Tilt Shift

This ignores that women are tested in other areas1 (though not as much as men, no matter what women think, especially today), but yeah, women don’t get this trivially simple problem correct not because they are stupid, but because for them such assessments are irrelevant. Every woman above the level of “actual cave troll” knows she has inherent value that is immanent to her no matter what she answers she gives on some silly “gotcha” type test.

So she just checks some random box after thinking about it for no time at all and goes about her day. It’s perfectly understandable.

In areas that women recognize don’t actually matter, they give minimal effort. Just enough not to get someone angry at them.

However, men know we’re always being tested so minimal effort is never enough. If we don’t go all out all the time, it’s pretty much done for us. Men are to this day defined by what they can do and what they can achieve — and that is reflected in effort everywhere.

  1. Mostly related to beauty and being “nice.”

Those Doofs

It’s weird going from looking at liberal clown accounts talk about how AI is always wrong, does nothing but hallucinate, is worthless, and then use it to do in 30 minutes what would’ve been in the past for me 4-6 hours of financial forecasting.

And then check all the numbers and they are 100% correct.

What is going on with those doofs?

Charge Up

That’s been a big change everywhere in my lifetime, the hidden fees and predatory up-charges that are pervasive in every industry.

Let’s use her example, ice cream. Back in the 1980s it was like a $1 for a cone. For that, you could get any kind of cone you wanted — waffle or plain — and usually a topping of some kind. No up-charge.

Now nearly everything is extra, often even with a hidden but mandatory gratuity on top of the normal tip as well as some BS “service fee.” All of this should just be banned, IMO.

The Risk

Brad R. Torgersen on X: "Yesterday I saw someone object to VA as a vet entitlement, saying, "Why do vets get free stuff when none of the rest of us get free stuff?!" That's an honest question. From the outside looking in it can seem like vets do indeed get a lot of money, and also explicitly vet-focused" / X

Death and serious harm are, unfortunately, "business as usual" in a lot of military stuff. You don't have to be shot or blown up to be seriously hurt, or even killed

Indeed. Was at serious risk of death at least three time in the military, and in danger far more often than that. And I was never in combat. Not unusual at all. Luckily, I never received a really debilitating injury.

Also, we don’t just “get” those things. They are part of the signed contractual compensation.