Drove Away

January 29, 2025, 4:45 PMJanuary 29, 2025, 4:51 PM Chill Regular-ass Post

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to [a] girl?

I feel terrible about this to this day, but when I was at some military training there was this Air Force girl there that was like a little puppy dog the way she was into me. I have no idea why. No, I wasn’t attracted to her and didn’t sleep with her. I’m not that evil.

But I did my best to be her friend though she got on my (and most people’s) nerves. I should’ve been clearer about that to her, but I also didn’t want to hurt her. There didn’t seem to be any call for that.

That said, on to what I did. For some reason she had these absolutely huge and heavy photography cases. They were about 4×3′ and weighed a good 80 pounds each. There were two of them. This was excessive and unnecessary for what we were doing, by the way.

During our last days in training, she asked me to help her with these absurdly large cases, which involved taking them to and carrying them through the airport. Now, this was before 9/11 — I could’ve walked all the way to the gate with her. However, I did not need to go to this airport and had no reason to drive that way.

I told her I would help her, though.

The day we were all set to leave, I thought about how much work it’d take to deal with those cases, how far out of my way it was and how much she annoyed me. I pondered that for a bit, then got in my car and drove away. I didn’t call her or let her know — I just disappeared.

I’m not proud. But that is what I did. Sorry, weird Air Force girl.

Meth Duck

January 29, 2025, 2:37 AM Chill Amusing, Trynabe Funny

Why do so many meth addicts raise ducks indoors?

Can use the ducks for important meth quality testing. Afterwards, the ducks don’t send you a bill because they already have one.

January 29, 2025, 12:11 AM Chill Links

China’s Mysterious Tailless Stealth Fighter Has Swiveling Wingtips.

The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray.

The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria.

You’re Just a Row in an Excel Table.

Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness.

AI Designs Computer Chips We Can’t Understand — But They Work Really Well.

Trump Is at War with America.

Inside the world of medieval espionage.

Suicidal tendencies and ’80s battlefield tactics: How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

An overlooked nuclear force helps keep matter stable, study reveals.

One man has an unfathomable level of influence over how humans interact with one another, and that one man happens to have not a hint of morality or scruples of any kind.

There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief.

Higher-income American consumers are showing signs of stress.

Recess

January 28, 2025, 1:14 PMJanuary 28, 2025, 1:15 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

I think a lot of people are about to find out some of the implications of what and who they actually voted for.

Whether they care about or like it might be a different story, but history suggests it's probably not too different. https://t.co/R6K47pm9Al

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) January 28, 2025

Indeed. They fucked around. Now they are about to find out.

I’d put the odds of a recession comparable to the Great Recession due to Trump’s actions at about 50%. It’s going to be a rough four years.

Jectal

January 28, 2025, 10:20 AMJanuary 28, 2025, 10:25 AM Chill Amusing, Annoying

TIFU by telling my friend I got rejected a few times last year.

It’s revealing that a woman thinks merely five rejections in a year from other women is a lot. I’ve been rejected more than 10 times in about that many minutes in the past.

That rejection rate is actually below normal. Any man who is at all attempting dating gets rejected more than most women can even begin to imagine.

Pare Acc

January 28, 2025, 10:10 AM Chill Clowns

All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House.

If this goes on more than a couple of weeks, this will cause an immediate and sharp recession that will be difficult to recover from.

Prepare accordingly. And don’t forget that a lot of you voted for this rolling disaster.

Vidco

January 28, 2025, 4:07 AM Chill Annoying

Why are the people so incredibly terrified of Covid not worried about any of the other common circulating viruses?

Religions are weird.

McD

January 28, 2025, 1:30 AM Chill Video, Video (other)

I remember this commercial. Lord, what a different world that was.

Spite Which

January 28, 2025, 12:05 AM Chill Amusing

Amen.

January 28, 2025, 12:05 AM Chill Links

Why Ukraine’s all-drone, multi-domain attack could be a ‘seminal’ moment in warfare.

Advancements in farming technology set to transform the agriculture industry.

Particularly in the United States, we’ve lacked an ability to distinguish between the new and the improved.

How COVID-19 Transformed China’s Domestic and International Trajectory.

Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B.

CIA says Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory. Of course it was a lab leak. Nothing else makes any sort of sense.

What it would take for America to deport 11mn immigrants.

Lina Khan warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Trump gives free hand to private equity. As usual, she is correct.

How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires.

A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.

End Civ

January 27, 2025, 12:38 PMJanuary 27, 2025, 12:40 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

Covid nutters are something else, man:

Not a single one of those points is even remotely true or even plausible given what sort of virus SARS-CoV2 is. Long Covid is going to end civilization, don’t forget.

Behind Thee

January 27, 2025, 6:10 AMJanuary 28, 2025, 10:33 AM Chill Clowns, Rant

Young men are falling behind. What should we do about it?

One in three men under the age of 30 has a girlfriend, while two in three women under the age of 30 have a boyfriend. You think, well, that’s mathematically impossible. It’s not, because women are dating older because they want more economically and emotionally viable men.

As opposed to the frankly idiotic “Any age gap is rape!” dipshittery, women in their twenties seek out older men. I’ve certainly noticed it. When I was in my twenties, it was extremely hard to meet women my own age. At least who were interested in me.

And now, in my forties, I have all kinds of women in their twenties flirting with me. If I were single now I would have my pick of women in that age range. No, I am not interested — but far from the clownish liberal certitudes about how this works, women are the choosers in the dating market. And women in that age range are choosing older men of their own accord.

Just too much clownery in the world. Too, too much.