Increasingly, feminists want to define bad sex as rape as well as any sex that is later regretted.
This is in no way a good thing, even for women.
Any Desire
I was definitely told from a fairly young age that any and all male desire was predatory and evil. Feminism as it got more extreme only enforced this.
Luckily, I am not an idiot so I rejected this. But it’s a message that is ever-present now.
And people wonder why there is a backlash. Why would anyone think that men would participate and want to be included in “progressive” communities that see them as irredeemably evil?
Of course that would be rejected by those who got declared default malefactors.
How To Get
For sure, this has to be one of the most clown-ass tardfuck idiot leftist views imaginable. And it’s not even “fuck them hard.” A lot of moron “progressives” view any attraction to anyone as reducing a person to an object and not viewing them as human.
How you get so stupid and so evil all at once is beyond me.
It says more about their own views and minds than about anything anyone else is doing.
Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators.
Why Nobody Can End the War in Ukraine.
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy.
US jobs market sees sharp slowdown ahead of midterm elections.
Contest-Winning Microscope Video Is Full of AI Confabulations, Scientists Say.
European Commission Staff Really Dislike Their ‘Sovereign’ Alternative to Microsoft Teams: Report.
A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules.
Jump Off
I fell victim to the jury duty scam.
I know I keep writing about this, but how does anyone fall for this shit? This is why it is worth learning about how civil and legal institutions actually work.
If someone called me with this crap, I’d laugh and hang up. Come on, just nothing at all operates this way. Some of the people almost deserve to be scammed for being so clownish.
Americans feel worse about the economy than during the pandemic.
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth. Some people do choose the tardbiscuit path readily.
Tax cuts, handouts and blind hope: Europe finds few tools to fight a coming energy crunch.
Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life.
Hospital AI billing tools added $942 million in costs for Blue Cross insurers.
The Cockpit Stabbing and Terrifying Nosedive That Brought Chaos to FlyDubai Flight 1073.
Europe’s Luxury Carmakers Are Supersizing Their SUVs for Americans. Ugh.
Pent Up
Europe is so fucked.
Nest of Mendacity
I do genuinely feel bad for airline staff these days.
They are told to lie to you. They know they are lying to you. You know they are lying. They know you know that they know they are lying.
And it’s all that our evil corporate structures allow.
PISS – blocking a scene you can’t remember
This is not like anything I’ve ever heard. And it is pretty great.
Atmo
At sea level, the atmosphere presses on your body with a weight of around 41,000–45,000 pounds.
Luckily, the pressure is equal inside you and outside. And water is nearly incompressible.
ERPy Derp
Funny conversation at work the other day:
Work person: My kid just got a job at Love’s, the gas station and convenience store chain. Have you heard of it?
Me: I designed and built from the ground up their entire networking and server environment for their ERP system that runs their entire business. So, yeah, I’ve heard of them.
Work person: Oh. Well.
Heh.
Tax Freaking
The Great American Property Tax Freak Out by David Schleicher.
I am not against property taxes, per se, but it does feel very odd that we have to “rent” our own house from the government for ~$800 per month.
There is no way in hell that we are getting $800 in services in return for that. The roads here are terrible. Homeless people wander all over. The government is generally atrocious. I don’t know about the school quality, and I don’t begrudge funding schools at all.
But we get maybe $100 worth of benefit each month and pay eight times that. Sure, we have money, we can pay it. Whatever.
And yes, I understand all the arguments for property taxes, Georgism, etc. The problem is not lack of understanding; it is realizing that you pay vast amounts to a government that seems to do very little. And that’s the same government that could and would kick you out of your home if you stopped forking over.
But in human society those with the most guns make the rules. We can pretty it up but that’s basically how it works.
The Anti-AI mob lost its mind again— and Goodreads is helping it punish authors.
Did you know airports used to be fun? Almost like shopping malls. Flying was exciting and straightfforward. It was; a vanished, better world.
To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents.
This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data.
The US state replacing power plants with home batteries.
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class.
The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like.
1 In 8 cancer cases worldwide is caused by infections, study suggests.
Turnover in the Labor Market Calms Down, after Chaotic Churn.
Stability
It’s always been a risk to men that consent can be revoked post facto when a woman “changes her mind” days, weeks, months or years later. It happens fairly frequently. This doesn’t make all women evil, but some are. Thus, it does mean being extremely careful, especially around those less stable.
And no, not even a videotape of you getting consent, having sex, and then verifying consent afterwards will save your ass when she does change her mind later.
Computin’
It’s seems an extremely difficult idea for most people to grasp that if a thing consistently produces reasoning-like results that are indistinguishable for reasoning, then what it is “really” doing is like asking if a submarine really has fins like a fish.
It does not. Fucking. Matter.
There is no “really” there. You’re looking for that pesky ghost in the machine. And it’s not in you! It is also not in the machine. It just simply does not exist. Why are people so caught up on the process, instead of the result? Yesterday I saw someone make the absurd claim that if we were to set up an enormous database that had stock correct responses to every question inputted into it, then this impossible-to-create1 system was not actually doing any reasoning.
First of all, that’s not how LLMs work. Like, at all. Second, if that tool existed it’d be the most amazing thing in human history and worth trillions and trillions of dollars. Third, creating artificial scenarios that cannot exist in the real world with absolutely no bearing on what’s actually occurring is like asking, “What if my dog were a chimpanzee with lasers on its forehead?” I mean, ok, but who gives a crap. You’re not doing anything useful. You’re setting up fake toy worlds to disprove something that is actually already occurring in our really-existing world.
The “reasoning” debate is a big nothing. Human reasoning is not magic. It uses very nearly the same bag of tricks, elisions, confabulations, wild-ass guesses and speculation based on bad information as LLMs do. What strikes me about LLMs and humans is how very close they are in their thinking. It makes me wonder if there are not hints there of something more universal related to cogitation and cognition, at least as we can access via our narrow window of shared space of possible minds.