If there were a pandemic worse than Covid, I wonder if that’d lead to more mental illness, or less? I think probably less as so many of the psychological issues came from people convincing themselves that the world was ending and then…kinda nothing really happened of that scale.

Yep. I worked with a fat guy who claimed he only ate 1500 kcals a day. I routinely saw him eat 1800 kcal breakfasts and 2000+ kcal lunches. I am sure dinner was much more than that. And the thing is, he sincerely believed he was eating only 1500 kcals per day.

People can be really, really deep into self-delusion. Nearly everything everyone reports about how much food they consume is a lie — and especially the obese.

We bought a Tiffany repro online and I think it looks quite good:

Nothing beats the real thing but the faux version is something I’d not be upset about if it gets shattered.

I actually do prefer women with no makeup. And the woman in the photo has a whole lot of makeup on.

A list of what she’s wearing:

• Moisturizer (harder to tell this but most women apply it because foundation etc. dries out skin)
• Primer
• Foundation
• Concealer
• Foundation powder (light)
• Bronzer (light)
• Blush
• Highlighter
• Eyeshadow
• Eyeliner
• Mascara
• Lipstick
• Lip Gloss (cover gloss)
• Setting powder

And I’m probably missing a few. Those are just the ones (except moisturizer) that I can frickin’ see with my own two eyes. Why can’t other men do this? It’s not hard. She’s wearing none of those things in huge amounts, but she has all of them on. And probably more that I can’t see.

The pandemic mentally fucked some people forever. It’s not just guys. More than a few women I liked and respected are now just unreadable. They rant and rave about Covid ending civilization and their poor understanding of immunology day in and day out. They obviously had never been through anything really adverse before and could not handle the stress of the pandemic. And now we are all suffering from their lack of resilience.

One woman I knew personally (who never even caught Covid, at least when I knew her) went through a complete mental break, got fired from her job, and devolved even further into weird conspiracy theories. It was (and I mean this sincerely, as I liked her) sad to witness.

Anyone who thinks Trump will be better for Ukraine, if he wins or does a successful coup you’re gonna be in for a very nasty surprise. Well, Ukraine is, mostly — you’ll just be a dumbass.

There is a whole lot of joy in doing things many people said you could not (and would never) do!

I begrudgingly have to admit it is better than revenge. And achieving “impossible” things makes any of your detractors who notice far angrier too. Love it.

If I ever decided to write something worth publishing I’d want sensitivity readers. And if at the end they aren’t slitting their wrists while projectile vomiting and throwing themselves off a cliff, I would consider my writing project a failure.

Indeed. A very dangerous movement.

my boss was suddenly fired and my employees are freaking out.

Someone’s unqualified relative got hired. That’s almost always the explanation when someone great is ushered out quickly and there is already a new hire waiting in the wings.

Things are about to get miserable. Leave now.

I’m gonna have a feud with doofuses attempting to make us go feudal. They can serf on the shock wave of my boom stick.

It’s not every day that you get a black Nazi, but some days you do.

Degrowth is a terrible idea for all sorts of reasons, but one of the main ones is this: without huge amounts of redistribution which would just never occur, billions would die — likely far more than even the very worst climate change scenarios.

And that’s yet another reason to oppose that terrible philosophy.

I truly and deeply hate smartphones.

The collapse of the US middle class: