What trait in an ex-girlfriend did you see that stopped you from seeing her as a long term option?
Tendency to throw plates at my head.
We Are There
This is correct; we are already in WWIII’s beginning phases and we should act like it. There is a certain inevitability to these things. We are making it worse, not better, by not helping Ukraine enough. I don’t completely agree with Kyle but we’re on a path globally that leads to a world-devastating conflict, with very few realistic ways to avoid it.
Our goal now should be to make it the least bad and shortest war possible. Which we in the US are not doing at all, and neither is Europe.
Mumpsford and Dead Sons
People are only anti-vax because they weren’t around to watch their kids die of these diseases. And no, none of the decline in these particular maladies can be explained by cleaner water and better sanitation. Read a fuckin’ book, clowns.
Wards Back
Shocker. When you allow mass immigration from backwards societies, shit like that tends to transpire. I will forever feel terrible for my long-time online friend who was driven from her home city of Munich by roving bands of violent North Africans. Should’ve never been allowed.
Howling
I’m not doubting her experiences here, but this is not true of me. I’m exactly the same having sex as not. Hell, I don’t even sweat. My personality is unchanged; there is no transformation of which she speaks. I don’t know how common or unusual this is as I do not have sex with men.
But it’s true of at least one man.
Glad
Society doesn’t care that much about male suffering.
Being the disposable sex isn’t as great as women imagine it to be. But I guess it’s nearly impossible for most people (women included) to comprehend something they’ve never experienced.
Shenan
Most likely poorer. There’s less chance I would’ve gone into IT and less chance I would’ve done any stock market shenanigans. Both of those things, particularly when I was younger, were very male-coded. For IT I would’ve been discouraged from pursuing this field explicitly and implicitly by the pervasive misogyny and sexism present there in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
So even assuming my personality and proclivity would be roughly similar as a different sex, I’d probably be poorer by a large amount.
Herd That
That people did not fight harder to preserve WFH shows how cowed and in fact bovine American workers are. I’ll never work in an office again. But a lot of y’all didn’t have to but got herded into the chute anyway.
Idiots.
Tonality
This show was not completely successful, but I love this scene at least partially because it and the show itself feels really tonally different from all the other shows recently which seem so monotonous and ultra-pasteurized.
And here’s the same clip by someone who didn’t understand the “terrible” dialogue was intentional; this is two people interacting who are socially inept, stunted, having had very few normal interactions and both living in repressed, horrible societies. The woman is the extrovert side of that and the guy is the introvert. They have zero social skills and very little experience with anyone different from them. That’s the whole point of the scene — that is, them learning how to interact despite their chasm of inexperience and social cluelessness.
It’s fascinating how many people can watch something and just not understand it at all. Like, not in the least.
Horsegirl – 2468
I like this because it doesn’t feel like anything else made now. It’s a bit reminiscent of a lot of indie rock that was produced during the very late 1980s, though.
Close Cut
Eventually, Russia is going to run out of stuff. They are able to produce war materiel at about 1/10 the rate it’s getting spent on the battlefield. However, Russia has a fucking lot of stockpiled stuff.
What Russia is attempting now is to hold out until Trump gets into office and Ukraine’s support is slashed. Then they might win. But they are already cutting it close, using thirty-year-old rocket engines and tanks donated by movie studios and the like.
Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence.
This $8,000 Suzuki From India Received A 5-Star Crash Test Rating.
‘Achilles heel’ of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in life-saving breakthrough.
Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets.
Trump’s demolition of the US state.
First Stand-In Attack Missile Delivered To USAF.
The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy.
Tech jobs are mired in a recession.
Harm to women is perceived as more severe and unacceptable than identical harm to men.
Other Side
It’ll be about preserving civilization at some point, and not that far off. Must of the left would prefer to see it destroyed. But we can put them on the other side of the wall.
What We Do
This is not the direct setup for the Taiwan invasion. That’ll occur in 2026-2027 while Trump is at his weakest. This is a test to see how the US and Europe respond to provocations. This is a common Chinese tactic that produces extremely valuable real-world data on likelihood of aggressive retaliation, determination of actual effects of communications being severed, and movement of forces in the area in which the sabotage was conducted and in other areas as well.
This is a dry run for a future, much larger operation and not the operation itself.
Grillax
This is also true:
We end up with every problem. Developer code problems, putting together BBQ grills1, electrical issues, lighting, copiers, doors, staplers, and any complex business task no matter how little it has to do with actual systems — it all winds up in my department eventually. I’ve done a lawyer’s job, an accountant’s job, an engineer’s job, an insurance adjuster’s job, a graphic designer’s job, a developer’s job, a DBA’s job, a lecturer’s job and many many others. And no, I am not talking about making sure their computer works and that they have access to the tools they need. I mean actually doing the work they should be doing 2.
The peril of being the only team that can troubleshoot and reliably solve problems is that you end up as the dumping ground for all problems. And then are hounded ceaselessly about them even if they have nothing to do with you or your department.
It is not fun.