More than one person has told me that it’s impossible that I know all the things I know.
And yet, here I am. Just because you can’t do something does not mean no one can.
Annoying
Choice of a New Generation
I wouldn’t say it’s the norm, but it is extremely common now that younger millennials and Gen Z women don’t know how to do anything at all. These are women who have been raised to be “special princesses” with no responsibility nor accountability, and so never learned to cook, clean, take care of anything at an adult level, etc. To be fair, this is true of some men too — but men simply cannot get away with being as useless. Meanwhile, many women have been brought up to believe they should not have to do anything to be a functioning adult.
It’s metastatic choice feminism.
Shock Appall
In other news, women still have bodies, and liberals continue to be shocked and appalled when women use those bodies to compete in sports events.
Amazing.
Avoiding Bozo Explosion
As a manager, I absolutely would hire someone smarter than I am. I don’t understand those who would not. Admittedly, those people are rare on the ground.
In raw mental horsepower, my intern from some years ago was smarter than I am by a bit. Stratospheric IQ and driven too. She was not as well-read or as knowledgeable, but definitely had a bit bigger engine. I’d hire her for just about anything without question. She is the only person I’ve ever been able to give complex tasks to and she could just do them. I miss that every day.
Hiring people smarter than you are is how you avoid an organizational bozo explosion.
Agrizoophobia
Today, customers be wildin’, man.
Doofy Denial
That’s right. Stores stock so much less than they did in the 1990s, which was (as it was for many things) peak plenitude.
Even though the clown-ass doofshit degrowthers deny it, it is now a lot more efficient to order from Amazon or another retailer that has well-trod logistics pathways where adding an item to a route that will already occur is nearly free. Otherwise, I’ll drive to 27 different stores, still not find what I want, and end up ordering it online any damn way. But to a degrowther that is somehow more efficient.
The world has changed, but the degrowthers are just as worthless as ever.
Don’t Make My Heart Sing
Users be wildin’, man.
Weight Light
I can immediately tell that someone is an intellectual lightweight if they cite the book Gödel, Escher, Bach as an influence or describe it as amazing. Or, really, liked it at all.
That turd is cognitive Doritos, a magnum dope-us, an exercise in epistemic errancy. I hate it so much.
Lit Ref
The world has moved firmly into post-literacy in that decade. It will only get worse. In 20 years nearly no one will get any literary reference.
Drive In
The “feminist” obsession with trying to convince men they are evil for liking attractive women (who aren’t them) is not going to work out as well as they hope.
Social media + smartphones really did drive a bunch of people absolutely insane.
My Sharia
Remember that when you hear women talking about what other women should do to “protect” them or “for their own good,” 99.99% of the time this is about intrasexual competition and preventing other women from threatening their status and/or position. Yes, it’s unconscious. But that makes it worse.
No, not all women. But the most fanatical and neurotic are the ones who usually succeed. It’d be women that would be the strongest proponents of sharia law, by the way. They’d see it as knocking out their competition. And in some important ways, they’d be correct.
Sex Contribution
Damn these people are clowns. Prudes are inherently evil. And also extremely stupid.
First 50 I can think of off the top of my head were the actual sex scene or scenes are essential and I believe the movie is at least passably good:
A History of Violence
Boogie Nights
The Shape of Water
Mullholland Drive
Gone Girl
Blue Velvet
Oldboy
The Piano Teacher
Lost Highway
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Dreamers
True Lies
Basic Instinct
Species
It Follows
Eyes Wide Shut
Splice
American Beauty
Your Friends and Neighbors
The Terminator
Gerald’s Game
Bound
In the Realm of the Senses
Lust, Caution
Y tu mama también
Poor Things
The Handmaiden
Zac and Miri Make a Porno
The Room
Crash
Laurel Canyon
9 1/2 Weeks
Revenge
The English Patient
Antichrist
The Town
Red Sparrow
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blood Simple
Carol
Closer
Unfaithful
Singles
Party Girl
Luckiest Girl Alive
The Accused
Thank You For Smoking
The Departed
Atonement
The Wolf of Wall Street
Not that it matters; life has sex and so should movies even if not essential to the plot. Pretending otherwise is daft and childish.
Wronghorn
Stuff like this makes me laugh. This is poorly band-aiding a problem that was well and fully solved 40 fucking years ago and worked great since then.
When inept devs reinvent something incompetently and needlessly, they really do it right wrong.
But we will keep going down this dead end, I guess, because some folks just adore complexity for its own sake.
Göteborg
I’m burning through tokens. I’m vibecoding like mad. Building stuff for our homestead.
Disjointed
“Liberals” becoming the stuffy prudes and conservatives becoming the relative libertines…wow, did NOT see that coming.
“The time is out of joint: O cursèd spite1.”