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What’s something that didn’t make sense when you went to another country?

When I go to any other Western country and then come back to the US — fucking everything.

We got no mass transit, our food sucks, poverty and decay is rampant, our health care is a scam and our people look like they been mating with water buffaloes. I know other countries have their problems but the US is by far the most third world of the first world countries. It’s not even close.

If I hadn’t met my current wonderful and amazing partner, I would’ve definitely gone overseas (pissing off all feminists, always a good thing) to meet a long-term partner. And no, it’s not because I can’t meet American girls. Met plenty. Almost all terrible because of the nature of our society. And it’s only gotten worse with insidious social media destroying minds left and right.

A good guide to life: do basically the opposite of what the Fat Acceptance people and modern feminists declare is good and you’ll be set.

Reminder: Nobody at work is your friend.

This a million fucking times.

People who actually think they have friends at work: LOL. Those people would throw you under the bus in a second if it meant they got to keep their job or get a raise. Have seen it too many times.

The people commenting there are fucking delusional. And yes, it’s okay to be friendly at work. But don’t think for a second that almost everyone you’re friendly with would not stab you in the back to get some advantage. Because they really would.

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I have NEVER, not once, not one single time, even once been able to see the magic eye image.

I’ve never seen one either. In high school I spent an hour looking at one. Never saw a thing. Whatever it is in other people eyes and/or brains that allow them to see these images, I just do not have it.

Wonder if that is related to the fact that I am incredibly terrible at math?

God, this whole fucking debate is clownish.

I thought at least he was smarter than this. The reasons for the malaise in young people are these:

• Real wages are falling, and are lower now for most than they were in 2019.
• Housing prices are 45 percent higher than they were in 2019. Most Gen Zers now correctly realize they will never be able to buy a house at all.
• Inflation since 2019 is up 20% officially. As most people experience it, it’s actually up 40-50%.
• Rent is up 20% since 2019, and far more in many markets.
• Around 45% of young adults are living at home because they cannot afford to do otherwise.
• Student debt repayments resuming are slamming people right now.
• Most know they are only one medical crisis away from bankruptcy, whether they have insurance or not. Because that’s how America works.

Come on, this stuff isn’t hard. Why are motherfuckers so damn shit-stupid about this? The data is just fucking right there.

Fuck.

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At this point in my life I don’t understand why so many people are content to be weak dumb fat wimplets.

It’s a lot better not being that, trust me.

Men who gave up on dating, what happened?

I think social media has destroyed most women mentally. It’s had less of an effect on men because they don’t use it as frequently and when they do, don’t care about it as much. I truly believe social media combined with smartphones is an enormous cognitohazard, and that it affects women far worse than men.

On social media, women are told that their presence (and vagina, because men are nothing but raging sex beasts, natch) is enough — that they do not and should have not to do anything nor contribute a single thing to a relationship. Then they act all shocked pikachu face when that turns out to be untrue — but still take no lessons from it.

Social media of the Facebook/InstaGram variety is pure poison and ruined an entire two generations of women. There are a whole lot of 3s who think they are 10s and who deserve the princess treatment. They don’t realize, though, that they are just princesses of a meth-encrusted Port-a-Potty outside of Flint, Michigan. And then wonder why millionaires over six feet tall with six packs aren’t flocking to them.

It’s a mystery, that one.

I’m not the stalking type (who has the time for that nonsense?), but if I do become one and you want me to stop stalking you, just get a coupla tattoos. That’ll be the end of that. I’m petty, I know it. But I cannot help it.

Dang, Darby in A Murder at the End of the World is a snoopy kewpie. She paws through more people’s stuff than a Labrador who smells some beef jerky somewhere.

Good character but I’m not leaving anything laying around if she’s there. She gonna start pawing and licking.

Hate horror all you want, but I think Dawn of the Dead (2004) has the best opening sequence of any movie made before or since. What a banger. I’m having trouble thinking of a film that comes close to that open. Maybe Leone’s Once Upon A Time In The West?

The Matrix is also a strong contender. I saw it in the theater and the bit in the cold open where Trinity jumps and the film goes into bullet time, the whole audience gasped. That was magic. Glad I got to experience that.

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I applied for a sysadmin position and I’m afraid I’ve bitten off far more than I can chew.

For some reason most programmers think they can be good sysadmins because programming is “harder.” Then they try it and become disillusioned right quick. Most fail at being sysadmins because they are completely different skills and require totally different types of thinking.

However, I’ve seen absurdities on Hacker News like, “Why do we need all these networking guys? I found my IP address at the command line easily.”

And, “Why do we need DBAs? I installed Microsoft SQL Sever and it was just ‘click, click, click.'”

The depths of cluelessness there is astounding. They see being a sysadmin the same way. But in a lot of ways programmers are the physicists of the IT world. They believe their insight into programming allows them to know and understand everything in less than a second that takes mere mortals years to learn and get truly skilled at. And, as with physicists, they are completely, totally, laughably wrong.

Not all programmers are this way. But most are.

The idea that some incel Silicon Valley dipshit mook who thinks the Louvre is something you do to a car knows how I should use my computer better than I do is fucking absurd. How did we let these clowns get so much control?