That was a very different world, but it was absolutely not mostly middle-aged men. It was largely male, sure, but most people were in their 20s and early 30s with a pretty large smattering of teens too.
I was there, though I didn’t spend much time on those areas of the internet then. Mostly, I was in stock/trading forums, car forums and in various PC enthusiast ones in 1999.
My aunt is in the end of life care, I saw her today walking down the street.
Years ago in Charlotte, NC, a friend of mine saw “me” walking down the street downtown and started talking to this person.
After a bit of confusion, my friend realized it was not in fact me and apologized. She said the resemblance was close enough that even from a few feet away she could not tell. We’d known each other for more than five years at that point, and hung out fairly frequently.
Apparently I have a clone out there somewhere.
The 10-Year Treasury Yield over 5%? Some Thoughts.
How the Nepal-Tibet disaster became the latest victim of China’s ‘Clean Internet’ campaign.
America’s White-Collar Workers Feel Stuck in Jobs They Don’t Like.
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips.
A Tidier Rivian (in Size and Price) Is Ready for the Suburbs.
Novo’s Wegovy Reversed Obesity in Study of Young Children. Cool.
When people stop believing in progress, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours.
EV batteries last longer than drivers feared.
Putin receives a tacit invite to a far more dangerous confrontation.
Merz has no good answers as the far right targets his downfall.
Europe’s fighter jet plans are in disarray. What happens next?
Russian Energy Is Now at Ukraine’s Mercy. LOL.
Berlin Is Shedding Light on the Gray Zone. Are European countries finally ready to publicly call out Russian sabotage? We are already at war with Russia.
Why this month’s Microsoft patch release is a doozy.
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of Math.
Correct.
The left wants to turn loose the feral third world rapists to do their feral third world raping; their actual project is destruction, and the project is going well indeed.
It really is the case these days if you are to the right of Hasan Piker, you’re a “Nazi.” In the 1990s, the German AfD as it is now would’ve been just a fairly standard center-liberal party, going by their positions. Now according the press they are evil incarnate and Mega-MechaHitler.
So odd to see. I’m about the same politically as I was in the 1990s: a fairly standard liberal. Now that makes me a Nazi, too.
Alrighty then.
I remember all of that! I also had friends messaging me at the start of the pandemic claiming that masks don’t work who later became extremely, ardently pro-masking. And you know what, it’s ok to change your mind given new evidence or in this case re-evaluation of the existing data.
What I object to is when someone treats me like the bad guy for being able to recall quite recent history, even if it paints people in a negative light. That I strongly refuse to play along with.
I won’t call them out by name, but I also had a friend (who is still a friend) insist that no one had ever said “hug a Chinese person” and that it did not happen that for two months the liberals claimed that believing Covid was a threat was racist. But all that stuff occurred. I remember; I was there. A lot of it is now “conspiracy-theorized” and memory-holed and more will be in the future as the truth is sanded down to what feels good.
Anyone who is ignoring the capabilities and power of recent AI models is gonna have a bad time.
They will be an integral part of our world forevermore (unless Putin nukes us back to the Paleolithic).
One of my friends messaged me about my “First Ten” playlists, saying that I sometimes have songs on there she cannot find anywhere1.
Welcome to me ganking stuff from the fast-disappearing internet. If you don’t get it ‘fore it’s gone, it often is gone soon enough, leaving no trace at all.
How do people read so fast? It takes me 1 hour to read 10 pages of novels!
It depends on how complex the book is (and some other factors), but I can generally read 10 pages in about 6-8 minutes. No, I do not speed read as speed-reading isn’t really a thing. Trust me, I understand with full comprehension what’s occurring. I’ve gotten a perfect score on every reading comprehension test I have ever taken.
My mom could read much faster than me when she was in her prime. She could burn through 10 pages (also with full comprehension) in 3-4 minutes.
So I guess it’s at least partly genetic.
The Panama Canal’s New Boss Inherits a Drought and a Bidding War for Transit Slots.
Investigators seek answers after Amazon cargo plane crash kills five at Miami airport.
Everyone Wants to Win Working-Class Voters. But Have They Realized Many Are Women?
US Military Discovers Just How Dangerous Ad Trackers Can Be.
Iran’s Oil Dollars Are Drying Up—and Plunging It Deeper Into Crisis.
Americans Without College Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years.
Belgian-Chinese researcher arrested over suspected theft of chip secrets.
Volkswagen strikes deal to shift plant from cars to air defence.
Protecting nature isn’t charity. It’s economic self-interest.
If she is ever able to do any of that, Germany might have a ghost of a chance.
If not, it (and most of Western Europe) will be a backwater Islamic caliphate in 50-75 years.
That’s a great line. And indeed, anyone who believes there was any sort of “genocide” in Gaza is a full-on low-IQ clown-ass dipshit.
They badly lost a war they started. Big whoop.
Indeed, the Muslim invasion forces are there to rape, loot and pillage. Mostly in Western Europe. And it’s going to get so much worse. We should have a program for bringing over non-criminal non-Islamic refugees from those areas.
One of the reasons for the current gender war is the messages men and women receive as they grow up have diverged a lot since the 1990s.
During the ’90s, both genders were told roughly this: Strive for equality while doing the best you can. Everyone deserves a fair shot. Be as egalitarian as possible and ethical while trying to do what you love. Most people are trying their best and while there are some differences between the sexes, we all have to work together.
Now women receive this messaging: You are special faultless snowflake sparkle princess who deserves the best always. Accountability and responsibility should never touch you; you are a child until you are 40. If that top 0.01% man you so richly deserve doesn’t find you, no one else should darken your door; it’s best to just stay single.
And men are told at the same time: You are by default evil and disposable. Also, a rapist by dint of being born male. This condition is inescapable and women are right to hate you (unless you are one of those top 0.01% men, where your proper role is to be a walking wallet). If you object to any of these obviously-correct assumptions about you, that means you are even worse: an “incel” who should be shamed and shunned by all.
It’s no damn mystery why the two sexes hate one another now as feminism turned pure evil. Nothing else really could’ve occurred.
