Author: Chill

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Chill Cool, Killin' It

What’s a sentence a girl told you that is still stuck in your head to this day?

When my partner said to me about some complexy-propounded post on philosophy I’d written that, “A wizard uses precisely the word he means to.”

I couldn’t give less of a crap about what some random mook thinks about my writing. I care deeply, though, about her opinion; she’s my audience when I write anything on this blog. I already know I’m a good writer. It is a different thing altogether when someone you respect enormously and hold in the highest regard calls you a “wizard.”

That means something.

Limitations

Chill Annoying

Most of the time when someone is telling you that you can’t do something and shouldn’t even try, what they are really saying, “I couldn’t do that.” It’s not actually about you. It’s about them.

Don’t let other people’s limitations be yours. If I’d listened to all the people people who told me the things I could not or should not do, I’d be dead or in a jail cell in North Florida right now.

BMP Boom

Chill Evil, War

Russian ops are always so incredibly disorganized. What is even going on there? Yes, yes, it’s hard when you’re under fire. But those people simply do not know what the fuck they are doing. They are wasting so much for so little. And doing it all so very badly.

Edge Case

Chill Gutter Philosophy

I’ve always been well off the beaten path politically. Though my views have changed some since then, on a forum I used to be a regular on back in the early 2000s the exact same dude around six months apart called me an “An unhinged loony leftist” and a “Prissy never-been-laid Republican conformist.” Because those sentiments were so apposite and opposite, I took a screenshot of the post but can’t find it anymore. Was probably on some CD-R that got corrupted before I had a real NAS.

There’s no tribe I am or ever will be a part of. I just can’t bend my thinking that way. I’ll always be at the edge, wrestling with the demons of complex thoughts and real-world exigencies. For me, it’s the only way to live.

Louvrely

Chill Regular-ass Post

People don’t understand the Louvre heist. No one steals anything like those thieves did thinking they can resell what was taken. It’s not like you can put that sort of loot on Ebay.

That stuff already had a buyer and was specifically targeted because that (likely) billionaire wanted it for his or her private collection. That’s the only reason to purloin items like that with no plausible secondary market.

Never Hap

Chill Annoying

Never happen. Frankly, no one cares if men have a good time or not. Ever. Anything like this where men have a good time is seen as disgusting and unnatural, even if it’s something as simple as, “Men should not have to do all the work all the time.”

Chill Links

How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK.

Eliminating the Chinese Rare Earth Chokepoint.

Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from.

Don’t panic about rare earths.

Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails.

Why five feet of building space can doom construction.

Reflexive impotence. Ever more apropos by the day.

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? Idiocracy approacheth.

America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First.

Inside the Louvre heist that stunned the world.

Missing the Point

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Whoa, this is moronic. Why people don’t use mass transit isn’t about crime, most of which isn’t reported anyway 1.

What causes people to avoid hopping on the bus or train is that they’ll nearly always have bug-eyed crazy demented people on there harassing and hassling anyone in sight. It’s worse for women, but nearly every time I’ve been on public transit in the US one of these sleazeballs is present too. It makes it extremely unpleasant. I don’t have any of that in my car, so my car it’ll be.

How you can just, like a fucking idiot clown, pretend this is not a factor, I have not a clue. But it tells me you’re being intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.

  1. Meaning the actual numbers are vastly higher than the stats portray; only about 20% of crimes are reported.