Day: August 6, 2025, 3:46 PM

Future Lat

Chill Prediction

I have a dark horse candidate: Latin America, and not just for bio stuff, but for everything.

Eventually, as the EU becomes Islamicized and the US becomes an authoritarian Christian dominionist horror show, the smart people from the EU, the US, Russia, China and even India will converge on Latin America as it gets its shit together. Buenos Aires will be the new Silicon Valley; something close to Schengen for LATAM will be enacted about when research universities there supplant America’s as they embrace tech the US is now trashing (mRNA and other biosciences, renewable power, and so many more).

By 2100, Latin America will be the place to be. The US and China will be sad also-rans and the EU will be under a new caliphate.

Manip

Chill Evil

Men, what is it like to be with a manipulative woman and what are some common things they do?

Some things (all I’ve directly experienced):

  • “That’s not what a real man would think/say/do.”
  • “You’re not ambitious enough.”
  • No matter who did what, it’s your fault. Always.
  • Constantly accessing your email/phone/personal stuff to “check up” on you, including work equipment. I told the one who went through my work laptop that she could get me fired doing that. She didn’t care.
  • Is always the victim and is never responsible/accountable for anything ever.
  • Strategic use of tears/sex to attempt to control you (sometimes both at the same time!).
  • Requiring “permission” for anything.
  • Have a codependent relationship with their mother.

I know the same is true of some men as well, but some women nearly make you give up on any connection with any other human being at all of any gender. That’s how bad they are.

Culture Matter

Chill Culture

I think just as much as the economic headwinds, the expectation that every kid needs to be closely surveilled 24/7 by necessity means a much lower birth rate.

Culture cannot be ignored. And right now, children are expected to be treated like concentration camp inmates under constant guard, not allowed to stray more than 10 feet away lest the cops be called, not allowed to play alone or sometimes even be alone, and with no prospect of any of the freedoms I and most people over 40 enjoyed as children.

While children suffer, regarding the birth rate, parents in this terrible culture also must bear a heavy burden. They must devote every scrap of waking attention to making sure little Timmy or Joanna is never out of sight as CPS gets called in an eyeblink these days. This culture of extreme monitoring puts an upper limit on how many children most people will have or wish to have.

After all, who’d want to have children who could never be more than an arm’s length away where you basically become an unpaid prison guard in charge of their every move and breath?

Sounds terrible. And requires an enormous time investment, far more than previous generations would’ve devoted to any one kid. So, yes, culture matters just as much as economics when looking for the answer as to why more people don’t want to live a life like that to have some kids.

Un rouge plus rouge

Chill Movies, Video, Video (movie)

I love this entire set of scenes; a masterclass in filmmaking. And it’s all so nasty. You feel kind of dirty after watching it. Which is, of course, the point.

But it’s all so perfect. Juliette Gariépy just nails the creepy psycho vibe (very hard to do for an exceptionally beautiful woman, by the way!) and the music intensifies the feeling of dread that is and dread to be. I also like it because the director (et al.) made sonic and blocking choices I never would’ve considered — and these made the scene so much better than my tendencies here would have. (And yes, the entire film is in 4:3 format. It’s not some YouTube upload issue.)

Apologies, this is all in French with no subtitles and I’m too tired to translate, but the visuals, music and non-speech here are what really matter anyway.

That I Say

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Some women seriously be like, “I got this tattoo to reclaim my body!”

And then the tattoo looks like a donkey barfed on them. Two years later, you see some crazy tweet like, “Why do all the EVIL guys I REALLY want and deserve HATE TATTOOS! It’s SO UNFAIR and OPPRESSIVE!”

And to that I say:

Chill Links

AI Turns Drone Footage Into Disaster Response Maps In Minutes.

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills.

What Can a Cell Remember?

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government. Extremely evil stuff.

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head.

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials.

As Goethe said, every fact is already a theory. That’s why facts cannot save you.

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away. It’s Thomas Friedman, but he’s right. America will be much diminished forevermore. And the world (despite current claims) will miss it when it’s gone.

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster.

“What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand.”

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows.

Ex-Russian president warns enemies of ‘new reality’ as Kremlin ditches nuclear treaty. It sucks being back in history again.

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds. Surprisingly absolutely no one.

Evaluating the tradeoffs of a generalist parasitoid fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, on different sympatric ant hosts.