Heavy Fail

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

The liberal degrowth heavy breathing about all they will “have” to take away you from was always doomed to fail. To be fair, there are a lot of right-wing degrowthers now too. Evil no matter which side they are on.

AI Bye

Chill Political Economy

The economist and Reddit conventional wisdom is that AI is not replacing any jobs.

But of course it is. And will replace many more. If you listen to normies and econs, you’ll always be 2-20 years behind the times. Don’t do it.

P Grim

Chill Political Economy

The future for a lot of white collar workers is looking pretty grim.

Chill Links

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress.

The Grand Canyon Lodge was an elusive getaway for nearly a century. Now it’s gone.

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce.

China Isn’t Playing The Same Game Anymore. And the West still doesn’t get it.

Inflation heats up in June as President Trump’s tariffs start to bite.

Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel. Alrighty then.

Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe.’

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step up.

Comp Time

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I’ve seen this happen dozens of times. Mainly when I was in the army. What was usually happening is the woman’s “friend” was acting as a blocker so that she could head off the guy and then talk to him later and go home with him. Sometimes it was simple jealousy by the less attractive “friend,” though.

Another example of female intrasexual competition.

Chill Links

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here’s how to stop it.

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance.

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations over funding shortfalls. Moronic, like all the MAGA shit.

Let me pay for Firefox!

The Great Splintering: How Digital Tech Shattered Cultural Control.

The first summer we all got staph.

Trump Reaches Deal to Send Weapons to Ukraine.

How the Tragedy at Camp Mystic Unfolded, Cabin by Cabin.

How China’s Military Is Flexing Its Power in the Pacific.

In America’s Return to the Office, Women Are Falling Behind. Evil stuff; RTO is pure evil.

We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs, thanks to Ken Griffin.

Gap Many Years

Chill Amusing, Clowns

Yep. Female intrasexual competition is fucking vicious. Male intrasexual competition is nothing in comparison. It basically disappears after 19-20 or so anyway. But for most women, it’s bloodsport for life.

Nearly all of the “age gap” nonsense is intrasexual competition. The rest is just jealousy and envy. About 0.00001% (likely less) is concern for anyone’s well-being.

Interrodate

Chill Annoying

For all that she’s divergent, Aella is laughably-typical as an attractive women. Her dates are like interrogations.

I want to understand him fast. I am paying close attention, looking for novel words to toss at him. It feels playful for me, like wrestling, or leaning into tension. I want to see the green under his bark, the places where he’s unpracticed. I slip in fast, arrowhead questions, ones that carry intensity or exploration. “Are you smarter than your coworkers” or “When your ex broke up with you, did you deserve it?” or “So when your mom died, did you feel bad about it?”

I’m faster than just about anyone alive and I don’t get embarrassed or feel awkward. And yet even I hate these type of torture interrogation dates. I’d probably get up and leave.

And because men absolutely despise these bound-for-the-gulag-if-you-answer-wrong type experiences, they tend to avoid doing the same to women.

As with most attractive women, she’s looking for a fantasy person who doesn’t exist or who got married a decade ago. Her list of candidates is basically zero. She’s so close to having self-insight but does not quite make it there, even with as smart as she is.

Again, she’s like 99.99% of other attractive women. Aella at least in this realm is only unusual in how typical she is.

At Large

Chill Annoying, Clowns

That is, largely, bullshit. You can change your hunger level and satiety settings over time. I know because I did it.

In my past I could easily eat an entire large pizza by myself. I used to do it all the time. Don’t anymore. The absurd idea that self-control is impossible is self-reinforcing into a doom spiral. I’ve seen it too often. And the above nonsense is the common lefty take.

But self-control is possible. And not even hard. It’s muscle you exercise — the more you do it, the better you get at it. Just like anything else. Don’t believe the harmful, self-defeating lies in that tweet.