Lawless

Chill Annoying, Clowns

As much as she is a huge dumbass, she also does not deserve Iryna’s fate. We must also protect the weak and the clueless; I do think it’s noblesse oblige to do so. The truth of the world is just too much for some people.

She’s a good example of someone with “suicidal empathy.”

Truly Unnatural

Chill Rant

It really is strange how it’s treated by so much of the left as hateful and anomalous that, broadly speaking, people wish to live near other people like them who speak the same language and hold the same values as they do.

Because, brothers and sisters, it’s the most natural thing in the universe to want that. I’d even say that it is part of human nature. Of course, leftists insist human nature does not exist. They are wrong, of course. If it did not exist then neither would we.

On the other hand, inviting millions of people into your country who want to destroy it and would kill you if they could and will rape any women they have the chance to is what is unnatural. It’s kind of sad that has to be pointed out these days. But it does.

Buffeted

Chill Regular-ass Post

I agree. The woman is the one in the right here. I have no interest in proposals or rings in this sense and neither does my partner, but if my girlfriend said she wanted to go on vacation to a national park as her dream getaway and I took her to play the slots and eat at buffets in Vegas, she’d be right to be angry about it.

It doesn’t sound like this woman is a gold-digger or unreasonable. It more appears she’s not being listened to, which is death for any relationship.

Reading Speeding

Chill Books

I can finish a medium-hard 200 page book in about two hours. I can get through a difficult 300-page book (prose) in about five hours.

I can finish the average potboiler book in an hour and a half. The last time I read a book on a flight, I started and finished Tilt by Emma Pattee on a one hour and 21 minute flight.

Sorry about all y’all’s limitations, but they aren’t mine. Not in this realm.

Booking Through

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Bro, I used to read 200 books in 7-10 weeks. It’s not actually that hard if you read fast and can devote a lot of time to it.

This is a great example of just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean that I can’t do something. And I promise you I understand those books better than you do when I’m finished, even if I read them three times as fast.

I read more than 200 books a year now despite the fact that I hardly even pick up books anymore (for me). Back in the day, I’d read 12-16 hours a day nearly every day.

Chill Links

Perhaps humans have always been so enamored with horror stories because, as a species, we are built for threat detection.

Work, After Work: Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break.

Reading a friend’s email, I click the Reply button, and without asking, it writes a reply for me. Thus, if I want to speak for myself first I have to delete the message it created, signed with my name, w/o permission. The future is terrible.

It’s Not Just An AI Bubble. Here’s Everything At Risk.

The Future the Left Wants is Equity Smashing Civilization.

Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years.

If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe? Nope.

EVs put an end to China’s usual holiday surge in gasoline use.

Securing Intelligence: Why AI Security Will Define the Future of Trust.

Brodom

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yep. Only men get criticized for being “passport bros” but plenty of women do the same thing — they are just lauded for it generally rather than demonized. A friend of mine is considering becoming a passport bro-ette because she is in a country with few good male options. And I think she should!

To Them

Chill Annoying

Remember when it was common for the Fat Acceptance losers to claim that women who were clearly overweight were “extremely skinny” and “probably starving?”

Glad that hasn’t been seen much lately. To them, anyone who didn’t need a joist and hoist to get out of bed was on the verge of expiring from hunger.

Cult of Mediocrity

Chill Annoying, Evil

I think this is largely true. Sydney is attractive, intelligent, clever and business-savvy — and is not apologetic about any of those things. This damns her as far as the left goes as they have a horrible case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. They deeply, deeply desire to punish anyone who is obviously exceptional in some way.

That’s also what is behind all the buffoonery lately regarding the claims that everyone is exactly the same and no one is smarter than anyone else (and if they are, it’s for bad, “fake” reasons, and if the reasons aren’t fake, they should be, dammit).

Sydney is everything they wish they could be but are not; that galls them and makes them want to hurt her.