I am completely incapable of reading paper books anymore. I find them kind of revolting. Also, not being able to change the font size is a complete dealbreaker.

Terrible things.

Look at these clowns.

Inflation was not “transitory” if it was and has been elevated far above the historical norm for the past 2+ years. Jesus fucking Christ I can’t believe that has to be said.

This is just an insane amount of cope and lying. Originally, the utterly wrong “Team Transitory” assured us that inflation would subside on its own, with no Fed or other action. They were completely against raising rates. Now that we’ve had a few years of rate rises and QT, they don’t get to just declare victory. Most of them claimed inflation would be back to normal in 3-6 months. And that was in early 2021, recall.

It’s also doubly fucking laughable as inflation is still well above the historical trend line while they are saying they won. Fucking idiot clowns who should not even be in charge of soiled bedpan inventory at a VC-owned nursing home.

I have burned through so many books that I often cannot remember I’ve read a book until I get 10-20 pages into it and realize, Oh yeah, now I remember all this.

Have done that twice in the last few weeks.

One of the reasons women’s dating advice to men is nearly 100% useless is that women don’t have to actually do much to get tons of interest. Women — especially attractive women — have no goddamn idea how much work men put in, for how few results.

Think it’s a chore to shave your legs? Try 500 approaches and 500 rejections. That’s not me being an incel; that’s just an average man’s life. I’m not bitter about it but it is reality. That so many women won’t accept how terrible rejection feels makes sense when you realize that many attractive women have never or only very, very rarely been rejected in their entire lives. (And this shows when they do get rejected; it often breaks them.)

Only super-hot and rich men like Paul Newman* rarely experience rejection and he was one in a million or more.

So, the more attractive the woman the worse her dating advice (for men) will be as she’s never had to work at it. She could crawl out of a dumpster covered in maggots and 100 guys would be lined up to date her.

This is absolutely not how dating works for men.

*There was a story I read somewhere about someone watching Paul Newman proposition 30 different women and all accepting. Jesus Christ.

The more my arms are showing in public, the better treatment I get from the average woman (especially).

Yet I was told that women weren’t visual at all, and didn’t care about such things? Ha. NOPE. LIES.

I’m talking about adults here not minors, but it’s been the weirdest fucking thing seeing people assert that any couple with a seven year or whatever age gap have nothing to talk about and can’t be interested in the same things. Just…what? People are just not that different.

What kinds of fucking weirdos are the people who believe a 30-year-old and a 23-year-old have absolutely nothing in common? Personally I’ve found I have a lot in common with those who share my interests and less with those who do not no matter their age or gender (for that matter).

SHOCKING

If someone form the 90’s were to wake up in 2023 what do you think would surprise them the most?

How dour and pessimistic everything feels and how prudish in general all is now. Yeah, those are my hobbyhorses but I don’t think I’m wrong here.

Now feels vastly different than the 1990s. I am someone from the 1990s who wakes up every morning in 2023, so yes I do fucking know.

All the certitudes are platitudes are intended to keep the multitudes in servitude.

I really dislike 99.999% of memoirs. I just do not even try to read them anymore. The ones that aren’t boring are lies, and the ones that are lies are usually also still boring.

When you actually read the developer discussions and “reasoning,” it’s shocking how much the Firefox devs were and are deeply invested in making Firefox more difficult to use for fake security. And just worse in general. Some are true believers, of course. But many seem to actually deeply despise their users and want them to fail.

Perhaps being a dev in a large, very visible project is like being on help desk? That also tends to cause hatred towards those you are supposed to be helping.

The most fun movie I’ve seen recently is M3GAN. Such a hokey, clichéd premise executed so incredibly fucking well.

It’s not innovative, its social commentary is as shallow as an Atacama salt lagoon, and it has more cheese than Wisconsin. But good lord is that movie ever entertaining.

Is being called curvy a nice way of saying fat?

It did not used to be. But that alas has changed. Up until the early 2000s or so it referred to someone who was both not obese nor sylph-like but rather curvaceous, like Sophia Loren in the the late 1950s and early 1960s:

Now “curvy” is a term mostly used by massively obese women to feel better about themselves. And that is certainly not an improvement.

“The greater Mississippi basin has more miles of navigable river than the rest of the world put together.”

-Tim Marshall in Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

A lot of people hate IT because they see us as useless “computer janitors” who for some unknown reason make 5-10x as much as they do. But then many of them try to enter this field and can’t cut it.

Funny to see when it happens.