As I said earlier, LET’S FUCKING GO!

We need to start doing things like this all over the place. Including other planets, eventually. It’s time to become the gods we now only pretend to be.

The right and the left. They agree on so much now: genocide if it hurts America (only in their own minds) is good, if the US does something it’s evil, and that women are tiny li’l babies who should have no agency at all.

Why do men seem so much more desperate to find partners than women, generally speaking?

Contra what women tend to think, most men aren’t desperate — it’s just that they are the ones expected to do nearly everything to start and form a relationship. It’s all on men to face storms of rejection, being called a “creep” simply for existing and trying, and paying for dates, etc. It’s all on men.

Women could change this equilibrium but won’t, because on the surface it benefits them too much (though hurts them in ways they don’t acknowledge).

That’s Mike Vining. I met him a few times on Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) when I was a young paratrooper back in the 1990s. Very nice guy. He was the first member of Delta Force and he came by my unit a few times (right down the street from his office at the time).

Small world sometimes.

One of the worst interview experiences of my life.

Why subject yourself to this, even if you’re desperate? It’ll be a horrible place to work anyway. I’ve walked out of half a dozen interviews in my life, back when it was more common for them to be in person. I regret nothing; it was always the right call.

My favorite walk-out was when an interviewer attempted to antagonize me because I knew far more than he did. I stood up and said, “Well, I’m leaving. Wouldn’t want to work here.”

He acted all shocked and said, “You can’t just leave!”

I said, “Yes I can,” turned around and walked out of the conference room and right out the front door.

LOL. Respect yourself first or no one else will.

What 28 days of leccy use looks like when you have a shit-ton of solar panels on your roof (no batteries, though):

I do too, mostly. I don’t really like cities much and don’t enjoy walking in them. Even “dense” ones. I’m glad that the option exists where it does, but it’s not for me. If I had more of a choice, I’d live 20-30 minutes away from a reasonably-sized city on 5-20 acres of land.

But ain’t no fiber out there.

Yes, because cold and winter suckkkkkkkkkkksssssssssssssssss.

I joke about being galactic overlord and things like that sometimes and sure, I’d do that job for a few billions years as a hobby. But I don’t really care about power. What I’d rather have is money.

Cold, hard, untraceable currency please. And a lot of it.

I have trouble recognizing male programmers because they all dress the same, are all overweight to obese, all have the same scruffy poorly-trimmed beard, and all wear glasses ¹.

This is a real problem at in-person work functions.

1. Obviously, not every single one. But this is accurate to my experience.

That’s how I grew up, but I was part of the last gen (Gen X) to do so. Often I would go outside at 8AM and not see another adult till 6-9PM. I’d roam miles from home on my own or, more rarely, with friends. This was completely normal back then. Now it’d get parents arrested.

Emotional intelligence is worth nearly nothing. Women are 100x more interested in me now that I got way fitter and hotter. I could be a complete asshole and this would still be the case. Perhaps even more the case as many, many women use assholery as a proxy for dominance, which is hugely appealing to many women.

Emotional intelligence helps some in a relationship. But it helps 0.0% in getting you one. In fact, it probably hurts on net.

If we’d allowed designs for safe and small modular nuclear reactors to move forward water would not be an issue because desalination would be absurdly cheap.

But that ain’t what we did.

Indeed. Women’s idea of what men find attractive and what men actually find attractive is highly divergent. Obviously, not all men nor women are the same, blah blah blah.

What men find attractive (80%+): A woman who is fit and not obese, in normal to tight-ish regular clothes in minimal or minimal-looking makeup, not much perfume and not slathered with weird stinky lotion, and a smile. A simple sundress is super attractive to most men if you can pull it off (and in my experience, sundresses are very easy to pull off…oh, wait, what were we talking about here?).

What women think men find attractive (but is actually just intrasexual competition): An expensive evening dress, 2 hours of full-face makeup, four-inch heels, complicated lingerie, various high-end perfumes and lotions, and a bratty but stand-offish personality and affect.

Not many men actually find the latter attractive, though an absurdly-large number of women believe that is what most men find appealing. But it just ain’t true.

In relationships, you should always be with someone trying to build you up (and vice versa), never someone attempting to tear you down. The moment that the other person starts chipping away at you, it’s over whether you know or it not.

I learned that the hard way, unfortunately.