Author: Chill

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Chill Clowns, Evil

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

Chill Evil

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

Chill Annoying, Rant

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

Chill Amusing, Music Video, Video

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

Chill Books

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.

Chill Links

A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.

Pentagon Creating Amazon-Like Shopping Portal For Counter-Drone Equipment.

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing. This was always inevitable.

The Disguised Return of The EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot.

All Praise to the Lunch Ladies. Indeed. The lunch ladies were better to me than most of my teachers.

The era of salary negotiation is ending.

Slip Pill

Chill Evil

Yep, same. My at-that-time substandard social skills would now be in the top 10%. I’d be a social butterfly among Gen Z (were I of that cohort). And that’s all due to smartphones and social media causing complete generation degeneration.

Circa

Chill Amusing, Annoying

If the evidence weren’t so apparent in other people, I don’t think I’d believe in circadian rhythm. Because I just don’t have that.

It means no jet lag, so yay on that. But it means I am always — from the perspective of other people — maladapted for everywhere. The first time I stayed with a friend, she was aghast that I’d do things like go to sleep at midnight and get up at 2AM and then not go back to sleep till like 4PM for a bit.

She got used to it and realized nothing was wrong. Eventually. And no, it’s not insomnia. I always drift off in 5-10 minutes; I sleep and feel fine.

Just thinking today of all the ways I have trouble being like and relating to normies.

Lung Capacity

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

One of the great parts of having basically no capability for being embarrassed is when someone does attempt to embarrass you, it backfires horribly. At least for them.

It means I also have no stage fright, performance anxiety, or anything like that. To me a talk in front of two people is the same as one in front of two million. I just don’t care.

Cry Harder

Chill Political Economy

The H-1B visa program should be ended entirely. Its major purpose is to drive down wages of (mostly) tech workers and has nothing to do with talent. If this were not true, why would companies only post job ads in newspapers no one reads, or on the doors of offices of their campuses (rather than the internet)1?

It’s a scam, a fraud, and should not exist. I agree with Amanda Goodall, though — ending it will just mean more jobs sent overseas. To complement the elimination of the H-1B scam, any American company that sends a job overseas (or is doing work on American account overseas) should pay a 500% yearly tax on that job.

That would pretty much end that.

  1. This is done so they can claim they looked really really hard, but darnit, they just could not find an American for the role.