Similar to my BBQ restaurant scale:
*Clean & empty; lots of cute pig decorations; long menu = Low expectations
*Crowded, small, grimy, limited menu = looks promising
*Building about to fall down; get past a couple of old loose dogs to get in; menu has 3 items = Eat everything!

— Anita Bowles, PhD (@ani_ta_twee_ta) October 20, 2022

This is it exactly. It probably won’t be a good bbq place unless it looks like you might disappear into the building never to be seen again.

I need to find some good bbq around here now that the church seems to have stopped doing it (we miss you, Eli!).

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Incidentally: if you front up tens of billions of bucks to buy twitter and BEFORE THE INK IS DRY say "I'm gonna fire 75% of you", you may not have any competent employees left by the time you walk in the door BECAUSE IT'S THE COMPETENT ONES WHO WILL LEAVE.

This always happens!

— Charlie Stross (@cstross) October 22, 2022

Yep. At the first bare hint of layoffs I’m out the door. I’m gone so fast glass shatters for miles around. At one place I worked, the CEO mentioned that there was “no possibility of layoffs” during a call — which is CEO-speak for “layoffs are happening soon.” I found a new job that same week making 40% more.

My former co-workers were all laid off a few months later.

The notion that sex work is a cure-all is asinine. Most johns can get laid just fine. They like paying for it for the power. And most people who are lonely don’t feel better paying for it, because what they want is to be wanted. Sorry things are complicated, but them’s facts.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) October 19, 2022

That’s absurd. Amanda has always believed that, though, so at least she’s consistent. No, most johns do not go to sex workers for power. Just like most people don’t go to the grocery store because they want power over food. It’s fucking insane to think that.

Most guys who go to sex workers do so because they want sex. Shocking, I know. A small percentage of them, sure, it’s about power. But it’s nearly all about sex, which is much, much harder to get for men. I think a lot of women don’t really understand this enormous disparity.

Amanda obviously does not really comprehend this because for her getting laid is easy. For most men, it absolutely is not. Women in the bottom quintile of attractiveness can have sex 10x easier than all but men in the top 0.5% or so of male attractiveness.

Just saw this and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a perfect description pic.twitter.com/IVDMD7bAbL

— Madelaine Moore (@Madelainefmoore) October 18, 2022

That’s great. I had a dipshit mook libertarian argue with me once about public roads. He said, “The government does nothing for me. I don’t need them at all.”

I usually don’t engage in politics at work, but I already hated this guy and I just didn’t care. So I said, “How’d you get to work this morning, Ben?”

He said, “I drove.”

“Who do you think built those roads you drove on? Where’d they come from?”

He didn’t answer directly, but rather started hemming and hawing about how a private company could’ve done it better with tolls, that the roads would exist anyway in absence of government, and all the usual libertarian nonsense where they think major infrastructure occurs by magic and wishes.

I also commented on the water in his water bottle and the safety features of his car being government-caused or government-provided. No answer to that either. He pretty much stopped talking to me after that, which was fine with me. No loss there.