Yeah, wow. She has a voice like spiced honey.

They say the vagina is self-cleaning, but how exactly does it clean itself?

While you are sleeping, a tiny elf contract cleaning crew is summoned by automated vaginaphone, shows up, and swamps it right out. They’re so small you don’t even notice. Those hair ties you’re always missing? That’s right, payment.

They also like socks. Left socks specifically.

Inflation ticks upward to 3.7% for August 2023.

The “transitory” dipshits have already declared victory, hilariously, despite their earlier contention that inflation would only be elevated for 3-6 months and it had already been quadruple that time when they announced themselves to be correct. And now it’s ticking up once again. They were wrong every way you could be wrong while simultaneously declaring victory. How the fuck does that work?

The price of keeping yourself physically and intellectually awesome is honestly pretty high. But it’s one I realize I’m glad to pay when I go to airports and see people waddling like ducks, too rotund to walk normally, and talking about the latest influencer trend.

That reminds me, I need to find another “smart book” to read. The last one I finished was about complications in facial plastic surgery. It was interesting but very dry.

Next? I ain’t know. But there’s a lot of choices.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

McDonald’s is getting rid of self-serve soda machines.

Huh. I remember when self-serve soda was new; now will get to see this disappear (others will follow McDonald’s lead).

Is there any chance of the Internet archive being forcefully shut down?

I’d give it around a 50% chance. Big corps absolutely hate that it exists, as do many powerful plutes. It’s a big, fairly easy target.

I’ve seen stuff like this before:

I’ve also seen a man called a “child molester” because he was in his 60s and dating a 39-year-old woman. They met when she was 39, by the way. Why so many women so yearn to be infantilized I haven’t any idea.

This is true and made me laugh:

It’ll be nice when we get out of this horrible anchorite assclown ascetic era.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Uh, bulldog-sized? Oh well, whatever, still better than the metric system. 😉

The first ten on today’s playlist:

One sad thing to realize about the dating market: nearly everyone is a self-deluded hypocrite and liar, with extremely strong social pressure to remain that way.

This makes it roundly suck.

Those older than 9/11/2001, where were you and what were you doing during the WTC attacks?

I’ve already told that story.

But something I didn’t add is that when I got home that day I told my girlfriend that we were going to be at war very soon. She didn’t understand why (she was very much not into politics or history). She started crying when I told her there was a fair chance I’d be called back to active duty as I was still in IRR status at that time.

That didn’t end up happening but it was a very real possibility.

Dating Roundup #1: This Is Why You’re Still Single.

This is interesting throughout. I never really used OkCupid but its model seemed far superior. Of course it had to be killed because it did not keep people on the site since it actually worked.

Women’s main dating problem is that 80%+ of women are (for most, hopelessly) chasing the top 10% or so of men and won’t really consider anyone else. That works about as well as you’d expect. Men’s main dating problem is desperation, which is inherently repulsive and even worse it leads a lot of women to have standards that can never be met by a real human being they have any sort of long-term chance with. Another male problem is that they have terrible profiles in general often.

A dating app that mitigates against these bad tendencies would help both genders immensely (assuming hetero here, I don’t know what would help the non-straight).

I have questions about this photoshoot that I think I don’t want to know the answers to: