Something else I was disappointed to realize as an adult is that most people know very little about how anything works (scientifically, societally, mechanistically, systemically, sociologically), have no curiosity about any of it, hold no real knowledge about the subject matter, yet still feel qualified to expound ill-founded opinions on it.

How can this be? Again, I just cannot fucking understand. I spend 10 years studying something and some dipshit who just learned what the “Discount Window” was five minutes ago is even allowed to have some sort of opinion on it? Just no. We live in a clown world.

Wow, someone really thought this wallpaper was a good idea, huh:

Liberals today are obsessed with age gaps in relationships for some reason (perhaps because they are amenable to easy quantification*), but the intelligence gap is far more determinative of who holds actual power in a relationship. It’s not the only factor, of course, but it’s a big one.

But it’s verboten, mostly, in the lib mind to talk about intelligence and it’d mostly never occur to them to apply this lens to relationships.

But I’m right and they are wrong.

*The ability to easily and in small sound bite/Twitter bite form quantify something seems to mostly control what’s allowed to be discussed now. Algos winning.

By banning words, the libs believe they can round off the edges of the world and make it just.

They have the causality exactly backwards; it’s the lexical equivalent of the equally-worthless plastic straw bans. Making the world just, however, can round off the edges and actually achieve something.

The thing is, one is a million times harder than the other. So banning words it is!

The Gobbler has renamed New York City to “Stupendous Donkey Frootloop” and everyone is really saying the latter but still thinks they are saying “New York City.”

Studies show that only 0.01% of people can hear what they are really saying.

What a performance, especially sitting on the floor.

But whatever mook uploaded this in a slightly-incorrect aspect ratio needs to be slapped with a trout. How can you do such things.

Her headpiece is beyond awesome.

A true full live performance and a really good one. Those guys way in the back are doing sound-mixing in real time and doing a shockingly good job, too.

I can learn from smart but evil people. That’s why I read some of them.

But most people can’t even learn from smart but virtuous people. Most people just don’t care about evidence at all, and will trumpet some bogus finding that’s obviously false over mounds of available and well-gathered substantiation if the shaky and incorrect data comports with what they and their tribe wish to believe.

You can see this with climate change, the efficacy of facemasks, the excessive mortality rates due to Covid-19 and in so many other areas.

Just as with the truth of how very well propaganda works, the fact that people just do not give a single fuck about evidence was something I only really learned well and truly as an adult. Both were very disappointing revelations and keep me apart from other people more than any other factors.