Terrible story, but probably an example of inattentional blindness. The person driving the car wasn’t expecting to see a large tractor-trailer blocking the road (and the trailer part is often the same color as a grey sky), so just did not see it.
I have seen things like this happen personally (though not resulting in death) so I know it occurs. I’m always surprised by what people do not see/notice as I have a really wide attention and see things others miss most of the time.
How did you feel about your mom as a teenager and how do you feel about her now?
As a teenager I hated her, but not because of the usual teenage angst reasons. No, I despised her because she was a negligent and mildly abusive alcoholic who had fucked up her own life in very preventable ways and blamed everyone else for it. I vowed not to be like her. And I succeeded in that.
Now, I no longer hate her1. I still think she was terrible and could’ve done better but I have more understanding now.
My mom was someone like me with a large ego and extremely high intelligence2 who thought she was special — but the difference between us is that she never did anything to demonstrate that she was exceptional. She just thought people should recognize how amazing she was with no achievements to her name. In that respect, she was sort of like the incels who sit around in their basements making no mark on the world and expect to have supermodel girlfriends and plush jobs fall in their laps (in the former case, literally).
She thought she deserved the world, did nothing to achieve that, and was bitter because it didn’t just happen as if by magic. Very incel-like, as I said above.
I have some sympathy for her plight because in a different world I might’ve ended up like her. Not too likely but at least I can see the path. She married my dad at 19 to rebel against her parents, got pregnant (with me) and the bitterness and regret followed from there.
And after that, instead of actually bettering her life, she decided she wanted to become a party girl at age 29. And that went about as well as you’d expect.
She died as a result of her drug use and alcoholism, much diminished, at 64. Her life was bleak throughout and the only joy she got was from drinking, I think.
I don’t miss her and I feel pity for what and who she became.
“Space colonization isn’t real, it’s a utopian fantasy.”
I could say the same thing about the inevitably authoritarian and regressive variants of socialism the people saying this idealize.
Actually, space colonization is far more feasible than communism.
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) March 17, 2025
I agree with that, with some caveats. Communism is contra human nature; space travel is contra human biology. Which is easier to change, human nature or human biology?
The future is vast and our successors will find out. Probably will be changing a bit of both, to be fair.
I have no interest in starting something like this, but I bet you could make significant money by spooling up a dating site that only allowed women with no tattoos.
A lot of men would fork over some serious cheddar to be on that. I would, were I single. I’d probably consider up to $500 a month, though I know I am an outlier there. In the $50-$80 a month range is probably more realistic.
So multiple intelligence agencies knew the pandemic was a lab leak from Wuhan and it was covered up from the public. This is massive. https://t.co/k1faLdSszz
— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) March 16, 2025
I believe that Covid was a lab leak, but I don’t think “knew” is the right word here. “Knew” implies certitude, which we’ll never have. There will never be a smoking gun. I’m sure China destroyed that long ago.
“Beyond reasonable doubt” as stated in the intelligence report is more accurate. The preponderance of evidence and simple common sense all point to a lab leak. The evidence against this conclusion appear to be all engineered or an attempted coping mechanism by scientists who are worried about their funding being affected by the consequences of revealing such a large mistake (though lab leaks happen rather frequently, just usually not so consequentially).
It is good to see the lab leak hypothesis going from “wacky conspiracy theory that only terrible, terrible racists believe” to relatively accepted.
I think it could happen. A whole lot of the left is against anything that you do to improve yourself physically because they see it as “eugenics.” That includes working out, drugs, plastic surgery and anything that might give you some sort of advantage over anyone else. I mean, Vonnegut wrote a whole damn short story about this phenomenon many years ago. And it’s only gotten worse since.
So of course liberals would be against GLP-1 drugs because they make you look and feel better. And can’t have that.
Today, I did lots of eugenics. I worked out hard enough that my arms still aren’t functioning quite right. I’m gonna do some more eugenics tomorrow too.
Best friend and I having a nostalgia day.
Looks more like a cardiovascular event and obesity day to me. Every one of those foods is vile.
Geared Up for a Fight with a Bat, But Knocked Out at the Junction.
It’s always said you can’t fight two people at once and win. And most times, that’s true. But if you’re fighting untrained people, you’ve been in a lot of fights and if you’re not completely ambushed, wining is actually doable1.
Notice on the second guy how the person being attacked uses the assailant’s head as leverage to twist that second attacker and throw him down on his back. Classic Greco-Roman wrestling move I also learned in krav maga class back in the day. You don’t have to be bigger or even stronger than your attacker to do that move, though it helps. But you do have to do it like you mean it.
And a bat is not actually that great a weapon especially if you’re not extremely strong. A collapsing baton is better. With a bat, miss once and you’re fucked (as can be seen there).
This is really quite the intrigue: German intelligence believed #COVID19 was a lab leak all along, but kept it quiet until now https://t.co/0e32CiIzaS
— Steven Salzberg 💙💛 (@StevenSalzberg1) March 13, 2025
That Covid was a lab leak is to me nearly certain. Nothing else makes any sort of sense, given the evidence and Occam’s Razor. Of course it was kept quiet. I mean, first of all, that’s what intelligence agencies generally do is keep shit on the DL. Second, everyone is eager to kowtow to China because they are a big dog with stacks of cash.
If more women did more things like this, they’d likely be happier.
Being passive doesn’t work. I know that’s the “traditional” role for women and that getting rejected sucks, but time to put on your big girl pants and deal with it. Want to be treated just like men? Here’s your chance!
It’s definitely the case that one of the reasons I like hanging out with women is that I am terrible at male-male ways of relating and because around women I am not usually the target of the intense female intrasexual competition you didn’t used to be allowed to admit even existed.
So that’s a win-win for me.
I could never be an incel, but I definitely understand how you could get that way; most of what most men — especially average men — experience from women is coldness and casual cruelty.
I know the “reasons” women have for being this way, of course. But it doesn’t make it less psychologically damaging to experience.
With the decline of third spaces where women and men could hang out with no expectations and pressure, this was nearly destined to occur.
Received a random Amazon envelope with USBs.
If you plug some unexpectedly-received USB sticks into your computer, you deserve whatever you get. And whatever it is won’t be pretty.
Sure, they might be clean, but why risk it? Someone skilled enough can make malware that is nearly undetectable. Just smash and trash.
All of you who have guilty pleasures are weak. Just like what you like, damn.
I’m watching The Vampire Diaries and I don’t give a fuckkkkkkk who knows. It’s pretty good, and gets better as it goes along. The first 4-5 episodes are somewhat anemic and then the show settles into itself and really gets rolling.
It’d not be for everyone but I’m enjoying it — the characters have a lot more depth than you’d expect. It’s like if Twilight were written by someone who knew how to make a story come together.
Why exactly did it come to be assumed that one can only be productive in the morning? My intelligence and motivation is vastly higher between midnight and 4AM. Otherwise in comparison, I’m fairly dull.
I mean, I’m still a fucking beast even at 2PM but in comparison to my far more beastly 2AM self, I lose a lot of shine.
If you want to make it quantitative, I’m quite certain I’d do 10-12 points better on an IQ test at 2AM as contrasted with taking one mid-afternoon.
