Realistically, what should you do if you find a duffle bag full of money and no-one will know you took it?

First is to hope Anton Chigurh is not looking for it.

Depending on how much it is, say $2 million¹, the best thing to do is to start a cash-only business with a storefront. Make sure you install no surveillance cameras, etc., and aren’t in easy view of anyone else’s.

Run that for a couple of years and gradually feed money into the business. You’ll lose about $150,000 of it to rent, inventory, etc. And another $500,000 or so to taxes, depending on where you live. But at the end you’ll have ~$1.2 million that’s now clean and on which taxes are paid.

That’s the safest but slowest way to do it. Other ways are faster but you might lose more. Or get busted.

1. If in $100 bills, this would weigh around 44 pounds.

Tangentially related to what I wrote about today. The vast majority of men will never be violent. It's like 2% of men committing 95% of sexual offenses or something. So "not all men" is completely accurate, but that 2% is almost entirely male lol. https://t.co/Pw4pMoCFCP

— Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) December 8, 2025

True. In the Western countries, if we just eliminated the 5% of men who commit nearly all sexual offenses they’d drop by something like 99.95%.

Pseudo-feminists get incensed about “not all men.” But it really is a relatively-small percentage who are the perps. As every man knows but few women seem to realize. (Perhaps because women’s “bad man” detectors are severely broken, but men know a douche within 1/5 of a second of seeing one?)

The primary accepted upper-middle class paradigm in the West, currently, is Prey Morality – i.e. failure.

"Masculine leadership is bad."

"Our history is disgusting."

"Our ancestors were filth."

"What we did can never be forgiven."

"We are uniquely evil."

This has to be… https://t.co/23xXZMC5PK

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) December 7, 2025

Yep. Here’s my land acknowledgment: We took your land. You weren’t powerful enough to keep it. What’s done is done. Deal with it.

That’s really all you need to say.

Women who see themselves as the prize are in truth invariably one of those presents that explodes glitter everywhere; maybe pretty, but a huge mess and not worth very much.

Women who see what you build together as the prize is where it’s at. You end up with limitless wealth and no glitter bombs.

Sweden with fewer than 11 million people has granted citizenship to 63.000 Somalis, while Poland with 38 million has granted it to 17. How come? pic.twitter.com/zt5nozHMuW

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) November 29, 2025

Because Poland doesn’t want to be invaded and overrun. It might end up being the last bastion of Western Civilization, if Russia doesn’t clobber it.

It’s a strange thing that I can look at an email for around 1-2 seconds and determine if it’s phishing and/or fraudulent just at a glance and many of the users I’ve worked with over the years couldn’t determine the same thing if they spent six months attempting to figure it out.

It is amazing sometimes the differences in people’s abilities.

Why does the internet today feel so much “softer” compared to the 2005–2012 era?

Tons and tons of censorship and aggressive moderation so as to not piss off corporate advertising interests, mostly.

Also, wokesters and their cancel culture made the internet a lot worse. Combine those two and you have the anesthetized HR-ized borefest we have now. Also, this person sounds too young to remember the earlier era (pre-2004) where it was even more Wild West.

In my field, I never had a mentor or anyone who knew more than I do. I’ve always had to go it alone.

This is incredibly hard, but also meant I learned a whole lot by necessity. And by bashing my head against it over and over again till I figured it out. I’ve often been in companies where unless I found the answer and acted on it, no one would. I was the last and sometimes the only stop.

That leads to a lot of painful but thorough education.

I achieved my wizard status by trying every spell with no guidance and no council or counsel.

Same. I went to Israel when I was 20 and met more girls interested me in 30 minutes than I’d met in my entire prior life.

It was then that I truly realized how terrible a place I’d grown up in.

And thank the heavens most women like this don’t realize how much power they have — at least in Western society. We’d all be totally cooked. But I think he’s right. Especially to go from a man to that sort of life of unrestricted possibility, most people would flame out. I wouldn’t now (as long as I retained all of my current self cognitively) because I’m older and wiser. I’d be ok. But I probably would have flubbed it if I’d jumped to that life at 20.

But damn, yeah, compared to a male of the same age, a top 1% or above woman can literally do anything she wants. And that, understandably, makes many men and quite a few women resentful.

For a man, to obtain the same social power you have to be in the top 0.0000001% or above. And be rich.

It seems like in a lot of life, people want to be conned. They have no interest in the true nor the actual. That’s the case on both the right and the left; this affliction is by no means restricted to one leaning or political party.

The comforting or belief-affirming lie is nearly always preferred to the verifiable and the real.

Guys: the girl was in the right here.

His already-sex, already-house partner told him basically what she wanted…which was doable with some effort if you read comments…and he laughed and got a $800 ring from WalMart. Son left the tag, price, and WM sticker ON.

Come on. We… https://t.co/UJavjAI90T

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 11, 2025

I agree. The woman is the one in the right here. I have no interest in proposals or rings in this sense and neither does my partner, but if my girlfriend said she wanted to go on vacation to a national park as her dream getaway and I took her to play the slots and eat at buffets in Vegas, she’d be right to be angry about it.

It doesn’t sound like this woman is a gold-digger or unreasonable. It more appears she’s not being listened to, which is death for any relationship.

No, you can’t stop it. I think people get obnoxious tattoos for the same reason that they start doing hard drugs: they know it’ll destroy them and their lives and make things harder in the future, but they secretly crave that. They want the obliteration, the nullification of the self.

One of the reasons I make a terrible coder is parts of it are too much like math for me. And by that I mean, even in my own code after I create it, despite leaving comments after a bit I completely forget how it works and why I did something. If it has been more than a couple of weeks, it’s like I’ve never seen any of it before.

I’ve re-written my own scripts from scratch before because I could not remember well enough how the old version worked. I have the same experience with math. Once I learn something, it doesn’t build as it apparently does for most people. I just forget it completely in a week or two. It’s like I never knew it. No matter how much I study, it all disappears posthaste.

My brain apparently is just not set up to retain things like that. Language, though. Not a problem.

"I'm not dying for…" pic.twitter.com/3i2AFj6wC9

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 1, 2025

And that graph isn’t even accurate. There’s 500+ US Army soldiers in Egypt but they are kind of invisible because they technically become not part of the US Army when they join the MFO.