Optim

This was the peak of 1990s optimism. I remember this and that Wired cover very well. I read the entire magazine. It wasn’t just Wired, of course, and this optimism wasn’t just techno-; this sunny positivity was absolutely everywhere in the culture then, a cozy blanket surrounding us all.

What a very different world that was.

Sub Scribe

Remember this when you hear about those “massive subsidies” that SpaceX and Tesla receive.

Strange also that you never hear about the fossil fuel subsidies, the food and farming conglomerate subsidies, etc. Yes, very odd, that….

Rebottle

It’s absolutely not nostalgia. The internet is indeed far worse now. As I’ve written before, the great effort of the elites is now putting the information genie back in the lamp again, and then burying the lamp under a thousand feet of scree.

And it’s working.

More More More

Sexuality is weird because there are people absolutely 100% convinced that the thing that many people really, really like could not be liked by anyone. The people who do not enjoy an activity just cannot understand it’s possible that someone enjoys whatever sexual practice — and to me that’s so odd. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been with more women than most men, and more partners than most women have? So I’ve just seen a lot.

Not that my count is absurdly high, but I’ll use one example that doesn’t identify anyone. Stop reading if you’re American, because this will be too much for you. Your prudish nature is just not gonna like this.

I had a girlfriend that really, really liked it when I came on her face. She loved it in fact. I have absolutely no attraction to this and it doesn’t turn me on but I did it because it made her happy. She very much wanted this and asked for it often.

And I’ve heard many women say that absolutely no women like this, it’s degrading, etc. But that’s bullshit because she’s not the only woman that told me she enjoys it, but she’s the only one I’ve done that particular activity with. (And yes, I did ask her if she was doing it for me, letting her know that I didn’t care about it but was glad to do it for her. And she was not doing because she thought I liked it. She truly did love it.)

So be very, very, very, very (very! very!) skeptical of any claims that “no one could possibly like that” because you are almost certainly wrong every time.

Miti

Damn, bringing the heat. But she’s right. Absent very, very extreme lockdown, which only a few fanatics want anymore, that’s the case. Especially as we did nearly nothing about ventilation and the vaccine mandates haven’t been harsh enough.

Reflator

Good pushback against “inflation is just babies whining” narrative the Dems have been promulgating, Dems who are going to lose so, so big in 2022 and 2024.People’s real wages are falling and they are quite aware of this.

Also, the below is hilarious, and I have noticed the same thing:

The last, inevitable, step as I’ve already pointed out is: it’s “conspiracy theory” to believe we ever said anything else.