What is the food opinion you have that results in this? pic.twitter.com/tVpOuGoh7y
— Santero (@djsantero) October 8, 2020
All coffee, even the most expensive French press whatever (I know almost nothing about coffee), tastes exactly the same as instant coffee — like fucking garbage.
My brain's behavior around attraction and mate selection is very confusing to me, probably intentionally so I can't figure it out and then hack it into letting me have more sex.
But basically, 'confidence' is a huge one, along with lots of special accidental shit-tests to see 1/— Aella (@Aella_Girl) October 9, 2020
This is the behavior of 90%+ of attractive women. It’s completely typical. As someone pointed out, this is the most normal thing Aella has ever written.
It’s why I’d also want nothing to do with her sexually or in a relationship other than friendship — I’m confident enough not to need this or want someone to treat me like this. If I were interested in dating, I have too many other options to want to endure this. Perversely, this might make me more attractive to her (I’ve found this to be very true over the years), but that would not change my feelings about it.
I don’t need to be teased or shit-tested. My confidence in my own awesomeness just means this wastes my time and hers and makes the world worse for no reason at all.
We all end up with someone we deserve, for good or ill.
IATA says of the 1.2 billion airline passengers since the beginning of 2020 just 44 have been confirmed as being infected w Covid on board. That is a 1 in 27 million chance of getting infected by taking a flight. It is IATA but assume they aren't fabulating
— Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane) October 9, 2020
That’s about what I’d expect. Commercial aircraft (I hope for obvious reasons) have extremely good air filtration systems, there isn’t much talking, and mask wearing is enforced.
Most people have a far greater chance of being infected at home than in an aircraft. In the airport, depending on which one and what time of day, it might be a bit worse (but not by much).
Good news, because hiding in terror at home is not a real answer to anything.
Much of the history of architecture is an attempt to subjugate nature, because it gets in the way of running society.
But there was still human nature, and humans enjoy costly things, like beauty, passion, selfhood.
We realized then there was yet more nature to subjugate. pic.twitter.com/mBy7puw9je
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) October 9, 2020
And part of the long trend of liberalism (in the broad sense) of the past few hundred years is to insist that there is no such thing as human nature, this idea being instantiated in its modern form with John Locke’s “tabula rasa” in the 17th Century and re-codified in the 20th Century to push back against eugenics.
But the problem is that there is a human nature, of course. And liberalism is against much of it by its omissions and inclusions.
I didn’t watch the Pence/Harris debate. Who fucking cares. They are both vile pieces of garbage, but one is more personable than the other.
Kamala Harris might have once been human. Pence never was. I guess Harris is better? But what does it matter?
The video quality of this is terrible, but it’s still worth watching. Audio is not bad.
Ignore the prattle at the beginning if you want, but the playing…WTF. There is no rhythm guitarist and he is not using a loop pedal. Just craziness. I don’t even know how he gets half the sounds he does.
And those harmonics played so, so fast midways through the song. Those are really hard even playing slowly. Just all WTF in the best of ways.
This shows how the liberal lie of “10,000 hours of practice” and “genes don’t matter” are all just comforting fabrications.
I could have practiced 10 hours a day every day of my life for 40 years and I would never have been 1/10 as good as Eddie Van Halen at guitar. Never.