WTF

Aspersion Dispersion

Chill Annoying, WTF

I know it’s popular to cast aspersions on Gen Z (I do it myself), but that’s very normal amount of time in which to expect a promotion from entry level. If I were in an entry-level role and I had not been promoted after two years, I’d be looking elsewhere. After two years you’re no longer entry level. Even if it’s just a bump from, say, tier 1 helpdesk to tier 2, two years is well more than enough time to learn a job and all its ins and outs. An exceptional person can do it in 9-12 months and also should be promoted.

This has always been true, by the way; this is not some weird Gen Z expectation.

Unbeerlievable

Chill WTF

I once witnessed my mom drink two 18-packs of Coors Light (her preferred poison) in about three hours. Yes, that’s 36 12-ounce beers. And yes, that’s fucking insane.

By the way, she was 5’2″ and weighed maybe 140 pounds.

Putin Up With It

Chill Clowns, War, WTF

Exactly. One “easy” way to have open borders is to build a huge damn empire.

Which I guess is one of the reasons Ian Welsh and those types are such Putin fans? I can’t find any valid reasons so I am just spitballing here. Worshipping Putin is both gauche and embarrassing. It’s the lefty equivalent of being a right-wing edgelord. In a way, it’s just pitiful.

But I have no pity because unlike Mr. T, I do not pity the fool.

Anne of Denmark

Chill Culture, WTF

Tattoos do not look good on either gender, but they are the worst thing to happen to women aesthetically speaking since this popular fashion during the early 17th Century:

The scoop neck is ok, but everything else there is terrible. Just like tattoos. What a sad blight. And combine that with near-ubiquitous obesity and…yeah. It’s bad.

One Street

Chill WTF

I killed my sister and ruined my life.

This is a horrible story and all the people saying he is negligent: I am not so sure.

One time driving in Jacksonville, Florida, I realized I was heading the wrong way on a one-way street. After about a half mile as traffic was screaming towards me head-on. There were no signs. There were cars parked in both directions. The road markings were non-existent or unclear.

After I managed to get off the one-way without dying or killing my passengers, I drove back around to where I’d entered that street to see what I had missed. And there was nothing. I’d missed nothing. There were no signs indicating it was a one-way street. Perhaps they had been taken down for construction or something, but whatever the case, they were simply not there.

This was long before Google Maps, by the way, and if things had been slightly different that day I might’ve died.

Streets like that need a lot of goddamn signs and don’t always have them.

Unhoused

Chill Annoying, WTF

Conservatives are indeed the worst about this, but it’s a very American thing to willingly hurt yourself as long as it harms someone else just as badly. I will never understand this way of thinking, but it is in fact an integral part of the American ethos.

Debase

Chill WTF

TIFU by losing my entire life savings of over $600,000 to a rapidly developed gambling addiction and not being able to afford the taxes I now owe.

What a disturbing tale. How easy it is for so many people to descend into self-destruction is remarkable. I watched my own mother do it and I think she actually preferred living debased and desperate — it came with fewer responsibilities and effort.

Wonder how true that is of others?

TM Footage

Chill War, WTF

Dual POV footage of a Ukrainian FPV failing to detonate outside a Russian bunker, and a RU soldier who films the same unexploded FPV from inside. A Ukrainian heavy bomber drone is then sent in to drop an anti tank mine on the same bunker and unexploded FPV.

No gore or death in this one, but this war has just provided some insane footage.

FYI the Russians almost certainly evacced that bunker before the anti-tank mine hit it — that’s why the footage exists. There was probably a 20-45 minute delay before that TM-62 got dumped on it.