Other problem with NPR is that they cultivated a creepy vocal style that is basically the voice used by passive-agressive adult authority figures when you get in trouble as a kid.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) July 17, 2025
No matter your politics, that is true. And I hate it.
It’s still not as bad as the whiny “aggrieved because someone ate my potato salad” Fox News host voice, though. That one is so fucking horrible.
Modern women in a nutshell:
And you know what’s in a nutshell? A fucking nut.
Staying away from this clown crap is warranted.
It is a truth not so universally acknowledged that an “ugly” woman or an “undesirable” man can look pretty damn good by losing some weight, spending some time in the gym, having a decent haircut and wearing clothes that fit correctly.
But ain’t no wailing wallower want to hear that shit. Or make that effort.
The latest “feminist” argument seems to be that since women are agreeable, that nothing that happens to them and no choice they make is ever their fault. It’s, mostly, dirty men and sometimes corporations.
Love it. Way to take responsibility and be accountable.
I don’t think women realize what sort of hole they are digging from themselves, but I hope they like being housebound and considered children again. They will have no one to blame but themselves when that happens.
We definitely will not conquer the galaxy with this kinda shit going on.
DNS Security is Important But DNSSEC May Be a Failed Experiment.
DNSSEC is fucking moronic, harmful clownery of the worst kind. It’s a giveaway to those who want to hijack your traffic and a boon to malware.
Fuck DNSSEC. Fuck anyone who implements it.
“I want to make sweet love to the spreadsheets. I wish to caress them and run my hands along their columns and rows till they purr like kittens. I will make the spreadsheets feel like the only one in the world, at rest or in transit. I will make them the center of my data universe.”
A girl that I was interested in asked me to buy her some yogurt. And deliver it to her in the middle of the night. Where she lived alone.
When I got there, we sat on the couch and she asked me to play with her hair as it felt good.
I still missed all the signs and didn’t realize it until years later. She must have thought I was so clueless. Which I was.
But sure, all men think about is sex. As for me, I just thought, “Huh, cool, she really likes yogurt and enjoys having her hair played with. That’s nice. She’s a cool person.”
The phone addicts are really going to be something we have to deal with before we can make any sort of better world.
They are the wireheads dystopian sci-fi warned us about. And as with all addicts, they are very hostile about giving up their precious wire screen and the dopamine hits therefrom.
I’ve been seeing “walked away scotch-free” more and more frequently.
It’s “scot-free,” people! “Scot” is an old word for tax or payment. And “scotch” among other things is whiskey.
Damn.
And about the below, being taken off high-impact projects for trivialities is not any sort of exaggeration. It happens constantly.
Just yesterday a person in Operations contacted me with an “urgent” request. And the request was that she wanted me to take over managing and organizing her group’s email. Note that she has full and unrestricted access to everything needed to do this herself, has been trained how to do it, and should be approaching her own manager for this request. It is in no way my team’s responsibility and has absolutely nothing to do with anything we’re supposed to be doing or really should be even thinking about for a single second.
Currently, I’m wrapping up a project that will lead directly to millions of dollars of additional revenue potential yearly. I’m in fact one of the few people in tech where many of my projects actually cause a revenue increase. Her even talking to me about this means I had less time to work on this project that the CEO is watching like a raptor.
Though she was put out, I told her that my team’s role is not really intended to be professional email and inbox organizers, that she should go to her own manager if she needs assistance, and that there was no need to put in a ticket as we’d just route it to her manager anyway. Or more likely, just close it.
And we get requests like that all the time at any company that I’ve ever worked in any similar role.
It is exhausting.
How many of you don’t actually interact with end-users?
In my field if you’re good enough, I don’t think you ever stop dealing with end users.
Once they figure out that you can solve their problem in 5-10 minutes that the helpdesk might take a day, a week, or months to puzzle out, it is fully over. Even if it’s not the best use of your time and the company has other priorities. And often enough the “tier 1 emergency” is that they forgot how to unmute their headset.
The end users seem to be able to sniff out your problem-solving ability like some weird sightless creature from a cave in Guatemala. I don’t know how they do it, but they always find out and always ignore all protocols, escalation paths, good sense and etiquette to locate you and take you off a $10 million high-value high-impact project so you can spend time and company money researching why they cannot click a button in Microsoft Word.
A good use of time, certainly.
But sure, all y’all dipsticks try to tell me this is a normal market and the yutes are just complaining for no reason.
I guess because I was thinking about some North Florida stuff before I went to sleep, I had very violent dreams. I woke up more tired than when I went to bed.
Well, I never sleep long anyway. Will try again later.
The richer a man is, the less likely he is to marry a significantly younger woman.
Important to share, as this fact cuts against a lot of the inventive narratives about the mating market you will read on here. pic.twitter.com/6nFQ9jApfc
— Macken (@MackenMurphy) July 21, 2025
Yup.
The reality is that other than a few losers who try to date younger women because they can’t get anyone else to go out with them (and then usually not even younger women), in my experience it is the younger women who seek out and flirt with older men.
Of the women who’ve flirted with me over the past few years since I’ve gotten massively hotter, 95% of them have been under 30, and 80% of them have been 25-ish or under. Note that I ain’t done shit. I didn’t encourage it or even do anything about it. It’s all them.
The “terrible exploitive men taking advantage of the poor utterly helpless (but somehow still omnipotent girlboss) women” feminist narrative falls apart very quickly when examined. And even moreso when you realize it’s all about female intrasexual competition and has very little to do with anything else. Modern feminism wants power with no accountability or responsibility. And that’s not going to work out well for it at all.
Damn Canada is really fucking up.
I’m glad we didn’t emigrate there.