Why are tattoos so heavily judged in certain professions?

Tattoos demonstrate you have poor judgement; therefore professions where good judgment is required accept them less readily.

Simple as that.

About this, I would work an in-office job for $100 million for a year. A year only, though.

So I do have a price here. But no matter the payment, I wouldn’t work one of those abominations for longer than a year again. Not for a billion dollars. It just is too much of a toll on mental health. But I could do it for a year for $100 million. That’s enough that it would substantially change my life versus the torture involved.

Anyone want to pay up? I’ll go to your damn office and waste time (which is all you really can do in an office) while I do my actual work at home as normal.

Unless aliens kidnap my partner (or me¹) there’s not a chance I’ll be in the dating scene soon, but if I were I’d definitely go somewhere overseas if I wanted to subject myself to that hell again.

There are a few advantages to that approach. It automatically makes you unusual and exotic, and depending on the country the women haven’t been as utterly poisoned by social media. I’d concentrate on somewhere with low social media use, low tattoo prevalence and low obesity.

Then I’d learn the language (relatively easy for me, if I want to do it²) and make it happen.

American women are basically undateable now due to social media-induced mental illness, tattoos, ridiculous levels of entitlement and obesity. It’s just about a crime to do that to yourself.

1. Green alien girls are a-ok with me.
2. Though I dislike talking to people in general, so I’m far better at learning to read languages.

It’s notable that Aella conducts more valid and interesting social science surveys than nearly anyone in academia¹ as she is not constrained by IRBs, prudishness or lack of curiosity.

That says really bad things about how our academic culture and practices have developed.

1. At least for the subjects she cares about.

Can someone explain to me why you prefer conversation view in your email client? Tell me either here or offline. I just need to hear someone offer some sort of logic.

Modern email clients already did conversations (reply/forward, etc.) as a feature and have for 30+ years. For me, the “improved” conversation view makes items absolutely impossible to find. That might come from that I worked on helpdesk and related for so long and really need to be able to identify items and requests by date, which conversation view makes extremely difficult.

I just don’t get it and probably never will. But I’d still at least like to hear some sort of reasoning about it.

Someone should really do a deeper dive into why when someone says a change or restriction is for “security,” so many people accept it readily, nod sagely in agreement, then become snivelingly obeisant.

That’s always puzzled me. Yes, I know there is a lot of literature slantwise to that subject, but I mean something really specific. I’m referring to as close as we can tell to finding out what happens neurologically there that just seems to shortcut all thought and consideration.

It’s like a scifi cognitive hack and I think that’s equal parts horrifying and fascinating.

About this, though — I do have to spend a lot more on monitors because I cannot stand bad fonts and eye-breakingly low normie resolution. And alas I can tell the difference between a 2K and a 4K monitor at 10 paces, and can easily see the difference between a 5k and a 4k monitor at reading distance.

So I pay a lot for good monitors and it is very much worth it.

I’m lucky because I cannot tell the difference between the $500 mattresses and the $7,000 ones, nor can I discern any meaningful sonic distinction between the $1,000 speakers and the $10,000 ones.

That has saved me untold amounts of currency.

Same. Personal experience shows me this is the case. During the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s I told my friend this directly: “If you keep doing this, you will piss away all your money. You will go bankrupt and lose everything.” I did not mince words. I put it that bluntly.

A few months later, he was way overextended on margin as the NASDAQ crashed 60%. His broker did the expected margin call and in addition to losing his principal, he owed Datek tens of thousands that he did not have. He squandered everything he had and more chasing a few lousy bucks. He couldn’t even make rent. If he’d listened to me he would’ve been up well more than a hundred thousand dollars (around $200K in 2024 greenbacks).

Listening to my advice was the easy and obvious thing to do as it was clear the market was unsustainable and that being so far out on margin was dangerous. But it didn’t matter.

New Yorkers Won’t Stop Complaining About Dogs.

Dogs simply should not be permitted in cities. They are a nuisance at best and at worst, dangerous. And dog people are freakin’ terrible.

Even though it does not get that cold here, I will be glad when evil winter is done. It’s always possible to get cooler if you have money, but no matter what I never seem to get fully warm in winter.

When you’re a military photojournalist, you’re mostly creating pro-military propaganda.

But what I didn’t realize when I was in is that it’s no different in the civilian world. When you’re a civilian journalist, you’re mostly doing pro-establishment and pro-corporate propaganda.

You just get paid worse overall total comp with even fewer benefits.

That’s part of it, but not the major reason. Most don’t intervene because the crackhead is unpredictable and has far less to lose than anyone who will step in. A meth fiend will shank you because it amuses them. Or because they think you are Bigfoot.

They are manic stabby dream crack fiend. And a stab or two is all it takes to really ruin you life. Hence, it doesn’t pay to intervene for most.

I took this moral alignment test and got about what I expected, Chaotic Neutral:

I know these aren’t all that scientific. However, this does describe me pretty exactly. In fact, if I had to write a description of myself (particularly of my relation to groups; I’ve made nearly identical statements on this blog) it’s pretty darn close to what I’d say.

I think it’s a misunderstanding to claim that to us “good and evil are irrelevant” — it’s just that we do not allow anyone else to define what good and evil is. For us, it is immanent.

“Chaotic Neutral people are often extremely difficult to deal with.” You don’t say….

Would you go from full remote to in office for twice your salary? but there is a 1 hour 10 minutes commute.

Fuck no. I would not go into an office for 10x my current salary. For that, I might consider once a month. Maybe. (Still probably not with a horrible commute.)

It’s so incredibly unproductive to be in an office. I will never, ever go back to the days of being constantly interrupted with trivial bullshit and then spending 5-10 hours at home every night getting my real work done. That was miserable and I did not realize how terrible it was until I was not doing it any longer.

Being in an office means nothing gets done by nearly anyone. Never again.