I am extremely smart. That is just true.
Still, that is only responsible for maybe 20% of my success. The rest is just pure-ass rhino-like stubbornness. That is the necessary component.
Regular-ass Post
Road Damage
This is just not true. This is why I have so much trouble with liberal/leftist thought. It’s no more scientifically sound than conservative fantasies. “Believe science” is a religious cry, and not based on any reality. Check it.
Cars are a rounding error in load-based road wear. Large trucks cause almost all road wear, and it’s not even close.
You see, road damage scales with roughly the fourth power of axle load. Double the weight on an axle and you get ~16x the damage, not 2x.
A passenger car puts maybe ~1 ton on an axle while a fully-loaded semi puts ~8 tons. That ratio to the fourth power is in the thousands. The commonly cited illustration (from the old GAO-style estimate) is that one fully loaded 18-wheeler does the pavement damage of roughly 9,600 cars. In fact, road planners often don’t even account for car wear when building a road — only that of large trucks. So this doof gets their central premise exactly backwards. Cars are not “very destructive to roads.” In load terms they’re nearly irrelevant.
And hilariously it is invoking road-damage savings to justify free public transit. But buses are very heavy vehicles. A loaded city bus does hundreds to thousands of cars’ worth of pavement damage on its own. Thus, the road-wear case for transit only really holds for rail as buses are road-eaters.
In other words, banning every car on the road would not noticeably reduce road wear. But getting rid of all large trucks and all buses would. And those are the facts, not whatever weird degrowther clownery that nonsense is. And facts are all I fucking care about.
Transverse
Anthropologically, this is correct. That said, cultures can evolve and different forms do emerge over time. However I also think it’s fair to say that feminization of low-status males is a large part of what is happening with the trans movement, but for somewhat different reasons than it does in purely patriarchal societies like exist in Pakistan.
Sitrep
I agree with that.
By the fall after high school, I was in the army, and a paratrooper. Many of my high school friends and acquaintances were already dead or in jail (for attempted manslaughter).
Self- or Other-Deception
I understand neither meditation nor therapy.
Both seem fraudulent to me.
Fight Club
Interesting that this seems to be true cross-country.
My high school was very rough. (So were all my schools.) There were fights every day. I was in a large percentage of them. Bullying and hazing were extremely common. I was one of the main targets, but by no means the only one.
I fairly routinely got in 2-3 fights a day. And I mean real fights where one or both of us was bleeding at the end of it. That is not normal anywhere anymore. Nor should it be.
Migranted
Good for Poland. Someone should resist feral third worlders parasitizing their nation.
In Toon
Minnesota wrong-way driver blames her dog for deadly head-on crash
It’s almost always a mistake to let the dog drive.
However, it’s always a mistake to let the cat take the wheel.
Expensive But Worth It
I don’t get really any of my identity from my job, but I do enjoy being the guy you call when you’ve run out of guys to call about a problem.
It has its drawbacks, but it does feel good solving an issue that sometimes dozens of people have worked on unsuccessfully.
Evanescent Always
People make their jobs their entire identity in ways I cannot comprehend or even empathize with.
I have absolutely no insight into that at all.
UK Back
For sure. True of the UK. When I visited there around 1989. it seemed roughly on par with — and perhaps wealthier than — the US. Now when I go back, it’s clearly a lot poorer than the States. It just feels shabby.
Screened Out
That’s a good point. Read books like I did I guess.
Big Truth
Yes, 170 pounds is fat for a woman — unless she is very muscular and above 6’2″ or so.
Like It
Ain’t nobody want to hear it, but a woman can improve her appearance 2-3 points on the 10-point scale by simply not being fat.
And a man can do the same by consistently working out while staying relatively trim. Yeah, the man has to work harder, but that’s nearly always the case as we’re the disposable class. And all that is just reality, like it or not. Most don’t.
Groupless
Wow, Paola is just like me. Any group is off-putting to me. I just cannot do nor care about group cohesion. I’m not on any team and I do not want to be part of one. This is fundamentally alienating to me. I do think it does separate me from some fundamental human experiences, but it’s not deliberate. I just do not feel the things that others do.