Remember about a year ago when all the clown-ass leftists were saying Starship would never reach orbit? Heh.
There is a reason — a very, very fucking good one — why rocket scientists test things to failure. Fucking idiots.
Never Should Have
Like a lot of modern women, she’s waiting for fantasy man she is very, very unlikely to be able to attract or have other than as a one night stand.
She looks ok, seems somewhat on the dumb side of average, but would’ve done fine 80 years ago. Most likely she would’ve ended up with some guy roughly her socieconomic status and appearance. As the first commenter points out, she thinks she deserves Chris Hemsworth and is holding out for that. But she’ll be holding out forever. That’s her prerogative, though. People are allowed to do dreadfully stupid things and think thoughts that are impossible to match up to reality.
People talk about the manosphere. In reality, women’s mental health and possibility of flourishing was utterly destroyed by social media and smartphones. She is the perfect example. It’s far more likely that she would’ve been happier in another timeline sans social media and phones.
I feel pity for her. She’ll always be yearning for something she’ll never have. And that is a terrible way to feel and I’m sorry that society did that to her.
Apparition
Too tired to go into detail now, but people like Claire really, really want there to be some ghost in the machine.
But there just is not. It is simply not there. Wishful thinking doesn’t make it appear. The expanded Church-Turing Thesis is basically correct. There is nothing any more or less special about an LLM or a human in that sense than there is between a fish and submarine.
Both move through the water; both think.
(Also, I find Claire’s position deeply moronic and her metaphor not just wrong, but not even wrong.)
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Obsession (2025).
I watched Obsession (2025).
It was a very good film, though I almost couldn’t finish it because so many of the behaviors wish-controlled Nikki engaged in to manipulate her partner strongly resembled many of the things a terrible ex did in an attempt to control me.
Yes, I know in the film Nikki is under a curse and that Bear is an absolute evil shit for not getting her help, but nevertheless how she was actually acting (and how fucking good Inde Navarrette was in the role) made it a difficult watch. Nikki was like a more violent version of my horrid past girlfriend, even eerily using many of the exact lines my ex-gf did.
I bet the writer had a past partner like that too. They seem to have a script they follow.
But, incredibly effective film. I recommend it, with the caveats mentioned above.
Body Philo
Why the hell do so many lefty people (not just Fat Acceptance nutters) refer to their body like it’s not really a part of them? What in the world is going on there?
They’re always saying things like “this body” and “take my body to bed.” WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It’s you. Trust me, it’s all you. I’m guessing this strange way of referring to one’s self is a result of the spread of therapy language and culture, but I am not quite certain.
However, I think Nietzsche said it best about this nonsense: “Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”
Long Past
When I say there is AI in something, the doofuses come out of the woodwork to screech about, “That is impossible! There is no LLM in that!”
An LLM is only one variant of artificial intelligence. There are many others1.
I was playing with and using AI of various types when most of you were still taking dumps in your diapers.
Seeing States
Younger Millennials and Gen Z for some dumbass reason believe every interpersonal relationship is always and only about power. They’ve applied James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State to their own friends, paramours and even family. It’s absolutely fucking insane but that is what has occurred.
That they think this approach is correct and is a good thing is what is particularly bothersome.
The Fug
All the moron leftists cry big tears about “refugees.” But these “refugees” have passed through 3-8 other countries to invade the UK. And that’s because they’re actually parasites that are seeking out the juiciest welfare1 benefits.
These are economic migrants and an Islamic invasion force all rolled into one. The solution is .50 cals, M242 Bushmasters and Hellfire missiles.
But if the UK chooses to destroy itself, I guess, go ahead.
Downclown Frown
I don’t know about those grand themes. I’m more of a fate is what you make or build; the grand themes are constructed and the leitmotif is what you choose to play, not what was always going to be performed.
But in the main, I agree. The actually-conservative degrowther “progressives” and the Tardkowskies need to be smacked down, and hard.
We have a galaxy to conquer.
Syno
“Covid-conscious” should become a synonym for “complete dumbass.”
Noted
Over the last week or so, I’ve been flattered and happy to discover that I’ve become a one-person music recommendation service to many of my friends.
It’s nice to be useful.
Directionally Correct
I do not think the 1990s was the peak of human civilization, but we got a lot right then that later culture decided to throw away and replace with something far, far worse.
That’s not nostalgia. That’s just reality.
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