Exactly.
I likely would’ve done the same thing Penny did. Men are now penalized for being protectors and not being protectors. Cannot fucking win.
Year: 2024
Taking Care of Things
We need a thousand snipers on a thousand buildings, waiting for health care CEOs and execs to poke their heads out. For a start.
Take a Hike
Why do so many hiking shoes (not boots) have such thick fucking soles? Come on, I’m not hiking over lava, just walking on a dry trail. I don’t need lifts!
What the hell is up with that?
The Problem of Evil
I really wish the clownish right could bother to identify with those denied coverage and killed by UHC rather than some CEO who was no better than a concentration camp commandant.
It really says a lot about their character and priorities.
No matter how much you display your subservience, you’ll never be even a small fraction as rich as the UHC thug. So give it up.
King of Hell
Luigi Mangione had truly atrocious opsec, though it is somewhat impressive he managed to escape NYC at all.
However, if he’s is allowed to live long enough to go to prison, he’ll be a king there.
Not Blu
Blu DeTiger, you’ve fucking ruined me. I kind of hate you now. 😉
Now when I listen to any other song with a bassline, I think, I wish Blu were playing this; she’d sound better. Ugh she is so embarrassingly good.
QNTM
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed that book. But it didn’t seem all that weird to me. I guess that’s because my brain works like that 24/7. When you’re constantly thinking about how you know what you know, what it’d be like to experience another consciousness, what a self-censoring idea would look and feel like, and the limits of knowability, computability and intelligibility, a book about similar things just seems like another day.
Recommended, though.
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out.
2 million mph galaxy smash-up seen in unprecedented detail.
Misinformation fuels outrage—which in turn leads to mindless social-media shares, a new study finds.
From ‘Great Resignation’ to ‘Great Detachment’: How the U.S. job market has slowed.
The Overlooked Trend in China’s Military Violations of Taiwan’s ADIZ.
Obesity rates are down. Is that because of weight-loss drugs?
China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort.
From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying.
Restaurants are turning into vending machines with chairs.
Careful with the Unitedhealthcare posts and the suppression of them.
Then It Quit
Just felt a little earthquake here in California, even though the epicenter was more than 100 miles away. The house swayed for a bit and then it quit.
Penny for Pound
Jury finds Daniel Penny not guilty in NYC subway chokehold case.
That’s the right verdict, whiny pseudo-feminists and people who’ve never been in a damn fight in their lives aside.
Dates and States
It’s great to realize that even when you get massively hotter and women flirt with you obviously all the time, that you still want your wonderful partner just as much as before, if not more so.
Options are nice and it’s certainly flattering, but most people are pretty boring tbh. I am honestly not even tempted.
National Crime
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms.
Zeynep’s response here is disappointing. And she doesn’t seem to understand that the word “depose” on the brass is referring to taking testimony under oath for a court case. Her column is so dissatisfyingly milquetoast and takes no side. No, I wasn’t expecting her to celebrate the assassination, though it should be celebrated. She just holds it all at such a remove.
Having good health insurance and having had it for basically her entire life in the US, she has trouble identifying with and understanding anyone who is not so lucky. It’s a common failing of the PMC liberal class, even for someone so smart as she is.
Unlike Zeynep, I do condone justified murder and I’m glad Brian Thompson was killed. He deserved it and in fact got what he was owed by fate and karma. After WWII, we put concentration camp guards to death who were involved in a few thousand murders. Thompson has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. Why should that sociopath get to live in opulence and comfort with that much harm done to the world?
Do I think his death alone will improve the world? No, I do not. But when reforms are made, you need two sides: the militant wing and the reasonable wing. Both factions are vital. The reasonable wing offers the possibility of alleviating the threat that the militant wing augurs if the less bloody path is not chosen.
That’s the only way societal reshapings work.
Larnin’
This is true. And this is exactly what I do. It’s important to note that you cannot become an actual (what I would consider an) expert in two months. But in that time you can learn more about a topic and be more competent at it than 99.9999% of regular people, and about 65% of so-called credentialed experts. Depending, of course, on the topic.
All it takes is 4-10 hours a day for a couple of months, depending on how much horsepower you have up there in the noggin.