Nice song. If I can find 21 new (to me) songs I quite like in the last three days, anyone who is saying there’s no good new music is a confirmed cracksmoker.
Author: Chill
Hebdo
The liberal reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was one of the major things that turned me away from that suite of interlinked ideologies. Their gleeful reaction and equivocation of satirical cartoons with outright slaughter — some even saying that the cartoons were worse than murder — forced me to examine what and who they really were. And if I wanted to be part of that.
Turns out, I did not. Though I still consider myself a liberal in some sense, I think a lot of their goals are nefarious, their degrowth tendencies are pure evil, and their ignorance of history and human nature is shocking when you notice it.
I wish though that the right was better. It’s not. Both sides are purely clownish often in different but in many cases surprisingly similar ways.
The industry is going through a period where a lot is changing all at once.
The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser.
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
Preventing Simultaneous Contingencies in Europe and Asia.
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain.
Grocery prices are jumping up. We explain why.
Mapped: Median Salary by U.S. State.
The career ladder is collapsing. Gen Z is feeling it first.
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe.
The next big financial crisis may be brewing. Warning signs are already there.
Private Equity Is Coming for Americaโs $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings. Of course they are.
Onboard a U.S. aircraft carrier as tensions rise over Russian incursions into NATO airspace.
Declines of Various Types
Post-feminist re-coding of normal human behavior as evil has really done a number on relationships.
In particular, the fact that successful men tend to accept monogamy and income splitting, and enter into relationships, because we genuinely want a MATE (actual agfection, sex,โฆ
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) September 25, 2025
Worse than that, feminism has transitioned from a movement primarily about equality to merely another front in women’s intrasexual competition, which has intensified enormously as the number of suitable (by their assessment) men has declined.
That has not only made actual feminism as practiced vastly worse, but has done a number on women’s mental health. Combine that with social media and smartphone cognitohazards and women today are totally cooked. Especially in the US.
Color Or
One day, I will fully understand color theory.
Today is not that day!
Lose Your Shirt
If we still made and sold shirts made using Medieval-level technology, a single one would cost around $5,000 if the spinners and weavers made only the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Yes, those Middle Ages shirts would be higher quality. Not enormously so, but they were designed to last for obvious reasons.
Automation and technology can now create a shirt that costs ~$25. No matter what degrowther nonsense you believe, that’s amazing.
Cover Up
If the Sahara desert were covered in solar panels, could it power the entire earth?
Assuming no loss in transmission just for ease-of-calculation purposes, covering ~12% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels, assuming 40% (typical) density, would supply the energy needs of the entire planet currently (pun intended). Nope, not just electricity use. All energy.
And no, I didn’t read the comments. I don’t care what they say as they are almost alway wrong about questions like this.
Americaโs top companies keep talking about AI โ but canโt explain the upsides.
The War on Roommates: Why Is Sharing a House Illegal?
US death rate dropped back to pre-Covid levels in 2024, CDC report says.
Fast food used to be a cheap meal option. Why has that changed?
It’s AI all the way down as Google’s AI cites web pages written by AI.
Why Wonโt Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because Theyโre Rich.
Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms.
The U.K. Tried to Clamp Down on Migrationโand Wound Up With an Unprecedented Wave.
Hundreds of new bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, found in soil.
H-1Bullshit
Too many college grads, not enough talent ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/sydhEbKtkZ
— wanye (@xwanyex) September 23, 2025
Thus, the narrative that we must allow all the slave-like H-1Bs in because there is a “talent shortage” doesn’t hold up at all.
Overalls
I stole this from somewhere else (forgot where now), but it’s funny that anti-vax sentiment could only develop where vaccines were nearly ubiquitous and had been for a long time.
Otherwise, all the death and then averting it with vaccines would make it immediately clear the effectiveness of vaccination.
Humans are overall kinda stupid.
Pall
Shorty after it occurred, I watched the video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder. That was as bad as you’d expect. I won’t view it again.
Even worse, though, I saw a tribute video one of her friends made of them having fun together. Even more than the murder video, it was hard to view. All the possibilities and promise of her life, gone. All the futures, erased. I’ve seen, I don’t know, thousands of people die in battle now; I’ve spent entirely too much time on the Combat Footage sub-Reddit and other places as I try to figure out how we’ll be fighting in Poland in 2027. Combat, though, will have death. It’s as predictable as gravity. It’s offensive and horrible but there it’s just what happens.
It’s a whole different thing witnessing a young woman murdered on a train where she should’ve been safe, with said murder committed by a worthless scumbag who should not have even been there. Both are affronts to civilization, but the way Iryna was murdered is a denial of the value and purpose of civilization itself. She probably would’ve been better off (and still alive) if she’d stayed in Ukraine.
Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska being murdered so near to one another in very public and horrifying ways is (pun intended) a turning point for the US, I think. We’re on some path that could (and likely will) lead to very bad things as the left goes full woke degwrother and the right seeks out revenge — while also having its own baneful degrowth tendencies.
Nearly all paths lead to ruin and disaster. We built those paths, though, so in reality it’s all our fault.
Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents.
Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water.
Permitting Reform Is Hard. This Is Easier.
They Were Some of Earthโs Last Stable Glaciers. Now, Theyโre Melting.
Little Codes
Why are the developers all surprised when I know how to read their little codes and find things they’ve screwed up in there?
I know how to read code. I have to. I just don’t have to like it (and in fact I do not).
Bad Few
So it looks like the UK is heading to one of two choices.
One: Be poor.
Be slowly replaced via a globalist ethnic genocide.
Rape, murder, terrorism until extinction.Two: Be poor.
Initiate mass Remigration.
Live in safety amongst your fellow native Brits.— Sir James Britain๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@SirJBritain) September 23, 2025
Well that’s bleak. But accurate. True of the rest of Europe, too. It’s going to be a bad few hundred years there.
Dismant
The problem in the West with the belief that "all cultures are equal" is that it leads to:
a) a refusal to accept that immigrants from different countries are not equal, and that therefore some types are more desirable than others. The idea that maybe the host country shouldโฆ
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) September 23, 2025
I’ve never, ever understood and never will how discussing cultural differences and caring about them is racist. I wouldn’t want a bunch of fucking Islamists migrating to the US no matter how lily-white they are. Keep them out; they just make everything worse as their culture is garbage. This is just as true of blonde-haired blue-eyed Muslims as it is of anyone darker.
Of course in reality, the left uses accusations of “racism” as cover for their project of dismantling Western civilization. Which, overall, is going pretty well for them — especially in Europe.