The Incel’s Veto and Other Observations.
Wow, an actual sane comment from a woman on this topic. Usually it’s something like, “A 25-year-old dating a 23-year-old is definitely always rape!” or some such absolute nonsense.
That said, the DeBoer article is largely boorish and boring rehashed crap.
The left’s belief that there has been no evolution/selection in Homo sapiens over the last 10,000 years is one of most fundamentally clownishly delusional bits of dipshittery I’ve ever heard of.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once.
In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was. The younger the age group, the more pronounced the downturn — a mirror image of smartphone usage patterns.
Told you it with the fucking phones, you fucking idiots.
I spent $25 on a bit of nostalgia and will confuse the heck out of some youngsters today.
That’s right. But if you were lucky enough to have an AdLib sound card back in the day, you could avoid IRQ hell altogether that often came with having a sound card and a modem in the same box. The AdLib didn’t require an IRQ at all. I was not so lucky (my dad was, though), so getting my modem and sound card to play nicely in a new build was always a day of jumper-swapping. Some things certainly are better now.
I truly do not miss IRQ shenanigans.
Women typically give terrible, useless advice to men about dating women.
However, men typically give worthwhile advice to women about dating men. Why? I think it’s because men (as the approachers) absolutely must understand women and what they are looking for, while women are under no such obligation. Men come to them; they need to do very, very little.
Was just realizing this dichotomy. Well, life is never fair.
This is mostly wrong and bad advice. Though there is very little actual advice here.
The thing is, incels are substantially correct about their — and most men’s — disadvantages in the dating market. The majority of women really do attempt to date the top 10% of men nearly-exclusively, and unhappily settle for less when they turn out not to be at that tier themselves. Men really do risk life-altering consequences for making even a polite approach. I could go on. But suffice it to say, incels diagnose their own and society’s problems fairly accurately. Also, Noah’s data in his piece is very misleading, and designed to be so. Some of it just plain wrong.
We’ll ignore that for now. However, along with the incels being correct about their problems their noxious beliefs about what they should do in response follow. And those are farcically bad. Their suggested remedies will not help them, society, or anyone. It will only further embitter them and cause yet more ostracism.
Another impediment to proceptivity is the fear of rejection. In American culture, men are expected to take the lead romantically, and this means they’ll often end up getting rejected. A lot of guys are so scared of this rejection that they dread even trying to date in the first place.
The risk of nuclear rejection now is too high. Many women go ape on you just for asking them out these days. No guy wants their entire life destroyed because they asked some overentitled prick of a woman out for coffee and she ruins their life. And that is a real risk now.
Noah’s “advice” is non-advice, like nearly all such monitions from those who are reasonably successful romantically. What paltry guidance there is, it will not aid you, and will only cause more women to disdain you. Avoid this nonsense. It’s no better than dating advice from a woman, which is always useless for men.
What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?
This post is wrong, but it is wrong in an interesting way. That is, it posits all these possible future states of AI bubble popping, but begs the question1 by assuming there is a bubble at all. This reminds me of people talking about the “cloud bubble” back in 2013-2016. Well, there wasn’t one. AWS, Azure and others printed money after that “bubble” proved not to be anything of the sort.
And the funny thing is that if this person is correct and the bubble does pop, AI will then be cheaper than it was before. Because that’s what happens when an excess floods the market. See housing post-2008 for a recent-ish example.
Real AI is probably the most useful and efficacious tool we’ve gotten in the computing space since the GUI. At the very least. My guess is that it’ll end up being more consequential than that due to spillover effects.
Oh, by the way, by “interesting” I meant “clownish.” Because that’s what the piece is. Doltish bien-pensant non-thinking.
I guess women kind of have to pretend they put graffiti all over their bodies to “keep undesirable guys away” or to “own their body” rather than just what it is: mental illness, trend following and a higher time discount rate.
It’s a mark of bad judgment and terrible discernment, and for that it’s worth something.
Ian Welsh (and his ilk) claim that strength is worthless and “just for show.”
But I just did a minor bit of home maintenance that I would not have been able to do when I was weak, and that my partner (though also quite strong) was not able to complete as she was not quite strong enough.
So I’ll take my “worthless” gym strength over being a feeble and wrong doofus any day of the week.
Too many women are like, “OMG men find attractive women attractive and that should be banned (unless it’s me)!”
Like, do you even hear yourself? Of course not. People with any self-awareness and a clue about life don’t act like a loser prat.
I’m all for more almonds and more datacenters. Both are good. We need abundance everywhere.
Fuck degrowthers. May they all die drowning in patchouli.
I worked helpdesk and near-helpdesk for many years, and I’d say maybe 10% of users know undo and redo (CTRL+Z and CTRL +Y on Windows). It might be less than that these days as real computer users dwindle. It’s nowhere near 100%. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s likely 2-5% currently.
I agree with Kat that this dumbass take that “writing about something is condoning and endorsing it” is not exclusive to liberals, but it has become far more prominent among them over the past decade or more. Gen Z seems incapable of understanding fiction at all, and believes that anything written about no matter the context must 100% match the feelings and desires of the author.
Art is doomed with this attitude. I cannot understand why this absurdly clownish belief became culturally mainstream, but it is now. And the world and art is vastly worse because of it.
Firefox don’t care if their tracking protection breaks nsfw websites.
Yet another example of the Firefox devs being clown-ass dipshit loser morons.
If they won’t fix NSFW pages that should work then that means they don’t care about the web working in general. Which of course they do not, because what they are concerned with is power.
Anything can be labeled NSFW at any time, and many things considered NSFW are completely normal to consume outside a work context.
I’m tired of Gen Z prude culture in general.
Indeed, that was a pretty good clue. Another one is that the total population of Gaza is larger than it was in 2023.
Idiots.