Year: 2025

Chill Links

Apple’s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending.

America is going through a big economic experiment.

Japan has just rendered an entire generation of conventional submarines obsolete, and the world hasn’t fully realized it yet. Cool.

The Challenges to Europe’s Security Go Beyond Trump’s Lack of Support.

The Big Shift in Cardiology to Atheroma and Inflammation.

Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis. She is correct.

We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here’s how.

There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business.

New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain.

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures.

How are we ever supposed to start families if widespread layoffs are the new norm?

The reason Blockbuster failed was not that they were too stupid or slow to change, it is that the business had been looted by its parent Viacom in precisely the same way private equity does to everything nowadays.

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires.

Staked In

Chill Rant

This article gets something really right.

In fact, the advent of digital media marks the third information crisis humans have lived through: the first came after the invention of writing; the second followed the printing press.

This is correct. The Ian Welshian doofclown assertion that the internet changed nothing, meant nothing, transmogrified no human relation, is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life. And I grew up in rural North Florida, so I’ve heard some absolutely fantastically stupid things.

As the article points out, we are living through the first stages of what will be the largest information apocalypse (in my view) probably since the Sumerians first started pressing wedges into wet clay thousands of years ago.

And if you can miss that as Welsh has, I can’t trust your assessment of anything else.

(I’d argue that the first info crisis truly came with the invention of language itself, but that was probably more gradual.)

Marvel At

Chill Amusing

I think it’s funny that a lot of people read me as a jock type now.

I’m like the nerdiest dude in world history. Yeah, I’m not bad athletically but anyone who knew me in high school would find it hysterical that anyone thinks I could be a jock.

Naw, I only look on the exterior like I stepped off the set of a Marvel movie. Still the same nerdy crap up in my gigantic noggin 24/7.

The Sort of Evil

Chill Evil

I don’t think these are the reasons. Maybe for a few politicians, but the main reason is that it’s a leftist project to both punish and destroy the West. Anything else that happens — such as regular gang rapes of Western women and girls — they just don’t care about it. It’s not a goal, but to them if a few hundred thousand or even a few million women get their lives destroyed, whatever happens happens.

Still evil. Just a different sort of evil.

That said, along with killing nuclear power by making it too expensive to build, the leftist project of unmaking the West by increasing Islamic/North African immigration to invasion levels in Europe has been their largest success. It’s working better than most of the so-called Right parties or projects. And it’s not even close; the Left will succeed here while the Right will almost certainly fail at turning back the tide.

Europe is over as a project. All that remains is the fall.

Aphant

Chill Amusing

People are always shocked by how bad I am at tasks like mentally rotating a shape. But makes sense to me. There’s nothing going on in there but words. I am the ur-ChatGPT. There’s almost no imagery.

Stagecraft

Chill Annoying

Oh that reminds me. I can’t post one because she asked me not to put any photos of her on the internet long ago and I will honor that, but many years ago I took a photo of my (at the time) girlfriend in front of some old cornstalks in autumn.

She had beautiful and completely natural blonde hair and the dead stalks were exactly the same color as her hair.

I showed the photos to a friend and she complained that they they were “staged.” I said of course the pics were staged. We we driving. We saw the corn. I said, “I bet you’d look lovely in front of that corn that’s the same color as your hair.” We pulled over and I snapped a few shots on Kodak 35mm slide film. We got back in the car.

The photos turned out great and we were both proud of of them. To this day, I cannot imagine what my friend was expecting. That we were just walking through some random cornfield and started taking photos? That some corn just started growing around my gf and we stood there until it matured and then died and then I snapped the photos? It reminds me of how a lot of Gen Z doesn’t seem to understand that movies can be complete fiction.

Just such a weird thing to say.

All the World

Chill Annoying, Clowns

That’s ok, dude. People used to say my photos were staged too. But no, I am just damn good.

What makes it funny is these were mostly nature and wildlife photos that received this complaint. It remains a mystery to me exactly how the fuck people thought I got an alligator to stand anywhere, or a bird to fly and land somewhere. Or any wild animal to do anything. But, sure, “staged.” Clown idiots rule all.

Self-Laundry

Chill Regular-ass Post

Realistically, what should you do if you find a duffle bag full of money and no-one will know you took it?

First is to hope Anton Chigurh is not looking for it.

Depending on how much it is, say $2 million1, the best thing to do is to start a cash-only business with a storefront. Make sure you install no surveillance cameras, etc., and aren’t in easy view of anyone else’s.

Run that for a couple of years and gradually feed money into the business. You’ll lose about $150,000 of it to rent, inventory, etc. And another $500,000 or so to taxes, depending on where you live. But at the end you’ll have ~$1.2 million that’s now clean and on which taxes are paid.

That’s the safest but slowest way to do it. Other ways are faster but you might lose more. Or get busted.

  1. If in $100 bills, this would weigh around 44 pounds.