Clowns

Rupt

Chill Clowns, Evil

I also think that effect is hugely underestimated. The Covidians are hopeless; they are convinced there was no disruption and no lockdown anywhere because government thugs didn’t come around welding your door shut. Unless, that is, you were in China.

But even among thoughtful people I believe the effects of the unforced Covid disruptions are not understood nor accounted for. And the more I examine the aftermath the more my evaluation seems to me to be leaning correct. Supermarkets never recovered; I have not seen a fully-stocked one since 2019. Staff in retail establishments are more listless and service is worse everywhere. Attendance to everything from concerts to sporting events is down and public transit in most places never returned to its previous level of ridership. And we all retreated into digital fortresses, with no signs of any emergence.

Something shifted when we broke society. And it will never I guess shift back.

Attack

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Exactly. Most women have no idea how much stronger the average man is than they are.

My dad was not violent. My mom was, though. And unpredictably so. One day she got mad at my dad and started attacking him, hitting him in the face and chest. Eventually he grew tired of the abuse and just to get her away from him, he lightly (for him) swatted her on the shoulder. He didn’t intend to hurt her and in fact did not. However, she went flying halfway across the room and and landed hard on her ass.

My mom was not weak (being a waitress at the time) but my dad was probably somewhere around 6-8x as strong as she was. Now, sure, my dad was unusually strong. He was built like a bear and I saw him lift 500-pound iron engine blocks without much effort. But it wasn’t really until that moment that I realized just how vastly more physically powerful my dad was than my mother.

I’d never hit my partner unless she turns into a zombie or something. And I’m nowhere near as strong as my dad was (despite all my working out), but I’m quite sure I can punch 3-5x as hard as she can. I’m stronger. My arms weigh a lot more. I have more fast-twitch muscle. And I’ve thrown many, many punches in my life. But most of my advantages there are genetic in nature and not due to my experience and training.

No matter what nonsense you’ve read, men and women just are not built the same. It’s a liberal fantasy that is completely untrue.

Dark Light

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Agreed. The pseudo-historians are wrong, wrong, wrong about this. The Dark Ages definitely occurred, and were pretty stygian indeed. Anything from that era looks like absolute shit compared to the Roman or even earlier Greek high culture eras.

Why historians need to deny the Dark Ages occurred is complex, but mostly has to do with the fact that they do not believe human culture should be judged at all, partially due to the leftist implicit (and sometimes explicit) embrace of Islamofascism after 9/11. And culture very much should be judged.

Fit Fits

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

It is a truth not so universally acknowledged that an “ugly” woman or an “undesirable” man can look pretty damn good by losing some weight, spending some time in the gym, having a decent haircut and wearing clothes that fit correctly.

But ain’t no wailing wallower want to hear that shit. Or make that effort.

Agreed to Disagree

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

The latest “feminist” argument seems to be that since women are agreeable, that nothing that happens to them and no choice they make is ever their fault. It’s, mostly, dirty men and sometimes corporations.

Love it. Way to take responsibility and be accountable.

I don’t think women realize what sort of hole they are digging from themselves, but I hope they like being housebound and considered children again. They will have no one to blame but themselves when that happens.

We definitely will not conquer the galaxy with this kinda shit going on.

What Is Binary?

Chill Clowns

Does anyone else have like ZERO patience for developers that don’t know how to computer?

What’s odd about these threads is how many people vehemently insist that even developers should not have any idea how to use a computer and should not be expected to comprehend anything about one.

I expect the (also-wrong) defense of end users not knowing the name of an application they’ve been using for 15+ years and the like. But to see people claiming that even devs should not know the first thing about their own tools and the targets of their programming is fucking infuriating.

We systems types really are expected just to do everyone else’s jobs these days, aren’t we?

(And the title of this post is in reference to a developer at an early job of mine who didn’t know what binary was and asked me, “So, what is binary?” I was utterly flabbergasted.)

Pow Imp

Chill Clowns

AITA for pointing out the truth to my brother?

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen “power imbalance” applied to a man being an alleged victim of one.

In feminist discourse only women can be completely powerless fragile effectless flowers in their own lives, never men. Not exactly refreshing to see it changed up, exactly, but that it did happen at all is remarkable.

But Jesus fuck, let people lead their own lives. Neither one of them are hurting a fly, and I’d say the same thing if the relationship was the other way around.

All we really have is a clown imbalance.

Loser Poser Does Not Rhyme Dammit

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

Yup.

The reality is that other than a few losers who try to date younger women because they can’t get anyone else to go out with them (and then usually not even younger women), in my experience it is the younger women who seek out and flirt with older men.

Of the women who’ve flirted with me over the past few years since I’ve gotten massively hotter, 95% of them have been under 30, and 80% of them have been 25-ish or under. Note that I ain’t done shit. I didn’t encourage it or even do anything about it. It’s all them.

The “terrible exploitive men taking advantage of the poor utterly helpless (but somehow still omnipotent girlboss) women” feminist narrative falls apart very quickly when examined. And even moreso when you realize it’s all about female intrasexual competition and has very little to do with anything else. Modern feminism wants power with no accountability or responsibility. And that’s not going to work out well for it at all.

Facefront

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It is incredibly tiring to have personally observed the dramatic rise in housing costs over the course of my lifetime, only to encounter brazen denial from the willfully blinkered who dismiss what is both empirically evident and a legitimate source of persistent angst for younger generations.

I know the denialists are terrified of having their house price fall as the majority of most people’s net worth is tied to that risky asset. However, I also do not give a fuck. Making up fake charts and graphs to “prove” things are better than ever just makes me want to clown on you however I can.

Because buddy, if you can’t see what is right in front of your face, my sympathy diminishes very quickly.

Sky

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Bluesky is a weird place.

About 90% of it is whacked-out libs salivating over all they are going to be forced to take away from everyone and how nothing is funny ever, especially if it’s from or by a white person.

And they wonder why Trump won.