Raising the price of Insulin 1000% in a few years, evil.
People who do it? Mass murderers.
Correct punishment? Same as for any other murderers.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 12, 2019
Yes. Just because you murder from behind the safety of a corporate charter doesn’t make you less of a murderer, it just makes you a murderer and a coward.
Can we talk about the absurd number of sex offenders we have in the nerd community? We have so many rapists, pedophiles, hebephiles, sexual assaulters running around these events acting like women are the consolation prizes for their years of being "ostracized" when younger.
— ✨Clueless Belle @ #BHM✨ 🇳🇬 (@CluelessxBelle) February 11, 2019
Agreed, but you think the nerd community is bad you should try a frat house or any jock gathering. Literally (going by the stats) 3x worse.
And why is ostracized in quotes there? We were ostracized. I certainly was. Heavily. It’s not fictional. It doesn’t give one a right to harass or assault, sure, but what a way to waste your point in useless minimization of other people’s pain.
She reminds me of the girls who would come up to me after I got my ass kicked in middle school and tell me I deserved it for being such a nerd. Yep, that happened. She is exactly that type.
Insulin price increases compared to all else (including college, sorry for the bad res but still makes the point):
Before and after: The dramatic transformation of a shabby West Oakland Victorian https://t.co/JG94jyxVvW pic.twitter.com/bIHoWNrDiA
— SFGate (@SFGate) February 10, 2019
It was better before; had actual personality. The result is some yup bullshit.
Right now my body fat percentage is 14.3%. I am not trying to lower it at the moment. To gain more muscle, I should probably increase it. Eventually, though, I hope to get it right at 10% and hold it there.
That’s the end goal, though it’ll take me a while to get there since it’s nearly impossible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time.
Just thinking about the future.
There is nothing worse than conversation view in email. What a terrible way to work, or to find anything. How anyone can use that without going fucking nuts I haven’t a clue.
Why Are Guys So Bad at Picking Up On Hints?
Because this is not how men relate to each other. It’s a feminist shibboleth that men always know what women are hinting at secretly, but just don’t want to comprehend. I can tell you, though, in most cases this is 100% false. I and every guy I know have had women hint things at us to which we’ve been utterly and completely oblivious.
Here’s a hint (heh): Men generally verbalize something to convey information directly or to assert some form of dominance. I am not telling you this in a normative sense. I am just describing what is. We generally do not use hints and when we do, they are unsubtle and obvious. Mostly, we ask or declare directly and succinctly. This is the source of the divergence.
I have gotten better at picking up the hints that women give off so it is possible. I’ve gone from about a 10% hint hit rate to maybe 50%. And that is a huge improvement! But it’s still far from perfect so I get it wrong a great deal.
I am actually trying, though, but it’s not something I will ever be even half as good at as the bottom quintile of women.
When Social Media Goes After Your Book, What’s the Right Response?
This was the wrong response from the first author. The correct response is, Fuck all ya’ll ad infinitum. Never surrender, never concede an inch, make them look more and more foolish as you ignore them with aplomb. Don’t budge, don’t waver, don’t capitulate, and don’t apologize.