Tude

Society’s attitude towards women: Awww, you poor wittle baby, here, let me help you. Don’t you worry your poor wittle head about it.

Society’s attitude towards men: Man up and fuck you. Get the fuck out of my face, pervy creep. Go on, get the fuck outta here. (If they notice you at all.)

Transmasc

Women who become men do not at all like how they are treated as men. Nor should they. It truly sucks. Women — especially feminists — dismiss this and say it’s not true or not that bad. But they are wrong and it is in fact that bad.

Schneider

No. Hitler was identified by time travelers as the best choice to produce the years of peace that followed WWII. Otherwise, there would’ve been Schneider instead of Hitler in all explored timelines. Schneider didn’t persecute Jews nor commit genocide against them, but rather kept all the Jewish scientists and by 1934 put them all to work on nuclear research. The Germans thus had an aircraft-deliverable nuclear bomb by 1941, nuclear missiles by 1943, and incinerated 70% of the world — including much of Europe and America — in the years that followed. 400 million people died in the nuclear conflagration and the famine that rode in behind that cataclysm.

Counterfactuals like this outside of entertainment are pointless. Worse is always possible.

Desirous

Oh for damn sure. The average man experiences 0 women who are really crazy about him. Probably 30-40% of men never experience that even once. The top 10% experience that one or two times.

The average woman experiences it much, much more frequently. Sure, not with the top 1% guy she actually wants — but the point is, that most men are never really desired and we’re all very aware of that and how disposable and replaceable we are.

Tone Note

I tried to watch that movie The Tomorrow War. What the fuck. I’ve never experienced a movie having 37 different tones in 15 seconds of a scene, but that one did. Frequently. Alas, even Betty Gilpin could not save this film. As much as I adore everything about her, could not finish it.

Since her role was “the steadfast wife” I probably saw just about all the scenes with her in them, anyway.

What that movie wanted to be, or was trying to be, who freakin’ knows. The director and editor did not and I certainly do not.

Abused Own

I think for women at least, tattoos are primarily gotten by those who’d be cutters but want some more socially-approved method of self-abuse and self-nullification.

For men, I am not quite sure. Status something or other most likely, but I have less insight into men.

Raw

I’m not sure it’s healthy, but I spend most of my day thinking about the war that is and the war that is coming. I want to understand how it’ll be and be ahead of the curve. I usually am and this time will be no different.

Too bad no one listens to me. I am too prickly for that, I guess. Ah well. I still like being right, even if it’s being right alone.

Cide

I agree about the FPV drones and drones in general. I too saw that video mentioned. That Russian soldier was clearly already injured, but not that wounded as he was ambulatory and walking fairly normally.

Still, once he knew a drone was onto him he immediately shot himself through the heart. I guess he calculated it was better to die without much suffering rather than dying slowly and painfully with his limbs blown off or guts torn open, which is I am sure how he’d experienced the demise of his comrades. (And don’t tell me this does not happen; I have personally watched 500+ videos of this very thing happening.)

All war is horrible and terrifying, but drone war is many levels worse than the normal horror.