I hate to keep beating this drum, but I also really abhor the New Morality and the New Prudishness.
Someone should really tell liberals and “feminists” that women have bodies and if they do things with those bodies in public, “unauthorized” people are going to see those bodies.
We really are just trying to converge on sharia, aren’t we?
It would’ve been unimaginable to me in the 1990s that “liberals” would become so weirdly prudish. It feels extremely creepy to me.
To return to my previous point, people have bodies. It’s ok to see them. It’s just beyond asinine to attempt to devise your own moronic Islam variant.
Anyway, have one of my favorite sports photos that would certainly be banned now as it shows that a sportswoman shockingly possessed a body.
Unless the cloud is your third or fourth tier of backup, you will one day lose all your data.
It’s just a matter of time. Do not trust those vendors with anything important. They don’t care about your data or you. Only what they can steal and sell.
About this article I linked below, liberals really will not be happy until all women are in burqas, will they?
I do think something approaching that is a likely end state of liberalism1. It turns out that women have bodies and if you point a camera at a woman while she has a body, the images produced show her body.
Fucking Christ.
I have no real memories of the 1970s, but certainly overall freedom has been decreasing for a long while. We were a lot freer in the 1980s and 1990s than now; with today’s ubiqiutous surveillance and monitoring, life is a virtual1 prison compared to what existed then.
Like 40% of the many, many Firefox extensions I have installed are to unbreak stuff that should not be broken and to prevent others from controlling my computer, or my browser, or to stop them from spying on me.
I have no doubt that most of the power and capability of LLMs will be taken away from us because they allow people like me to do things like the below. Before, I just wouldn’t have bothered because it would’ve been a thousand hours of work.
But now, it’s 20 hours of work and four million tokens.
Do what you can while you can. Soon it’ll be very restricted, I already know.
It makes sense if you want to destroy America and the West, which is the explicit goal of many (most?) leftists.
That way of thinking is mystifying to me too.
Look, I don’t really give a crap why Decarlos Brown murdered Iryna Zarutska. Other than to prevent it from happening again, who cares. If putting Decarlos Brown in the ground and others like him there too achieves the goal of no more Irynas dying so horribly, let’s do it. And quickly.
Some clown-ass dev thought they knew better than you so they broke standard tools and conventions to “help” you.
Anyone who believes that is smoking ALL the crack. Below I will explain how you can lie in plain sight and get away with it unless someone has a giant fucking brain like I do.
First, this is based on own earnings, i.e., per individual. The enormous gap between Silent/Greatest gen and everyone else is mostly due to women entering the paid workforce. Half the Silent Gen “median person” was a non-earning or low-earning (almost always a woman) spouse. That means there are a bunch of non-earner zeros on the left side of their medians. That further means that their individual labor earnings crater, necessarily. That’s obviously not because a 1955 machinist was poor, but because the median adult then included millions of women with almost no recorded labor income. So that is just a simple composition effect they are using to lie there.
By the way, I’ve read the papers these charts are poorly cribbed from. One of them says the exact opposite of what’s presented here in fact. Check it yourself. There’s a reason it’s called (in part) “Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled?” Why each generation earns more is largely based on the fact that each generation works more because there are more of the pool in the labor force.
Another major deception here: the inset chart series is post-tax, post-transfer. Thus, it imputes the market value of public health insurance (Medicare/Medicaid) at the cost of providing it. Healthcare costs exploded during the past 50 years. National health expenditures per capita rose ~3.5% per year in real terms. Because those costs are booked as income to the recipient, rising medical prices mechanically show up as you getting “richer.” Which is, you know, fucking ridiculous. But a good way to lie for econs. They do it all the time.
Another one: The big chart uses CPI (in 2019 dollars) while the paper uses PCE. Pew just recently showed real median wage growth since 1999 lands at anywhere from 11% to 22% depending just on which inflation index you choose. Those clowns chose the measure that made their point look the most rosy. Also, of course, during that time, housing and education outran inflation by a lot. A single economy-wide deflator averages a representative consumer’s basket. It is really fucking not the basket of a 26-year-old, which is dominated by rent, first-time home prices, tuition, childcare, and medical, which are the exact categories that rose way out of proportion to general inflation.
And, lastly, Gen Z is the least trustworthy part of that whole set of absurd lies data-wise. More of Gen Z is still in school and for longer, so the ones with recorded earnings at 20–24 are a selected slice of the population. Often, it’s those with parental help, nepo babies, athletes and otherwise-abnormal people that skew the stats a lot.
In other words, these are shoddy lies that nevertheless will hoodwink most. You can fool most of the people most of the time with crap like this, but me nearly none of the time.
Nice try, though. I had to spend three entire minutes thinking about it, which is two more than usual.
Most of Europe will be Islamicized; the UK and France are likely to be first.
It’s virtue signaling all the way down.
But I don’t care about virtue. I care about realpolitik, reality, and conquering the fucking galaxy.
There is no reason not to deport and/or expatriate them all immediately from all of Europe. Or more extreme measures, as needed.
Yeah, yeah, women have the Madonna/whore complex, but men are implored to always be the ones who must take action, criticized as weak and gormless if we do not, but then told we are evil if we do so.
Also no way to win there.