All obvious and true. If you are not a clown.

Oh, it’s much lower than 100M or 10M. “Conscious and self-aware people” is really limiting. Most people are not much different than ChatGPT.

I’d say, tops, it’s one million people. More realistically, it’s 100,000-200,000. Not many at all.

No one has ever made a light truck like that because they aren’t very useful for general tasks and it’s pretty dangerous to have obects extend beyond the front of the cab. Just use a trailer instead.

There are some half-cab larger trucks like this, but they are very rare. Because, again, just use a trailer.

I’ve been there. It’s all in Egypt so it’s exactly the same one side or the other. That’s Port Said on the Africa side and Port Fuad on the Asia side, by the way. Cool place.

That is an actual very apparently cultural difference. It should not be swept under the rug.

All of the rich nations who are being overwhelmed by Islamic terrorists and parasites should band together to buy land in Africa or somewhere else to house them. Any “refugees,” economic migrants or asylees go there. That’s their new home. Provide enough troops to safeguard it and send some food (enough to survive), but that’s it. Then after a series of years-long evaluations, education, and tests, you can move to a real country.

I bet that would cut fake immigration 99%+.

Good. As it should be.

We do need to get a handle on that.

For my friends and allies, comity and grace.

For my enemies, the sword. Or space laser — whichever is more convenient.

The problem is most normal people aren’t killers, even under duress. It’s just as likely that the gun gets taken away from her and then used against her. This is mostly a good thing — a society of killers looks more like Iran or “Palestine” than what we have in the US.

I miss the fruitcake they used to sell at Publix in the 1980s. Haven’t found anything that good since.

It’s supposed to be 77° here tomorrow in non-commie numbers. That’s livable. I don’t really get comfortable until it’s above 80, but that’ll do.

Does anyone think the modern left has the best interest of anyone in mind other than themselves as atomized individuals? Their only guiding light seems to be their own self-aggrandizement and proving they are the most moral, the most righteous and that they are the most fecklessly forgiving human who has ever lived.

I have no idea how such suicidal pseudo-empathy develops.

As for me, to the enemies of civilization I offer an eternity below the ground. For everyone else, friendship.

What is a specific, nostalgic feeling from your childhood that you would pay an embarrassing amount of money to experience just one more time?

Going to various record shops in Gainesville, Florida, with my friend when I was 17 on Saturdays. She was as crazy about music as I was and we’d spend hours pawing through all the CDs and looking for concert flyers.

We’d usually get up early, drive to Gainesville in the morning, hit 3-4 record shops, then finish out our excursion at Tony and Pat’s for pizza and pasta for lunch. Then go to a park, and next back home to listen to the new CDs.

What a foreign place all of that feels now. But how free it felt at the time.

Absolutely. Aella incorrectly said something like, “Men only go for the most beautiful 10/10 women.”

Wrong. That shows how fundamentally most women do not understand men. (Aella herself has an incredibly terrible understanding of men, which is kind of funny because she’s probably slept with more men than 99.99999% of women.)

In the absence of knowing anything about their personality, out of a lineup men will of course pick the most beautiful — just like a woman would pick, say, the most gorgeous dress before trying any of them on. For some reason, doing the completely obvious and natural when pressed to make an unnatural choice makes men evil.

But in reality, men will choose the woman with the better personality every single time as long as she meets some minimum standard of attraction. And I don’t even think it’s true that men (and quite a few women!) would pick Alysa just because she’s bubbly. It’s because she seems like someone who wouldn’t be a man-hating misandrist, which are incredibly common now. She behaves like someone who’d be a real person and that you could be a real person around too. That’s incredibly rare now, to find a woman like that.

I mean, knowing nearly nothing about them, of course I’d choose Alysa every time. I’m not an idiot. I can’t even really see Eileen as objectively more attractive anymore because I do know a bit too much about her. International model means nothing for most men. Beauty always fades and you don’t even notice it after a week or two. But you definitely do notice when you’re with a horrible narcissist. Choosing someone like that makes your life hell forever.