Rant

No Chance of Understanding

Chill Annoying, Rant

Why did I get rejected?

As is the case with nearly every straight woman alive, this person has absolutely no fucking clue what dating is like for men, how we lead a life constant rejection (and even worse, pre-rejection), and how that impacts everything we do when we talk with women we’re interested in romantically.

Of course you’re not going to reject me! I’ve basically been interviewing you, and who doesn’t love being asked insightful things about their life and opinions?!

Oh fuck, this right here is about the very top thing men hate about dating! MEN DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERVIEWED/INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.

Again, for all the women: MEN DO FUCKING NOT WANT TO BE INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.

How can so many women just not understand this? This writer sounds absolutely insufferable, by the way. I thank all the gods I’ve never gone on a date with her. If my partner is kidnapped by aliens and I decide to date again, I’m adding her name to the list of “Big Always Nope.”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t answer my questions [about sex], it’s that the act of asking caused him to shut down.

I can’t imagine why! It’s because 99.999999999% of the time any time a man talks about sex frankly with a woman, he’s demonized, castigated and thrown to the wolves. It’s never, ever, ever, ever a good idea unless it’s someone you already know really well. There’s absolutely no upside in it for a man at any time. Not ever. Don’t do it. Don’t land in that trap.

(I do talk about sex with my platonic female friends, and sometimes quite extensively, but we’ve known each other for a long time.)

Getting dating advice from a straight woman for a man is totally worthless. Might as well get dating advice from a cat, or a turnip. It’ll help just as much. Maybe more as since they cannot talk, at least it will not be bad advice.

Not Buying It

Chill Rant

What was that BS adults were trying to peddle to us when we were kids about how terrible and hard it was being grown up?

Man, I fucking love being an adult. It’s infinitely superior to being a kid. I can do what I want when I want. People aren’t constantly beating on me. If I decide to eat ice cream at midnight, I can. Pizza for breakfast? Bring it. Go on a road trip? Heck yes.

Being an adult is great. No way I’d go back to the comparative hell of being a kid.

Actual Harm

Chill Rant

This is so clownishly wrong and destructive. Aptitude and intelligence/ability just do not work like that.

I’m gonna debunk the hell out of this asinine clownery.

I’ll stress it again below, but it’s annoying how the post sets up a false dichotomy between “natural ability” or “hours of practice.” In reality, elite performance in any realm emerges from ability combined with training, opportunity and luck, with measurable genetic constraints on both baseline ability and how much someone improves and can improve from the same practice. Denying that will give a ton of people false hope and makes the examples seem indicative when they just mean that someone already with genetic gifts still needs to practice a whole lot to get an edge.

But let’s lay it out (And I have to say, why the leftist tards think it necessary to insist all people are identical, I haven’t a clue):

1) False dichotomy of ability vs. practice.
“Not born knowing calculus” is a straw man argument. No one claims people inherit knowledge. They inherit capacities that affect how quickly they learn and how far they can get. Heritable things like working memory, processing speed, spatial ability, etc., matter a ton and they are about 40-60% genetic.

2) Selection and survivorship bias in the sports anecdotes.
Stephen Curry and other people like that are already at the elite level. Everyone in that pool trains an absurd amount. Everyone. However, here in the real world where we’re all forced to live, practice explains surprisingly little of who ends up on top of the heap. Meta-analyses find deliberate practice explains a modest slice of performance variance overall. And, importantly, even less among elites.

3) Reverse causality of “Smart kids do more homework” type nonsense.
Of-fucking-course they do! They are better at it. That’s why they do more. People gravitate to what they’re good at. People who find learning easier get higher returns from studying, so they invest in it more. This isn’t mysterious or unknown. It’s just classic human-capital logic where their genes help them pick and evoke study-rich environments (standard gene–environment correlation).

4) Misunderstanding genetics in athletics.
There are extremely robust genetic influences on traits that underpin sport (height, muscle fiber composition, aerobic capacity, etc.) and on trainability itself. None of this is even controversial. In the HERITAGE study, how much people improved VO2max from the same training program was around 47% heritable. The sad (for leftists) truth is that some bodies adapt far more than others. Things are just easier for them.

5) Folk genetics dipshittiness.
Polygenic traits don’t match parents one-for-one. That’s just a ridiculous oversimplification of how the genetics actually work. Recombination, sex differences, nonlinearities, as well as training mean offspring can exceed both parents on specific phenotypes. Twin and family work shows vertical-leap and explosive strength have meaningful heritability, but genetic expression isn’t a simple average of mom and dad’s maximum capabilities.

6) Mindset matters, but it’s not even close to the whole shebang.
Believing you can improve helps, but large studies and meta-analyses find small average effects on grades with benefits primarily accruing to small, specific subgroups. Also, raising achievement via study hours isn’t the same as changing underlying general ability. The post blurs that distinction (intentionally, I guess).

7) The post ignores basically all the long-run evidence on high ability.
Decades-long tracking of highly-capable youth shows early cognitive differences are real and predictive. That is, with the caveat that when the environment provides appropriate acceleration and enrichment. Denying meaningful variance at the top ends up shortchanging both advanced and struggling learners. So, as is typical, leftist clownery harms just about everyone. I mean, it’s designed to pretend we’re all exactly the same so of course it does.

