Gap

Ha, that’s great.

Natural

I’ve noticed that nearly all of the people who claim there is no such thing as human nature have never had kids. No kids for me and I will never have any, but there certainly is a human nature. It’s completely obvious if you spend even a little time around small children.

The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes. Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.

NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook.

Friction Was the Feature. How AI killed prose as a signal.

The top Google results for almost all services are scams.

Iโ€™d suggest โ€˜mankeepingโ€™ works in much the same way. The term is operating within a theoretical framework that sees women as the full human beings whose interests are paramount. Men are regarded as lesser beings whose needs are only worth considering in the context of how they affect women. So, all feminism now?

Stop Talking Nonsense About Culture. When progressives forget how progress works.

Ending Womenโ€™s Suffrage Is Not the Answer.

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents.

Losing Time

Hamas: *Start a big-ass war with brutal civilian slaughter and mass rape*

Israel: Ok, you want a war, here you go.

Hamas: *Starts losing badly* Owie, it’s a genocide! A genocide because Israel won’t stop killing fake reporters and winning.

Sucks to lose, doesn’t it?

Zoom Out

Goddamn, Gen Z is fucked.

If that’s “sexual assault” than I’ve been sexually assaulted by women 12,563 times and by men 5,981 times. (It’s not sexual assault.)

Trusted

That’s true. It’s already moving that direction. It’ll get worse. Mass immigration is not compatible with high trust, especially from clan-based and tribal-based cultures. And Muslims will destroy your civilization altogether.

War and Chaos

If people have told you this doesn’t matter: they’re wrong. It does. There’s been a categorical change in humanity’s relation to the world of the actual. The consequences are hitting hard now. This also happened after the advent of the printing press. And it took hundreds of years to work out, along with much chaos, destruction and war.

Jewels and Niles

This is the most 1985 thing ever. I remember when this video came on MTV 10 times a day. If you’re wondering why Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas are, anomalously, backup singers, the song was in the movie the Jewel of the Nile; it’s a promo for that film.

You know, at the time, I never really saw the appeal of Kathleen Turner. The big-haired blonde look is just not my thing. But she has a very fun personality in that video and looks quite nice in that white tux, I have to admit.

This feels like 1985 felt. Understandably. But it’s more “of the era” than most. It has the casual zaniness. The sense of fun that’s missing now. And no Instagram face. I wouldn’t go back; around 1985 is when my life started to get extremely shitty. But it feels like such a foreign land now.

Club Divide

I went to the book club. There were way too many people to have a good discussion. As I pretty much expected, I was the only dude. Men don’t read anymore. It’s become completely feminine-coded. Weird.

The facilitator (who was very good) said there were 10 different book clubs at that location before Covid and now there’s only one. That demonstrates how much sociability has declined since that time. Afterward, I suggested that it’d be worth dividing into separate meet-ups again as 20+ people is too many for an in-person book club. She agreed but said staffing was now an issue.

I’ll go to the next meeting, but mainly because it’s a book I intended to read anyway. After that, not sure. This group was not very intellectual and I think I need that to have a good time.