Minimally and highly processed meals nutritionally matched on calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, salt, and weight produced distinct metabolic responses.

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape.

Man discovers his parentsโ€™ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days.

The Great Bifurcation.

Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trumpโ€™s cuts.

The interview round is just a search for excuses.

The thing you need to understand is that on the progressive left, racism has an entirely different definition to the one you were brought up with.

The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine.

California has tech. NY has finance. But apart from these flagship industries everything else is in these states is decaying and entropic.

Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s.

I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall.

How strong is the strong interaction?

Change It

The thing that I and other men resent about being a “default rapist” is that I am at no more risk of raping you than the average woman is.

So it’s in no way fair to me to treat me like I am. That you think you “have to” doesn’t change that fact.

Fans Gaze

VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

Well, of course. Most fashion models and those women omnipresent in magazines are chosen by gay men and other women, not by straight men. Cindy Crawford never was most men’s fantasy woman. She is a gay man’s idea of a straight man’s perfect woman.

OnlyFans women are chosen by actual men, and thus more closely represent what men want — which is far more tolerant of flaws and not being a perfect 10 than supposed narratives about the “male gaze” would have you believe.

The “male gaze” is mostly the “gay male gaze” and has absolutely nothing to do with what most men want or appreciate.

Ladder Pull

Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) / X

Amy is right. The numbers speak for themselves. No matter what Noah Smith and clowns like that claim, the essentials of life are vastly more expensive now than they were during the Boomer heyday. It is harder for younger millennials and Gen Z to build wealth, find jobs, live independently and have good lives than for prior generations.

The C-17A Globemaster III is an extraordinarily capable strategic transport aircraft.

Germany's demise is self-inflicted and will one day be studied as the largest self-sabotage of a developed country.

โ€˜Complete devastationโ€™โ€”How NSF gutted its social sciences research.

Europeโ€™s Tough Choices to Avert a Gas Supply Crunch This Winter.

In 1948, the German philosopher Josef Pieper warned of a world of "total work," in which life is subsumed in labor and the capacity to enjoy genuine leisure goes into full retreat. That is where we stand today, and it did not happen overnight.

Is Fine Dining Dead? Thatโ€™s the Wrong Question.

Poor enshittified souls.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner.

For Walmart, Replacing Humans With Robots Is a Multibillion-Dollar Struggle.

EU countries brace for โ‚ฌ100B-โ‚ฌ200B smaller budget.

A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades.

15,000 VHS Tapes and Counting: Meet the Guys Preserving the Weirdest Parts of the Analog Era.

Long live the mechanical keyboard.

Remote Employee Fired After Refusing To Be Photographed by an AI Tool Every Three Minutes, Lawsuit Claims.

The Failure of the Pandemic Novel.

Mental Rot

_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) / X

That we feel we have to censor completely normal words so as not to displease corporations is also pretty bad.

But I agree about women and whatever the fuck is happening with them. Not all women, obviously. But a lot of them. The manosphere was and is vile, but much smaller. How pervasive whatever is going on psychologically and socioculturally with social media-infected women makes it exceed the manosphere by a lot. A whole lot.

Suffer Then

_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) / X

First, that’s not what happened. The girl in question said she was uncomfortable with any man being in the store at all. And last I checked, VS was open to all sexes and genders. I’ve been asked at least twice in my life by women to go there and get something for them. Did not in fact see any “Women Only” sign at the entrance.

Second, it does indeed sound like a lot of women are just begging to go full burqa/sharia. And let them, I guess. I don’t think they’d like it much, but a lot of those clowns do seem to crave Islam already for some ignorant-ass reason.

Let them suffer.

Ten Up

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

I played against a low-ranked professional tennis player once (about 1,500th in the world if I recall correctly). He could beat me so easily that he didn’t even really need to look at the ball or do anything. I was no more effective against him than I would be at fighting a T. Rex. It was laughable.

Yes, pro athletes practice, but practice is not what makes them a pro. He was (like all pro athletes) simply far more physically genetically gifted in a way that even good amateurs are not. Because he had no illusions about his skills or prospects (he basically played tennis for fun), I asked him how much better Roger Federer (the #1 at the time) was than him. He said that Federer could not likely defeat him as easily as he did me, but he’d be “lucky to even beat him [Federer] in a set one out of a hundred times, and I’d have no chance of winning a match ever.”

People have no fucking idea how much better pro athletes are than even good amateurs. Just none. It’s an absolutely staggering world of difference.

For the pro I am talking about, I only managed to get one ball by him and that’s because he stumbled once on the rough court. That is the only reason I got anything at all past him. If we’d been playing on a good court, it would’ve been zero.

I’ve Seen

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

That’s right. I don’t love Israel. Or Israelis.

But I fucking hate Palestinians and everything they and their culture stand for. What they did to Shani Louk is exactly what they’d do to all of you if they could. Like Russian culture, Palestinian culture is diseased and needs to be extirpated.

There’s a reason no country (even Arab countries) will accept Palestinians as refugees. No one wants the pestilence and problems they bring. And yes, I do know, more than most of you reading this. I have been to the Middle East and witnessed it myself. This is not idle speculation nor is it based based on books. It’s based on my damn eyes and talking to people there.

Perspex

Is it true that most guys would be willing to have sex their female friends?

No.

I think my female friends are all extremely beautiful. And I like them a whole lot. But I don’t want to have sex with them. And I would not if offered. Hell, I stayed in a hotel room in London with a close female friend (separate beds) for two days and was not even tempted. Not that she’s not lovely — she is. But it’s just not what either of us is really looking for.

Unlike what a lot of women believe, men aren’t always after sex and we are not thinking about it constantly. That’s merely the ~5% of men you encounter the most frequently.

What women imagine men want and what men actually want are often very, very different things.