Clowns

Fclown

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It is insane. Culture wars make people utterly brainless. I do all the things that work and avoid the things that don’t. And these work: lifting weights, healthy eating, GLP-1 agonists1, and creatine. Also, mRNA vaccines are awesomesauce and vaccines in general are hugely beneficial to everyone.

Believing or doing anything else is fucking clownish.

  1. I have never taken this, but not opposed to it.

Econ BS Preemption

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Political Economy

Yes, yes, houses were smaller in 1960, insert the usual economist blah blah bullshit here. The point is that it was far easier to buy a house in 1960. And I can’t buy part of a fucking house. No matter what the econs say, it’s just a more difficult time for younger people.

RTO Extro

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Introverts – How do yall survive work?

I was lucky to be born with a really big brain so I can get away with more than most, but I also struggled in the extrovert-dominated in-person office cultures I’ve been a part of. I just have no desire to hang out with people nothing at all like me for hours on end each day, nor engage in endless sports chats or hear someone’s opinions on politics. Or share my own.

One of the reasons RTO has been demanded is that remote work does not benefit the extroverts nearly as much. Still does, but it’s not 90/10 extroverts, only like 60/40. So they hate WFH and demand (successfully) RTO.

I don’t want to be friends with my co-workers. I just don’t, sorry. I’ll be polite and do my job, but other than that I should not be expected do anything else.

Your social needs are not my problem.

Wæter

Chill Clowns, Evil

Data center water consumption is extremely small no matter the use case. The objection to it for AI and anything else is just typical degrowther bullshit.

Advant

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yes. If you rearrange the letters in their name, you can spell “Oog Gel.”

Which just sounds funny.

Animai

Chill Clowns, Evil

Here’s a good (horrible?) example of female intrasexual competition. It’s a common one these days, where a woman claims that a man who likes any woman skinnier and more attractive than she is has engaged in “pedophilia.”

The fucking hilarious thing about it is that the object of her compeition is an AI anime character.

I’m no fan of that Grok anime woman but knowing how Japanese animation works, if she were “translated” into a real woman she’d be 21-23 years old. Not a child. Not even a teenager. A full-on adult woman.

That is why this is a darkly funny example of female intrasexual competition — except the competition isn’t even another woman. (And I have a friend in her 20s who has a nearly identical body shape to that Grok AI character. It’s not even that uncommon in countries without raging obesity epidemics.)

AK News

Chill Clowns, Evil

An awful lot of those “Palestinian” “journalists” turn out to be doing most of their “journalism” with an AK-47 and some bombs. Because they’re working for Hamas and participated in October 7, many of them.

That’s a very different sort of “journalism” than most people’s definition.

Dating Berating

Chill Clowns

What is your experience with dating apps? Because this feels like swiping into the void.

It’s funny when women realize — which they rarely do — what dating as a man is like.

It’s the Great Silence. That is, if you’re not actively being belittled and made fun of, which is also common. Unfortunately for us all, social media and how modern dating works has reinforced the worst tendencies of women more than the worst tendencies of men, so we are where we are.

So glad I am not swimming in that cesspool but I write about it because I remember that hell. And it’s only gotten worse.

Social media has convinced mid-level women that they deserve the top 0.1% of men so that’s all they’ll accept. Which means most men get no interest from anyone at all.

In a way, it’s a return to historical norms. Which isn’t great for anyone, women included. No matter what they think about it.

Vidco

Chill Amusing, Clowns, Lying Liars

According to Covidians, Covid is still having enormous hidden effects on health, welfare and society that somehow completely fail to show up in statistics, daily life, cross-country comparisons, anyone’s actual experiences or in anything measurable outside of confidently-conspiratorial pronouncements on Bluesky or brainless turd headquarters, Mastodon.

Isn’t that mysterious? Huh.