Again, Ian Welsh: Winning!
Everyone else: Dang the Russians can’t keep that up or every man in Russia will be dead soon.
(The Russian mortality rate is about 1,100 killed a day now. They lost 50,000 KIA to take about 2km.)
Month: February 2023
Active
I welcome your derision. If I were in the active dating pool now, here would be my standards for a woman. These are only the ones that are non-negotiable:
- No tattoos
- Not significantly dumber than me (smarter is great)
- No astrology
- Not obese
- No kids and does not want any
- Not conservative and not into weird-ass conspiracy theories
- 22 or older
- Does not care that I have close female friends
- Must have own career (or be in school toward such a thing)
- No BPD
- Not clingy
There are preferences I have as well, but the above would be absolute dealbreakers for me, no exceptions. If women are allowed to have standards men should be permitted to as well. Hate me all you like — those would be mine.
FFS
Firefox sucks. You can tell where their priorities lie for sure.
Too Propa
I do wonder what the real rate of Long Covid is? It’d be incredibly useful to know but the Covidians have distorted the narrative and data so much that we’ll probably never be able to recover any truth from it.
Their definition of Long Covid is that someone had a slight cough three months after having Covid. This, however, obscures more than it reveals. Given the prevalence of “Long Flu” and similar, I’d guess the real rate of long Covid is probably 0.5% or so. That’s still a lot of people, to be sure, but nowhere near the 20% claimed by the Covidians. (And yes, I understand that “influenza” and “Covid-19” are not the same. The influenza virus isn’t even a coronavirus, yada yada.)
The Covidians’ weird ascetic nonsense actually hurt their cause and those with Long Covid. That’s quite typical of religious movements, though.
Expanse
The Chinese government is our military and political opponent. Xi Jinping runs a fascist expansionist power, only unlike Germany in the 1930s it has a bigger economic base and far more significant leverage over the U.S. I don't understand how this is controversial.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 12, 2023
This is true. Other than having nukes, Russia is not a real threat*. We could destroy their entire armed forces in three months. The same is not true of China and they are only going to become more expansionist with time.
*To the US, that is. It is very much a threat to a lot of Europe.
Feels
Women have a lot of non-win situations. I’m not denying that. I have a good few close women friends so I know it’s true. But men do too. Here’s one of the main ones: men are criticized both by women and men for having and showing feelings, and for not having or showing them — often by the same people! It can be crazy-making.
Also, women expect us to show these feelings exactly in the way that they do or we’re doing it wrong (in their minds). But that’s just not how it works and never will.
No-win binds really suck and there are tons of them in the modern world.
OK Lettucehead
AITA for being “cold” to a newish coworker?
Sounds like she brought it on herself. Women do get hit on more for sure, but I’ve also run across women like this who think every guy in the world wants them and that’s the only reason any man is talking to them ever.
They are toxic people and best avoided. They are also the ones most likely to report you to HR for a normal work interaction. So yeah, definitely stay far far away.
Anything Else
As a physicist, what I've experienced is that there are these tiny bits of reality which we can model really well with equations. We celebrate their discoveries as heroic achievements because they are so rare. They're not the norm. Most of life is mystery.
— Ole Peters (@ole_b_peters) February 8, 2023
And then the STEM clowns come along and tell us this tiny shard of reality is all of reality and there is not and cannot be anything else. They can’t even see any reality they have so much clown makeup on.
Droning On
Big revelations this week about balloons spying on US. These aren't really revelations. Two years ago I laid out exactly this was happening, why it was happening, its historical precedent, that it was directly conflated with UAP, and that was a big problem https://t.co/jhScFYR7mi
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) February 10, 2023
Yep, it was always balloons and drones and yes it is a big deal. The Chinese balloon coverage was so terrible that many people bought right into CCP propaganda. Shouldn’t do that — own your mind. Don’t let someone else just take possession like that.
Hell Up
This thread reminds me of the time I saw someone lamenting that mask mandates were failing because people kept removing masks at home e.g. to dine with their families or kiss their kids goodnight, “as a treat”. Call it nihilism or asceticism or whatever but it’s quite a thing https://t.co/LZj7EbnJCh
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) February 11, 2023
I remember that! Damn that was fucked. Most of those people seem to have disappeared or at least shut the hell up.
WWJN
Physicists Propose Blasting Moon Dust Into Space to Fix Climate Change.
Nuke the Moon for Jesus?
Disenchanted Angèle
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Cooking
DeSantis’s hired goons complete takeover of once legitimate university.
That’s too bad. A friend of mine from high school went to New College. I wrote her college application essay for her that helped get her in. In return, she made me dinner for a week — which was very appreciated at the time considering I mostly ate terrible food then and she was a great cook.
She was the one who introduced me to Jane’s Addiction and other bands at the time, too. The last I heard she was a museum director somewhere.
Facing Down
One of the wisest decisions of my life is to never use Facebook. When you can see the obvious, you look smarter than you in fact are.
Gap
"What do they talk about?" is always the funniest objection to age-gap relationships. What does anybody talk about? She probably sends him TikToks and he texts back "lmao"
— Park MacDougald (@hpmacd) February 6, 2023
Yeah, this shit always puzzles me too. I swear to fucking god a lot of millennial and Gen Z clown-ass motherfuckers think people with a three year age gap are completely different species; like it’s a cetacean trying to talk to a slime mold or some such thing. How did they get this idea? Where in the world did such a strange notion come from?
I’ve had friends of all ages and always have. And I think it’s better for most people (even women) to date and have relationships with people of all ages (as long as all are above the age of majority). I’ve just never noticed such a huge divergence as these people claim to see. Perhaps it’s because I’m attracted friend-wise and romantically to strong, confident, and intelligent people? I don’t know.
Why is Gen Z and younger millennials so very obsessed with age gap relationships? “Oh my god, he’s 37 minutes older than her, it’s the apocalypse!” I just do not understand.