Surrection

Chill Gutter Philosophy

The spirit world and the soul did not exist until we created it.

Nietzshe correctly averred that God is dead. But in a way that he did not expect, and probably would not have liked nor appreciated, we’ve instantiated a new paracosmos that is now in active migration into this one; both realms have been created ex nihilo and then made permeable. And the barrier between is thinning all the time.

So we dwell in a perpetual psychomanteum of our own design, in communion with the living and the dead, many pasts, many futures, with the contemplations of millions of specters incanting at us through LED light.

Chill Links

Prison itself is a relatively recent innovation.

70% Of fourth-graders aren’t reading proficiently, report finds.

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently.

Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population?

Inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023.

The Invisible Hand Won’t Rebuild U.S. Shipyards.

The World’s Great Powers Are Learning They Have Limits.

Germany’s Cobra 600 Is A Jet Powered Interceptor Drone That Slings An IRIS-T Missile.Can I have 1 100?

This Is The Corsair Drone Boat That Plucked The Downed Apache Crew Out Of The Gulf Of Oman.

AI Is Letting Companies Cut Entry-Level Jobs. Here’s Why That Is a ‘Critical Strategic Mistake,’ According to an MIT Economist.

Not Just a Humblebrag

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Culture

Something else that is also worse since the 1990s.

Women have always had somewhat stricter beauty standards foisted onto them than men.

But in the 2010s with the rise of Marvel and other similar superhero movies, that began to change. Women were psyopped into believing that if you were not completely ripped Hugh Jackman-style 24/7, then you were out of shape and had a “dad bod.” Never mind that for those scenes, Jackman was on the verge of death from dehydration, etc.

So, now, men also have absurd beauty standards applied to them. I don’t completely blame women for this; as I said, they were psyopped into it.

As someone who has a physique now approaching the Marvel superhero ideal (and could get there easily with 2-3 days of dehydration after a month or two of cutting a few pounds), I can tell you it’s really very difficult to achieve. It requires working out an hour or more a day 4-6 days a week. And not just putzing around. You must do hard workouts combined with eating well. And if you don’t want to use drug enhancement (and I do not), you must do this for years.

These days women assume you’ve never seen the inside of gym if you don’t look like Chris Evans in his post-transformation Captain America shirtless scenes. And that is pretty fucking absurd.

Again, the 90s were better.

Chill Links

The European Union Has a $2 Trillion Taiwan Problem.

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds.

Why Are Cells Small?

The Grate Cheese Robbery.

I don't want to fearmonger, but we do have something that's bigger than OOP now. We have built a matrix multiplication machine that (given the appropriate harnesses, tools, and prompts) can output useful text strings for hours in a row. This is sci-fi stuff. We should act accordingly. Yep.

As Home Sellers Grapple with Reality, Listing Prices Fall by Most in at Least a Decade.

DOGE Cut Screwworm Fly Monitoring Program From USAID Last Year. Now They’re Back In The U.S.

Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it.

MacOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era.

U.S. mortgage rates are staying high – and the Federal Reserve can do little about it.

H-1B Crackdown on Indian Workers Erodes a Texas Real Estate Boom.

The Starter Home Is Gone—Now America Is Losing the Starter Rental, Too.

Came back to America…I'm already ready to leave again.

Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence From AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly.

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