Lord, you motherfuckers are bad at math. One billion is 0.1% of a trillion. Nowhere even close to 10 percent. (Yes, I know he said “not even 10 percent,” but he meant that $1.65 billion is close to but not quite 10% of $1.77 trillion. When in reality it is precisely 0.0932% of $1.77 trillion. Quite a different thing.)
And I’m supposed to be the one bad at math. Pathetic.
Hey sister, I had a girl tell me the same thing. But when I asked her what hobbies she had, her answer was, “None, really.” Figure that out.
Yep. Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia know without NATO and the US they would be totally and completely fucked.
Also, Ian Welsh sucks. Did I mention that?
Kamala Harris will never be president of the United States. Well, unless, you know…Biden is pretty old. But she’ll never be elected.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
But Russia is WINNNNNNNNNNNNNING! Ian Welsh said so!
Fuck, man, I prefer the real truth. If Russia actually were winning I’d be the first to say it here. But unlike most, and all of the Putin pud-pullers, I want to know as best I can what’s really happening. I want Ukraine to prevail, yes, but I also want to understand what’s occurring so I can plan for that true, actual future.
I have no interest in going down this stupid Ian Welsh path: The US is bad, therefore Russia is winning! That ain’t no kind of thinking.
Right now, Russia has a slight advantage because they are sending meat waves with old equipment in probing attacks and are losing up to 3,000 people per kilometer they gain. Russia is vast with a large population, but not that wealthy, and will only be able to sustain such a thing for a limited time.
And that’s what’s really happening.
This is most RTO. It has absolutely nothing to do with being more efficient or productive. It’s about five things:
1) Demonstration of power
2) MBA idiocy (see above)
3) Commercial Real Estate
4) Extrovert social bailout
5) Taking up more time of employee lives so they have less free time to explore other options
That’s all it is.
What is something women would dismiss everytime but is true?
That their standards (at least in the US) have gone insane (mostly due to social media) while men’s have remained about the same. Thus, many more women are unhappy than men. Or at least in a different, preventable way.
If you bring this up with many women, though, you’re likely to be called an “incel.” But it’s just a damn fact that when 90% of women are competing for 2% of men, a lot of y’all are gonna end up dissatisfied. So do like you tell men to do: suck it up and fucking deal with it.
Attractive women are so coddled in our society that it’s amazing any of them turn out to be decent humans at all. But many do. That says something about the human spirit. But I’m not sure what.
A lot of modern feminism wants women to simultaneously be treated as tiny little children and as flawless all-powerful goddesses. And those two things ain’t even remotely fucking compatible.
You can’t have your Barney the Dinosaur birthday cake and eat it too.
I think that is exactly right that traditional and feminist thought conflates women with children. That’s why the insane discourse that women can’t really consent until they are 35+, but a man is liable for anything even if he’s still underage (and thus, not yet a man). Double standards that should not be.
Anything I write myself is a great deal better than anything that AI can generate.
However, anything AI synthesizes is better than what 99.5% of people can put together. And that’s why it’s taking over the world. AI does not have to be good; it just has to be good enough.
I hate how books in a series don’t show which number of the series they are anymore.
This has long been the case. My mom was reading some book when I was a kid that she said was really hard to understand. Later on, she realized it was the third book in a trilogy. Nowhere was this even alluded to anywhere on the book itself.
I believe it’s a deliberately-deceptive practice that just continues to this day. The above incident would’ve been around 1984-1986.
I’ve never used TikTok. Never will. Too large a cognitohazard. I’ve seen vids from it re-posted on Reddit and watched a mid-20s friend of mine scroll through it over her shoulder. I said, “This seems like absolute hell.”
She said, “Yes, but it’s a very addictive hell.”
No thank you. Not for me.
If I had a daughter, I would not care if she was in an age gap relationship. Even a large one (15+ years). But I’d be worried if she were to date someone much smarter or much dumber than she was.
(I wrote “daughter” since everyone seems to think it’s fine if a 52-year-old woman is with a 20-year-old man, etc.)