Author: Chill

Equality

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I think one of the reasons women have trouble on the internet is that in real life, they are used to special treatment most of the time. They are accustomed to being handled gently the vast majority of the time by most people.

On the internet, that goes away. I certainly do not attempt to treat women cautiously here. They said they want equality; I give it to ’em. Others are the same. Turns out equality feels like punishment and being mistreated.

Welcome to the world men have always lived in! Nice to have you!

Discursive

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Why do math and physics come so easily to some people but feel almost impossible to others? What actually causes this gap?

Despite this being the disfavored explanation, it’s probably mostly genetic combined with congenital non-genetic brain differences.

I’m extremely good at anything verbal or language-based. And I can study 100x or even 1000x as long anything involving math and never achieve really anything. Yes, even if I understand the concept or practicum at the time perfectly, can do all the practice problems and apply it. As soon as I move on from that, it’s gone like smoke in the wind. It’s like I never learned it.

Whereas if I only glance for something for a second or two in the language realm, I’ll remember it forever.

It obviously is just built in and people hate that idea. Nevertheless, it’s true.

I do wonder, though, if some of my math incapacity comes from actual brain damage. I’m pretty sure I used to be a good deal better at math before I got hit in the head a lot as a kid and young teenager.

But what happened happened; can’t change it now.

Chill Links

ESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket.

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism.

Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It’s protection against Russian propaganda.

2026 Looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism.

What’s hilarious about that difference in “What turns you on” is that both sides are utterly blind to “this is a built in thing. They can’t change, because this is part of how it is. And no, they’re not just pretending, they really are different.”.

This under-the-radar labor market chart is scaring economists right now.

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood.

I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.

Not So Good

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Renee Good was the kind of person I should be.

What? Fuck no. Despite the fact that I don’t think the ICE agent should have shot her (I mean, no one is “in fear of their life” while holding a fucking cell phone in one hand and a gun in the other), she was an idiot completely and totally out of her depth who thought she could and would operate with impunity.

And she got shot for her misperceptions. It’s not what she deserved, but life and its end is what it is, not what we wish it were.

I believe she was killed because she was a good person. Because she decided to be there.

She was a flaming idiot who put herself and her wife in a situation (with a dog in the vehicle) that she was totally unprepared for and unequipped to handle. What she did was worse than nothing. It made the entire left look like a bunch of delusional mega-clowns (which, alas, mostly they are) while only strengthening right-wing narratives.

I do not give a single fuck if she was a good person or not. That kind of virtue signaling is meaningless to me. I mostly care that she did something so colossally and avoidably stupid that it worsens the entire case against random ICE raids (which, mostly, I don’t think should be happening, to be clear).

The left always wants to judge the other side by what they do, not their intent. So here goes: Renee Good was a full-on clown and though she didn’t deserve to die, she did many stupid and completely-avoidable things leading to that outcome.

Look Elsewhere

Chill Amusing, Annoying

What’s a stereotype about men that feels especially inaccurate to you?

That the only thing we care about is sex.

Are women basing this off how men behaved when they were 16? Or what’s going on here? I think at least some of it comes from the men that women most often encounter tend to be this way because they are the most pushy and the most bold.

But for 99%+ of men, it’s just completely false.

My advice to women: if you want to find men who care about more than just sex, look around a bit more. The jerk might seem crazy hot to you, or at least be right in front of your face, but there are more men out there than that. And most of them want more than a quick lay.

Trust me on this. Also, get a male friend. He can identify the mega-abusive jerks in a fraction of a second (nearly all men can). And most women cannot, for whatever reason.

Transterpolate

Chill Regular-ass Post

I did not realize that when other people learn other languages they are translating the words from the foreign language into their native language forever in their heads. At least, most everyone. When I learn to read a language well enough (and it doesn’t take me long), no more translation. “Jaune” in French for me doesn’t have to be converted to “yellow” anymore for me, for instance. It works just the same as my English “yellow.” It’s directly mapped.

And I guess that has to do with how my mind works in that area, but I legitimately did not know that most people were doing the two-step translation. Explains a lot, though.

Read Me In

Chill Killin' It

What is a ‘privilege’ you have that you didn’t realize was a privilege until you saw how other people live?

Off the charts reading comprehension and ability to quickly understand nearly anything. I didn’t truly realize until I was well into adulthood how much of a superpower this is as well as what advantages it gives me.

And for a long time I thought other people just weren’t trying, but it wasn’t that. They just didn’t have the capability. That I could read something in two minutes and understand it all and the entire superstructure of thought behind (and ahead) of it and contextualize it effortlessly while they could spend two hours reading the same work or document and get nearly nothing out of it was a real eye-opener.

This talent certainly made my life vastly better than it otherwise would’ve been. It means I can do “impossible” stuff like day-trade and solve problems in minutes that take other people hours, days, weeks or years.