The first ten on today’s playlist:
Month: September 2022
Real P
Man, this shit is so weird and perverse to me:
“Nothing in common” and “creepy.” Huh. I’ve found I have quite a lot in common with people of all ages. The idea that people of slightly different ages are so hugely divergent without even considering any other factors is just such a bizarre idea counter to nearly all real-world evidence.
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think adults should be dating minors. Not at all. There’s a reason minors are protected, and a good one. But the idea that a 21-year-old and a 32-year-old are some totally different species is so fucking bizarre to me that I can’t even express how strange it seems. How can people believe utter claptrap like that?
By the by, a lot of women date men older than they are because older guys tend to have their shit together and be less abusive than dudes their own age.
Personally I’m really glad I dated a 25-year-old when I was 19, and a 38-year-old when I was 25. Some of the best dating experiences of my life. I think everyone — men and women — should do this. And I’m glad I have younger Gen Z friends now.
Fuck modern liberalism. Assclowns.
Even a Chance
The Dread of Watching Your Kid Start School.
I had such a terrible time in school for most of it that if I had a kid, I’d be tempted to home school. I wouldn’t want anyone to experience what I went through during most of my scholastic career.
It’s not likely that they’d be as big a misfit as I was, but damn it was so terrible if there’s even a chance….
Not All Three
Reminder that these three things said by corporate executives cannot all be true at the same time:
“We can’t find workers to fill jobs”
“We can’t afford to raise wages”
“We’re making record corporate profits”
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) September 17, 2022
Yeah. They would do just about anything to prevent raising wages, including tanking their own companies (strangely enough).
Bear Hair
Love it. I think I’d slap on some clothes, though. Wouldn’t really want a buncha bear hair in my vagina.
BYEMARS
I'm all for structuring life around trauma recovery. But honestly, the Ukrainian army demonstrates the proper response to trauma — get some friends to help you out, then blast the shit out of the trauma with a HIMARS!
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) September 16, 2022
Hell yeah.
Bern Notice
Twitter should have a mandatory feature where everyone doing any kind of identity discourse has to disclose what acquaintance or ex they're actually still mad at
— men and hommes / Betty Larceny 💋 (@communoah) September 16, 2022
Burnt up. Reminds me of all the women journalists who were using Bernie Sanders to prosecute grudges against old boyfriends. That was a wild thing to witness.
Ko
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Longadot
I really like this photo that Gal Gadot posted of her doing a handstand while working out:
She looks even taller like that. She’s like 80% legs.
Two Groups
Two groups in Europe seem to be vocally upset Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing.
The far left and the Nazis.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) September 12, 2022
Kinda odd when you think about it.
You’re Cool
I wish more people experienced this. https://t.co/1HWN2mP1bY
— Puff the Magic Hater (@MsKellyMHayes) September 16, 2022
To their credit, a few of my middle school bullies apologized to me later in high school. I wouldn’t say it was all that meaningful but it was appreciated.
I think the most meaningful experience of high school when I realized I’d left the worst of my past behind me already to some extent was after the academic team I was on won some big tournament. The next day, the school read our names out during the morning announcement. People started clapping in my first class and I didn’t think much of it. Then I realized they were clapping for me.
To understand how large a change this was, consider that in middle school and early high school my own family members wouldn’t even acknowledge me in school and I was beat up daily. For a long while, I was literally the most hated kid in the entire school. No exaggeration.
Glass Gun
Would it be possible to make a gun rifle and breach out of high-strength glass, like maybe an inch thick? The slow motion footage from something like that would be sick I think.
— Misha – Visiting the bay area Nov 19 – Jan 3 (@drethelin) September 16, 2022
Nope, that would not work. Thickness of glass wouldn’t matter here. It’s the fracture toughness and crack propagation that matter. 200-grade steel has a fracture toughness index of 175, while glass has a fracture toughness index of only around 1. Huge difference. You just can’t make a standard gun out of glass.
IMP
Welp, about to do one of my “impossible” workouts with my “impossible” body.
Feels great to do all this “impossible” stuff. I highly recommend it.
Thirty
There's something buried in here: Russia isn't rotating its troops. Almost at all. Guys go to the front line, and stay there until they die, or the unit is effectively destroyed.
Humans can't take this. Mentally, they will break down w/in months. 1/nhttps://t.co/peSG7yROra
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) September 14, 2022
Indeed. Other than a few exceptional individuals, 30 days of continuous combat means that person is done for life, even if they survive. Especially fighting in a war they don’t care about in terrible conditions where the only foreseeable end is death.
Past-y
When I think about it, it’s hard to believe that my grandfather grew up a sharecropper who took a mule cart into town once a month.
The past was very past-y compared to even my grandfather’s later life and certainly my own.