You Ran

Chill Clowns, Politics, War

Declaring that America “lost” because a dude you don’t like is in political power is pretty weak and pitiful, as well as intellectually bankrupt.

The US achieved its objectives in the Iran war. Israel achieved some of theirs (which were not the same as the US goals). This is and would be true no matter who is president.

Definition Change

Chill Evil

So…men are always expected to approach women, yet anything done to approach a woman is now “rape?” Wow.

I do truly think this is evil. If you define everything from “calling someone a nickname” to “asking someone to have drinks” as rape, then this deeply harms actual victims of rape. We need to defeat whatever crazy shit is going on here and be normal again about all this.

Chinese Characteristics

Chill Politics

Essentially correct. Canada is a loosely-held satrapy of the CCP, with its politics mostly under Chinese control. The Chinese attempted this in the US, but we resisted more and had more barriers to this sort of soft takeover.

Canada had little immune system and now they are another Chinese province de facto.

Denormalizing

Chill Evil

Mankind vs Modern Feminism on X: "@wil_da_beast630 Yes. Their final goal is to characterize every heteronormative man who pursues sex, children, marriage, and family as a rapist. This is actually their unstated final goal - because therein lies their power." / X

I think that is mostly correct. #MeToo metastasized into a sick way to gain power, with the preferred method being to portray normal male sexuality as rape regardless of consent of any parties or what is sensible. It’s also why women up to 50+ years old are painted almost-exclusively as children with no agency.

All pretty depraved — far more depraved than some dude flirting or hooking with another adult woman (which is not depraved at fucking all, to be clear).

Drama Mine

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I think there is something to that. Epstein was a scumbag, but that doesn’t explain the extreme focus on him. There are tons of other louts and criminals out there, some far worse.

For many women, Epstein is a dark fantasy figure — Christian Grey in the real world. It’s related to the “belief” that many women have that they are always on the verge of being kidnapped from the Target parking lot and then sex-trafficked. It’s a dream of being so alluring, so gorgeous, that a man or group of men just cannot help but do horrible things to you. And before you criticize me, take a look at how many women admit to having rape fantasies1. And then realize that many people lie on surveys, so it’s probably a lot more than that who actually do.

That said, some of the dancing is decent.

  1. Yes, yes, I understand that very few women actually want to be raped and that it’s just a fantasy. But it says something about the female psyche, I think

Space Cap

Chill Cool

We launch an absolutely insane amount of stuff into space now, mostly thanks to SpaceX. And that’s awesome.

Degrowthers and anyone like them can go straight to hell.

Chill Links

Crying during a conflict damages your opponentโ€™s reputation at a cost to your own.

People with obesity onset between the ages of 17 and 29 had an approximately 70 per cent higher risk of premature death compared with those who did not develop obesity before age 60.

Using a two-stage residual inclusion estimator with wind direction as an instrument for daily pollution exposure, we estimated that a 1 ฮผg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 is associated with a 0.39% increase in daily suicides and a 50.5% increase in monthly suicide-related hospitalizations.

The Local Universeโ€™s Expansion Rate Is Clearer Than Ever, but Still Doesnโ€™t Add Up. A new synthesis of astronomical measurements confirms a persistent mismatch that could point to physics beyond current models.

The Problem That Built an Industry.

This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans.

LLMs do not have to be accurate to be deployed in these scenarios. They only need to be cost-effective. Correct.

Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market.

NVIDIAโ€™s DLSS 5 Demo Video Briefly Taken Down Because YouTubeโ€™s Take Down Process Sucks.

Astronomers find evidence for three subpopulations of merging black holes.

Why Iran and Other Regimes Are So Hard to Break.

The Era of Free Seas Is Unravelingโ€”and Now Everyoneโ€™s Going to Pay.

Many public discussions center around trends and statistics that are not real at all.

Volkswagen Shuts Down Tennessee Plantโ€™s EV Production at the Worst Possible Time.

Genes from giant viruses help polar algae survive frigid waters and harsh sunlight.

โ€˜I feel helplessโ€™: college graduates canโ€™t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI.

We Are All Constantly Mutatingโ€”and Thatโ€™s a Good Thing.

Summer is getting longer, and itโ€™s happening faster than we thought.

โ€˜Backroomsโ€™ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic.

Metoo was the impetus for BLM, Biden, other woke mandates because it gave women a nuclear option they could use anytime they felt โ€œunheardโ€ which just meant not getting what they want so they effectively became in charge of any conversation.

Oafish

Chill Clowns, War

The actual (not the press-focused) military objectives were achieved in the Iran war. Noah is just wrong, as are most about this. The press claims incorrectly that Iran still has a nuke program. No, it’s gone. That Iran still wants to build nukes is all that remains, and I guess that’s what the press is talking about (strangely), but the facilities are destroyed. Most if not all of the centrifuges are in tiny pieces strewn over the landscape.

Claiming the US lost the war is like believing that because Germany still exists we lost WWII. It’s just oafish stupidity and not understanding what even the actual military objectives of the conflict were.