Year: 2025

Sex Shift

Chill Sex

Back then, we (both men and women) treated sex/sexuality as a standard and expected part of normal life. It wasn’t “special” in the sense that it was not something outside of the regular practice of living. Nowadays, on the other hand, Gen Z treats anything to do with sex and sexuality — especially in person — as some exceptional, outré, “out there” activity that should not be discussed, seen, alluded to or partaken of except in rare circumstances.

I cannot stress enough the difference in culture and ethos as compared to now. Feels like a wholly different world. I cannot believe how laid back we were then compared to all the weird and pitiful Church Ladies around now.

Gay people got more freedom, but everyone else got far less.

Chill Links

Why do software developers love complexity? And why do they always try to foist their shit complexity onto sysadmin types and attempt to turn us into terrible developers?

‘You just can’t recreate that glow’: The people who hunt old TVs.

Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October. Fuck that.

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes.

Offline means unavailable? What a country!

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline.’

The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power.

Tonight’s Dinner Fell Off the Sysco Truck.

The White House Vowed a Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups.

‘Ozempic Effect’: Weight-loss drug boom has reached apparel store rack as America resizes. Nice.

Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media.

Suppose Evil

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yep. Once you realize all the supposedly “evil” things men do like have a gf a few years younger or actually like women is all about female intrasexual competition, you stop giving a crap.

Because it isn’t about you. It’s about some woman trying to disadvantage another woman. Same with “passport bros” and “all men are rapists” and all that. All intrasexual competition.

Just ignore it.

Reech

Chill Annoying, Clowns

As predictable as the sunrise.

But oh the screeching when anyone said this back in 2018…..

Cancel a Shun

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Well, one of the reasons people like me were against cancel culture (which, laughably, libs at the time claimed didn’t even exist) is because we knew when the conservatives got into power again, they’d use it even more effectively than the liberals did.

And now here we are. Just as predicted.

Tahoe

Chill Annoying, Tech

Because I like pain I guess, I “ugpraded” to Mac OS Tahoe. Though it’s not as bad as I expected, the interface is a lot worse. But it’s also kind of cozy, because it reminds me of CDE.

Yes, it’s that clunky and inelegant. I think the font rendering is also a little worse — which is too bad. Mac OS used to have the best fonts for a while there, but now Linux does if you tweak it.

Apple gets further and further away from what Jobs intended, unfortunately.

Choices/Consequences

Chill Political Economy

Extremely high energy costs and unable to complete with China. A bad, bad combination caused by terrible choices Germany made over the past couple of decades.

Chill Links

The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore.

Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

Americans Crushed By Auto Loans As Defaults And Repossessions Surge.

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End.

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding.

Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait to attract more prey.

RFK Jr. is bad for your health.

Butlerian Jihad Now.

How the boomers crippled France.

Outrage entrepreneurship.

An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data.

Steam Decked

Chill Clowns

I’ve seen things more moronic and self-harming, but it was usually in a person who’d taken so much meth they were starting to steam.

Prep

Chill Cool, Cute

Definitely not “grotesquely emaciated.” I’d say extremely thin. But look at her arms! They are fuckin’ jacked. No one with arms like that is anywhere close to emaciated.

All that’s going on here is someone who was already fit and skinny and prepped to look like that in the outfit she wanted to wear. Still not that healthy, all told, but not that bad. Prep == eating a bit less for a few weeks and then dehydrating yourself for a couple of days before the event.

Again, no one actually emaciated would have such nice arms. It’s just not possible to do. At all. It’s just the FA nutters and women’s intrasexual competition reacting to someone who looks great. And they are burning with envy and hatred.

Move Right

Chill Clowns, Politics

I don’t agree with a lot of contentions in this post. For instance, January 6 was definitely a coup attempt but the right will never admit anything but the absurd idea that it was some kind of rowdy capitol tour group (which is fucking hilarious, if you think about it ).

However, I agree with what the consequences will be: these events combined with liberal inaction on crime and disorder in large urban areas will move people to the right. In general, the worst-run, most crazy-people-ridden cities are all blue ones. Everyone knows this, though some lie about it. Hell, in our very blue city there are hundreds of ranting roving drifters who are unpredictable and unpleasant to be around even if they aren’t committing any actual crimes at the moment. Commerce and community would go way up if these vagrants weren’t around.

People are tired of it. And they rightly blame liberals for a lot of it. As they should.

We’ll see what it brings, but I doubt it’ll be better. Both sides are full of bullshit, alas.