Day: June 22, 2025, 7:49 PM

Some Word Wordsum

Chill Amusing

Try the GSS WORDSUM questions!

I got a 10/10 (all 20 right) with no cheating. I didn’t really expect anything less. Those are all super easy for my brain.

If I take a more verbal IQ test I score in the 165-180 range. On the other hand if I take a more math-y one, I score in the 70-80 range.

So depending on which test I take I’m a genius1 or borderline mentally retarded. Fun!

  1. People with 167 IQs aren’t actually that rare when considering the whole population, 1 out of 71,000 or so. If you flatten out the whole world, that means there are 113,000 of us, if the “STEM-is-all-that-matters” clowns let me in the club based on my results on verbal-leaning tests.

Uncons

Chill Amusing, Annoying

A lot of women are supremely bothered by the fact that unauthorized/undesirable men will be attracted to them and are incensed when no one does anything about it.

It’s hilarious to watch. Additionally, I can personally confirm there are at least two women who wore sundresses at least partly for “ease of access.” So indeed it does happen. People in general just weren’t made for social media, and I think it’s a whole lot more mentally damaging to women as they just care about it more.

Left Two Behinds

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

That does seem to be their plan. They are already clownishly irrelevant. In some ways, the modern left has become some weird offshoot of traditional conservatism — except they want gay people to get married and think men and women are exactly the same, except when they are completely different (trans stuff).

Chill Links

The right to privacy has been hard-earned. It is imperilled again.

We Don’t Have to Give In to the Smartphones.

Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, resulting in more layoffs.

The SAT’s Trust Fall. Legacy standardized-testing firms are cutting rigor to please students.

The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge.

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA.

Denmark’s Radical Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge.

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere.

The Actual Constraints

Chill Annoying

It’s incredibly sad how in a few generations we’ve gone from Apollo and “Let’s see what’s out there” to endless declamations on how we should not do anything new or unexpected because it’s all vewy vewy scawy and inherently bad.

News flash, dipshits: we have magic rocks that spew energy and a insanely large free fusion reactor in our solar system that produces 3.86 x 1026 joules of energy per second. The reality is that with the will and time we can do whatever the fuck we want. We are only constrained by our imaginations and physical laws.

Nothing else.

No Future

Chill Clowns, Evil

Future of Tech in the US?

Extremely bad. Absolutely do not go into tech now. It is going to be gutted. If you’ve got 15+ years in and you’re senior now, you’ll probably be ok. Otherwise, avoid at all costs. Choose any other major and/or field.

Everything in tech is going to be disposed of, outsourced, converted to AI, murdered by MBAs who understand nothing and care only about the next quarter and their bonus. It’s happening now and it’s only going to get worse. There is zero future in tech.

Trol

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I know this tweet is satirical, but people of either gender get angry when someone does something that they feel removes or negates their dominance in some area they’ve traditionally held it. Women control the dating space with an iron fist and when anyone impinges on that or obtains what they feel is an unwarranted advantage, they get extremely upset. It’s a natural human reaction. Men police other areas to a similar extent, though that’s been decreasing a bit in recent years.

At least 90% of the “feminist” reaction to the PUA community was not due to its misogyny but that PUA advice actually did cause (in their view) undesirable men to get markedly better at social interaction, which was a threat to PMC women.