For sure. True of the UK. When I visited there around 1989. it seemed roughly on par with — and perhaps wealthier than — the US. Now when I go back, it’s clearly a lot poorer than the States. It just feels shabby.

That’s a good point. Read books like I did I guess.

Yes, 170 pounds is fat for a woman — unless she is very muscular and above 6’2″ or so.

Ain’t nobody want to hear it, but a woman can improve her appearance 2-3 points on the 10-point scale by simply not being fat.

And a man can do the same by consistently working out while staying relatively trim. Yeah, the man has to work harder, but that’s nearly always the case as we’re the disposable class. And all that is just reality, like it or not. Most don’t.

Wow, Paola is just like me. Any group is off-putting to me. I just cannot do nor care about group cohesion. I’m not on any team and I do not want to be part of one. This is fundamentally alienating to me. I do think it does separate me from some fundamental human experiences, but it’s not deliberate. I just do not feel the things that others do.

I both believe most places should be more walkable and that the urbanism “walkability” fanatics are completely fucking nuts most of the time. Most of what they imagine doesn’t apply to the majority of Americans, cars are in fact great, and hardly anyone wants to give them up.

They are just delusional about a lot of these facts.

How likely would 4 pregnancy tests would be false negative?

Simple math problem that even I can do — with a caveat!

If each test has a 5% false negative rate, about 1 in 160,000.

If each test has a 1% false negative rate, about 1 in 100 million.

However, that caveat is that in real life errors are frequently correlated. So if there is something hormonally odd going on, you could still be pregnant and all simple tests could return negative every time.

I’d sink every invading migrant boat storming the shores of the UK if I could with no qualms and no regret.

Eventually, they’d stop. The incentive structure would be high negative then.

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.