Beast

Some women are so convinced men are nothing but unthinking sex beasts that they believe that the only reason we go or live overseas is to sleep with foreign women, the only reason we’d ever talk to a woman is to attempt to bed her, and the only thing we ever think about is sex.

These pathetic women are more telling on themselves, of course, with this set of beliefs than revealing anything about men in general. I remember some blog I went to written by a couple of idiots (both women, but that’s incidental to idiocy) that asserted in extremely confident tones that the only reason any man became an ex-pat was to sleep with poor foreign women. (And why this is even bad if it were the case — which of course it is not — is also a mystery.)

These foreign women were assumed by the these clown blog women to have no agency at all, and were just somehow forced to have sex with ex-pat men because they appeared in country. That’s one of the things that bothers me most about the recent consensus: women anywhere are assumed to be as children, with no ability to make decisions and no way to possibly resist these horrid foreign men. It does not and did not occur to those blog (and other) women that the Slovenian women in question might’ve very much wanted to sleep with who they slept with. Never even a fucking thought about that.

Hilariously and nearly invariably, these same “all ex-pats are secretly rapists” women will lustily recount their overseas study semester in Italy that they spent with the smoldering but aloof Matteo or Emiliano — and they won’t recognize the hypocrisy or just base stupidity of that at fucking all. Because they want it both ways and they hate the competition foreign women represent to their undesirable asses.

Feminism went way, way wrong somewhere.

Monitor

Track My Phone, Please: Teens Feel Safer When Parents Monitor Their Every Move.

I want to doubt this but alas I have met too many Gen Z wimps and losers and know this is probably true. Wanting this sort of surveillance is nearly unimaginable for someone of my generation. I was raised by wolves, but most of my friends spent a lot of time trying to avoid being monitored or interfered with by their parents.

It just seems crazy to me that anyone would want this. Just…why? It does mesh sociologically with the “complete safety” obsession that came to the fore as the pandemic was receding. Which there never is, of course.

We have failed Gen Z; they cannot handle reality.

Back Down

TIFU by opening PDF file which made me lose my 3 years of work (got hacked, lost access to all Google files).

It amazes me that people claim to have all this “vital” stuff and got no backups anywhere. How the fuck do you have no fucking backups? Just blows my mind that people believe, “It’s in the cloud, it’s all good, nothing could ever happen.”

Back up your shit, people! Or I can almost guarantee that over a long enough time span you will lose all your data.

(Also, don’t click on random weird PDFs. Why would you do that?)

Bloom Filter

Why do people in the late 90s and early 2000s, look so greasy in photos and in movies?

That’s not greasy — that’s just how people look before the filters and photoshop fuckery (and film equivalent) that is applied to everyone now. Women also tended to use less makeup back then so they looked a bit more natural as well.

Now the real is unrecognized and the algorithmic pseudohuman simulated counterfeit cybernetic caricature is what everyone perceives as the actual. Baudrillard would not be surprised. But I am saddened that so many minds are filled with nothing but the spew and spume of algorithmic machinations and manipulations.

It’s unseemly to allow it, but so many do.