People get extremely mad at me when I point out that defense spending isn’t a majority of federal outlays, but here’s Krugman saying the same thing. https://t.co/xr8Js489us
— Wally Nowinski (@Nowooski) May 27, 2023
No one cares about the truth, really. If they did the world would look vastly different.
Do the clowns claiming it would’ve been better if we hadn’t let the Baltics join NATO not realize that if we had not, those countries would be under Russian control right now?
What kind of dipshit do you have to be to not realize that? Or perhaps they do realize it and do not care. Either way, fucking idiots.
Has the Time for 32GB of RAM Finally Come?
Ha, what? My main computer has 128GB of RAM in it — and I’d ram more in there if I could.
What’s the biggest lie you were told growing up?
There were many lies, but the biggest one was that any and every job more than “night janitor” would use math constantly, and if you didn’t basically become a mathematician you’d not be able to find employment.
This was a widely-told bit of mendacity. The reality is of course that in 90% of jobs basically no math is ever used, and even in those where it is it’s all automated away. The few that use actual math only use a tiny subset, and often even they don’t understand it all that well.
Everyone who said inflation would be transitory should be turbo fired. I told you right here on this blog that it would not be and I was correct because it was obvious.
How did I know? Well, I wrote long before inflation even kicked up that you can’t reboot the entire economy like a damn smartphone, as some people were positing. I knew capacity would disappear, dislocations would occur, expertise would be lost, and necessary areas of the economy would be suppressed.
High demand due to free money with lost capacity equals in-fucking-flation.
So, no, it wasn’t luck. I didn’t flip a coin. I knew it was not transitory, told you it would not be — and I was right. I should be getting the salaries and wealth of all those goofuses who claimed for so long that inflation wouldn’t last.
About the below, one time a tall girl friend (not girlfriend) of mine asked me to really wrestle her because she wanted to know what she could do against a guy. She was a good bit taller than me, outweighed me by a little, and was more athletic than I am or ever will be. I told her that it was probably not a good idea as I’d probably hurt her by accident.
She insisted. I told her no again. She insisted again so I agreed.
The wrestling match lasted about seven seconds. I pinned her absurdly easily, despite her outweighing me and being taller than I am. I was just vastly stronger. After, she said she had no idea just how much stronger I was than her because she was taller than I am and as mentioned outweighed me.
Certainly part of it was that I am just more comfortable with violence than she was. I am very fast and very decisive when it’s time to act. But most of it was that I was twice as strong as she was, or nearly so.
And no, I didn’t hurt her, mainly because I was still holding back. She was my friend. If it’d been a real fight I would’ve taken her down even more quickly.
With very rare exception even before I started working out heavily, I was 1.5-2x stronger in the upper body and 1.5-1.8x stronger in the lower body than women who weighed the same as I did then.
Now I am 3-4x stronger than women who weigh the same as I do in the upper body and 2-3.5x stronger in the lower body.
A lot of the “trans people in sports” debate is dominated by people who don’t realize just how much stronger the average man is than the average woman. And there are many men a lot stronger than I am even now. As lifters ago, I am about average — though I am still over twice as strong as I was five years ago.
It’s such a weird and vilely racist idea that any US-born white man married to a woman not born in the US is automatically exploiting her. The left’s brand of racism is damn oddball when you think about it. Their “protection from harm” means the return of segregation, essentially, and a particularly insidious form of the aforementioned racism.
It makes me glad I didn’t get with any women while I was in China and fall in love (not from lack of opportunity). I don’t want to have to deal with racism from both the right and the left. I’d be laying out some motherfuckers and I’m trying to stay out of jail these days.
The Patriot missiles that successfully shot down Russia's "invincible" hypersonic weapons were based on a design created by Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program.
People who think Reagan's "Star Wars" was a waste should consider that.https://t.co/pPA1KfnVMY
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 26, 2023
Indeed. The Star Wars program didn’t succeed in what it set out to do, as it was impossible with the tech of the time. But the research kicked off by the effort did lead to a lot of cool things we are using today.
How and why are people so incredibly bad at detecting what to me seem to be completely obvious scams?
I’m not talking about not understanding the tech. It’s something deeper. I do not know what to make of it.
I found a hair on my clothes of a woman I hung out with more than three weeks ago now. These clothes have all been washed.
You women with very sheddy hair, you mark us. It never is gone completely. There is no escape.
Putin thinks Ukraine is an illegitimate country that doesn't deserve to exist — a rogue province of Russia that needs to be forcibly (re)unified with his empire.
If you don't understand this, you don't understand the Ukraine War. https://t.co/Yp8FBuYzAu
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 24, 2023
Many people seem not to realize this, even though it’s blatantly fucking obvious.
From Mastodon: it is unfair to compare a modern pickup truck to a tank because the M1 Abrams battle tank has better forward visibility and is less likely to run over our kids than a street legal consumer truck. pic.twitter.com/HlIUYt7w6E
— @dannyman@sfba.social (@dannyman) May 23, 2023
Big LOL.
This is because — unlike men — women use other women to vet guys. If you have a girlfriend already this makes you much more attractive to many women because it means you’re good enough in some way that one woman chose you. And the higher-status or more attractive the woman you’re with, the more women who become immediately interested.
When I was in the army, zero interest from women. Got a very hot girlfriend and suddenly three different women wanted to hook up with me. Makes no sense.
Anymore I just want to have fun. We have so little control over so many things end of day.
Might as well try to have some fun before you die.
I think it’s worth it to pursue fun for its own sake with no other goal.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 22, 2023
This is the way. (But Angie, you just killed 7 million grammas.)