And the thing is, hardly anyone was sexualizing Alysa Liu — just noting that she’s extremely attractive due to both her looks and (even more so) her personality.
Nearly all of the time (including this one) that this sort of complaint comes from a woman, it’s just intrasexual competition playing out and is safe (and best) to ignore.
Wil is right; it’s totally normal to find attractive people attractive. My god, that this even has to be said is fucking ridiculous.
A Decade of Docker Containers.
Too bad about the terrible design, absolute shit networking, lack of performance and poor security.
Other than all that, Docker is great.
Readily rebutted here:
The problem is not porn. The issue is that 90%+ of women want 10% of men. And I can see this in my life. Now that all except in height I am in that 10% or above, women are much more open to me, often when I have zero desire for them to be. Even if I were dating, I’d have absolutely no interest in any American woman because they are all poison-pilled.
Both women and men do nothing but lie, lie, lie about dating. This is women’s version of that. Porn has zero to do with it; porn is a result, a symptom, not a cause.
We really did majorly fuck that up. We need Ukrainian expertise now in a bad way.
It’s just good genes. Paul Newman had 1 in 100 million quality genes. Sometimes that’s all it is.
My mom was with a dude who drank 15-20 beers a day every day and he had six-pack abs. It was just genes. He was as dumb as a pulverized rock, but his physique was just genetically that way. And no, he didn’t work out, and in fact being a North Florida loser he barely worked at all.
So what it takes someone more average like me years of working out and cutting calories for a month to get to, he just had. That’s how life is sometimes.
That image looks AI-generated, but yes, the state of design in the US is appalling. And no, it isn’t due to cost (directly). It’s due to choosing. Overall, the cost of far superior and more human-centered design would only be about 10% more. Amortized over the length of a mortgage, in most places that’d be about $50 a month.
Paying $50 a month more to live in something that doesn’t look like a second-rate horse barn would be worth it to most people.
99% of the time when a woman insists a man did something because he “just wanted sex” he was not thinking about sex at all (even subconsciously) and was just attempting to do something nice.
Funny how that got so skewed, but I think it’s a way of appearing desirable with plausible deniability. “Oh, I’m so gorgeous, men just want nothing but sex, sex, sex from me….” blah blah blah.
Oh, come on, get over yourself.
The below post reminds me of how many times in my life I’ve gotten the, “How could you possibly know that?” reaction.
Bro, they have these things called books. You can pick them up and read them. Then you’ll know what I know.
Easy-peasy.
But I was assured by Ian Welsh et al. that the US Navy would be immediately defeated by these “invincible” missiles.
LOL.
Bluesky is one of the worst places I’ve ever seen, and I used to spend time on 4Chan. It’s like there they all attempt to find the most delusional, most reality-free position and then hold it with absolute conviction.
I cannot tell parody from belief there. But they don’t understand parody nor satire on that site, so it’s not that.
Zeynep is wrong and mostly so is Ernie. Most of the bust is due to AI. It’s early stages, but that’s the cause. The post-Covid hiring boom was mostly cleared out by the beginning of 2024. There was a lacuna, then AI-related job losses (in tech, but other areas too) started in mid-2025 and are increasing all the time.
Most people can’t even see the past, much less the present or the future. A bit disappointing from Zeynep, really.
Doctors are ok-ish for common maladies and emergency surgeries where the issue is obvious. Mostly terrible for anything else.
I 100% guarantee I could out-diagnose nearly all doctors for rarer conditions. Most docs are not that smart, nor that diligent. Medical school is hard, sure, but it rewards a lot of memorization and not as much deep understanding. And just as an in any field, there is a bell curve of practitioner competence. Get the left of that curve, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Reading things like this goofus’s Mastodon feed, you realize how incredibly, inexplicably dumb so many “smart” people are.
Indeed. It’s quite the mystery.
Aw, shit, I’ve read all of those. And one of them twice, though two different translations (Beowulf).
Guess I am a far-right extremist now!