When I say I was “never popular,” to be fair that isn’t actually true. Back in the heyday of blogs, my site got thousands of visitors a day and dozens of comments. That was in 2002-2005. Then I shut that one down. About that time, blogs started their long slide and never recovered.
I also did guest posts on some (at the time) major blogs. The internet was a whole lot better back then.
What kind of jobs accept stupid people?
All of them, from what I’ve been able to tell.
What stores do you miss the most?
Borders. It was far better than Barnes & Noble as chains go because the people who worked there actually knew about books, and cared about them.
Also, in the store café they had the best mocha freeze thing that was fuckin’ glorious. I still reminisce sometimes about how good that concoction was.
Today, my dad got a phone call no parent ever wants to get. He heard me tell him I was in a serious car accident, injured, and under arrest for a DUI and I needed $30,000 to be bailed out of jail.
But it wasn't me. There was no accident. It was an AI scam.
— Jay Shooster (@JayShooster) September 28, 2024
Tons of people on Reddit (et al.) say this is impossible. But in actuality, it has been possible for a few years now. There’s only going to be more of this as AI gets cheaper and better.
Inside me, there are two wolves.
Both need a space laser.
I lost my job because I crochet?
I know this isn’t about RTO, but one of the big reasons for RTO is so that extroverts can get back to their social bullying and oppression against introverts. Extroverts like to have work be a social club with them at the top. In a WFH environment, that is much harder to pull off. Introverts flourish in a more WFH world.
A big part of RTO is just about extroverts again wishing to and being allowed to harm others with impunity.
Yellow cups that were included in dog food.
Oh shit, my family had these too. There were also bowls and plates that came in the dog food bags. It’s what we used as we didn’t have anything fancier. North Florida poor will do that.
They were not microwave safe and were ugly as all hell. But they were better than nothing.
It could always be a mistake when you buy a house. It’s an expensive purchase you can’t inspect all that well with unknown neighbors who might turn out to be insane or Alex Van Halen. For us, we were constrained even harder than most because we required these things:
So that was a lot of constraints! That means of the houses for sale in our area, roughly 90% of them were eliminated by those stipulations alone. Many others were removed from consideration because they were fucking ugly eyesores or otherwise had features we didn’t care for.
That said, we did not actually look at a lot of houses as of the ones that met our checklist and weren’t otherwise ghastly, only one or two a month remained that we’d even want to go visit in person. The second one we actually did go to look at we liked, so we bought it. The house was built in 1975, but for a house built in 1975 it has been pretty well-maintained and was a quality build at the time so it has had fewer actual problems than I expected. It was also renovated a good bit, though a lot of original features remain (such as some of the 1970s-vintage interior wood that cannot by bought for any price now). We also got it fairly thoroughly inspected beforehand.
So, by a combination of decent luck and adequate due diligence, we wound up with a place that suits us pretty well and has low carrying costs. Don’t get me wrong, it does have problems. It’s a house built in 1975, after all. For instance, there is way too much carpet, though luckily not that worn. The roof will need replacing in 5-7 years and that will be very expensive because the place is big and it has solar panels that will have to be professionally removed and then re-installed. The hot water heater needs flushing and likely will need replacing soon. The kitchen is slightly too small which we will change when we renovate. Etc.
We are happy with the place and could have done so much worse, especially considering how few houses we had available given our list of requirements.
Fuck degrowth. We need Dyson spheres and starships.
I’ve not learned a single thing from working closely with anyone in an office and have not had any “productive” conversations ever that lead to anything at all.
Does that really happen? I have my doubts. Maybe it does to some people but just does not match my experience at all. Everything I’ve learned in my career I’ve had to teach myself. My partner is the same way; she’s completely self-taught.
Maybe that’s peculiar to our fields.
Job I was rejected from used my take-home assignment for their business.
This seems to be getting more common. A lot of jobs seem to be posted just to solicit free work with no intention of hiring anyone. I’ve run across this and so have most others in my field.
If I ever get another one, I will come up with plausible bullshit I hope they use in production. As it will then bring production down. And that’ll be exactly what they deserve.
Because they almost never experience it (especially if they are attractive), I think women hugely underestimate the psychological toll that constant, unrelenting and often preemptive rejection takes on the average man. A lot of men suspect most of their lives being disdained and thought of as a “creep” by many women despite doing absolutely nothing to warrant this.
Most men would rather be punched than cruelly rejected and laughed at by a woman. I know that’s certainly true of me. The violence is much easier to handle and more comprehensible. It just seems fairer and more palatable.
One of the ways which social media and dating apps have destroyed women’s mental health is by leading mediocre women to assume they deserve and can get a top 1% man. Sure, it does happen sometimes, where a 5 woman ends up with a 10 man. But it’s rare. That 80%+ of women chase 1% of men is just devastating for them and of course hurts men too. It also harms society in general by greatly increasing unhappiness.
And note that I am not an incel. I am partnered and prior to that I’d been with more women than nearly all men. Not bragging; that’s just what happens when you go on a lot of dates. For a few years, I’d go out with anyone who said yes or anyone who asked me, just to see what happened. And, not surprisingly, a lot of those women and I ended up having sex.
So, not an incel. Just can see with my damn eyes.
I have an online friend who was driven out of her home city of Munich (which she loved) by the danger and constant threats from North African and predominantly-Islamic immigrants. The libs like to pretend it’s all made up. But the stats and real-world experience do not lie.
If Bill Gates hadn’t sold off much of his Microsoft stock to fund his philanthropic foundation, he’d be worth $600 billion now.
Damn.