Incel Mindset

I’ve said before, but a lot of women don’t realize they sound eerily similar to incels and ‘nice guys.’

A lot of women think their mere presence and occasional sex is the prize and should be their only contribution in a relationship. I agree that this is the female version of an incel mindset — they are mentally trapped in ideas of a relationship that might’ve been true when they (and the men they were dating) were 17, but is not the case in adulthood. The vast majority of men want more than (in the case of these women, usually bad) sex.

So, yes, women can be incels of sorts — it just doesn’t look like male inceldom. It is equally vile and just as common if not more so, though.

Audione

My hot take: Listening to audio books does not count as “reading” the book, and is only a little different than watching the movie based on a book.

I’m glad audiobooks exist, don’t get me wrong. Some people need them. But they are slow and inferior to actually reading.

Lambent

Lamb roast is better than turkey, pork or any other meat for Christmas. Try it sometime. Trader Joe’s used to have it pre-marinated but we could not find it there this year.

That’s what we make nearly every year unless we’re on holiday — and it’s always delicious.

Browning

This is a good example of a false mind-boggle. And it’s only limitedly true.

But first, why it’s a false mind-boggle: Pistols are dominated by their constraints. They must be compact, controllable, portable, and fit the average hand. There are only a very limited number of designs, configurations and materials that will meet these requirements. That’s why pistols basically function the same as they did in WWI. The optimum working object was found given the constraints of design and physics.

However, there have been tons of improvements that have increased reliability, safety, longevity, and the ease of operation of pistols while also lowering costs. So, no, your great-grandpa’s Browning M1911 might’ve looked and worked about the same, but it’s not really the same weapon at all in many ways that matter.

Learning Experience

How many of you ever got into a fight and lost? Did you learn anything?

I’ve lost many fights. Some so terribly I’d not call them fights, but rather beatdowns where I couldn’t and didn’t really do anything. Ah, the joys of growing up a misfit in rural North Florida.

What I learned is to get better at fighting. I did, so lost a lot fewer and that reputation of being a tough scrapper reduced the bullying by a ton.

Race 90

Both race relations and feminism (riot grrrl!) were far better and more humane during the 1990s. It’s not even close. We were on the right path then; identity politics and the humorlessness of the Dolores Umbridge HR scolds did us in.

Self-Laundry

Realistically, what should you do if you find a duffle bag full of money and no-one will know you took it?

First is to hope Anton Chigurh is not looking for it.

Depending on how much it is, say $2 million1, the best thing to do is to start a cash-only business with a storefront. Make sure you install no surveillance cameras, etc., and aren’t in easy view of anyone else’s.

Run that for a couple of years and gradually feed money into the business. You’ll lose about $150,000 of it to rent, inventory, etc. And another $500,000 or so to taxes, depending on where you live. But at the end you’ll have ~$1.2 million that’s now clean and on which taxes are paid.

That’s the safest but slowest way to do it. Other ways are faster but you might lose more. Or get busted.

  1. If in $100 bills, this would weigh around 44 pounds.

Drop Off

True. In the Western countries, if we just eliminated the 5% of men who commit nearly all sexual offenses they’d drop by something like 99.95%.

Pseudo-feminists get incensed about “not all men.” But it really is a relatively-small percentage who are the perps. As every man knows but few women seem to realize. (Perhaps because women’s “bad man” detectors are severely broken, but men know a douche within 1/5 of a second of seeing one?)

Good Victory

Yep. Here’s my land acknowledgment: We took your land. You weren’t powerful enough to keep it. What’s done is done. Deal with it.

That’s really all you need to say.