Russia โloses 2,000 troops for every 100 yards won.โ
Totally sustainable. How you win. (For the dense, that’s sarcasm.)
Month: February 2023
Quiet
I don't know what I'm going to say before I say it, either. Unless I say it to myself silently first, then say it out loud. (I am not joking!) https://t.co/vVekbjxVzC
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) February 17, 2023
Me too. I am often as surprised by what comes out of my mouth as everyone else is. That’s why I am seen as “quiet.” I’m not naturally quiet. I just must be very careful around normies.
Russian to the Window
Russian defence official dies after falling from St Petersburg tower block window.
Those Russian officials and windows. If I were a Russian apparatchik, I’d have all my windows covered over with plywood. Never know when they are going to just up and suck you out of them. It’s a thing there.
Cast Type
How have you been typecast as a creep just because you are a man?
Oh yes! It happens all the time to nearly all men. Less now since I’ve gotten a lot more attractive but it still happens.
I would not have been so nice after that. I would’ve cut that ID up and thrown it in the trash pronto. But then, I am spiteful.
How women treat men is a result of trauma, I know, but most women consider all men default creepy rapists. And that’s hard to bear because I am not and most men are not in fact creepy rapists. Kind of just like most black people are not criminals…but we’re not supposed to treat black people that way (rightly) but it’s ok for women to treat all men like creepy rapists.
But the world ain’t and never will be fair nor self-consistent.
Window
This is what a lot of the Return to the Office stuff is about. Everything else is just window dressing and propaganda (some of it quite well-done propaganda). In other words, it’s all about attempting to preserve the value of commercial real estate.
Whose Impossible?
I’ve been doing my “impossible” celebrity workouts for years now. I’m 46. It’s not even that hard honestly. I could work out even harder if I wanted to, for diminishing returns. And no, I don’t have good genetics and am not particularly athletic.
What are people even talking about when they claim these workouts are impossible? I worked out 4x this much in the army.
I’ve also never been injured and never had any issues (other than minor tendon soreness) due to my workouts. It just seems for most people “impossible” equates to “mildly inconvenient.”
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Destruction of a Russian tank by a bomb which is tied with a string to a dronehttps://t.co/wXqmsnRsi1 pic.twitter.com/aIPijskNMX
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) February 15, 2023
Well damn. That’s something I’ve never seen before and I’ve seen a fucking lot.
Aella
this is all fine but it's not why people think aella's research is worthless. science is a religion, scientists are priests, and aella has not been ritually permitted to wield the holy science. that's it. also sexual jealousy https://t.co/zo9RZw3Tuf
— QC (4/10 Substack posts) (@QiaochuYuan) February 15, 2023
Aella could discover cold fusion, cure cancer, and make a warp drive and she would still be laughed at in academia. If her ideas actually worked, they’d be stolen (as many already have been) and attributed to someone else who was ritually permitted to wield the Holy Science.
In my own case, it has been economics ideas that are now widely accepted and/or openly debated. When I had and promulgated these same ideas 15-20 years ago, they were laughed at, called “ludicrous” and I was called in an econ forum thread (and I’m quoting here) a “fucking retard.” One of the people berating me in that thread now advocates those same ideas. Funny how that works. Wish I’d saved all that as the forum is long gone now.
It’s hilarious academic mooks talking about Aella’s surveys being worthless when those same people survey WASP college students age 18-22 and think that’s representative of all humanity. Just…how?
Sustenance
Heavy Losses Renew Questions About Russia Sustaining Its Offensive.
Yeah, they lose about 25,000 trops and ~200 tanks and APCs to take a kilometer of land. No fucking way that is sustainable no matter what clown-ass Ian Welsh et al. think about it.
I guaran-fucking-tee it.
ROM
Two reasons:
1) Women are the main audience of romcoms so they identify more with women being upset. (I personally like romcoms quite a lot.)
2) No one cares if men are upset.
Regnant
Annual Services Inflation Rages at New Four-Decade High, Monthly Overall CPI Hottest since June.
So very transitory! Did I call it or what?
Anyone who claimed “transitory” should be deposed. I should be the new king of all economic pronouncements.
Two Too
Proof that Twitter operates in its own touchless-grass reality: in the real world, 99% of people never mask unless forced to. On Twitter, the 0.5% of people who mask โsometimesโ are hounded and scolded pic.twitter.com/e9yerfDlPs
— my [69F] boyfriend [420M] is texting other girls (@CartoonsHateHer) February 13, 2023
True. I was recently in some large airports in the US. Out of the maybe 10,000 people I saw with my own eyes, two were in masks. Two that I noticed (and I’m good at noticing things). Masks are done and over.
Wild Stuff
just stop watching movies or tv shows at this point man idk what else to say https://t.co/A8B0Y30HsG
— joanne psychward (@cottgewhorfairy) February 14, 2023
The prudes are really getting wild these days. Well, not sure “wild” and “prude” really go together, but you know what I mean.
Purpose Built
I'm sorry, but non-Jews using space lasers is cultural appropriation
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) February 14, 2023
Well, too bad. I’m building my space laser anyway. I need it for Galactic Overlord purposes.
Nonexp
Quantum Entanglement Isn’t All That Spooky After All.
This is a fucking terrible article — even though I agree with it! It doesn’t explain anything or really offer any reason why quantum entanglement isn’t spooky. It’s just hand-waving without any depth.
QE isn’t spooky because it just falls out of how the universe seems to work and it’s obvious when you understand it. But it also is completely against our macro intuitions and means local reality isn’t “real” in a very meaningful sense. And that actually is a very odd (I won’t say “spooky”) thing. This person could’ve done a lot better job of expanding on that but couldn’t in service of making a poorly-reasoned point.
Terrible non-explanation for something that is in fact counterintuitive to our notions about how the universe works.