What is something women often do to men but complain when men do the same thing?

Some good and mostly-true ones in there. I’ve done nearly the same thing on a date long ago, when I was more of a jerk:

The one I’ll mention is what I’ve talked about before: most women do not handle rejection well, particularly more attractive women. If you reject an attractive woman who is not used to it, often be prepared for all sorts of wild accusations and lies to be thrown at you and told to your friends (if she knows them).

Not every woman does this, of course. But all too many do. I think her take is accurate regarding why women do this, though:

It does happen at least partially because men are stereotyped as unthinking sex-beasts, so the rejected woman in question then believes that there must be something really wrong with her that a man turned her down. Come on, we’re just tired. Sex is work. Too much work often. That’s all it is.

Women can get away with being much, much creepier and abusive than men can.

To be clear, when I complain about it I want women to not be able to get away with it, not for men to have more ability to be creepy. I want women’s “creep privilege” to be revoked and for “creep equality” to be achieved.

Right now, women can and do get away with things easily that in men would be 100% considered abuse.

Great line from S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed:

“She wore the expression of a person who has prepared themselves for the most awful thing they could imagine every day of their life.”

Trump indicted in investigation into efforts to overturn 2020 election.

This is a bad headline. It should read, “Trump indicted for attempt to overthrow the US government.” That would be an accurate headline.

The media in the US can never write the truth because it is not neutral. And the plutes’ bootlickers don’t want to offend someone who could potentially be in power again in 2025.

That Lizzo lawsuit reminds us that even our progressive faves can be a disappointing letdown too.

I’m not surprised. A lot of the Fat Acceptance types are jerks and bullies. Anyone who loudly and shoutily proclaims how virtuous and enlightened they are probably is not. Just like so many “male feminists” got caught gropin’ and grabblin’.

Always be suspicious of those who hold themselves up as shining paragons of unalloyed virtue.

I screwed the pooch… deleted exchange 2013 database.

Years ago, someone I worked for did this. I recovered everything. The advice in the comments on how to do so is good, mostly, but the most important thing is: Communicate with your users! Let them know their mail is not going to be available, give them a projected timeline and keep them updated on the progress! It helps to avert the constant, work-interrupting, “Can you let me know when this is going to be fixed?”

Because if you don’t do the above, you will get that every three minutes and it will take you 10x as long to recover.

In the end, in my case, I recovered nearly everything. I think 10-15 emails got lost, which is great considering that company received something like 500,000 per day.

But I was up for almost 36 hours straight gettin’ it done.

I really hated the Three Body Problem books. I should’ve quit them long before I did. Just superficial trash. False mind boggles and blah.

Someone really needs to conduct a deep investigation into who is funding the Fat Acceptance movement. No one will, though, because of advertising and that it’s easier to believe comforting lies while your feet rot off.

But still, I wish it would be done.

A lot of the left really, really hates electric vehicles. But passenger cars aren’t going anywhere and EVs are better than the alternative. Sometimes, pragmatism must take precedence over perfectionism. A hard lesson to learn but one the left needs to one day, if it ever wants to win consistently.

On March 17, 2020, Nature Medicine published a Correspondence entitled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” (1). The paper assessed the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and concluded, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus” and “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

That paper was a complete fabrication and should be retracted. It was crap even if it is definitively proven one day that Covid was completely natural in origin.

This is another example of why people do not trust science or scientists. Many will lie to you very obviously for what they perceive to be the greater good.

You are fit enough when your “easy” workout seems crazy to other people.

That’s when you know.

Can somebody be “immune” to addiction in the same way some people are especially susceptible to it?

For sure. There is nothing I could get addicted to. Whatever it is that causes this in other people, I just do not have it. And I have very high level of self-control (which I think is somewhat separate).

Force me to take opioids for a year, I could quit them in a day. Yes, even with the harsh withdrawal symptoms as no one can do anything about physiological addiction. I just do not give much of a crap about that sort of thing. I don’t know why I am this way nor do I care. But I am glad of it.

What is a thing that makes you think “Wow, I’m really getting older”?

Talking to friends in their mid-20s and realizing that for them, 9/11 is something they’ve only read about in history books. They have no memory of it even if they were alive then.

A close friend of mine, her very first “world news” memory is of the second Iraq War in 2003. She was born in 1997.

I think every straight man alive has run across this:

Happened to me with more than one girlfriend. Said I didn’t feel like sex, got jabs that I “might be turning gay” etc. Contrary to popular belief by a lot of women, men are not unthinking sex beasts and we’re not always up (heh) and ready for sex.

And that last comment is dead on about how a lot of women behave. Many women dream of a world where they are only sexualized at the very exact instant they wish to be and no other time.

A lot of men dream of a world where they are sexually desired at all, ever. Big difference!

Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices.

Have definitely noticed that women who lift look significantly younger compared to same-age women who do not…so, makes sense.