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Yap Gear

Chill Annoying, Rant

Great thread. That has always puzzled me in the extreme too, the contention that grown-ass adults can have nothing in common with even a pretty small age gap. As a refutation, I had more in common with my 70-someting-year-old great aunt when I was in my early teens than anyone else. That’s because we both read books, were curious about the world, weren’t wildly racist and thought in the same ways. (Alas, she understandably rarely visited North Florida but was one of the few in my family who actually liked me.)

And that sort of congruity across different ages is common in my experience outside of the context of family as well. For instance, I had tons more in common with the twenty-year-old intern I was mentoring at an old job when I was 42 than any of my same-age peers. Again, we had similar proclivities, we both were really into reading, and both had absurdist senses of humor. And we liked the same music. I could go on.

Romantically speaking, on net it’s almost certainly better off for both men and women to at least once or twice be in age gap relationships. You often can learn a thing or two and if you don’t, so what? Just not limiting yourself to a small dating pool is a huge benefit. Your person might turn out not to be born at the same exact moment you were.

This whole discourse is frickin’ demented.

Metric

Chill Rant

Dang the metric system and Celsius sucks so much for everyday use.

It’s funny, I use the metric system when I’m talking about anything related to the military, science, or space. That’s where it’s appropriate as none of that has to do with human factors. The metric system was deliberately designed to be anti-human and it fully succeeds there!

Font Hinting

Chill Rant

If you could make one “guy problem” instantly understood by women, what would it be?

I agree with top-voted comment. Hints don’t work. Hints are useless. Use your words. As a grown-ass adult, get some gumption and use your fucking words.

Men have been trained very very very well that one woman’s “obvious hints” are another woman’s “just being friendly.” And they are indistinguishable. So that’s why you only get harassed1 by losers and not approached by the guys you want to be near you.

Hints are not going to be noticed nor assumed to be worth a warm tin of cat spit from any man you’d want to be with. So woman up and make what you want to happen happen.

  1. No that anyone deserves harassment.

Abysses

Chill Rant

I knew it was probably over for a while as a civilization when people I’d previously believed to be perfectly reasonable began to tell me how smartphones were “more convenient” and that they spent most of their days gazing into that abyss.

Willingly.

We’ve never had to deal with a cognitohazard like this new hell that is the combination of smartphones and social media. It’s the most transformative event to occur to humans since widespread literacy, but far less constructive. We’ve created addicts who can’t even recognize they have a problem, and who attempt to gaslight you into believing you’re the malcontent if you object.

We aren’t going to conquer the fucking galaxy like this.

Pure Foul

Chill Evil, Rant

About the Ukraine war, it’s an extremely evil tenet of a lot of modern left belief that defending your home is an undesirable and in fact immoral thing to do if a genocidal invader comes knocking.

That just letting the plunderers do whatever they like “saves lives.”

That’s never true. But the same idiotic views can be seen in the lefty stance on what deranged vagrants should be allowed: free-for-all assaults and setting people on fire if it makes them feel better. I think they see it as restorative justice or some such nonsense.

If anyone invades my home — country or house — the only thing I’ll be sad about after I shoot them in the face is that they got blood on my carpet. And if they get blood in the dirt, I don’t care. It makes good fertilizer.

Any other way of thinking is someone who cares more about appeasing Putin-like people than they do about being a free person in the world. And I want to have nothing to do with those quislings at all because they’d sell me out the very moment it becomes convenient.

All to still be killed themselves after they stop being a useful idiot.

Behind Thee

Chill Clowns, Rant

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.

Illusions

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

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.

File and Rank

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

Most of the rank-and-file RTO advocates get super-incensed when informed that you’re not at work to socialize with them, but to get work done.

For them, it seems work is primarily to schmooze and yap aimlessly but has nothing to do with actually working at all. These are the same motherfuckers who would come by my desk 10 times an hour to “chat,” meaning that I was not able to get my extremely-cognitively-demanding work done while I was actually in the office.

Fuck them and fuck RTO.

Wanting

Chill Clowns, Rant

There is a paragraph in this Kat Rosenfield piece that I want to fully excerpt here but I won’t as it’s worth reading the build-up as well.

This is something I’ve been saying for a while. Women simply cannot selectively choose when they want to be treated as children. It’s all or nothing. If you want to be treated as a child only when it suits you, that is not on offer; you will also be dealt with that way when it comes to rights and responsibilities as well.

Feminism in the past decade or so has advocated that women hold power with no accountability or responsibility while blaming the results of even their own predictably-disastrous actions on men who had nothing to do with their self-caused fuck-ups. Outside of absurd exceptions like Trump, that’s not how power works or will ever work.

So now women must choose: be treated as little kids with no agency (and thus few to no rights) or own your own bullshit, and take responsibility for your own actions.

Which will it be?

Unwanted Worlds

Chill Rant

Men have been told repeatedly and with great vitriol in the past to butt out of such discussions as it isn’t about us and our opinions are irrelevant, even if they support fighting against such things as the horror of what was done to Gisèle Pelicot.

So you got the world you demanded. Turns out it wasn’t so great, eh? Congratu-fucking-lations. And now I am minding my own business again, as requested incredibly often in the past. Enjoy.

Gazelle

Chill Clowns, Rant

That article below is one of the few that’s actually made me angry lately. It’s such a profound misunderstanding of the problem, what’s occurring, why it’s occurring, what effect it has and how it all has played out over time in the US. Why bother writing something like that if you’re so clueless? What’s the point? I think it’s just a bit of stotting to demonstrate how sophisticated the writer is.

In fact, I am quite certain of that.

Saint Ignatius

Chill Rant

Of the non-Russians, what is it that makes them hate Ukraine so much, to wish for genocide on that people and nation? What makes someone like Ian Welsh be like he is? I have nothing at all in common with the terrible humans who seem to want that nation and those who live there destroyed, all for the glorification of a human waste bin like Putin.

I don’t think I will ever understand how abhorrent some people are. And I’m no saint myself.

Bridging

Chill Rant

People are so pointlessly concerned about burning bridges, even when they themselves get mistreated.

I will burn the bridge and the damn entire town too when someone treats me poorly or gets on my bad side. I do not give a fuck. This policy has served me very well in life, by the way, even before I had a boatload of money.

Accepting abuse meekly just invites more abuse, whether you’re talking in your personal or professional life. And I refuse. I endured that for too many years.

Run

Chill Rant

Introverts make the world run and extroverts make it connect. Both are necessary, as much as extroverts get on my nerves at times (not my extrovert friends, though!).

Lately, there’s been a lot of effort to deny that introverts really even exist. Man, fuck all y’all who say this. Introverts are more likely to be laid off when that time comes, more likely to be excluded even from social events they want to attend, and are more likely to be ignored.

Yet those horrible introverts are also more likely to get really difficult things done that require tons of concentration and perseverance, and more likely to be the hidden social glue of groups as they tend to notice things that other people miss or gloss over. The fact is that extroverts are not usually all that emotionally intelligent — they are just gregarious. And that’s not at all the same thing.

And yes, we introverts very much exist.