I like the stock market because when you’re right, you get paid no matter what anyone thinks.
As I look around at our new house that was substantially paid for with money I made from trading stocks, yep, it didn’t even matter a fucking little bit about what anyone else thought about anything I did. I got the house and you got a stupid opinion.
I win.
If god were verified real, the prime project of humanity should then be to engage in a billions-year-long project to kill it/him/her.
What’s a common struggle men face but rarely talk about?
Women are more likely to use your perceived weakness against you than other men. Far, far more likely. That means men are extremely distrustful of any woman asking them to “open up” emotionally or to be their real self. It’ll only be used against you in the end in most cases.
Man in critical condition after being shot by 2-year-old.
Gimme my choccy milk, motherfucker! bam bam
America is such a bizarre place sometimes. More toddlers shoot people here than criminals do in normal countries.
What difficult truths, the sooner you accept them, the better your life will be?
Most people will choose the cowardly path, even when the alternative way is not that difficult nor costly.
So if you can be easy when it’s possible but be hard when required, you’ll be ahead of all those fuckers by a mile in no time. It’s how I’ve lived my whole life.
When the war with China starts, expect weeks-long food system disruptions as a secondary effect of data centers containing ERP systems being bombed.
Plan accordingly.
I did three sets of 45 dips each on the dip bars this evening. Back in early 2023, I was only able to do 19. And that was a struggle.
Still getting stronger.
Hurricane Debby Reveals Hazards of the Suburban Development Pattern.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype.
Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities.
Non-mortgage costs were 40 percent of housing budgets through 2021. Non-mortgage costs are 100% of our housing budget.
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law. Who could have ever predicted this? No one, no one I tell you!
Am left of the US Democratic party, but at this point they represent an infinitely better option for America than does anything connected to Donald Trump. Same. No senile two-bit felons in office, please.
Trump slams Harris’ call for a price-gouging ban, but 37 states already have their own. Including quite a few red states.
Astronomers think they’ve found a plausible explanation of the Wow! signal.
The real cost of groceries is back to the start of Covid, and going down.
This is crazy cracksmoking crap. Does anyone believe this? My income did not double since the start of Covid, but grocery prices certainly have. I guess the econs figure if they flood the zone with propaganda and their preachy proselytism of absolute lies they can convince enough people. And I suppose that does work.
We elected George W. Bush and Barack Obama twice, after all.
So glad I am not dating now. Men are told we are not allowed to talk to or meet women at work, in clubs, in the gym, in the supermarket, on the street, on the bus or train, in the café or anywhere else in public or private. So that leaves only dating apps, which only work for about 10% of men.
So what are the rest supposed to do, exactly? Seems like hell world.
Even meaningless questions and apparently-worthless paths can lead you to the right answers, as even the worst approach is constrained by reality into the shape of the possible. This is not ideal, but as in optimization and modeling the best method is often not known — so a pseudo-random reset often provides some unexpected benefit.
Exploration1 is key.
Well, for men anyway we are told that any horniness means you are a creep and that any expression of sexuality means you are dangerous and terrible. That’s the modern consensus. What will challenge it?
We were moving away from this in the 90s a bit, but then it returned with a terrible vengeance.
Partially, this general decline springs from s misalignment of incentives. To bring up the old saw again, all of these products and services relying on advertising for revenue means that you become the product. But it’s more than that, too. It’s what I call the “scam economy” taking shape. This goes well beyond Cory Doctorow’s1 “enshittification.”
The “scam economy” is the result of transition of the entire sociocultural basis of trade behavior from community-minded mutual service with some profit stacked on top to an attempt to grift everyone else at any opportunity. This is what our economy has slowly but nearly-fully moved to since the 1980s. Ads as the primary revenue model just reinforced this pre-existing trend, but did not create it. “Enshittification” is just a natural outcome of this larger movement.
I’ve been thinking about what the larger animus driving this transition to a scam-based economy might be, but I haven’t reached any solid conclusions yet. When I do I’m sure you’ll be the first to know.
That is a great scene. Amazing filmmaking. It has a perfect setup and payoff. It pulls out all the stops on the despair organ and leaves that motherfucker blaring.
What’s the “correct” response when receiving nudes?
“Did you mean to send me this orangutan picture?”