I’m having a bit of trouble re-adjusting after having been in Europe for a little while.

The food in the US is so bad. So very bad. The best bakery in the US is about as good as the bottom-tier bakeries in much of Europe.

Food you can get in gas stations there is often better than “high-end” restaurants here.

I know this makes me a rank misogynist, but a lot of above-average attractive women get very angry when the tool they are used to using (their beauty) to achieve some goal completely fails to work on you, even though it’s fairly clear that you are straight.

To be fair, I kind of understand, but being that used on most men it’s such a powerful tool, it’s really shocking to them when you are unswayed by it. Most get angry. Some are just confused. Some persist in a weird kind of confused desperation.

Sure, fairness of face might’ve worked on me when I was 15, but these days, I just don’t care. I actually trust the beautiful less than anyone else because not always but often beauty means you haven’t had to develop much of a personality.

To be fair, it also confuses men when I don’t even notice and don’t ogle attractive women that they for some reason want me to see. Fuck I just don’t care. Probably a horrible person even though her butt looks good in slacks. Doesn’t mean I want to know her.

So basically, I’m a misanthrope. Woo.

The Pixel’s missing headphone jack proves Apple was right.

Fuck that. I will never, ever, ever, ever buy a phone without a headphone jack. Without that, it is simply useless to me.

The problem with the whole fake news construction is that “fake news” is now defined to mean anything that does not toe the centrist line. This means anything to the left of Hillary Clinton and anything to the right of…Hillary Clinton is deemed “fake news” regardless of its veracity, the amount of evidence, or benefit to the world.

This era resembles the Gilded Age in so many ways — not just in the wealth inequality, but in the politics, the attitudes, the actions, the writings, the debates. It’s nearly a complete recapitulation, including in the suppression of unpopular views, particularly of those on the Left.

That is great makeup.

I listened to the audio of the shooting. Definitely a full auto weapon, probably small caliber (5.56mm). Hard to tell from poor cell phone audio, but most likely a modded AR-15 variant.

Why is any of that legal again?

Las Vegas Shooting: 50 Killed and 406 Hurt Near Mandalay Bay.

An armed society is a polite society, right? RIGHT?

Gun maker stocks are up in pre-market trading.

A Country where the majority of people are in debt is not a middle class country

— John Leavitt 🌹 (@LeavittAlone) October 1, 2017

Couldn’t have said it better myself, so I didn’t bother to try.

The military budget was recently upped by $80 billion a year.

The supposedly pie-in-the-sky, utterly impossible, completely “wanting a pony” plan to provide free college to everyone would’ve only cost $47 billion a year. But sure, can’t afford that.

Also, given current solar energy generation prices and college costs, we could’ve paid for all power generation in the US to be solar and all college costs for the next 100 years with how much we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars alone.

If we slashed the current military budget in half, we could provide solar for most of the US — where it makes the most sense — and provide free college in perpetuity to any taker.

But somehow, we can’t afford single payer or universal health care, nor free college, nor anything else that promotes an equitable and fair society. It’s all ponies and nice dreams, according to the DNC and anyone who has had their palms greased with Wall Street guilders.