. Or Israelis.

But I fucking hate Palestinians and everything they and their culture stand for. What they did to Shani Louk is exactly what they’d do to all of you if they could. Like Russian culture, Palestinian culture is diseased and needs to be extirpated.

There’s a reason no country (even Arab countries) will accept Palestinians as refugees. No one wants the pestilence and problems they bring. And yes, I do know, more than most of you reading this. I have been to the Middle East and witnessed it myself. This is not idle speculation nor is it based based on books. It’s based on my damn eyes and talking to people there.

Perspex

Chill Annoying, Sex

Is it true that most guys would be willing to have sex their female friends?

No.

I think my female friends are all extremely beautiful. And I like them a whole lot. But I don’t want to have sex with them. And I would not if offered. Hell, I stayed in a hotel room in London with a close female friend (separate beds) for two days and was not even tempted. Not that she’s not lovely — she is. But it’s just not what either of us is really looking for.

Unlike what a lot of women believe, men aren’t always after sex and we are not thinking about it constantly. That’s merely the ~5% of men you encounter the most frequently.

What women imagine men want and what men actually want are often very, very different things.

Chill Links

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Rare traces of wooden tools reveal Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers.

Define Down

Chill Evil

Goddamn, women really are trying to redefine rape to “someone hurt my feelings” or “did something I did not like.”

Nothing at all good will come of that, but was the inevitable evolution of #MeToo. (And by this definition most women will also have committed their perverse definition of “rape,” so not really sure they want to go down that path.)

No Lock

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

What’s one thing men need to STOP apologizing for? : AskMen

That’s right. Women do not understand men very well at all. Because they do not have to. Men very much do have to understand women, however, if they ever want to get a date, etc.

Thus, women often conclude (with no evidence) that men do things that women mostly actually do, but that in fact men rarely do. It’s 99% projection. “Locker room” talk? Almost all women. Bedpost notching (metaphorically speaking)? Mostly (but not exclusively) women. Women are even somewhat more likely to share intimate photos of their partners than men are. Which is pure evil if non-consensual, I might add.

Women know nearly nothing about men, generally speaking, and have nearly no empathy for men. It’s quite amusing when you realize that, and how much of what they “know for certain” about men is merely weird projection.

Chill Links

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Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes to 12.2%, Far Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. End of Extend-and-Pretend Looms.

China Doesn’t Need to Invade Taiwan to Control It.

Poll: US boomers support tax hikes on young workers to keep current Social Security checks — the view is overwhelming.

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Modern Architecture Has a Beauty Problem.

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'Quiet firing' linked to higher levels of 'quiet quitting' among employees.

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How the AI boom could worsen the rich world’s fiscal crunch.

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

Americans Are Losing The Long Game. How the United States abandoned the future.

Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die. What a woman, and what a loss for all humanity (except Islamists, fuck them).

400 Tech Workers Face Job Losses as AI Takes Over Coding and Other Work at Norway’s Biggest Bank. Was told this is not happening. But I work in the industry. It’s fucking happening.