Takeaway

And most of the leftists are absolutely fucking gleeful about all the things they will “have” to take away from you. It makes them deeply unappealing, but still capable of doing great harm. It’s some kind of weird psychosexual/religious thing with them, though — they love having erotic thoughts about depriving you of the necessities of life.

It’s a sick fetish.

Rocker Loom

That’s correct. “Locker room talk” is something women believe men do because they themselves engage in it, but most men (the vast, vast majority) do not. However, it’s common for women! So it’s all projection.

I was in the army for five years. I never witnessed any “locker room” talk at all. The closest I ever heard was something like, “Rebecca was hot! I hope she likes me.” Or something of that nature. Most of it was so vanilla and anodyne. And unlike in high school, in the army I was popular and well-liked. So it wasn’t like I was being excluded, etc.

Economics factors that drive business as always remain of prime importance, and we will start to see most companies cutting their workforce and using AI as an excuse. This is the sad future of my field.

417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Took Over a Decade to Make.

Study uncovers psychological profiles associated with mental and brain health in middle-aged and older adults.

How Hollywood lost the culture war.

Charting the Biden economy: Despite all the growth and jobs, a deeply unpopular president.

Two things can be true at once. Yes, Islam is very much against any kind of sexual impropriety. And yet its messages about women – particularly non-Muslims & those who donโ€™t conform to conservative standards of behaviour – fuel a sleazy predatory attitude among many Muslim men. Yup. Most Muslim men should not be unleashed on Western societies. Risk is too high.

The Great Layoff Scam โ€“ Inside Corporate Americaโ€™s Machine of Greed and Exploitation.

Loop

That is correct. Modern data centers are closed-loop and “use up” very little water.

Older data centers were open loop or flow-through, but those are not built any longer and nearly all have been phased out.

Herent

If I’m inherently evil, then I have no reason to even attempt to be a good person. Not an ideal outcome, right?

Luckily, I have ethics and morals apart from what anyone declares or thinks about me. But this is such a stupid thing to believe. Feminism has really screwed itself.

File and Rank

Most of the rank-and-file RTO advocates get super-incensed when informed that you’re not at work to socialize with them, but to get work done.

For them, it seems work is primarily to schmooze and yap aimlessly but has nothing to do with actually working at all. These are the same motherfuckers who would come by my desk 10 times an hour to “chat,” meaning that I was not able to get my extremely-cognitively-demanding work done while I was actually in the office.

Fuck them and fuck RTO.

Wanting

There is a paragraph in this Kat Rosenfield piece that I want to fully excerpt here but I won’t as it’s worth reading the build-up as well.

This is something I’ve been saying for a while. Women simply cannot selectively choose when they want to be treated as children. It’s all or nothing. If you want to be treated as a child only when it suits you, that is not on offer; you will also be dealt with that way when it comes to rights and responsibilities as well.

Feminism in the past decade or so has advocated that women hold power with no accountability or responsibility while blaming the results of even their own predictably-disastrous actions on men who had nothing to do with their self-caused fuck-ups. Outside of absurd exceptions like Trump, that’s not how power works or will ever work.

So now women must choose: be treated as little kids with no agency (and thus few to no rights) or own your own bullshit, and take responsibility for your own actions.

Which will it be?

Mater Real

Hargraves: I want you to think about who has the most macho army in the worldโ€”or at least the image of it. Russia, right? They pride themselves on this macho bullshit. But they invaded Ukraine, and guess what? Russia is losing 5-6 soldiers for every one Ukrainianโ€ฆ ego doesnโ€™t mean anything.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM

Effective intelligence, control, coordination and communication are the factors that matter. And having enough materiel of all sorts, too, of course. But even with all the materiel in the world, without those first four things I mentioned you’re gonna do nothing but lose.

As the Russians are discovering.

Itโ€™s MAGAโ€™s problem now. Living with the consequences imposed by a woefully uninformed electorate. Most people know nearly nothing, and the nearly nothing they do know is wrong.

We are approaching the end of the era when the only response to a natural disaster is โ€œto rebuild.โ€

Gen Z thinks they need almost $9.5 million to be financially successful after anxiously watching their parents unretire.

Gen Z Upset About TikTok Ban For 4.3 Seconds, Which Is The Maximum Amount Of Time They Can Focus On Something Thanks To TikTok.

China crisis looms as Europeโ€™s gravy train stalls: โ€˜nobody is making money.โ€™

Franceโ€™s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped.

Tech CEO praises worker for selling dog so they could return to the office. Another CEO shows what it takes to rise to the top. Let Luigi out. He has some business to attend to.

Microsoft Office being rebranded again. Fuck, that’s stupid.

Trump reinforces use of his ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. 100% agreed with this policy. These are economic migrants, not asylum seekers.

Done Dirty

We’ve really done Ukraine dirty. And by “we,” I mean the US, NATO and the EU. We allowed them to absorb all the Russian aggression and revanchism while providing just barely enough support to survive.

And we’ll pay for that. More specifically, the Baltics, Poland and Germany will. At least they’ll get it the worst.

Wait and see.