It’s more than that. They valorize the criminal and insane, while deploring the competent and valuable. Most had more empathy and kind words for Decarlos Brown than they did for Iryna Zarutska. And for that they should never receive forgiveness.
Only expatriation flights to Somalia.
Describe working in IT to normies.
That’s perfect. I’ve had this happen numerous times in my career:
User/Manager: When will [major project] be completed?
Me: This is the first I’ve heard of this project. When was it scoped and what is the goal of the project? Who is running it?
User/Manager: Oh, I thought you knew. [Major Project] is due in a week. Your team should get rolling to meet the deadline!
Me: Looks like about six months of work even if we bust ass. Not gonna happen.
User/Manager: Why is IT always so useless?!?!?!
This just is not true at all. Women did have their own grunge style. I was there. I remember.
As usual with fashion, women just had more options for “grunge” gear than men did. While many women in that era did in fact also wear ratty t-shirts, a flannel overshirt and Doc Martens (my very close woman friend’s garb most days!), women had other options than the male uniform for the grunge look. They were often in babydoll, mini or slip dresses with dark tights and boots (usually Docs), often paired with flannel, a leather jacket or an oversized cardigan.
It’s a bit Hollywood-ized (as it’s from a Hollywood movie), but this Bridget Fonda outfit below would’ve been pretty typical of the female grunge aesthetic back then, including the hat.
The idea that there was no common women’s grunge look back then is fucking ludicrous and 100% wrong.
All true. Some of the worst, most backwards countries never experienced any significant amount of Western colonization or even attempt at same.
What are we even doing sometimes.
Indeed. Their whole ridiculous shtick of, “Obama has no power at all. He’s only the president. He’s a tiny little helpless baby adrift on history. A paramecium, perhaps” really got old quick.
Whatever you think of what Trump has done and is doing, it shows that this absurd contention was not in fact true.
To paraphrase Mike Tyson, everyone has a plan for peace until it’s them getting punched in the face.
I don’t think people realize how drastically different cultural expectations can be even in the same country. And how different people’s preferences can be.
A few days ago, I was thinking of this in reference to sex and laughing. When I was younger, I broke up with one woman and met another one soon after. And the woman I was then with wondered out loud (without my prompting) how any woman could not enjoy a certain sex act. And I’d just ended it with a woman who had also declaimed in exactly the same exasperated, wondering tone how any woman could actually enjoy that same sex act.
People can be really, really different. And then don’t acknowledge or even realize how much. I’ve always found it odd how little awareness and self-awareness there is.
Women really, really overestimate how much beauty matters to men and extremely, ridiculously underestimate how much having someone who is very enthusiastic about you (both in general and sexually) is of value to men.
I have a theory about why that is. It doesn’t make anyone look good, but it’s probably true. Women fixate on — because they are the most obvious and legible to them — the men they often encounter. These are the most aggressive, most socially-uncaring1 men who approach them (and all women) over and over again. This is maybe 1-2% of men, but they are responsible for 95%+ of the cold and most other approaches to women. These men do care about beauty a lot. Perhaps exclusively.
And men, especially when many of us are young, often pick women mostly to impress our friends — otherwise we risk being made fun of for choosing the “wrong” girl2. I did not do this, but understand the urge at least. If you can attract an extremely hot woman your social capital goes up a lot, even if she’s not someone you actually even like. (For instance, for a little while I was dating a major-agency3 signed model, and my buddies talked about it for years afterward when she came to visit me on base. She was a sweetheart and I went out with her because she was a great person, but she was objectively mega-hot. Like, heads turned when she walked in a room.)
If women actually worked on their personality more and did a better job of understanding that every dude is not like Fratus Bro III who approaches them 10,000 times, they’d be happier. And if men cared less about impressing their friends, they’d be better off too.
But most people are not very thoughtful nor very introspective so doubt it’ll happen.
The bad part about living in California is that you get taxed at European rates for Somalia-level services.
Not great.
Remember how everyone always talked about how very smart Obama was?
To me, though, he always seemed like those “educated” people I’ve met so many times in my life who are always ready with a blithe, fluent, answer but who do not actually understand anything very deeply.
Not smart, just performance. But that’s what gets one ahead in life at the PMC level.
He’s right; I do think the strategy of calling everything you don’t like “racist” to control other people’s thoughts and actions is done.
This is cringe-worthy economist lying here. Displacement and job loss from AI didn’t really start in earnest until the second half of 2025.
Why do they do this shit?
What happened to the $150 hotel room?
$150 hotel room? What about the $50 hotel room?
That’s about what they cost when I started staying in them.
