Refusing to be baited into something that can only harm you is a skill that more people should learn. Hell, I should do better at it. Sydney below shows how it’s done.
Cult of Mediocrity
The left hates Sydney Sweeney because she is attractive , knows it, and doesn’t apologize it
What they hate is anything that reeks of natural hierarchy. Of being superior in every way to the grey lump that composes the indistinguishable and uninspiring mass of our “equal” and… pic.twitter.com/FMCZBEoEZ6
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) November 6, 2025
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.
Gaudio
I hate audiobooks. Just not for me in any way, shape or form. Just a total turd of a format in my, uh, book.
Not reading and not radio. Just a big nothing.
Chicago Fast
Chicago could see historic double-digit snow as an Arctic blast spreads across much of the US.
Evil descends upon part of the country once again. Nothing worse than cold weather. At least it’s still reasonably warm here in California.
How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR. Someone needs to. Could’ve been Obama, but he only cared about getting rich.
The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight.
Women can read age, adiposity and testosterone level from a man’s face.
American Airlines CEO says the government shutdown is impacting holiday travel bookings: ‘Nobody wants to put up with hassle.’ I was condiering visiting a friend this month. Not anymore. Sorry, friend
Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans. Social contagion ending.
Shutdown means another missed jobs report Friday. Here’s what it probably would have shown.
Wannabe V
About those vampire-wannabe identical twins I mention here, a friend of mine at the time — who had quite the way with words — said this about them:
“Those girls are as pretty as a picture. You look at them and think, ‘How could the universe have created a thing such as this, much less two?’ Then they open their mouths and they get real ugly real quick.”
Which was completely accurate.
Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China.
Shutdown ‘Far Worse’ Than Expected, White House Adviser Says.
Is AI Too Big to Fail? OpenAI’s Finance Chief May Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud.
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations. Ours will likely be among them soon.
TV increasingly designed for second-screen viewing.
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people.
‘Stratospheric’ AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers.
Army Sets Out To Buy A Million Drones By 2028.
Retail Merchandisers Are Laying Off Staff Just to Pay Less.
If the rumors are correct, Verizon’s ‘bold’ new direction may apparently include mass layoffs.
Why every backup strategy is doomed to fail. I love the commitment to nihilism.
Blit
No, you can’t stop it. I think people get obnoxious tattoos for the same reason that they start doing hard drugs: they know it’ll destroy them and their lives and make things harder in the future, but they secretly crave that. They want the obliteration, the nullification of the self.
Flow Control
So…we’re importing people from the Third World to do jobs that will no longer exist and sending the few remaining jobs off to the Third World?
How’s that going to work? It’s not, that’s how.
Always About Control
It’s such a dumbass clownish piece-of-shit asinine idea that if you can customize the appearance of your software, somehow that will cause meemaw to send all her money to Nigeria.
First, she’s gonna do that anyway. Second, that increases security basically not at all while preventing knowledgeable users from doing what they want.
Which is actually the point. It was always about control. In the specific case I care about the most, the Firefox developers even specifically said they wanted to control what the users do because they knew the “right” way to use the browser and the “right” way is should look and operate.
Security was just the flimsy excuse. It was always about exerting power.
This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air.
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world.
Qantas releases first images of jet that will fly nonstop from Sydney to London and New York.
Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction.’
The Lonely New Vices of American Life.
Boeing won’t face criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people. Of course not. Can’t hold any corporation accountable now could we?
Disposable
Yep. Women spiral into depression and, sometimes, suicide attempts if they experience even briefly 1/1000 the amount of rejection the average man does his entire life.
Women have no idea. The leitmotif of most men’s lives is rejection and disposability.
Just Change
Why can’t I “preview message” from a trace anymore? Is it because I’m shitty?
No, Microsoft has broken something completely yet again. Something that used to work rather well. It’s the Mozilla-Google-Microsoft way: take something that was working fine, destroy it, then tell you that the new way is better and that you “just hate change.”
I tried to use this tool last night and just gave up and found another method. I guess we’re in the “everything just gets roundly worse forever” stage of tech now.
Holiday
I used to have that discussion all the time when I worked for a German company with an American subsidiary. When we’d have to send things or get input from the German side, I’d have to explain to my American colleagues that it was August, everyone was on holiday and no, we wouldn’t be hearing back from Helga probably for the entire month, and no, she doesn’t have a stand-in, and no, this was not unusual. They were all on a beach in the Med somewhere.
My American colleagues never quite understood as it seemed so outlandish to them.