Last Gasps

Naw, they’d never admit it.

Their logic goes like this:

1) I wasn’t personally affected as I already worked from home and/or was unemployed, so there were no lockdowns.

2) If there were lockdowns and kids couldn’t go to school, it was only like two days.

3) Ok, there were some extremely short “fake” lockdowns and kids couldn’t go to school, but the kids love working in the fields and mines like olden times, so it was ok.

4) There weren’t any lockdowns because no one’s door was welded shut and no one was arrested (in the US).

5) People should have had their doors welded shut and should have been shot if they tried to evade the non-existent lockdowns.

6) I love lockdown and wish it were still happening, even though it didn’t ever happen.

In the end, this group of still-extant lockdown lifers and lockdown liars is just angry that the pandemic didn’t result in their preferred political alterations. That, and many of them are obsessive busybody neurotics who can’t operate well socially. Most of them are also clownish forever-maskers and extremely mentally ill.

Cash Up

Yeah, that dude is a fucking clown. She was just trying not to be short at the end of the night.

An extremely common scam is for someone to give you too much money, and then to attempt to confuse you about change. Cashiers get this all the time. I have complete sympathy for that poor woman and want to kick this douche in the kneecaps.

Nazified

It really is the case these days if you are to the right of Hasan Piker, you’re a “Nazi.” In the 1990s, the German AfD as it is now would’ve been just a fairly standard center-liberal party, going by their positions. Now according the press they are evil incarnate and Mega-MechaHitler.

So odd to see. I’m about the same politically as I was in the 1990s: a fairly standard liberal. Now that makes me a Nazi, too.

Alrighty then.

Nuke Flags

What are some red flag questions in an interview?

“Do you like to go out, drink and party?”

Was asked that about a role I really wanted at the time, handling networking for nuclear power plants. Since I already knew the instant that question was asked I was not going to get the job, I replied, “What does that have to do with the role exactly?”

“Oh, we like to have fun after work. Just want to make sure you’re on board with all that. We’re a tight-knit team here.”

After a bit more back and forth, I said something like, “I don’t think this role is for me as my actual qualifications seem not to matter. Selecting people based on their capability of ‘partying’ for something with the importance of the monitoring network at nuclear power plants seems like a terrible idea.”

Then I got up and left.

Conseq

Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) / X

That’s right. Academia is about to get mega-turbo-fucked by the consequences of their own lack of standards and their imperiousness.

And they do not even realize it, and cannot imagine it happening. But it will.

Failing Acad

It’s an extremely bad path that academia is following of evaluating the validity of truth claims based solely on who makes the claim.

If they think that’s going to go well for them…well, I guess delusions are all many of us have left these days. The whole edifice probably needs to be brought down and replaced with something less insular and better-prepared to deal with the world as is.

Fit Cheat

Noah Smith ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ (@Noahpinion) / X

So-called pickup artists were hated because their techniques and training worked, not because they were misogynists. Women viewed the movement as unauthorized and undesirable men getting an unfair advantage, similar to how many liberals see working out and staying fit as cheating. It’s the same mindset. Idiotic, yes, but I’m just describing, not condoning.

Shot Shot

1) Women in this sport and most sports can wear whatever they want already. There are literally no restrictions. Clownishly wrong fucking take. Women wear those outfits because they want to.

2) And my problem isn’t that you cannot see her butt, it’s that it’s a worse shot! It’s zoomed in too tightly to get any context. Just objectively it’s an inferior shot for the purpose of ridiculous prudishness. I hate this timeline.

3) If women are not allowed to be shown in their actual athletic clothes while doing their actual sport, they should not be permitted to wear that attire at all. Simple as that.