Deserving It

September 12, 2025, 6:33 AMSeptember 12, 2025, 6:34 AM Chill Annoying, Clowns

The decisive war for the 21st century is in the hearts and minds of the developed world's elites. Specifically, the war in esoteric values, worldview, and aesthetics—a war hardly fought. Our civilization is falling apart because we are literally too uncool to deserve the stars.

— Marko Jukic (@mmjukic) September 9, 2025

“Too uncool to deserve the stars.” Dang, that hits hard. Degrowther nonsense really does have us puling like an infant after someone takes its binky away.

Even easy things are now claimed to be “nerd fantasy” by people whose greatest fantasy is snarfing another doughnut. Fucking Christ, we deserve to lose.

Takes

September 12, 2025, 5:48 AM Chill Movies

The first pivotal conversation scene in David Fincher’s The Social Experiment had 99 takes.

And Scene

September 12, 2025, 4:49 AMSeptember 12, 2025, 6:41 AM Chill Movies, Video

Good illustration of the difference between beginners, intermediates and pros/experts. And it is vast.

In the film’s context, I prefer Anne’s and Heath’s version of the scene. It is integral to their already-revealed characters. Out of the context of the film, I think Nina’s and Logan’s (the non-Oscar pros) version is better as a disconnected scene.

Hurt Docker

September 12, 2025, 3:00 AMSeptember 12, 2025, 11:46 AM Chill Clowns, Politics

To expand on and vulgarize the difference between the UHC CEO assassination and the Charlie Kirk one:

UHC CEO: 1-8-7 with no BiPap in your mouth, foo’.

Charlie Kirk: Biology is, like, real.

I do agree that political assassination and a wave of same is and would be bad, but there’s just no way to pretend those two people did equivalent harm. None at all.

September 12, 2025, 2:15 AM Chill Links

Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea’s investments.

The Scam Called “You Don’t Have to Remember Anything.”

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning.

USAF’s Quicksink Ship-Killing Smart Bomb Seen In Detail Like Never Before.

COVID-19 no longer a top 10 killer as US death rate returns to normal. So much for “civilization-ending.”

Free Will is Not Just a Verbal Dispute.

The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism. Trumponomics isn’t about economics. It’s about creating pain and demanding tribute.

Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

US warns Chinese hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure.

Murder Toll

September 11, 2025, 3:25 PM Chill Annoying

honestly if anything I’m kind of shocked that there’s way less leftist celebration of Charlie Kirk’s death than there was of the UHC CEO https://t.co/3OuS3WwvV1

— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) September 11, 2025

UHC CEO murders: 200,000+

Charlie Kirk murders: 0

Big damn difference. So why is that disparity surprising? I barely know anything about Kirk, but he was not in the murder business even if I found most of his political views objectionable.

First Chatroom

September 11, 2025, 11:05 AM Chill Amusing, Clowns

Knowing One

September 11, 2025, 10:18 AM Chill Regular-ass Post

At a small Greek airport we arrived 10 minutes before our flight bc my husband’s cousin (our ride) took forever to finish eating his cheese and honey and he was like “oh hi Vasili they’re with me” and they just….let us on https://t.co/vi11Kr5ycD

— Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) September 11, 2025

A lot of places outside of America are like that, especially in the less-developed world. It’s about who you know and if you can pay the bribe. We crossed the border from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan back in ’97 because we had cash and someone knew someone, not because we had any documents (we did not).

We also had guns in our faces. I don’t think they would’ve shot us if we’d just turned around. But you never know.

Ticker

September 11, 2025, 3:27 AM Chill Annoying

How tf do people go to sleep with ticking clocks around?

I could never, ever go to sleep with one in hearing range.

September 11, 2025, 12:05 AM Chill Links

The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us.

California considers allowing doctors to prescribe abortion drugs anonymously. Good.

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker. Correct.

NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars.’

The Kremlin’s plot to kill NATO’s credibility.

Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal.

Where Did the Smurfs Get Their Hats? I don’t smurfin’ know!

Probe Po

September 10, 2025, 2:17 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

Vladimir Putin’s dangerous drone probe is a moment of truth for NATO. Poland’s prime minister warns of “open conflict” with Russia.

All the good little liberals said this would “never happen” and there was “no reason” to increase defense spending.

You mean…they were smoking all the available crack rocks? Huh. Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia will attempt to roll across Poland in 2-5 years.

Wool

September 10, 2025, 10:16 AMSeptember 10, 2025, 11:44 AM Chill Amusing, TV Shows

Only the Wuhan Institute of Virology rivals the lab in Alien: Earth for poor biosafety protocols. I don’t know what BSL the WIV was operating at in reality, but the Prodigy lab in Alien: Earth lately is operating at BSL negative eleventy-billion.

Choices

September 10, 2025, 4:55 AM Chill Killin' It

Never let the Ian Welshian doofs lie to you: though it takes effort, it’s much better to be strong and agentic than weak and impotent.

Not all of it, but a whole lot of it is about choices you make.

Light Knife

September 10, 2025, 12:09 AM Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

https://t.co/ejOvGgzjFA pic.twitter.com/UZECiTsVjS

— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) September 8, 2025

The whole liberal “Being brutally murdered and/or set on fire is just part of big city life!” is really failing in spectacular ways. Amazing they keep on with it despite it being the worst possible message I can even think of.