Rant

Trades

Chill Annoying, Rant

Natalia has the better view of this. It’s only transactional if you view it that way. But if I’m in a romantic relationship with someone, even if it’s short term, I certainly do have the expectation of sex being involved. Why would it not? And that’d be true even if she were paying for the trip. It’s absolutely insane the doofy crap people believe now.

It’s not that I just want the woman for her pussy (nor that she should just want me for my dick/wallet), but the point is that I could — and often do — go on the same trip with my platonic friends just as easily.

If the expectation is a non-platonic relationship, everything goes well but there is no sex, you’re damn right I’m going to be upset. And that’s not because it’s a transaction but because it’s like if I offered you some pie with whipped cream and I gave you an uncooked potato instead. You’re for sure gonna be miffed. And you should be. Same thing here. To Gen Z and associated other doltish clowns, everything is about power when it should be just about having fun.

Which they are against, firmly.

Whips

Chill Culture, Rant

I saw some dipshit doof-ass motherfuckers on Reddit the other day arguing very sincerely that it was unethical to alter an artist’s work to display in your own home for no commercial gain of any kind.

Jesus fucking Christ. Corporations have whipped them hard. They are full of so much corporate propaganda spew their blood is basically a syrupy mix of PowerPoint slides and 1OQ’s. And this is how Gen Z is. Their “rebellion” is looking at their smartphone for only 16 hours a day instead of 18.

As for me, I firmly believe art is for remixing, repurposing, ripping apart and assembling back together with duct tape, some gouache, and the panache of not being beholden to corporate thought-scrambling slurry. And I also believe that an artist’s supposedly superior skill should not limit you. You are also an artist. Because here’s the thing: anyone who creates art is an artist.

I know that a lot of creative types feel they must be as punitive as possible with how their art is used because of AI and their own subsumption in corporate power and propaganda, but this zero sum thinking just hurts us all. Yes, even the artists “protecting” themselves.

All of this makes me want to buy one of the minor Picassos and spray-paint my initials on it or something. But I wouldn’t waste money on that just to piss off a drove of doofuses. Still tempting, though.

Frontierism

Chill Gutter Philosophy, Rant

Venus was beautiful in the sky this morning, incarnadine and beckoning.

Taking actions in the real world is so much better than in the virtual. Even if it is hard. Even if it is dangerous. Even if it might — almost certainly will the first time — fail.

For that reason, I will always have some respect for Elon Musk no matter what other evil he perpetrates because he built two companies that do extremely difficult things in the real world. Things that many, many people said absolutely could not be done1. Yes, he relied on government research and subsidies for some of it. But here’s the thing: so does everyone else. Liberals don’t tell you that part because it’s terribly inconvenient.

To go back to a point I’ve made elsewhere, many degrowther liberal types (and these days, nearly all liberals are de facto degrowthers) deeply loathe anyone who creates anything in the real word — a house, a car, a rocket, even kids’ toys. Because it “hurts the planet” and “contributes to climate change.”

This is not the future. It’s not even the present. It’s yet again another example of those too sequestered from the actual world to understand where wealth or even their own daily sustenance comes from.

There was a sci-fi author who speculated the reason for the great silence in the universe was because all advanced civilizations become wireheads (as we’re doing with smartphones), wither and then die. Seems pretty plausible to me. We are already far along that course.

That some path is to be avoided just because it’s dangerous and might not pan out is both cowardly and ignorant of history. The most worthwhile undertakings have always involved great risk. Many people in the past have died to bring you the life you enjoy now, while many others have suffered both before the advent of plenty and in the course of creating our civilization with all its boons.

We need to walk into the risk, go toward the Venusian light, embrace the glaring unknown, attempt the impossible and let the wild tides carry us beyond the horizon.

It is not a possible path. No, it is the only path.

  1. And many clowns said should not be done.

Low Tol

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

I too have far less tolerance for that kinda shit than I used to.

The idiot liberal idea that wild-eyed vagrants can have a little assault as a treat is so fucking insane. And #MeToo went right out the window when it was the so-called unhoused perpetrating sex crimes, didn’t it?

Even apart from any political considerations, I despise hypocrites.

Fit Fits

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

It is a truth not so universally acknowledged that an “ugly” woman or an “undesirable” man can look pretty damn good by losing some weight, spending some time in the gym, having a decent haircut and wearing clothes that fit correctly.

But ain’t no wailing wallower want to hear that shit. Or make that effort.

Loser Poser Does Not Rhyme Dammit

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

Yup.

