Hibernian

I don’t think women realize how icily cold most women are to men, and how large a toll that takes over time psychologically. Yes, sure, some 1 small percentage of men are a danger to women, but the great mass of women are unforgivingly and unendingly cold to men to an extent and degree2 that is hard to conceive of if you’ve not experienced it.

Yes, sure, an individual woman knows she is cold to men to “not lead them on,” and uses that potential threat to justify it to herself — but literally every woman the average man experiences seems like an ice queen from fortress Mega-Bitch. Imagine if you will that every woman you come across treats you like a piece of human garbage, which is what most men experience. What would your opinion then be of that gender?

Women want men to treat them perfectly when they decide to drop the undesirable-dude armor, when most men experience most women as just horrible people nearly 24/7. Not realistic.

  1. Smaller percentage than women believe.
  2. Pun intended.

Undermine

Dating now seems from a distance so abysmally terrible. Glad I’m not participating in that mess.

I remember a time when men and women actually did not despise each other and did not attempt to harm and undermine one another constantly. That time was called the 1990s. Sure, it was a thing sometimes then. But now it’s the default mode and expectation.

What the hell happened?

Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends.

How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a โ€˜Slush Fundโ€™ for States.

Hereโ€™s Where AI Is Tearing Through Corporate America.

For Every Winner a Loser.

California ballot proposal would exempt seniors from paying property taxes.

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan in boost for its chipmaking ambitions.

Job Hunters Are So Desperate That Theyโ€™re Paying to Get Recruited.

The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you donโ€™t believe me, wait six months.

In addition to the intrinsic badness of this, immigration at a high level also has predictable negative effects on the white population whereby they become more negatively ethnocentric, populist, etc.

Open

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NYC and other places used to have tons more open 24/7 or very late before the pandemic, even more in the 1980s and 1990s, and absolutely boatlods of stuff open (particularly in NYC) 24/7 from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Not sure what caused the continual decline of this, but was also true for other large cities to a lesser extent. And I wish it’d all come back; I’d strongly prefer most things to be open most of the time.

Europe Accuses TikTok of โ€˜Addictive Designโ€™ and Pushes for Change.

Product and design are the new bottlenecks.

Companies Hang on to their Workers, and Workers Cling to their Jobs: One More Factor why itโ€™s Tough for Job Seekers.

Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers.

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropicโ€™s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles.

Anduril founder says U.S. can spend billions less on defense: We โ€˜spend too much money on the wrong thingโ€™. Agreed. I really like that weird scuzzbucket.

The School Engine Behind Flu and COVID โ€” and Why Clean Air for Kids Is the Missing Public Health Tool.

Under Trump, EPAโ€™s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds.

Trumpโ€™s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue.

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europeโ€™s political class. In the US, theyโ€™re getting a pass.

Russian offensive appears to be slowing after Musk blocks Starlink access, Ukraine says.

Heroku

Salesforce Shelves Heroku.

Too bad. Heroku was far more sensible, scalable and easy to use than shit-ass Kubernetes. It had better ideas, better execution, better management and was far more capable. Kubernetes is just an enormous stinky bundle of insecure, slow and poorly-working crap code in comparison.

Why in the world did that win? Mostly because it was free, I guess.

But like a lot of open source stuff, it is only free if you assign zero value to your time.