Annoying

Gen No Z

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I’ve noticed this phenomenon more widely! And I think it has to do with generational differences. Cloistered Gen Z — because they never do or experience anything — believes nothing ever happens because that is their life: sit in front a screen, inhale AI and TikTok slop, never go out, never face the world and its trials and tribulations. Every day is the same. So anything that is more than that seems wildly implausible to them.

Older generations who have not been screen-locked and helicopter-parented their entire lives have been enmeshed in the wide panoply of human experiences and know how wildly varied the world can be. So things that happen quite frequently seem totally normal to them.

I truly do think that’s what is occurring.

No Chance of Understanding

Chill Annoying, Rant

Why did I get rejected?

As is the case with nearly every straight woman alive, this person has absolutely no fucking clue what dating is like for men, how we lead a life constant rejection (and even worse, pre-rejection), and how that impacts everything we do when we talk with women we’re interested in romantically.

Of course you’re not going to reject me! I’ve basically been interviewing you, and who doesn’t love being asked insightful things about their life and opinions?!

Oh fuck, this right here is about the very top thing men hate about dating! MEN DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERVIEWED/INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.

Again, for all the women: MEN DO FUCKING NOT WANT TO BE INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.

How can so many women just not understand this? This writer sounds absolutely insufferable, by the way. I thank all the gods I’ve never gone on a date with her. If my partner is kidnapped by aliens and I decide to date again, I’m adding her name to the list of “Big Always Nope.”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t answer my questions [about sex], it’s that the act of asking caused him to shut down.

I can’t imagine why! It’s because 99.999999999% of the time any time a man talks about sex frankly with a woman, he’s demonized, castigated and thrown to the wolves. It’s never, ever, ever, ever a good idea unless it’s someone you already know really well. There’s absolutely no upside in it for a man at any time. Not ever. Don’t do it. Don’t land in that trap.

(I do talk about sex with my platonic female friends, and sometimes quite extensively, but we’ve known each other for a long time.)

Getting dating advice from a straight woman for a man is totally worthless. Might as well get dating advice from a cat, or a turnip. It’ll help just as much. Maybe more as since they cannot talk, at least it will not be bad advice.

Struct

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

That’s because journalists and other commentators absolutely do not understand how high capital expenditure businesses are structured, why they are structured that way, how corporate financing works, what bonds are and how they work, or why large capital-intensive businesses are 100% expected to have extremely high initial outlays.

It’s all a completely mystery to them, and therefore “wrong.”

Need All the Ks

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Complete bullshit. Reminds me of the days when it was claimed that “30Hz is enough for anyone.” Now any refresh rate below 60Hz and people lose their minds. I can easily see 5K vs. 4K up to about 10 feet away.

I can see 2K vs. 5K at about 25-30 feet.

Sanderling

Chill Annoying

The “before” is way better. That’s what I mean about all the personality being sanded off. I prefer people in their particularity, not some uncanny valley uniformity. Everyone needn’t look exactly the same and be some absurd notion of “hot” to be fun and interesting. Me, I prefer the variation and that they still seem ensouled.

Again, the “before” is infinitely preferable.

Nator

Chill Annoying, War

This is not a good nor fair comparison. The Russian 30mm dual cannon is intended for an entirely different use than the 25mm M242 Bushmaster. The “Terminator” is built mostly for suppressive and area effect fire and generally would send a whole lot of HE-FRAG downrange. The M242, though, is for more constrained fire and is not really intended primarily to be a suppressive or area effect weapon.

In other words, the “Terminator” barrels are supposed to move around like that during operation. This is how the ammo gets spread around when it reaches its target distance. Let’s not allow our hatred of Russia and its actions get in the way of the truth. “Terminator” == working exactly as intended.

De De

Chill Annoying, Evil

It’s a lot easier for a country to commit suicide than it is to prosper. Germany — even more than most — has chosen to kill itself. In 50 years, it’ll be an Islamicized backwater, forgotten by most and ignored by all but those who have to deal with the suicide bombers who emerge from its borders.