I Lost Everything to a Pig-Butchering Scam – How Do I Move Forward?
I know I write about this crap all the time — but how is this possible? I just cannot understand.
It is amazing, though, what greed and fear can cause people to do.
Clowns
Split Quit
Why I Chose a Tented Split Mechanical Keyboard.
Wow those keyboards are fucking terrible. Just unusable. It amazes me that anyone can use something like that. I bet their typing really slowed down but they probably won’t admit it.
This is probably an ad anyway.
Not So Great
The chance of a Great Recession type event due to Trump I’d now put at 65%. Prepare accordingly.
Not See You There
Scott Alexander was accused of being secretly a right-wing racist and hiding it to avoid getting cancelled, and I think a bunch of his followers believed it, and now they're shocked and hurt that he's actually the sincere center left guy he said he was the whole time. https://t.co/xCPCSngagx
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) February 2, 2025
I had more than one person explain to me that Scott Alexander was actually a Nazi because…reasons. And they believed this, too. I’m not the biggest fan of his writing because it’s pretentious and overwrought, but claiming he is a Nazi is fucking ludicrous.
He’s mostly just a regular ol’ liberal in a sort of neo-Rooseveltian mold. Ain’t no swastikas there.
Get Out of My Damn Way
Sign me up for this. I don’t care if it costs twice as much. People are just terrible clowns in supermarkets.
Bum Rap
Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning.’
So she became a homeless scrounging parasitical bum, living off other people for free?
Sounds fucking great, where do I sign up? Damn that article is stupid.
Mance
Today, this would be considered harassment and an invalid way to meet someone for romantic purposes. Gen Z norms are that you shouldn’t become romantic with anyone you have met first in person.
Some crazy shit, y’all.
Bit Nim
It’s definitely illegal. NIMBYs have destroyed so much, and even harm themselves greatly. It’s impossible to understand. Until you meet a bitter NIMBY Karen, and then you do.
Recess
I think a lot of people are about to find out some of the implications of what and who they actually voted for.
Whether they care about or like it might be a different story, but history suggests it's probably not too different. https://t.co/R6K47pm9Al
— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) January 28, 2025
Indeed. They fucked around. Now they are about to find out.
I’d put the odds of a recession comparable to the Great Recession due to Trump’s actions at about 50%. It’s going to be a rough four years.
Pare Acc
All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House.
If this goes on more than a couple of weeks, this will cause an immediate and sharp recession that will be difficult to recover from.
Prepare accordingly. And don’t forget that a lot of you voted for this rolling disaster.
End Civ
Covid nutters are something else, man:
Not a single one of those points is even remotely true or even plausible given what sort of virus SARS-CoV2 is. Long Covid is going to end civilization, don’t forget.
Behind Thee
Young men are falling behind. What should we do about it?
One in three men under the age of 30 has a girlfriend, while two in three women under the age of 30 have a boyfriend. You think, well, that’s mathematically impossible. It’s not, because women are dating older because they want more economically and emotionally viable men.
As opposed to the frankly idiotic “Any age gap is rape!” dipshittery, women in their twenties seek out older men. I’ve certainly noticed it. When I was in my twenties, it was extremely hard to meet women my own age. At least who were interested in me.
And now, in my forties, I have all kinds of women in their twenties flirting with me. If I were single now I would have my pick of women in that age range. No, I am not interested — but far from the clownish liberal certitudes about how this works, women are the choosers in the dating market. And women in that age range are choosing older men of their own accord.
Just too much clownery in the world. Too, too much.
Teleport
My side is only like 60% as dumb as the conservatives. But that’s still so horrendously dipshitty it’s hard to even think about.
This planet sucks, can I have another one please?
Illusions
Fucking idiot. My company uses AI résumé filters. And yes, I do know. I am closely involved in the hiring process. What is it with this oddball-ass belief? AI crap is everywhere now, including in hiring software.
Why has it become conventional PMC liberal “wisdom” that AI résumé filters don’t exist and aren’t used? They are more common that not these days.
I am really having trouble understanding this absurd disconnect.
Crime Times
A lot of the people claiming actions in war are “war crimes” that are in no way war crimes comes from the belief that war should be noble and should look like this:
I blame war movies, mostly. The reality is that war is never noble. Never was, and never will be. It’s a horror from end to end and that horror lasts and lives not only through the conflict but for the entire remaining existence of anyone who experienced it.
That said, best is defeating your enemy without either of you having to fight at all. Next best is incinerating your enemy while they are sleeping in their barracks or camp. Or something similar.
And doing that is not a war crime. It’s what you — if you’re competent — should be aiming for as a commander. Your goal is to prevent your enemy from fighting and if you do have to fight, achieving a decisive and quick victory.
If I were charged with fighting a war, I’d do the things below with no compunction. And none of this are war crimes, you clowns:
1) Shooting retreating soldiers.
2) Shooting and destroying fleeing enemy aircraft or watercraft.
3) Dropping thermite on enemy targets.
4) Destroying enemy supplies.
5) Setting up an ambush and then eliminating the enemy with no possibility of resistance.
Not war crimes! That is just how you fight a war if you want to win.
World is full of doofuses.