Not Going

American public transit is hundreds of times more dangerous than it is in most European/Asian countries. The reason I don’t ride it is the likelihood is just too high I’d be forced to grievously harm or kill some clown fucking with me or someone else.

And I’m not going to jail for ending some dumbass who deserved it.

Disagreed

Indeed. I have no idea what my testosterone levels are nor do I care, but I certainly am extremely disagreeable, do not really give a fuck what anyone else wants me to do, and I am often hand-picked for leadership roles.

I was a manager by the time I was 24. If I were agreeable, I’m quite certain that would not occur.

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We Must Save Public Media to Change It.

Block busting only worked because the threats were backed by real violence.

The Legend of a Jet Age Jesse James.

Deport Immed

I do think that sex is rightly classified as a “need.” It’s just not the same type of need as food, air, and water. Doesn’t make it less real, though. The difference is that imposing a need for sex on someone else against their will is morally and ethically wrong.

Hence, why this scumbag should be kneecapped and sent back to wherever he came from. Alive if he goes willingly, and in a casket if not.

Hebdo

The liberal reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was one of the major things that turned me away from that suite of interlinked ideologies. Their gleeful reaction and equivocation of satirical cartoons with outright slaughter — some even saying that the cartoons were worse than murder — forced me to examine what and who they really were. And if I wanted to be part of that.

Turns out, I did not. Though I still consider myself a liberal in some sense, I think a lot of their goals are nefarious, their degrowth tendencies are pure evil, and their ignorance of history and human nature is shocking when you notice it.

I wish though that the right was better. It’s not. Both sides are purely clownish often in different but in many cases surprisingly similar ways.

The industry is going through a period where a lot is changing all at once.

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The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser.

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The career ladder is collapsing. Gen Z is feeling it first.

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Declines of Various Types

Worse than that, feminism has transitioned from a movement primarily about equality to merely another front in women’s intrasexual competition, which has intensified enormously as the number of suitable (by their assessment) men has declined.

That has not only made actual feminism as practiced vastly worse, but has done a number on women’s mental health. Combine that with social media and smartphone cognitohazards and women today are totally cooked. Especially in the US.

Lose Your Shirt

If we still made and sold shirts made using Medieval-level technology, a single one would cost around $5,000 if the spinners and weavers made only the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Yes, those Middle Ages shirts would be higher quality. Not enormously so, but they were designed to last for obvious reasons.

Automation and technology can now create a shirt that costs ~$25. No matter what degrowther nonsense you believe, that’s amazing.

Cover Up

If the Sahara desert were covered in solar panels, could it power the entire earth?

Assuming no loss in transmission just for ease-of-calculation purposes, covering ~12% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels, assuming 40% (typical) density, would supply the energy needs of the entire planet currently (pun intended). Nope, not just electricity use. All energy.

And no, I didn’t read the comments. I don’t care what they say as they are almost alway wrong about questions like this.

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Fast food used to be a cheap meal option. Why has that changed?

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