Sweden with fewer than 11 million people has granted citizenship to 63.000 Somalis, while Poland with 38 million has granted it to 17. How come? pic.twitter.com/zt5nozHMuW

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) November 29, 2025

Because Poland doesn’t want to be invaded and overrun. It might end up being the last bastion of Western Civilization, if Russia doesn’t clobber it.

It’s a strange thing that I can look at an email for around 1-2 seconds and determine if it’s phishing and/or fraudulent just at a glance and many of the users I’ve worked with over the years couldn’t determine the same thing if they spent six months attempting to figure it out.

It is amazing sometimes the differences in people’s abilities.

Why does the internet today feel so much “softer” compared to the 2005–2012 era?

Tons and tons of censorship and aggressive moderation so as to not piss off corporate advertising interests, mostly.

Also, wokesters and their cancel culture made the internet a lot worse. Combine those two and you have the anesthetized HR-ized borefest we have now. Also, this person sounds too young to remember the earlier era (pre-2004) where it was even more Wild West.

In my field, I never had a mentor or anyone who knew more than I do. I’ve always had to go it alone.

This is incredibly hard, but also meant I learned a whole lot by necessity. And by bashing my head against it over and over again till I figured it out. I’ve often been in companies where unless I found the answer and acted on it, no one would. I was the last and sometimes the only stop.

That leads to a lot of painful but thorough education.

I achieved my wizard status by trying every spell with no guidance and no council or counsel.

Same. I went to Israel when I was 20 and met more girls interested me in 30 minutes than I’d met in my entire prior life.

It was then that I truly realized how terrible a place I’d grown up in.

And thank the heavens most women like this don’t realize how much power they have — at least in Western society. We’d all be totally cooked. But I think he’s right. Especially to go from a man to that sort of life of unrestricted possibility, most people would flame out. I wouldn’t now (as long as I retained all of my current self cognitively) because I’m older and wiser. I’d be ok. But I probably would have flubbed it if I’d jumped to that life at 20.

But damn, yeah, compared to a male of the same age, a top 1% or above woman can literally do anything she wants. And that, understandably, makes many men and quite a few women resentful.

For a man, to obtain the same social power you have to be in the top 0.0000001% or above. And be rich.

It seems like in a lot of life, people want to be conned. They have no interest in the true nor the actual. That’s the case on both the right and the left; this affliction is by no means restricted to one leaning or political party.

The comforting or belief-affirming lie is nearly always preferred to the verifiable and the real.

Guys: the girl was in the right here.

His already-sex, already-house partner told him basically what she wanted…which was doable with some effort if you read comments…and he laughed and got a $800 ring from WalMart. Son left the tag, price, and WM sticker ON.

Come on. We… https://t.co/UJavjAI90T

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 11, 2025

I agree. The woman is the one in the right here. I have no interest in proposals or rings in this sense and neither does my partner, but if my girlfriend said she wanted to go on vacation to a national park as her dream getaway and I took her to play the slots and eat at buffets in Vegas, she’d be right to be angry about it.

It doesn’t sound like this woman is a gold-digger or unreasonable. It more appears she’s not being listened to, which is death for any relationship.

No, you can’t stop it. I think people get obnoxious tattoos for the same reason that they start doing hard drugs: they know it’ll destroy them and their lives and make things harder in the future, but they secretly crave that. They want the obliteration, the nullification of the self.

One of the reasons I make a terrible coder is parts of it are too much like math for me. And by that I mean, even in my own code after I create it, despite leaving comments after a bit I completely forget how it works and why I did something. If it has been more than a couple of weeks, it’s like I’ve never seen any of it before.

I’ve re-written my own scripts from scratch before because I could not remember well enough how the old version worked. I have the same experience with math. Once I learn something, it doesn’t build as it apparently does for most people. I just forget it completely in a week or two. It’s like I never knew it. No matter how much I study, it all disappears posthaste.

My brain apparently is just not set up to retain things like that. Language, though. Not a problem.

"I'm not dying for…" pic.twitter.com/3i2AFj6wC9

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 1, 2025

And that graph isn’t even accurate. There’s 500+ US Army soldiers in Egypt but they are kind of invisible because they technically become not part of the US Army when they join the MFO.

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.