Or, the story of how I learned to keep my helpful comments to myself.
Boomer Socialism
Correct. Basically everything is set up either to directly benefit Boomers or to not inconvenience them. And it is somehow getting worse, even as they age and die off, and not better.
FORAGER – Fastest Alone [Live]
Not my usual style of music, but that performance is so great it doesn’t even matter. Love that.
New New Low
We’ve reached new lows of antisemitism, I see. Not surprising, but saddening.
Suu – Lligar no és lo teu
That’s so much fun. And a great example in the singer of someone whose (stage, at least) personality makes her so much more attractive than she otherwise would be.
And I can understand why women with no (or hostile) personalities hate that, and why they expanded the definition of “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” to any woman who is not a boring sop. As I always say, female intrasexual competition is brutal — and the mean girls run the place.
Great song. I wish I knew Portuguese better.
How the Iran War Unraveled the Gulf’s Image as a Luxurious Safe Haven.
An Exodus of Money Endangers Wall Street’s Private-Credit Craze.
What Will Happen When All the Male Therapists Are Gone?
Why hundreds of people in L.A. are strapping cameras on their bodies to do chore.
US economy ended 2025 on weaker footing than previously thought.
China’s BYD takes on Porsche and BMW with 5-minute ‘flash charging’.
European businesses warn Brussels over push to end reliance on US tech.
America is on the brink of stagflation, warns Nobel-winning economist.
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network.
Berlin youth centre accused of covering up gang-rape because suspects were Muslim. Seriously, what is it with Islam and gang rapes?
Not So Dire Strait
The Strait of Hormuz being closed is not nothing, but not really the big deal that people are making it out to be. It would’ve been 40 years ago, but the world is different now.
Mostly, it’ll impact China and a few other Asian economies. Not so much anyone else.
Dang Knowl
Correct. Turns out that the more you look at genetics, the more that race is a real thing biologically that maps pretty well genetically to the colloquial conception of race — that race is not real is another lie scientists tell because the truth is “dangerous knowledge.”
Trudeaudeau
Justin Trudeau really fucked Canada over, in about every way possible.
Goes to show that all too often, beauty, virtue and skill are completely uncorrelated.
Smackdown in Town
I thought China’s miltech would at least do ok. But in reality, it and the Russian stuff performed like absolute dogshit against our tech and practices. Appallingly bad. Ian Welsh and his shit-for-brains co-doofs must be crying into their Tsingtaos now.
All those “invincible” super-hyper-duper-sonic missiles and “unbeatable” radars were batted aside like some Fisher Price kids playset. Quite embarrassing. That means China at the moment would get totally spanked if it attempted to take Taiwan. And now they know that.
Tank Up
Assuming an oil tanker length of 305 meters and that it is fully laden, that airship would need to be around six times larger than it is to carry the tanker — assuming the dirigible is helium-filled.
Flip Flap
That’s what I meant in my other post about how the contemporary left in many realms is now what used to be called “conservative.”
Very strange to see, because I came up with a much different version of progressivism.
What’s Deserved
And no tears were shed. Live a thug life, get a thug death.
But shit, what kind of drone was that? This is my guess: Altius.
Livin’ on Hoth
It was always evil degrowth laughably unworkable anarchist bullshit.
Anarchism == libertarianism, but for even dumber people.
Fake Is Fake
Gen Z is so fucked up that you have to put things like this before media that’s aimed at them:
That’s incredibly sad.