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.

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.

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.

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?

the most overlooked and underrated negative effect of cars in big cities is the noise. People have this sort of idea that cities are generically, unavoidably loud places, but they're not, really; cars are just really noisy. pay attention to where the noise come from; it's cars.

— wayne (@_wayneburkett) January 15, 2020

It’s cars, a bit, but mainly dogs, dogs, dogs, damn dogs always fucking barking constantly 24 hours a day, ceaselessly, unendingly, without a possible halt, forever.

One time, as often occurs, an IT recruiter had a list of technical questions they asked even though they weren’t technical and didn’t understand a single one of them.

I answered one of the questions correctly and they then told me I was wrong. I said, “Well, you better check your little paper more closely because what I said is 100% correct. If you didn’t understand the words I used, that is not my problem.”

Needless to say, I did not get the job.

But very worth it.

A culture that produces no art is not a culture and will not survive a generation

A culture that produces ugly will be dead in two, ugliness is a transgression against life and a disease of the Soul

A culture that cannot produce and demonstrate beauty has no future then

— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) January 15, 2020

I am not sure why it takes a personal trainer and fitness guru to state something more insightful and relevant than 99.9% of philosophers, but there you go. Obviously, I agree. A culture that crushes beauty — in visual arts or in literature — and that disdains it as irrelevant or harmful, as ours currently does, is not long for this planet.

Feminism to liberals is supporting exactly one woman, by pretending they are a symbol for all women, and then viciously insulting every woman who disagrees.

— Jellicle Chad (@PrettyBadLefty) January 14, 2020

And calling them “BernieBros” despite that not making any damn sense.

US military has the highest reported PTSD in its history, and probably the world. Some of it is error and fraud. But even people who didn't experience combat return alienated and depressed. The problem isn't battlefield trauma but reentry into society.

Also true for Peace Corps

— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) April 24, 2018

I understand why people stay in the military and especially why they stay in units like the 82nd (my old unit). There, someone always has your back. Someone is always looking out for you. If you hurt yourself or you just need a hand, people are always around and more than willing to help. There are people there on whom your life literally depends and vice versa.

When I left the military, though I was glad to be out, I lost my entire community and felt pretty adrift. Regular civilian society is the fucking jungle compared to being in a paratrooper unit. In the civilian arena, no one is around to help. You do everything as a disconnected individual, with no real assistance and often institutions and people actively working against you. It feels like an alien, hostile world where it’s far more sink or swim than any military unit.

Bernie will never be nominated, Warren has shown her true colors — so it’ll be Biden for the Democrat’s nominee.

Trump wins, in other words.

Politics, in wealthy countries, is increasingly becoming a war between the generations.

As it should be, as older generations do not give a fuck if their children and grandchildren live or die. Has that ever occurred to this degree in the history of our civilization?