Day: June 29, 2025, 6:49 PM

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Chill Annoying, Clowns

I grew up in a violent place. I don’t have a plan to kill everyone I meet if needed (I’m not that needlessly paranoid), but the second someone starts acting hinky or threatening around me or those I care about I do think about what I’d need to do to take them out.

Ideally, disable them enough to get away but if needed, kill them. I mean, what else would you do? Anything else is negligence. I’m not going to be injured or dead because I have no plan for handling some pugnacious dangerous dipshit. Fuck that.

Not The Way

Chill Annoying

This is a first-class-only car and most people would not have traveled this way. It’s misleading. The ticket would’ve been like $1,000 in today’s dollars, depending on origin and destination, of course. But that’d not be far off.

Also, the Golden Age of rail travel was not in the 1950s. It was in the 1930s and 1940s. After WWII, rail travel went downhill sharply as roads improved and then air travel got better and cheaper. Passengers using rail peaked in 1944 (which partially had to do with all the peregrination due to the war).

By the way, this is a publicity shot of the Astra Dome lounge‑observation cars introduced in 1955 and used on the Union Pacific line. These cars as I said above allowed first-class passengers only. This was not how rail travel or the past looked for most people. (Notice any black people? Hmm, wonder why.)

Cleanse

Chill Evil

The smartphone combined with social media has been the biggest mental health destroyer and most substantive societal-level cognitive alteration since the printing press.

And it is not going well. Not well at all.

No Gain, Much Pain

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I truly did never think I’d see the day when batteries, power generation and transmission and such became “gay” and “liberal.”

I mean, what the fuck? Could these doofuses get any stupider? I do not see how. An act of enormous self-harm for no gain at all (except to the Chinese).

Out of Practice

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Under current liberal thought, you absolutely cannot be a colonizer if your skin has even a slight tinge of brown. No matter what you have done or are doing now. With the exception of Israel, because they are Jews and the left is pretty damn anti-Semitic.

I so wish the left were substantially better than the right. But it’s just not. Not in practice.

Why Get

Chill Annoying

I do think that there is a difference in the psychological motivation behind why men or women get tattoos.

For men, tattoos are to express machismo and toughness. For women, it’s an act of self-harm and self-mutilation similar to cutting and suicide attempts.

Neither particularly psychologically healthy to be clear, but one is a bit worse than the other.

Phobe

Chill Regular-ass Post

Same. Living in an Islamic country made me an Islamaphobe. I was not one before that, nor did I think about Islam much one way or the other.

They need to consider, like, trying civilization sometime. And not hating women.

Neener

Chill Annoying, Evil

“Feminism for me but not for thee.”

Very common now. Since men have been cast as always-evil default rapists, this is how it is.

Chill Links

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician.

Offense has become so large and so accepted a part of our response to art that it can sometimes seem we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos.

Creativity & Technological Evolution.

These Moths in Australia Use the Milky Way as a GPS to Fly 1,000 Kilometers.

Salt Typhoon Hack Keeps Getting Worse, Telecoms Tell Employees To Stop Looking For Evidence Of Intrusion.

The Damage of Vaccine Skepticism.

National Resilience – a Cautionary Tale.

Trump’s trade deals are stalling out at the worst possible time.

Preserving America’s Air Battle Edge: Why Canceling The E-7 Would Be A Strategic Mistake.

California will see ‘devastating’ healthcare cuts under GOP bill, Newsom says.

Half of all private-sector workers in the U.S. have no access to a retirement plan, study finds.

More than 1,800 National Science Foundation workers abruptly kicked out of agency headquarters. More morons doing moron stuff. Just how life is now I guess.