Go Play

October 3, 2025, 5:11 PMOctober 3, 2025, 5:12 PM Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

I’m the father of three kids and while I won’t say I’m a great dad I think I’m half-way decent. In my experience, kids in kindergarten and later are pretty much all at the same level — I don’t see the point of selecting a super-race among humans who are only recently potty…

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 2, 2025

Wrong. So wrong.

I was vastly ahead of my peers in kindergarten. I could already read at an eithth-grade level. I could tell time on an analog clock¹. For this and other reasons, I was vastly bored in school from the start.

I’d also do all the worksheets for all the kids around me because I could complete them 100x as fast as they could. This was so we could go play more quickly.

Kindergartners are definitely not all at the same level. Important differences show up early.

And had my kindergarten teacher get mad because I checked the time off her analog wristwatch. For some reason we weren’t supposed to know what time it was in kindergarten?

Iran So Far Away

October 3, 2025, 5:05 PM Chill Evil

It wasn't just that Europe goodthought its way into importing some of the lowest-value people in the world, it also remarkably seemed to attract precisely those people who would be the most hostile to its high-value citizens and civilizational ideals.

It's almost as though it… https://t.co/BexG6UAhh6

— i/o (@avidseries) October 3, 2025

The UK is very screwed for many reasons. The rest of Europe is not much better off.

When will most of Europe go full Islam, and look much like Iran? I’d say by 2060 or so.

Z Problem

October 3, 2025, 3:42 PMOctober 3, 2025, 3:42 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yes, of course.

A couple of things going on here, though. Many women don’t believe men actually feel emotions. This headline was probably written by one of those types. And Gen Z believes that all relationships are about power and any emotions are secondary (if considered at all) to that. So this was probably written by a 28ish-year-old Gen Z woman in a large blue city. They are the main purveyors of this kinda shit.

First Reject

October 3, 2025, 1:18 PM Chill Annoying, Evil

TIFU when I shut down my young coworker’s advances.

You’re in danger. Most likely thing to happen is she goes to HR and lodges false accusations against you. Or contacts your wife. Or both. Seen it many times.

Women do not take rejection well, especially young, attractive women. About 60% chance she tries to destroy your life. This is probably the first time she’s ever been rejected and it will result in her going nuclear most likely.

Probable Existence

October 3, 2025, 3:25 AMOctober 7, 2025, 9:51 AM Chill Gutter Philosophy

Existence of probability.

“Exist” is always too heavily loaded in these discussions. And it’s always a hoot when STEM-y people do philosophy. What a mess.

I don’t feel like writing a ton tonight, but as one of the commenters points out, math is just a model of the world. It and probability is “real” in the sense that it relates well to something phenomenologically experiential.

And as usual, no one in that discussion understands quantum mechanics at all or what it means, like the doof talking about Geiger counters. Completely wrong. We could know the entire history and state of every bit of everything in the universe and we still could not predict when a bit of uranium would alpha decay and trigger the counter.

And if you then base some other event on that alpha decay the Geiger counter registers, you’d have something operating that even knowing the entire prior history of the universe would not have been able to reveal to anyone would occur. In other words, all empirically successful quantum interpretations are probabilistic. And this is not (as it is with classical probability) due to lack of knowledge. That’s the moronic (and wrong) interpretation. The probabilistic nature of QM and reality is a fundamental aspect of the universe itself.

So, is probability real? No, it’s a fucking model. Just like nearly anything else useful in science and math.

C Dys

October 3, 2025, 1:54 AMOctober 3, 2025, 1:55 AM Chill Annoying

Also true.

Lanterns

October 3, 2025, 12:17 AMOctober 3, 2025, 3:31 AM Chill Evil

My husband threw away my grandma’s recipe box.

I’m not even a sentimental person, but this is divorce-worthy.

My maternal grandmother was I think the only one in my family who loved me for me, just as I was. Everyone else wanted to change me into someone or something different. But she liked me for the person I was born as, not what she thought she should or could transform me into. Sure, as is true for anyone, she was not perfect. But she was always there for me growing up.

When my gran knew her time on earth was short, many years ago (North Florida people don’t tend to live long), she asked me what I wanted of hers. I had first pick of anything. All I asked for was two green-glass Japanese hurricane lanterns¹ that she treasured and had moved from Japan and then from house to house in the United States.

Today, those lanterns sit on some high cabinets where I can see them every day. I’ve hauled them from place to place as she did for nearly 30 years of my own life now. When I look at them, it reminds me of how often enough in my early days my gran was the only person who had a kind word and a cookie for me at my darkest moments.

And as much as I love my partner, if she broke or disposed of those lanterns on purpose we’d be done. That would be malicious and unforgivable. She never would, of course, but there are lines you just do not cross.

Where do people find such horrible people to marry, and why do they marry them? Surely there are signs beforehand?