Yep. Women spiral into depression and, sometimes, suicide attempts if they experience even briefly 1/1000 the amount of rejection the average man does his entire life.
Women have no idea. The leitmotif of most men’s lives is rejection and disposability.
Why can’t I “preview message” from a trace anymore? Is it because I’m shitty?
No, Microsoft has broken something completely yet again. Something that used to work rather well. It’s the Mozilla-Google-Microsoft way: take something that was working fine, destroy it, then tell you that the new way is better and that you “just hate change.”
I tried to use this tool last night and just gave up and found another method. I guess we’re in the “everything just gets roundly worse forever” stage of tech now.
Average liberal: Your preferences and tendencies are just what they are because you grew up in a certain social environment! If you’d grown up in Ghana or Thailand, they’d be totally different!
Average non-doof: Ok, what is your point here, exactly? That if everything had been completely different than it was, they’d be completely different? Brilliant. I commend your perspicacity.
(While there are some valid arguments around the Rawlsian veil of ignorance and the universal lot of humanity and the commonality therein, the average liberal is not making this argument and probably does not know who John Rawls even is; rather, they just want to give your shit and your country to some third-worlder because they “deserve” it more than you do.)
The quest for some constrained and denotative definition of “artificial general intelligence” is daft and pointless.
When does a 747 become a bird? When is a submarine a fish? When you ask an amorphous, unfocused question all your answers are disjunct from the set of possible paths to revealing the actual important questions, much less any answers.
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader what the important questions are. But suffice it to say that though I believe some form of human-level machine intelligence is possible, we’ll never succeed in making a submarine into a fish, and we’ll also never accomplish the feat of transforming silicon and transistors into a human. A person, perhaps. But not a human.
If in conducting estimation your estimates become too specific, they then transition from estimates to promises.
Resist this in yourself and others if you can.
My friend got a weird offer… someone said they’d fix his life in exchange for his “soul” ?
Hey, that’s better than the offer I got. And that was two identical blonde twins who in exchange for letting them drink my blood would have threesome incestual1 sex with me.
They were very beautiful, but also dumb and dangerous. No sex was had and I lost no blood. This was around 1996 in North Florida. The last I heard one of them had died of a heroin overdose and the other one moved to Chicago.
What’s the weirdest or funniest ticket title you’ve seen?
“Mozzarella Fox Not On Computer.”
That was in Firefox’s heyday. I was tempted to go pour some mozzarella on their keyboard and then tape a picture of Megan Fox to their monitor.
I work at a major American financial institution, founded by a major American.
We have more employees you-know-where than we do in the USA by a few thousand.
— The Dawnerator (@TheDawnerator) November 5, 2025
It’s weird that even saying “India” these days is considered racism. But it’s just a fact: many American jobs have been sent to India. Many more will be sent there. There’s nothing racist about that.
You know you’ve left the path of wisdom when easily-observable facts can no longer be stated plainly for risk of censure.
I’ve noticed this phenomenon more widely! And I think it has to do with generational differences. Cloistered Gen Z — because they never do or experience anything — believes nothing ever happens because that is their life: sit in front a screen, inhale AI and TikTok slop, never go out, never face the world and its trials and tribulations. Every day is the same. So anything that is more than that seems wildly implausible to them.
Older generations who have not been screen-locked and helicopter-parented their entire lives have been enmeshed in the wide panoply of human experiences and know how wildly varied the world can be. So things that happen quite frequently seem totally normal to them.
I truly do think that’s what is occurring.
As is the case with nearly every straight woman alive, this person has absolutely no fucking clue what dating is like for men, how we lead a life constant rejection (and even worse, pre-rejection), and how that impacts everything we do when we talk with women we’re interested in romantically.
Of course you’re not going to reject me! I’ve basically been interviewing you, and who doesn’t love being asked insightful things about their life and opinions?!
Oh fuck, this right here is about the very top thing men hate about dating! MEN DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERVIEWED/INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.
Again, for all the women: MEN DO FUCKING NOT WANT TO BE INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.
How can so many women just not understand this? This writer sounds absolutely insufferable, by the way. I thank all the gods I’ve never gone on a date with her. If my partner is kidnapped by aliens and I decide to date again, I’m adding her name to the list of “Big Always Nope.”
It wasn’t that he couldn’t answer my questions [about sex], it’s that the act of asking caused him to shut down.
I can’t imagine why! It’s because 99.999999999% of the time any time a man talks about sex frankly with a woman, he’s demonized, castigated and thrown to the wolves. It’s never, ever, ever, ever a good idea unless it’s someone you already know really well. There’s absolutely no upside in it for a man at any time. Not ever. Don’t do it. Don’t land in that trap.
(I do talk about sex with my platonic female friends, and sometimes quite extensively, but we’ve known each other for a long time.)
Getting dating advice from a straight woman for a man is totally worthless. Might as well get dating advice from a cat, or a turnip. It’ll help just as much. Maybe more as since they cannot talk, at least it will not be bad advice.
The generational divide is so overrated – here’s how I crossed it and forged new friendships.
The tide must be turning now a bit.
Merely a few short years ago, “good” liberals claimed with straight faces that any friendship that had a more than 1-2 year age gap was abusive, unethical and should be illegal, much less any romantic relationship.
That people are now approaching some form of sanity is better.
And, without even a whisper or an acknowledgment, GLP-1 killed the fat positivity movement. They never believed any of it.
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) November 2, 2025
And not a fucking moment too soon. Clown-ass losers.
That’s because journalists and other commentators absolutely do not understand how high capital expenditure businesses are structured, why they are structured that way, how corporate financing works, what bonds are and how they work, or why large capital-intensive businesses are 100% expected to have extremely high initial outlays.
It’s all a completely mystery to them, and therefore “wrong.”
Yet another huge blind spot in current liberal (failed) thought. It’s no wonder the fascists are winning — liberalism as constituted now has wholly and unreservedly failed.
How does one get “turned on” by the violet blueberry girl?
What a terrible day to be literate. I now regret teaching myself to read when I was but a wee lad. It was a tragic and regrettable mistake.