I personally do not give a single fuck about copyrighted anything so I do not care what AI was trained on. Copyright should’ve died long ago. I’m doing my part to kill it.

It’s too bad that anti-gravity is almost certainly not possible in this universe. That would just be incredibly useful to have at our disposal.

College English majors can’t read.

That is incredibly sad. Obviously true as well. The depressing part is that Bleak House is not a particularly challenging text. Of the ~20,000 books or so I’ve read in my life, I’d say it’s in the bottom 30% of difficulty. I do remember that work, though, as I enjoyed it; I read that one over the summer after eighth grade in a couple of days even though it was as mentioned in the piece around a thousand pages long.

The truth is most people are mostly illiterate, even the “smart” people. And smartphones/social media have made it so much worse.

To be clear: Nothing on this blog that I produce myself is copyrighted. It’s under the license of “do whatever the fuck you want.”

Make a billion dollars with my words or pics, get them tattooed on your ass. I dgaf.

What do you think is the biggest lie that men are made to believe growing up?

“Men don’t have feelings or empathy and only care about sex. Women have feelings and empathy and don’t care about sex.” That was drummed into us pretty hard in rural North Florida. And in many other places too, I know.

I don’t think I could never be scammed, but I am completely immune to most common scam tactics and pressure techniques as no one can compel me to do anything.

Your urgency is not mine. I’ve stood first in the door of a C-130 in the middle of the night over a strange drop zone loaded for bear and then jumped into the darkness. What stresses other people out is nothing to me. The first time someone attempts to force my hand, I’m out. I do things in my own time and in my own way. Or I just do not do them at all.

Scammers depend on wanting to follow the pack and being nice. And I don’t have much to do with either of those things.

It takes a really long time to learn complex systems. I’ve been using Windows since 1986 and I still discover new things about it all the time. And I already know absurdly-vast amounts about the OS and its underpinnings.

And I’ve been using the modern version (BSD-based) of Mac OS since 2014 and I learn things about it daily. Anyone who claims you can master a complex system in a few months is lying. It’s just not possible, not even those of us far to the right on the IQ curve.

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I missed one by five years! That’s not great but still, pretty good.

I am so glad the evil season of winter has departed.

May it stay gone forever. Though I know it won’t.

McDonald’s dining area (1984).

Back then the design of each McDonald’s varied a lot from city to city, but many of them did have live plants and felt quite friendly compared to the soulless gray don’t-stay-here boxes extant now.

I remember there was one near the mall in Gainesville, Florida, that was particularly nice — better than many of the fancier restaurants around. I’m sure these days it’s like walking into the Greek version of hell if it’s still there at all.

In this country we like ugly. And claim that’s all that there can be. But I remember a different time and a different way to be, even for something so pedestrian as a McDonald’s.

The difference between photos and videos before and after color grading.

Nope. This is highly misleading. As a few commenters point out, the “before” footage is all in Log format, which is for the purpose of allowing a higher dynamic range than a camera can capture normally. This format is not designed for human viewing.

To truly see the effect of color grading, the footage should be viewed in a standard color profile. That’d be the “before.” The after would be the (effects of) grading.

This is an invalid and incorrect comparison. Just goes to show that about 90% of the information and claims on the internet are misleading or wrong.

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— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) April 24, 2025

I think there is something to this. The grass is always greener on the other side, but from a male perspective hot girls seem to have the world: everyone pays attention to you (even other girls), you can basically be in a relationship with nearly anyone you want especially if you’re straight, and nearly everyone tries to make the world easier and better for you whenever you’re around.

For men — even a lot of way above-average men — the experience of the world is the diametric opposite of that. The world does not cater to you, considers you disposable, and you’re treated as a default rapist by nearly everyone. Quite a different experience!

Of course, being a hot girl is not that simple. Most only want you for something you can give them (sex, status) and not for anything in particular about you. You’re just a tool or an accessory. A lot of the attention you receive is from people wanting that and/or wishing to harm you in some way. And if you’re an introvert, having people always up in your face is quite frustrating and can turn you into a recluse.

But I can understand where the hate comes from. From the other side, seeing none of the disadvantages, it looks like hot girls have the world on a platter. What you can’t easily determine from a distance is though the food on that platter is top quality, someone has taken a small shit in it.

I can truly say that is not a regret of mine. I fought a lot of motherfuckers.

Luckily my company paid for it, but I went to an extremely fancy restaurant tonight. Damn I do not belong in that sort of place. From a cultural perspective I mean. I feel like Daryl Hannah’s Madison in Splash with the lobster.

Those people are not my people. And I do not like being fawned over. The food wasn’t even that good. Mainly, it just had a butter overdose and too much salt. Shit, I can get that at TGI Friday’s for a lot cheaper.

It’s weird what men are told we “must” be like vs. what most of us are actually like.

We are told that men think about sex seven times a minute and that all we care about is sex. Reality: Even when I was an adolescent or young adult, I thought about sex like once or twice a day. It varies, but most men are fairly similar.

We are told that men are rapists by default, that only society restrains us from our base urges. Reality: I’ve never even had the slightest desire to rape or assault anyone, even in situations where I absolutely 100% could’ve gotten away with it with guaranteed zero consequences. Most men are about the same; only a small percentage of men commit the vast majority of assaults.

We are told that men have no capacity for empathy and that only women have empathy and care for others. Reality: Men and women are probably about the same here, though women often seem to have almost no empathy for men (as men experience it anyway) because they feel they must be this way to keep away the creeps (even though it makes creep interactions the only ones you’re likely to have).

We are told that we should “open up” and “reveal our feelings.” Reality: Nearly all the time, this is used against us by romantic partners or by family. It’s extremely predictable. So we do not.

We are told that any approach of any woman anywhere at any time for any reason is harassment and always undesired. Reality: Most normal women are fine with a polite approach and taking a “no” for a no.

So men are told constantly how horrible and undesirable we are and regardless of that accepted and routine degradation, we are expected to “man up” and act like robots. Is it any surprise that there’s a huge male mental health crisis and that many of the core tenets of this sort of “all masculinity is definitionally toxic” liberalism is being rejected of late?