The post argues that anyone in capable of anything. The actual reality is that talent sets ceilings and slopes, while practice gets you to them in each particular person’s case. Some people have vastly higher ceilings and easier slopes. Denying either half is just extremely-harmful motivational rhetoric dressed up as (poor) explanation. The bottom line and sad truth is that I could shoot 10x as many baskets as Curry and never be 1/10 as good as he is at the three, and I could have spent 10x as long studying physics and never achieved anything like Feynman et al. did. Because in both cases, I just simply do not have the talent.

I know leftists deeply, deeply hate that and wish it weren’t true. But alas we’re all forced to live in the real world as it is, not as we wish it were.

Fraud and Lies

Chill Annoying, Rant

A group of scientists set out to study quick learners. Then they discovered they don’t exist.

Ah, bullshit.

This is another variation of the “everyone is exactly the same” go-to leftist argument. It’s fraudulent. It’s a convenient lie. My sister had zero head start on me in music (in fact, I started learning before she did). With less practice and time invested, she was better at everything to do with music than I was in three months; I’d been playing for two years at that point.

In my direct experience, I can generally learn a concept or idea in a few minutes that takes others days, weeks, years or never to learn. Even if I’ve had no exposure to it and know nothing about it in advance.

They may have already had exposure to fractions by making pancakes at home using measuring cups.

LOL. What a bunch of dipshittiness.

This is how the researchers massaged their data and the study design itself to get the result they wanted: One problem is that they define and model “learning rate” in a very specific, narrow way and apply it to a very specific kind of data, which they knew would show what they wanted it to demonstrate. And calling 2.6 vs 1.7 pp per attempt “the same” is absolute nonsense. On a log-odds scale the difference is about 2x, which is certainly non-trivial even if it’s small relative to intercept gaps.

That barely gets into all the problems with how that study was conducted. It reveals nearly nothing except exactly what they wanted us to believe (which is, of course, wrong).

Lord, what a load of fucking crap.

Soul Removal

Chill Annoying, Rant

It’s creepy, all the women with “Instagram face.” They’ve all gotten the same work done on their faces by the same plastic surgeons using the same techniques. And as a result, they all look like Stepford Wives clones. I’m sure men will get the blame for this as women aren’t usually forced to take accountability but trust me, ladies, men do not want this, do not like it, and wish you would not inflict it on yourselves.

The reason I was thinking about this is I saw a photo of Phoebe Cates from the 1980s. This photo, specifically.

She’s very beautiful but even better what makes her face distinctive hasn’t been sanded off, polished, redacted for plasticine pseudo-perfection. In other words, she still looks ensouled. She looks like a real person. And that’s so much more appealing than the power-sanded version of Phoebe would be. Why is this not obvious?

The Liberal Problem

Chill Clowns, Rant

Painting your opponents as stupid, believing they are stupid and yet you still lose to them…what does that make you?

Seems like a bad way to do things. “My adversary is a dumbass but beats me every time.” Dude, this isn’t middle school. No one cares that you tried really hard. Winning is what matters. Doing the thing is the crux; all else is fluff and failure.

When someone outperforms me in an area where I typically excel, you know what I say? I say, “They must be really good to have done that.”

Because being beaten by idiots makes me worse than an idiot. Which the Dems and libs seem content to loudly announce over and over again.

Systems

Chill Rant, Tech

Is it just me or a “sys admin” now needs to be licensed in literally everything in existence and beyond nowadays JUST to be employed with an inhumane workload?

This isn’t exaggeration. To some extent, sysadmin types have always been expected to know more and do more than any other role. In some places we’re required to be subject matter experts in dozens of different IT domains, have great customer service skills for all the escalations, and master completely-unrelated areas of expertise such as electrician work, HVAC, plumbing, facilities tasks, and even carpentry.

But in the last decade or thereabout, it’s gotten so, so much worse. We’re expected to be expert developers in a dozen different languages while being full-time developer support, be masters of security, networking, design, architecture, three or four different cloud providers, and still be capable of all the other stuff above. And so much more.

I’m extremely smart. Not a brag, or if it is who gives a damn. Anyway, I’m in something like the 99.998th percentile. And I find keeping up with all of the above challenging. People who don’t have brains that big simply cannot do it.

Will AI help? I have my doubts. It just makes dumber people screw up faster and in less predictable ways from what I can tell.

This rant doesn’t have a point, really. Just some fulmination into the void.

Binned It

Chill Annoying, Rant

The liberals really stuffed it up with their unqualified support for the very worst and verifiably untrue aspects of the trans hysteria.

Unfortunately for them, biology is real, chromosomes exist, nearly everyone is definitely one sex or the other (human biological sex is almost perfectly binary), most people should not be transitioning (and should instead receive mental health assistance), surgical transition is dangerous and should hardly every be done, and puberty blockers cause actual predictable harm.

This wasn’t wholly what lost them 2024. No, it was mostly inflation. But this wackiness certainly contributed.

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.