With porn as an option, men are not motivated to go out and approach women IRL and channel their sexual energy into the creation of families & life.

They can be sexually gratified without bettering themselves

It cannot be overstated how much porn destroys society

— Julie (@juliewrites) April 11, 2022

I don’t think porn is ruining society, but for most men porn is far superior to getting (often brutally) rejected a thousand times — which is the average male experience.

I’m rewatching all of Friends with my 14-year-old daughter. We are on season 2. Here is a running, but incomplete, list of all the things I have needed to explain to her:

— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022

I have a few younger friends (24-27 years old) and I’ve had to explain these things:

• Burning CDs
• How much 9/11 changed the US and the world
• What the Berlin Wall was
• The TV show All in the Family and how it altered culture at the time
• The X-Files*
• How very pervasive casual homophobia used to be
• How difficult it used to be to find information
• VCRs

I am sure there are more, but those things are nearly completely unknown or forgotten by Gen Z. I like having younger friends, though. Helps me see the world with different eyes.

*Because I said to my friend, “We’re like Mulder and Scully!” And she was like, “Who the hell are Mulder and Scully?”

Spent an hour diagnosing a network problem – turns out Windows 11 has added a "Green Ethernet" mode which throttles you down to 10% except when it thinks you're watching Netflix, and you have to go into admin mode and turn a number of settings off.

— Monsieur le Baron (@Mssr_le_Baron) April 17, 2022

Oh, what the fuck is this?

DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY

Just now, @jaketapper on @ccn asked me about the strategic & operational importance of the Moskva sinking.

In my view, this is a very big deal for a variety of reasons.

Here's a new 🧵 1/14

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 15, 2022

Mark is one of the few people who understands what’s going on in Ukraine militarily, what matters and what does not. Sinking the Moskva is a really big deal and I am still pleasantly surprised the Ukrainians pulled that off. That’s kind of like a few ants taking down an elephant.

Chomsky on American hegemony: "This is an unforgivable crime."

Chomsky on Russia raping and pillaging Eastern Ukraine: "Close your eyes and think of England."

— Russia is a cope cage 🇺🇦🇪🇪🌻🌻🌻 (@clifford_banes) April 16, 2022

Used to respect Chomsky. Not so much anymore.

The "Ukraine should roll over and surrender to save lives" thing (e.g. Chomsky) is either an inability to understand iterated games or a stalking horse for some other unstated agenda.

— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) April 17, 2022

I don’t think it’s any of those, mostly, though it is fully moronic. It’s mainly the belief that the West can never do anything right, and all is America’s fault. Sometimes, it is America’s fault but in the case of Ukraine not so much.

This is how those people think: Since America is supporting Ukraine, that makes Ukraine officially bad, therefore Ukraine should allow itself to be destroyed because that is “just.”

Also, a lot of those people are reflexive contrarians, like Ian Welsh. That does not lead to good thinking, even though it means you are often right.

IT: Communication with our server stopped working in this office. We've gone back and forth with Firewall team for weeks. Nobody can figure it out.
Me: Okay get me on a machine that's not communicating.
Me: *poking around*
Me: "that's weird there's a typo DNS suffix"

4 minutes.

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 14, 2022

I solve problems like this all the time, that people have worked weeks or months on. That is kind of my specialty. One of the most common things I hear is, “The IT team has been trying to fix this for weeks/months/years! You solved it in 5 minutes! How you’d know where to look?”

There is no answer to that question other than The Path. 😉

Firewall team lead here. NAT forces the vast, overwhelming majority of connections to be unidirectional without any rules you need to maintain. Kills whole classes of attack for most people.

Looking at the impact to maintenance ratio, NAT is indeed the best firewall.

— Zimmie (@bob_zim) April 16, 2022

Exactly. And IPv6 took away NAT. Only low-IQ dipshit clowns repeat the absurd sentiment that “NAT isn’t a firewall.” NAT isn’t the only security you should have, but it stops 99.5% of attacks with doing nothing else.

And document creation/editing software: https://t.co/SwznOx6bSr pic.twitter.com/fNSZE7JWfW

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) April 16, 2022

I agree. The main question now is if this censorship regime is captured by the woke or anti-woke. Either way, it will be terrible.

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago pic.twitter.com/ok0ej4wHJP

— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) April 14, 2022

Me too. Those were…some days.

People from non European cultural backgrounds who do ethnonationalism and then pretend it's not ethnonationalism because it's not European are very confusing. Do they think ethnonationalism is a European thing inherently? pic.twitter.com/3pAwVFgWUe

— crummy pail of water 🌉 🚱 (@notkavi) April 14, 2022

I have seen many people claim that only white people can be ethnonationalists. Which is insane, of course.

What's your favorite cover song that is *not* Johnny Cash's "Hurt," Aretha Franklin's "Respect," Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower," Whitney Houston's "And I Will Always Love You," or Jeff Buckley *or* Rufus Wainwright's "Hallelujah"?

— Dahlia Adler (@MissDahlELama) April 14, 2022

Lick the Tins’ cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” It’s here if you want to listen to it and see the video.

(Now that’s a deep fucking cut. Also, Alison Marr has a great voice and accent.)