As far as I can tell, alcohol does not decrease my inhibitions at all. In point of fact, it mostly seems to increase them as I become hyper-aware that I am impaired and act compensatorily to raise my defenses.

This is also when I should’ve left my terrible narcissistic ex who threw plates at my head. Remarkable echo of my own experience. All from this thread. What happened to me is that I’d found out an old North Florida friend of mine had killed herself. Not unusual from where I’m from. She and I weren’t that close anymore — her life had taken many tragic turns and she wasn’t someone I enjoyed hanging around with any longer in light of how much she’d degenerated.

But it still upset me that she’d taken her own life. It’s one of those “we dug coal together” things that people who were not there can’t really understand. I was still pretty young then (24 or so?) and I didn’t realize at that time quite how many of my North Florida compatriots would leave this green earth before they even hit 30.

So I guess I wasn’t being happy enough for my girlfriend that day and she said, “Why are you moping around? You barely saw her anymore and you didn’t even like her that much.” I probably should’ve objected more, but I mumbled something about, “We used to spend a lot of time together in my junior and senior year of high school” and let it be. Anything else would’ve caused her to blow up and I didn’t want to deal with that then.

There were so many signs that I should’ve ended that relationship. That was a big one.

There will be more stories like this as economic growth continues in Eastern Europe while Western Europe converges first demographically and then economically with the third world. https://t.co/NdJ2EGsYVP

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) October 21, 2025

Indeed. The last hope and bastion of Western civilization is likely to be in Eastern Europe. Which is yet another reason to keep Putin out. I’m hoping Eastern Europe rejects being Islamicized and conquered by the Third World.

People don’t understand the Louvre heist. No one steals anything like those thieves did thinking they can resell what was taken. It’s not like you can put that sort of loot on Ebay.

That stuff already had a buyer and was specifically targeted because that (likely) billionaire wanted it for his or her private collection. That’s the only reason to purloin items like that with no plausible secondary market.

Nietzsche was a real bastard for coming up with the idea of master-slave morality. Particularly slave morality.

Why’d he have to be right? Human nature kind of bites.

Random but what sorority life taught me was that being relatively attractive is mostly a matter of

– healthy weight
– normal hair color/length
– no crazy tattoos/piercings
– dress in normal, flattering clothes
– have friends who do the same

Genetics are such a small part of it https://t.co/aCVAkRJcrr

— Allie (@allie__voss) August 7, 2025

Women have an easier time of it, but so few make an effort (or even an anti-effort with tattoos) and then complain they can’t bag that 0.01% dude they “deserve.”

Nearly any woman can be a 7 by doing the things Allie mentions — that is, be thought attractive by 95% of men and 60% of women she meets (women have higher standards). All most men care about as far as what will attract them¹ is that you’re not fat, don’t have tons of disfiguring tattoos, dress flatteringly, and don’t act like an absolute freak in public.

That so many women — supposedly the “emotionally intelligent” gender — fail to understand that or even deny it outright is pretty amusing and mystifying. Though I do think it’s cosmic justice that the horrible tattoos many women get means those top 0.01% men won’t even look once at them, much less twice. Did that to yourself, ladies. Live with it.

1. Which is the most important part of dating! Without that, nothing else happens.

People who get their hair cut where they look like a human mushroom…why? I mean, I like mushrooms but I don’t need to look like a toadstool. At all.

That is not aesthetically beneficial to almost anyone.

To extend the thought below, were I single I’d absolutely without hesitation date anyone 22 or older. I’d consider someone exceptional younger than that, as long as she was of legal age. A match under 22 is far less likely, though.

And that’s what women’s intrasexual competition is all about: it’s mainly older and bitterer women attempting to prevent those “unauthorized” matches from occurring so they can get the advantage and attempt to corner men like me into dating them by making it “morally wrong” to be with anyone who isn’t them.

As I said, I am not single and am in a very happy relationship, but if I were single I’d not give a single goddamn fuck about what anyone thinks about who I date or why. Anyone who does is a weak loser.

Also, I think I witness a lot more of women’s intrasexual competition lately. I’m hotter than I’ve ever been in my life, and contrary to feminist tall tales women in the 20-30 age range are very interested in me and other men similar to me.

Partially, it’s because I look younger than I am. But it’s also that many women in that age range truly do want someone older, successful, loaded, stable and attractive. And I check all those boxes now.

Just in the last few months I’ve had two women throw themselves at me, one even inadvisably sending a salacious picture in a work Slack message that I did not ask for and said nothing about after (not interested). As I’ve said before, tons more women in the 20-30 age range express interest and flirt with me than anyone else, by far. It’s not even close.

Winter most evil once again approaches.

And for that offense against me, I shall destroy the gods themselves!

If the Sahara desert were covered in solar panels, could it power the entire earth?

Assuming no loss in transmission just for ease-of-calculation purposes, covering ~12% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels, assuming 40% (typical) density, would supply the energy needs of the entire planet currently (pun intended). Nope, not just electricity use. All energy.

And no, I didn’t read the comments. I don’t care what they say as they are almost alway wrong about questions like this.

For some reason, I don’t really give a crap about “stolen valor” even though I’m proud of what I did and achieved in the military.

But if someone wants to claim they did something they didn’t? Sure, whatever. It’s just not a concern of mine. I know what I did and that’s what matters to me.

At a small Greek airport we arrived 10 minutes before our flight bc my husband’s cousin (our ride) took forever to finish eating his cheese and honey and he was like “oh hi Vasili they’re with me” and they just….let us on https://t.co/vi11Kr5ycD

— Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) September 11, 2025

A lot of places outside of America are like that, especially in the less-developed world. It’s about who you know and if you can pay the bribe. We crossed the border from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan back in ’97 because we had cash and someone knew someone, not because we had any documents (we did not).

We also had guns in our faces. I don’t think they would’ve shot us if we’d just turned around. But you never know.

There are almost two hundred countries in the world. The polite fiction is that all of them are fully sovereign, but to me it looks like only six are—the United States of America, Russia, China, India, Iran, and Turkey.

— Ben Landau-Taylor (@benlandautaylor) September 4, 2025

I’d add Brazil. Arguably Indonesia as well.

This is true, but I think it’s also somewhat unfair to women. Both because of their lesser physical strength, reduced exposure to violence, and lack of training, most women simply aren’t very dangerous in 1:1 (or 2:1, etc.) combat. They have far lower propensity to use violence even when it’d be warranted and called for, and less ability to prosecute it successfully if they choose to do so.

This changes the equation on how a threat is handled even it’s rare. I’m pretty sure if I needed to do so I could take out two women who attacked me at the same time, but the average woman would be hard pressed to take out even one man long enough to get away. And even if I am attacked by a man, I have a good chance of at least doing enough immediate damage to escape, and a fair chance with two. And that’s because I am unafraid of violence and, frankly, very good at it. Those facts are not true of the vast majority of women.

All that said, Aella is correct that women are often too fearful. More than actually benefits them. Women most often overestimate risk in this realm by some absurd amount, like 1,000x or even 10,000x the actual danger and threat.

But weirdly, they also underestimate risk by some equal and absurd amount of the “hot” bad boy they are pining for. He’s the one most likely to harm them, but they are nearly always completely blind to the Chad risk.

Why?