I love cherry Coke Zero, but when I tried raspberry Coke Zero in the UK I almost hurled. That was some of the most disgusting crap imaginable.
I thought it’d be similar to the cherry variant, but instead it tasted like a My Little Pony exploded in a vat of sweetened cat barf. Do not drink. Do not buy. Avoid.
My friend tried it and she could not even stand a sip of it, so it was not just me.
It never fails to amuse how "wow why don't men travel anymore" and "ew men are such gross PASSPORT BROS" manage to be constant simultaneous topics on here https://t.co/Cik0ljuaLu
— _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) August 1, 2025
Indeed. Will mysteries never cease.
As someone with a backbone, however, I don’t give a single shit what any shrieking feminist thinks about where I go or what I do.
I don’t know the solution, but smartphones and social media are particularly bad for women. The combo really has destroyed them.
It’s kind of odd that we’ve just let about 60-70% of women go fucking full-ass crazy and we’re just like, “Ok, guess it has to be that way; nothing can be done.”
There has to be a better way.
👋 Hi! 40-year-old sex worker here. It's actually very creepy and misogynist to find women younger than me attractive. Let's DO BETTER and stop fetishizing youth (women who are exactly my age minus one day) https://t.co/DZyJYyTYvm
— _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) August 4, 2025
I have no idea who the fuck Lil Tay is and have never gone to any OnlyFans site, but this absolutely fucking nails the nature of female intrasexual competition and why the “age gap” crap is full-on nonsense.
I know it’s popular to cast aspersions on Gen Z (I do it myself), but that’s very normal amount of time in which to expect a promotion from entry level. If I were in an entry-level role and I had not been promoted after two years, I’d be looking elsewhere. After two years you’re no longer entry level. Even if it’s just a bump from, say, tier 1 helpdesk to tier 2, two years is well more than enough time to learn a job and all its ins and outs. An exceptional person can do it in 9-12 months and also should be promoted.
This has always been true, by the way; this is not some weird Gen Z expectation.
Degrowthers want to ban air conditioning.
People like me want to air condition the entire planet. We are not the same.
If Rasmussen’s poll can be trusted, 2/3 of Ivy League graduates want to ban air conditioning, SUVs, and non-essential travel. 4/5 want to ban ICE vehicles and gas stoves. Elite Human Capital. pic.twitter.com/snnK8goUqt
— arctotherium (@arctotherium42) August 6, 2025
Goddamn. Pure evil.
The left and right are both full of clownishly absurd degrowthers. They just express it differently, as I’ve already observed. But that is next-level desire for the void.
Venus was beautiful in the sky this morning, incarnadine and beckoning.
Taking actions in the real world is so much better than in the virtual. Even if it is hard. Even if it is dangerous. Even if it might — almost certainly will the first time — fail.
For that reason, I will always have some respect for Elon Musk no matter what other evil he perpetrates because he built two companies that do extremely difficult things in the real world. Things that many, many people said absolutely could not be done1. Yes, he relied on government research and subsidies for some of it. But here’s the thing: so does everyone else. Liberals don’t tell you that part because it’s terribly inconvenient.
To go back to a point I’ve made elsewhere, many degrowther liberal types (and these days, nearly all liberals are de facto degrowthers) deeply loathe anyone who creates anything in the real word — a house, a car, a rocket, even kids’ toys. Because it “hurts the planet” and “contributes to climate change.”
This is not the future. It’s not even the present. It’s yet again another example of those too sequestered from the actual world to understand where wealth or even their own daily sustenance comes from.
There was a sci-fi author who speculated the reason for the great silence in the universe was because all advanced civilizations become wireheads (as we’re doing with smartphones), wither and then die. Seems pretty plausible to me. We are already far along that course.
That some path is to be avoided just because it’s dangerous and might not pan out is both cowardly and ignorant of history. The most worthwhile undertakings have always involved great risk. Many people in the past have died to bring you the life you enjoy now, while many others have suffered both before the advent of plenty and in the course of creating our civilization with all its boons.
We need to walk into the risk, go toward the Venusian light, embrace the glaring unknown, attempt the impossible and let the wild tides carry us beyond the horizon.
It is not a possible path. No, it is the only path.
FYI an uncertain economy is even worse for investment and future growth than a merely bad economy.
A bad economy is predictable. Uncertainty, however, is economic death. And Trump is overloading us with uncertainty. In fact, providing nothing but. This will result in very bad things. Already is, really, but unless an actual nuclear attack or tsunami hits economic headwinds generally take 6-9 months to have much noticeable effect.
We’re in the winds now. Storm is coming; depression is on the way. Just give it time.
How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer. Not “could.” Will.
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis.
Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious.” What the Flock.
The Only Weather Models That Nailed the Texas Floods Are on Trump’s Chopping Block. LOL. Fucking clowns.
The Best Mac Feature Might Be Its Resale Value. Yup. No one accounts for that when they claim that the Mac is so “expensive.” Motherfucker, I can trade in a five year old Mac for 50% as much as I paid for it. Try that with some Windows made-of-garbage craptop.
How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy.
Housing market reality check: Homeowners finally accept 3% mortgage rates aren’t coming back. No they are not, not any time soon.
Almost 2 million Americans are collecting unemployment in highest figures since pandemic times.
