Day: August 18, 2025, 1:45 PM

Trades

Chill Annoying, Rant

Natalia has the better view of this. It’s only transactional if you view it that way. But if I’m in a romantic relationship with someone, even if it’s short term, I certainly do have the expectation of sex being involved. Why would it not? And that’d be true even if she were paying for the trip. It’s absolutely insane the doofy crap people believe now.

It’s not that I just want the woman for her pussy (nor that she should just want me for my dick/wallet), but the point is that I could — and often do — go on the same trip with my platonic friends just as easily.

If the expectation is a non-platonic relationship, everything goes well but there is no sex, you’re damn right I’m going to be upset. And that’s not because it’s a transaction but because it’s like if I offered you some pie with whipped cream and I gave you an uncooked potato instead. You’re for sure gonna be miffed. And you should be. Same thing here. To Gen Z and associated other doltish clowns, everything is about power when it should be just about having fun.

Which they are against, firmly.

Maim

Chill Annoying, Evil

This is a good point. There are many parts of Oakland (and other cities) where the crime rate is effectively 100%. As in, if you go there you will be robbed, shot, stabbed, assaulted or worse. These aren’t conservative fantasies. They are real.

The liberals have really flubbed crime, the idea of having pleasant urban spaces, and how most normal people perceive danger. It really was a marvel how quickly they went from #MeToo to, “Let the vagrant have some assault as a treat. It helps with your racism. He’ll probably only maim one of your kids.”

And they wonder why they lose so often.

Failure Modes

Chill Annoying

About this thread, I know I am terrible but I don’t really care about people who can’t use computers. I mean, learn it or get left behind. It’s as simple as that.

Most of the stuff that the average mook has to do isn’t even that hard. They get confused when given even dead-simple directions like, “Click here.” Then they do not click the place for no known reason and act like it was the computer’s fault. Come on, you failed to do the simple and obvious thing the computer told you to do. Why?

Until I am forced to, though, I will never use passkeys as they are not as secure as advertised (or as the person who created this thread imagines them to be) and their two main purposes are vendor lock-in and surveillance.

If you don’t understand the very basics of computers after they’ve been common for more than 20 years, that’s on you. Get with the program or be left in the dust.

I have no sympathy.

Gen Bat

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Kat’s right. Places that once were explicitly designed to help people meet for romantic purposes got converted by feminists into, “NO ONE SHOULD TALK TO ANY WOMAN HERE IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL” spaces over the course of a couple of decades

I’m old enough to remember when many places and activities had either the implicit or often explicit (as in, it was in the actual marketing material) expectation that they were friendly to and often designed for both sexes to meet one another. However, PMC liberal women became so obsessed with keeping undesirable men away from them that these much-needed spaces were turned into yet another bomb-scarred gender battleground.

This extreme obsession is one that puzzles me, but I guess it was really important to them for some reason I fail to understand to this day.

Expression Impression

Chill Regular-ass Post

I think this is partially true at least. Women assume men are defective women. But this isn’t so.

I have nothing I’m suppressing and have no real desire to express more feelings than I do. I think a lot of men are this way. I am not a defective woman, just as women are not defective men.

Chill Links

Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity.

Solving the Problem of Uncertain Significance. Clinical genetics: Aspiring to perfect certainty in an imperfect world.

LLMs generate slop because they avoid surprises by design.

The U.S. Plummets to Historic Lows in the World Happiness Report.

The Boomer generation stole from their children, from the future generation by using this capitalist debt-based financial system that we have today.

After all this work preventing ice formation and stopping molecular motion, a big threat to preserved organs turns out to be the physical stresses that develop as different parts of the tissue cool at different rates.

Primitive Streaming Gods. Lessons from the music industry’s initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.