The reality is that other than a few losers who try to date younger women because they can’t get anyone else to go out with them (and then usually not even younger women), in my experience it is the younger women who seek out and flirt with older men.

Of the women who’ve flirted with me over the past few years since I’ve gotten massively hotter, 95% of them have been under 30, and 80% of them have been 25-ish or under. Note that I ain’t done shit. I didn’t encourage it or even do anything about it. It’s all them.

The “terrible exploitive men taking advantage of the poor utterly helpless (but somehow still omnipotent girlboss) women” feminist narrative falls apart very quickly when examined. And even moreso when you realize it’s all about female intrasexual competition and has very little to do with anything else. Modern feminism wants power with no accountability or responsibility. And that’s not going to work out well for it at all.

Loopiness

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Rant

Exactly.

And repeat after me kids: 🎵 All data centers are closed loop! Na na na, all data centers are closed loop! 🎵

All the carping and complaining over nothing; a misdirection you all fell for. Be less stupid. Please. 

The Fun

Chill Annoying, Rant

Almost all women are completely wrong about why men approach women.

Especially these days, women believe that men approach them because they think the men expect to be having sex 10 minutes later. This is false for nearly (99.9%+ all men).

For most men (and I cannot stress this enough), talking to a cute, interested girl is the fun.

Anything that happens after that is great, sure. But it’s not the reason. It’s amazing for all that women claim to understand men1 that they do not get this.

  1. Hint: They really very much do not.

All That’s Ever

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

Technological solutionism is in fact the only thing that works. Even solutions like “clean water supply” and “good sanitation” are 99.9% tech.

What the fuck are the “tech can’t save us” dipshits even talking about? Tech is all that has ever saved us! Too bad both the left and right are de facto degrowth loser factions now. We direly needed those New Minds and did not get them.

So, resultingly, we are pretty much fucked. The right is full of anti-tech idiots who want to retreat to some 1950s past that’s as mythical as Bigfoot while turning women into some servant/slave class.

And the left is full of anti-tech idiots who want to retreat or advance to who the fuck knows what. Some imaginary future where we sit around in fields with no AC where food magically appears, though there is no tech, and talk about our identities with gay squirrels.

Neither is viable even as a coherent fantasy, much less reality, so yeah…fucked.

Expectorate

Chill Rant

Corporate America: A customer can spit on you, throw things at you and be a general menace… but you’re fired if you call them an asshole.

I could never work retail because the moment a customer spit on me one of us would be going to jail. And that of course would be me. Because the other person would be headed to the hospital or the morgue depending on how fast people could pull me off the dipshit who made that mistake.

What a world.

Get Out Tech

Chill Annoying, Rant

Agreed with both. Technological solutionism works but tech-bro sociology is inhuman and terrible.

Degrowthers — no matter which side they are on — are the true evil. The whole “technology can’t get us out of this!” is so insane. And dangerous. Motherfucker, it’s the only thing that can.

Chud Life

Chill Rant

Indeed. Clown-ass motherfuckers will be dropping from the clouds misattributing why we’re having power grid issues. When in reality, we destroyed our generation and storage capacity, the science behind it all, and canned the people who could competently lead any of it. MAGA chuds are some dumb, dumb fucks.

Addicts Do What They Do

Chill Rant

All the while the social media/smartphone addicts claim it’s not a problem, they could quit anytime they like, man; meanwhile, take away their smartphone for two minutes and they are twitching like heroin fiends hours away from their next fix.

It’d be comedic if it were not so sad. And so obvious. The smartphone/social media combination is a cognitohazard for which we are wholly unprepared.

Yclept

Chill Annoying, Rant

Arguing that the Enlightenment or the Renaissance did not occur because people at the time did not call it those things is — and I cannot stress enough — fucking idiotic.

A river exists whether or not you call it a “river.” And the agricultural revolution still occurred no matter what it was named post-hoc1. Names are irrelevant in this context. The events and the turn and transition of history is all that matters.

Arguing that the Enlightenment did not happen because no one sat up in bed one morning and declared, “Hey, motherfuckers, it’s the Enlightenment! Ain’t this some shit!” is just not serious scholarship; it’s specious clownery based on what something is named rather than what is actually occurring in reality. Politics cannot be divorced from history. Nevertheless, claiming that something does not exist because it does not seem fair or does not comport with your idea that all humans are exactly the same all the time is a poor way to practice your craft. And wrong.

  1. Though to be fair it was a rather slow revolution.