Wahwah

I also hold no opinion on Hillary Clinton’s past or present hotness, but I very much agree that the turn to anti-sex prudishness did some harm to the Dems — though it does comport directionally with Gen Z and their weird schoolmarmishness.

Pump Up

My neighbor runs a loud gas trash pump on his dock all day when he’s out.

This is moronic in about 37 different ways, but this sort of problem is what a .22 Long Rifle round is made to solve. If you’re a good shot that is.

Hit that pump with a couple of those, issue resolved. And .22 LR has low penetrating power from ricochet so there is very little danger of the round going through walls of nearby houses easily. But it will still fuck up the pump.

All About Them

Whatโ€™s the worst trait youโ€™ve noticed among Redditors?

Having very little life experience and declaring rather mundane and extremely common events and occurrences to be “impossible” or things that “would never happen.”

It’s weird how completely sincere they are about their belief in the impossibility of the quotidian. Part of it is just that many on Reddit are quite young, but part of is that anti-social basement dwellers post the most. And they’ve done and seen the least.

American Homes Are Shrinking. Why Are They Still So Unaffordable?

Flat design is over. The future is colourful and dimensional. Fuck I hope so.

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

The dystopia of โ€˜1984โ€™ is already here.

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial.

Donald Trumpโ€™s Politics of Plunder.

The Economic Consequences of Destroying Harvard.

Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order.

Entry-Level Tech Jobs are Collapsing.

The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying. The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise.

The U.S. Reinforces Europeโ€™s Northern Front, Fearing War With Russia.

The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies.

The death of the family home is killing the American middle class.

About 1 in 4 Americans are “functionally unemployed,” researcher says.

Live Like

Even though many US idiots will says it’s “impossible,” we could have good universal health coverage like other developed countries.

When I told a UK friend of mine how health insurance works in the US and how bad it is, she thought I was pulling her leg. She truly believed I was lying and trying to make her laugh or playing a prank (she was not at all familiar with US politics). Then she looked it up and said something like, “People actually live like this?”

And that is the reaction of people from sane countries when told how the US handles health care. People cannot believe it. Because no other developed country does it as crappily as we do.

Acsex

Indeed. At least 50% of the “age gap” nonsense is this, as refracted by women’s intrasexual competition.

Start Spiking

I am using Windows 11 on my work laptop now as I need to experience what my users experience.

And it is. Fucking. Slow. OMG SO SLOW. Who wrote this, a snail? It’s amazing how absolutely abysmal the experience of using modern software has become.

Prudence

One of the things I like about Aella is that she is the least prudish public person I know. Even though I disagree with her on quite a few things, that’s a pretty great way to be.

Even many of the people who claim they are not prudish are really huge prudes. And that seems to be getting worse.