Getting What

Chill Annoying, Clowns

That’s often true. I got with way, way more women when I was appreciably a jerk and let my more right-wing tendencies be vocalized. It wasn’t even close.

Women might claim they don’t like jerks. Whatever. The reality is that most of them do, or at least it’s true that they mistake jerkitude for confidence so often that the difference is immaterial. And most feminists are the, “Feminism for thee but not for me” types. These days, nearly all.

Not all women (heh), to be clear, on any of this. But a very large majority.

Overwhelm

Chill Political Economy, Politics

I don’t think Europe or really anyone else has an answer for their societies being invaded and overwhelmed by third world immigration waves (largely Islamic) with values averse to Western culture.

This will destroy the societies they invade, of course. And I think Western civilization is worth saving. Both for selfish reasons and because it’s a damn sight better than scrabbling around in the dirt with sticks that Islamic culture will lead to for the foreseeable future if allowed to fester.

Fascism doesn’t work but liberalism also does not work. It invites the infection in. So…what now?

Chill Links

Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies.

A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel.

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again. I’m sure that will end well.

How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition.

The “Lock-in Effect” and Mortgage Rates: Update on Unwinding a Phenomenon that Wrecked the Housing Market.

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped.

Correctness Isn’t Competence.

The death of the corporate job.

A world with two predatory superpowers. Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China.

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables.

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement.

Hamas

Chill Evil

It is amazing to me that millions of liberals worship and have such affection for those who would not hesitate to rape, murder and parade their bodies through the streets if they got the chance.

I think that speaks to something inherently self-hating and self-destructive in the modern liberal project.

Hit

Chill Annoying, Evil

Can being bullied as a kid still affect you as an adult?

Of course. I’m hypervigilant at least in part (probably mostly) due to being bullied.

And migraines don’t run in my family, but I have them. I often wonder if they were induced by frequent head trauma when I was young. There is no way to answer that definitively of course, but I suspect they were caused by external factors rather than being congenital.

Being hit in the head a lot is not good for you.

Chill Links

Patagonian Welsh.

The Long Strange Trip from Silica to Smartphone.

A General Principle of Neuronal Evolution Reveals a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type Potentially Underlying the High Prevalence of Autism in Humans.

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes.

Angry Tortoise Liquid-Fueled Hypersonic Missile In Development For USAF.

Ukraine Is Now The Strongest Ally Europe Can Rely On. Sad but alas true.

Europeans Privately Tell Russia They’re Ready to Down Jets. Time to start shooting.

Costa seeks to bypass Orbán’s veto on Ukraine’s EU membership bid.

How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable.

Major bank issues warning that there’s a 93% chance of a recession in the US this year.

For Want of a Ferryman, a Two-Century U.S.-Canada Link Is Severed.

Gonna Need Some Gaza on That

Chill War

Israel should’ve given three days to evacuate, then leveled Gaza. It’s what I would’ve done. I would’ve assisted settling the displaced Gazans in other Arab countries, though no one really wants them. Who would?

Slam

Chill Prediction, War

In the near term, Russia and China are the greatest risks.

In the medium term, though, nuclear war with an Islamicized Europe is a pretty significant risk. Assuming the current trends continue, an Islamic, extremely repressive Europe is likely in 40-60 years. They’ll have French (or Pakistani, or both) nukes by then.

And that’ll be very bad for the US.

Chill Links

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies.

The top 10% are responsible for nearly half of the consumer spending that’s keeping the economy afloat. There’s something disturbing about a tiny number of people having so much money that it effectively masks how poor everyone else is.

How much would mothers earn if they didn’t have children?

Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Why Microsoft Has Lower Borrowing Costs Than the U.S.

For 15% of California homeowners costs exceed half of income.

Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.

We need to be honest. Not all cultures are equal, and not all immigration is equal.

Sales Call

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Exactly.

The “It was just a rowdy tour group!” nonsense is so fucking funny to me. It’s like a Monty Python sketch except in real life. Listen, if you believe the January 6 insurrection, attempted coup and actual riot was just a tour group gone wild, I need your name and number because I could sell you anything.