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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.

Stages

Chill Clowns, Rant

And the most moronic response to the thread below:

That has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with it. Jesus fuck why are people so obsessed with something irrelevant but quantifiable? I guess because it is quantifiable, unlike compatibility, attraction, shared goals and interests, etc.

Clownish idiocy by oafish doofuses.

Not Accepting

Chill Clowns, Rant

Yeah, it’s not that hard. Mostly this incorrect belief emerged from the Fat Acceptance/Early Death movement spending more than a decade lying about how it was “impossible” to even lose a pound and that no one could resist eating pints of ice cream and anything else in sight like some omnivorous Cookie Monster.

All lies. It’s not even really that difficult not to just mindlessly eat. I weigh less now at 48 than I did at 28. It can be done.

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.