That is because Spotify truly sucks and does not have your best interest in mind.
Fuck Spotify. Anyone who uses it is a clown. Especially if they pay.
Clowns
Narcissus Without Beauty
Gen Z and the wokesters demand art that perfectly conforms to their beliefs and naïve intuitions about how the world should work. But good art is supposed to change you. If you don’t walk out of a cinema or a museum or a play or a symphony feeling like at least somewhat of a different person with an altered set of possibilities arrayed before you, that art has failed.
Instead of being changed by art, Gen Z and the woke crowd demand that art be a mirror that shows only their own reflection.
That is not what art is for.
Sane Com
The Incel’s Veto and Other Observations.
Wow, an actual sane comment from a woman on this topic. Usually it’s something like, “A 25-year-old dating a 23-year-old is definitely always rape!” or some such absolute nonsense.
That said, the DeBoer article is largely boorish and boring rehashed crap.
Told You So Times a Billion
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once.
In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was. The younger the age group, the more pronounced the downturn — a mirror image of smartphone usage patterns.
Told you it with the fucking phones, you fucking idiots.
Incellent
This is mostly wrong and bad advice. Though there is very little actual advice here.
The thing is, incels are substantially correct about their — and most men’s — disadvantages in the dating market. The majority of women really do attempt to date the top 10% of men nearly-exclusively, and unhappily settle for less when they turn out not to be at that tier themselves. Men really do risk life-altering consequences for making even a polite approach. I could go on. But suffice it to say, incels diagnose their own and society’s problems fairly accurately. Also, Noah’s data in his piece is very misleading, and designed to be so. Some of it just plain wrong.
We’ll ignore that for now. However, along with the incels being correct about their problems their noxious beliefs about what they should do in response follow. And those are farcically bad. Their suggested remedies will not help them, society, or anyone. It will only further embitter them and cause yet more ostracism.
Another impediment to proceptivity is the fear of rejection. In American culture, men are expected to take the lead romantically, and this means they’ll often end up getting rejected. A lot of guys are so scared of this rejection that they dread even trying to date in the first place.
The risk of nuclear rejection now is too high. Many women go ape on you just for asking them out these days. No guy wants their entire life destroyed because they asked some overentitled prick of a woman out for coffee and she ruins their life. And that is a real risk now.
Noah’s “advice” is non-advice, like nearly all such monitions from those who are reasonably successful romantically. What paltry guidance there is, it will not aid you, and will only cause more women to disdain you. Avoid this nonsense. It’s no better than dating advice from a woman, which is always useless for men.
Bubbling
What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?
This post is wrong, but it is wrong in an interesting way. That is, it posits all these possible future states of AI bubble popping, but begs the question1 by assuming there is a bubble at all. This reminds me of people talking about the “cloud bubble” back in 2013-2016. Well, there wasn’t one. AWS, Azure and others printed money after that “bubble” proved not to be anything of the sort.
And the funny thing is that if this person is correct and the bubble does pop, AI will then be cheaper than it was before. Because that’s what happens when an excess floods the market. See housing post-2008 for a recent-ish example.
Real AI is probably the most useful and efficacious tool we’ve gotten in the computing space since the GUI. At the very least. My guess is that it’ll end up being more consequential than that due to spillover effects.
Oh, by the way, by “interesting” I meant “clownish.” Because that’s what the piece is. Doltish bien-pensant non-thinking.
The Claims
Ian Welsh (and his ilk) claim that strength is worthless and “just for show.”
But I just did a minor bit of home maintenance that I would not have been able to do when I was weak, and that my partner (though also quite strong) was not able to complete as she was not quite strong enough.
So I’ll take my “worthless” gym strength over being a feeble and wrong doofus any day of the week.
Too Many
Too many women are like, “OMG men find attractive women attractive and that should be banned (unless it’s me)!”
Like, do you even hear yourself? Of course not. People with any self-awareness and a clue about life don’t act like a loser prat.
Patch
I’m all for more almonds and more datacenters. Both are good. We need abundance everywhere.
Fuck degrowthers. May they all die drowning in patchouli.
Und Fic
I agree with Kat that this dumbass take that “writing about something is condoning and endorsing it” is not exclusive to liberals, but it has become far more prominent among them over the past decade or more. Gen Z seems incapable of understanding fiction at all, and believes that anything written about no matter the context must 100% match the feelings and desires of the author.
Art is doomed with this attitude. I cannot understand why this absurdly clownish belief became culturally mainstream, but it is now. And the world and art is vastly worse because of it.
Call Att
Bold strategy. Don’t think that one is gonna work for them. Liberal cities and states are the worst governed, unfortunately. LA can’t even build houses where houses used to be that were lost in a tragic fire. It’s reprehensible.
Teams and Schemes
The “transitory” disphit-ass fucknuggests were wrong at the time, wrong when they declared victory, wrong now, and will continue to be wrong in the future.
Transitory it was not. It was so annoying when Team Transitory was declaring victory when inflation was still 40% above the US historical norm. And it still is. Just shows that to most people, facts and reality do not matter even a little bit. Being on the right team does.
Just Chillin’
As a man, women think you have some ulterior motive when you talk with them. Which, like, a few percent of the most obnoxious men do.
The reality is most of us don’t even have a motive, much less an ulterior one.
Reduced
That is basically how it has shaken out.
A lot of “feminists” want all the privileges but none of the responsibility nor accountability. Nice gig if you can get it. But it probably won’t last. History shows that people who demand to be treated like children in some areas invariably are reduced to that in all areas.
Cons
Correct. If prostitution is non-consensual, then all work is. Simple as that.