Corporate Culture and Tattoos.

I hire people and am definitely biased against people with visible tattoos. To me it shows that you are likely to exercise poor judgment in other areas, too. Yes, I admit it’s prejudicial and no, it does not mean I automatically reject those with tattoos.

But it does make it less likely I hire you, especially if you are at all customer-facing.

I like the stock market because when you’re right, you get paid no matter what anyone thinks.

As I look around at our new house that was substantially paid for with money I made from trading stocks, yep, it didn’t even matter a fucking little bit about what anyone else thought about anything I did. I got the house and you got a stupid opinion.

I win.

Man in critical condition after being shot by 2-year-old.

Gimme my choccy milk, motherfucker! bam bam

America is such a bizarre place sometimes. More toddlers shoot people here than criminals do in normal countries.

What difficult truths, the sooner you accept them, the better your life will be?

Most people will choose the cowardly path, even when the alternative way is not that difficult nor costly.

So if you can be easy when it’s possible but be hard when required, you’ll be ahead of all those fuckers by a mile in no time. It’s how I’ve lived my whole life.

How old were you when you realized that your original plan of being really nice, working really hard, and taking on way more than you should, hoping that you would automatically be rewarded for it without asking, was completely bullshit?

Eight years old, getting my ass trounced in the playground and the teachers doing nothing to help or actively making fun of me for being weak and not worth their time.

Then I knew I was going to have to fight for everything and against everyone. And that early lesson was essentially correct. And so I did it.

Anger is a gift and spite is the fuel.

Truly, I never did think feminism would become about telling men as well as women themselves that women can’t and don’t have agency and can’t make their own decisions.

Extreme regressiveness isn’t a good look. Almost don’t need conservatism anymore.

A safety notice on an AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopter.

No firing pin; the gun on the AH-1 is electrically-operated. So if it rotates, the circuit completes and the gun’ll fire. So yeah, don’t do that.

He’d been single all his life. Then he fell in love with a stranger on vacation.

In the Gen Z mindset, this is an invalid way to meet someone as it was not algorithmically mediated. If this sort of initial encounter isn’t harassment (to them), it borders on it¹.

But seems ideal to me. We need more of this, and less of our lives ordered by corporations who do not have our best interests in mind.

1. For many of them, it very much would be harassment, sadly.

I don’t settle for people who settle for me. If you do that, you’re hurting yourself and the other person too. Simple as that.

To simplify this, she let him know in pretty clear terms he was the second choice. No one wants to be that, man or woman. My partner is my first choice and she is quite aware of that.

And she feels the same about me. If that’s not true in your relationship, you should consider leaving.

Everything is Virgin vs. Chad.

I can’t read the whole post¹, but I do think the girlfriend’s “compliment” is very insulting. More than 90% of men would. That is because these days women are even more hypocritical about dating than men. And that’s because they can be — they have more choice, and far more choice than they used to (which, by and large, is a good thing).

But that abundance of choice has fashioned a lot of women overall into worse people. Not all of the time, and not every woman. But a hell of a lot of them and a hell a lot of the time. No one wants to hear this but it’s true.

What the gf said is an insult because it implies that the man is a second (or 10th) choice, only good enough to have something long-term with when the woman/gf was done messing around with “bad boys” who are more attractive to her but mistreat her. Only then, after getting tired of that, did she settle for some chump who wasn’t good enough to get with her when she was in her wild phase. And that behavior is in fact true of many women. I’ve seen it myself quite often.

So indeed, if my partner said something like this to me (she never would) I’d strongly consider leaving her. As it is in fact a huge fucking insult. And yes, she reads this blog so ain’t no secrets here. If I said something similar to her, I’d hope she’d consider the same because it’s a big fuck you. It is demeaning and insulting.

That gf, without meaning to, set off a nuclear bomb in her relationship that it probably should not recover from; if she still finds the bad boys more attractive, she should go be with them for her and her boyfriend’s benefit. They’d both probably end up happier in the end.

1. Here is the post on Reddit.

How do you deal with being attracted to younger women?

These comments are nuts. And that post title is written as if being attracted to someone younger is some sort of terminal fucking disease. So oddball. Perhaps because I only tend to hang out or want to be around atypical people no matter their age, I’ve never found any of this insanity they are talking about to be true. And here, I am considering “attracted” as friends too, not just romantically.

If I were single, I’d date anyone 22 and up without a second thought¹. Personality matters so, so much more to me than age (as long as everyone is of legal age). And shared interests, attraction. The rest is fairly irrelevant to me.

Look, people don’t become a different species when they get older. I find this idea so damn weird. Like, come on, I enjoy most of the same things now as I did at 20. I’m not some completely different person. And I’ve found that is true of most people. Or at least the ones I’m interested in getting to know².

I suspect what’s happening in that thread is men desperately white-knighting in an attempt to not seem creepy, where “creepy” has been wholly defined by feminists attempting dating market competition elimination — and succeeding in spades.

Me, I don’t give a fuck. Obviously.

1. I’d consider someone younger, but she would have to be truly exceptional. Because I do believe a lot of people change significantly between 18-21 or so.
2. And to those who say, “You just want to date hot younger women!” Brothers, sisters, be calm; I dated a 38-year-old when I was 24 and would’ve dated a 45-year-old when I was 25 if she’d said yes. I just do not care as long as there is compatibility.

Mentally ill mother thinks she’s dating Jon Bon Jovi.

WHAT? So we’re both dating Jon Bon Jovi? That no-good low-down two-timin’ New Jersey scoundrel. After I send him the remainder of my life savings, I’ll break up with the lout.

This site is not optimized for viewing on a phone and I don’t give a crap how it looks on a phone or if it displays at all.

Y’all’ll live.