I must do something to compete with these mega-SUVs and trucks. My masculinity is feeling very threatened! Thus, the only choice as my next vehicle is this puppy:
Day: January 16, 2020, 1:40 PM
Apat
The component of male lived experience that is wholly unaccessible to women, more than any other, is the colossal and abyssal apathy of the universe towards you. Women cannot relate to this, except perhaps women of exceptional ugliness, childless crones, and FtM transexuals
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) October 30, 2018
Whatever the flaws of this account and its ideas, this is 100% absolutely true. I don’t think many women alive understand this. Perhaps none.
Not a-Biden
It is childish to continue to push unity: A) Warren is not going to win, that's clear, B) It seems like this was all done to help ensure Biden wins, C) It was done with her blessing.
— Jellicle Chad (@PrettyBadLefty) January 15, 2020
I think this is all true. As near as I can tell the only reason Warren entered the race is to be a spoiler candidate against Sanders to make sure he did not get the nomination and that Biden does. Nothing else makes sense given the latest events.
Biden will get the nomination, will lose without much of a contest to Trump, billionaires and millionaires are happy, and all is right with the world (from their perspective).
Aimee
Not surprisingly, Aimee Terese has been banned from Twitter. The purge of leftists and those opposed to bland centrism continues. I am sure her offense was to be insufficiently supportive of exploitative capitalism. More than 1/3 of the lefty accounts I used to follow are now banned.
Samara Robbie
So, Samara Weaving and Margot Robbie are not actually the same person. Well, that solves that about a movie that I thought Robbie was in but could not locate.
For the record, I think they are both pretty good actors, but both are big-eyed blondes with very similar facial features and smiles.
Bigravity
People believe they have the ability to “abolish the gender binary” by just declaring it so and calling themselves non-binary.
Shit, you’ve just highlighted it, made it more apparent, brought it into stark relief. Abolishing the gender binary is nearly as hard as abolishing gravity and about as likely to occur.
Ada Palmer pointed this out in her Terra Ignota series pretty well, though most who read it won’t understand what she’s getting at.
Rejected
This is an interesting thread, and it also shows women have no idea at all what men’s lives are like.
As a commenter points out, men experience rejection at far, far higher rates than women. Women are always like, “Women get rejected too!” Of course they do, but damn, you just have no idea. None. The bottom 80% of men get rejected I’d guess at about a 100 to 1 rate of any woman — except those perhaps in the bottom 5% or less of attractiveness.
In fact, I’d say that the experience of being a man is mostly about rejection and learning how to deal with it. This, especially when we are young, defines our lives and our entire approach to it.
Is anyone going to claim that this constant and unrelenting rejection defines women’s experience and life so much as it does men’s?
If so, I’d know you are a bad liar.
Corpo
That computers and applications have gotten so terrible and user-hostile has made me much more nostalgic for the 1980s and 1990s eras of computing.
Things kind of sucked then, but we were also having a lot more fun with a huge amount more control.
Outside
Watching The Outsider now. I’ve never read the Stephen King book on which it is based; I didn’t even know it existed.
It’s a rare narrative these days that can surprise me. I can usually tell right where they are heading. This one, though, did surprise me with a key event in the second episode. That’s probably a good sign.
The show has a very odd tone. It’s fairly unified thematically and tonally, which I appreciate, but it also just seems to be hovering on the edge of chaos always and I am not sure yet if this is intentional or accidental. Either way, it’s working pretty well.
Idiot Culture
Me: *Trying to create a food blog that doesn’t participate in diet culture.*
Google: Enable calorie counts on your recipe cards or risk not appearing in search results! pic.twitter.com/XQVKo4ofXC
— Rebecca Eisenberg (@ryeisenberg) January 15, 2020
Knowing how many calories something fucking has in it is not “diet culture,” you fucking dispshits. It’s something I always want to know — and that anyone sane should want to know — so I am glad Google is restricting that.
Why are so many people enamored of, committed to, absolutely dedicated to, embracing mediocrity and failure? Why be that way?