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Chill Annoying, Clowns

2 In 5 Tech Workers Quit Over Inflexible Workspace Policies.

Anywhere that requires in-office work, I’ll quit right away. Attempting to work in an office reduces my productivity by 90% at least and it means I’d be sitting in a bullpen on Zoom calls with customers and vendors, rather than at home on Zoom calls with customers and vendors.

Nope, not gonna happen. I don’t care that extroverts “need” me there. Your social needs are not my responsibility nor my concern. Make some damn friends.

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Chill Annoying, Clowns

True. Nevertheless, there was (and still is) a de facto flirting prohibition enforced by threat of cancellation by the dominant liberal feminist cultural consensus. That might be diminishing now, but was real for well over a decade.

In the view of that brand of pseudo-feminism, any unauthorized contact with any woman outside of a dating app was evidence of abuse and harassment. There weren’t any exceptions. “Good” men picked up on this cultural shift and stopped talking to or engaging with women in any public place at all. That therefore led to a spate of posts on Reddit and other places from women like, “I’m fun, I’m flirty, I’m decently good-looking, but no man ever talks to me. Why?” I saw at least 3-4 of those a week for years.

Well, there’s your answer. Women asked for and got this world. Turns out it sucks. Funny that.

Clu

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I get this is compelling but they’re the medium, they’re not the message. It’s a society of men who need dealing with, on and offline www.theguardian.com/commentisfre…

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— Charlie Phillips (@charliechar.bsky.social) March 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM

Y’all need to read your McLuhan, damn. So uneducated as are most journalists. And, well, everyone. Almost.

The smartphone/social media debate is one destined to be lost by those of us who are correct about how very harmful that combination has proved to be. Of course they together are a huge cognitohazard that is most harmful to younger people. And of course we will do nearly nothing about it as all the phone addicts leap out of the woodwork with iffy studies and anecdotes because addicts always need another hit. Anything that threatens that and their “convenience” they will be sure to slap down with great vigor.

Combine that with the lack of education and comprehension of how media and messages actually work and you get clown-level crap like the Bluesky sophistry above.

Thus Malthus

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

My argument for the compatibility of the abundance agenda with planetary boundaries is twofold:

1.) The Malthusian trap no longer exists except in the minds of degrowthers.

2.) Green energy abundance and dense, low-VMT cities are actually a precondition of achieving net zero.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) March 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM

Worse than that — the degrowthers are making every effort to resurrect the Malthusian trap. It’s one of the many reasons I hate them so very much.

Superior

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Politics

That’s right. She doesn’t understand it because it makes no sense. But people always want to feel that they’re better than someone else, even if the average contractor or construction worker should have more solidarity with the waitress in the café than the billionaire being a clown on TV.

But everyone in America sees themselves as a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire so class solidarity isn’t much of a thing.

Interest

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It is fucking crazy.

But these days among a large cohort of Gen Z (probably the majority), any flirting is considered harassment. Again, that is ANY flirting. And people wonder why the birth rate is low. These are people who just have no idea what to do with life. They are sad and pitiful and seem content to stay that way.

Shod

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Pretty insightful into the affliction shared across worldviews notionally in conflict. In reality, it is a dearth of will, an absence of the human spirit that took us from scrabbling in the mud to jetting through the sky.

I want nothing to do with any of that.

Down Is Up

Chill Clowns, Evil

At first, the solidarity was breathtaking. Out of concern for ourselves and one another, we suspended nearly all interpersonal activity for months, wiping our lives almost entirely clean of the very people we were trying to protect.

Covidians: THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN! IT’S A MYTH! A LIE!

Anyone sane: Looks like a fuckin’ lockdown to me.

Of course the clown-ass crazy-fuck Covidians mean that no one came around welding your door shut as occurred in China. Which was their greatest wish, their fondest desire. They only care about taking things away and harming people so of course that’s what they wanted.

Let’s be glad we didn’t cede that much ground to those barking-mad bullshit artists.