Day: August 22, 2025, 6:01 PM

Fuego

Chill Killin' It

This is a rant blog, so a lot of you might get the impression that I am unhappy or an ass all the time.

While I am indeed a grumpy person by nature and kind of spiky even on my best days, I am very happy! I hardly ever have a bad day. And that’s because I have a gorgeous, lovely partner that I’ve been with for many years. We own our own place and have no money worries. We do pretty much what we want.

And I have some delightful, fun friends all around the world. More than I ever thought I’d have when I was a misfit and widely (and wildly) hated in rural North Florida.

My life is so, so great. And I am thankful every day.

Advant

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yes. If you rearrange the letters in their name, you can spell “Oog Gel.”

Which just sounds funny.

Animai

Chill Clowns, Evil

Here’s a good (horrible?) example of female intrasexual competition. It’s a common one these days, where a woman claims that a man who likes any woman skinnier and more attractive than she is has engaged in “pedophilia.”

The fucking hilarious thing about it is that the object of her compeition is an AI anime character.

I’m no fan of that Grok anime woman but knowing how Japanese animation works, if she were “translated” into a real woman she’d be 21-23 years old. Not a child. Not even a teenager. A full-on adult woman.

That is why this is a darkly funny example of female intrasexual competition — except the competition isn’t even another woman. (And I have a friend in her 20s who has a nearly identical body shape to that Grok AI character. It’s not even that uncommon in countries without raging obesity epidemics.)

Odin

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I understand why IT people often have big egos.

It’s because many people think we can do god-like things that are just impossible, that violate the laws of physics and common sense.

When you realize to 99.99% of people computers are mysterious magic boxes that do things for no known reason, a lot of the dysfunction of the modern world becomes clearer.

AK News

Chill Clowns, Evil

An awful lot of those “Palestinian” “journalists” turn out to be doing most of their “journalism” with an AK-47 and some bombs. Because they’re working for Hamas and participated in October 7, many of them.

That’s a very different sort of “journalism” than most people’s definition.

Dating Berating

Chill Clowns

What is your experience with dating apps? Because this feels like swiping into the void.

It’s funny when women realize — which they rarely do — what dating as a man is like.

It’s the Great Silence. That is, if you’re not actively being belittled and made fun of, which is also common. Unfortunately for us all, social media and how modern dating works has reinforced the worst tendencies of women more than the worst tendencies of men, so we are where we are.

So glad I am not swimming in that cesspool but I write about it because I remember that hell. And it’s only gotten worse.

Social media has convinced mid-level women that they deserve the top 0.1% of men so that’s all they’ll accept. Which means most men get no interest from anyone at all.

In a way, it’s a return to historical norms. Which isn’t great for anyone, women included. No matter what they think about it.

Sys Min Ad

Chill Amusing

One of the developers where I work was surprised that I knew how to find and read the source code to figure out what one of their applications was doing and how it worked. I was doing that so I could solve some other problem.

Like, bro, I’ve been reading code since before you were born. Just because I do not like programming doesn’t mean I can’t understand it. In any sysadmin type job, you do everyone else’s job too. At least sometimes. That includes dev too.

Sis

Chill Annoying

Oasis and men.

I’m not an Oasis fan. I like one of their songs sometimes, though I haven’t listened to it in years. Not my type of band at all.

That said, this article is one more in the genre of, “Haha, men are defective women! Why can’t men be women!?!” annoying execrative diatribes common now. The whole article just drips with that condescension. I am honestly sorry I read the entire thing.

Women expect men to relate to one another how women do because that’s “better.” However, if you’ve ever been around women’s intrasexual competition and all the absolutely insane things they do to sabotage one another, you’ll know that you want no part of that. It’s not better at all.

And yes, I do know. Most of my friends are women, remember?

Chill Links

Kia is launching all the cool new EVs in Europe, while the US gets put on the back burner. Thanks to the morons in charge of this country.

Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old.

Social bias blind spots: Attractiveness bias is seemingly tolerated because people fail to notice the bias.

Europe’s Free-Speech Problem. Republicans are right to criticize Europe for attacking free expression, even if that makes them hypocritical.

Large Stealth Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed Over China.

ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse. Luckily shaming doesn’t work on me. North Florida immunized me aginst that.

American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate.

‘A walking coffin’: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirth.

Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects. Absurdly, insanely clownish. Really must be working for China.

How AI will change the browser wars. Ugh.

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about.

Obesity has a serious impact on health – it shortened my mum’s life.Blaming the patriarchy, fatphobia or big pharma for weight issues doesn’t reduce the risks.