Day: September 12, 2024, 11:59 PM

Bad Weird

Chill Regular-ass Post

The Year When My Husband Started to Act Like a Tsundere Teenage Girl to Get My Attention.

This is probably fake, but even if it’s real they both sound like just huge pieces of shit.

So let me get this straight, Korean woman wants to immigrate to the US, hooks up with the first guy who is nice to her, marries him for the green card and he ends up being a weirdo? SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!

The guy seems like a total dud and perhaps an actual pedophile, but remember that we’re only getting one side of the story. And it seems like she never liked him in the first place. I do wonder how much of what he was doing just to attempt to get some sort of reaction, any kind at all, out of her? She seems so incredibly passive, like a slumberous passenger in her own marriage. She appears to have had zero care nor concern for her husband at all. If my partner started doing out-of-character weird crap, I’d try to get the bottom of it, try to help her. The woman who wrote this seems not to have a single actual concern about it other than her own self-interest.

I don’t believe this story for a second, especially the way it’s told; it’s just creepypasta of the worst incel tropes all mashed together into some sort of implausible biscuit designed to inflame the war of the sexes — but even if it were true, both of them are vile in their own particular ways.

OER

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Rant

Owner’s Equivalent Rent for measuring housing inflation is the clowniest, most useless way of computing that in the universe. Owners mostly have no goddamn idea how much it’d cost to rent their own place. I bet if you asked (and the gummint does) the owner and compared that to the actual rent they could get those owners would be off by 40%+.

Maybe the various levels and layers of wrongness balance out. But I doubt it. And even if so, why should we depend on that? Just a terrible, terrible metric.

Darth Invader

Chill America Fuck Yeah, War

Is it true that the USA is basically immune to foreign invasion?

Immune? No. But invading the United States would be enormously difficult and would nearly require the cooperation of Mexico or Canada (or both). And like most countries with nuclear weapons, we’d nuke the shit out of our own territory before we’d allow the country to be fully taken. And here I am not just speculating — that exact scenario in war games is often the only time that nukes are used.

Any foe that attempted to invade the US would pay such a heavy price it’d almost never be worth it and the chance of success is low. Also, the US is gigantic and its geography extremely challenging.

And then if you somehow as an invader won against the organized military, you’d have to deal with a well-resourced and capable resistance after that.

Good luck with all that.

Smash Out

Chill Music

I love music so much. It’s accurate to say that music saved my life in North Florida when I was a beaten-on reject misfit. I’ll forever be grateful to Tori, to Hope, to the Smashing Pumpkins, to Tanya and all the other artists who put part of themselves out into the world to let me know there was something better out there waiting for me.

And there was. I am living it. Not sure I would’ve made it without their signs and omens. In fact, I’m quite certain I wouldn’t have.

Plete

Chill Science

ลฝiลพek: Quantum physics shows reality is incomplete.

I would not say “incomplete.” I’d just call our reality “granular” as well as “non-local.” That makes it feel incomplete, but the proof of the completeness of reality is that there is the ability to perceive it — or anything.

I mostly agree with ลฝiลพek, though, especially his disdain for superdeterminism. It’s too much to go into here, but a lot of physicists absolutely despise that we do not — as far as we can tell — live in a deterministic universe. Superdeterminism is a way to sneak determinism in again, with no evidence at all. It’s bunk and fraudulent. Sabine Hossenfelder is a major voice attempting to grift that hokum theory back into physics, but don’t believe it — the evidential basis for it is “I wish this were true, so it must be.”

Also, Rovelli (which ลฝiลพek mentions) is a terrible hack. He does not understand how entanglement works at all. He’s atrocious and his books are chock full of factually-incorrect nonsense (please don’t read them).