Day: October 25, 2024, 1:13 PM

Thirds

Chill Culture, Tech

India becomes uncompetitive price-wise when you can no longer hire three people in India to replace one American hire, as the average Indian worker is about 1/3 as good/productive as the average American 1.

If that’s racist — well, the truth is racist (has nothing to do with race, but MBAs who want to offshore along with woke clowns insist it is).

  1. However, the best Indian workers are just as good as the best Americans. But in both places that’s only a very small percentage of possible hires.

Take Land

Chill Clowns

Idiot. On most flights, the first officer (not the captain) will be handling take-off and landing. This is so the FO can gain experience and so the captain is there to step in if something goes wrong.

So, in this case, it’s 99.9% certain that the woman FO here will be getting that plane up in the air and landing it.

They shouldn’t let dumbasses write anything.

Brotopia Cannot Exist

Chill Politics, Rant

‘They’re Just Over It’: How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement.

The reaction in many ways doesn’t make a lot of sense (as in actually solving anything1), but that there was a backlash is completely predictable.

For a couple of decades now since it curdled into uselessness, feminism has been spouting the idea that men are inherently evil (Schrödinger’s rapist), that an unattractive man just minding his own business and existing is “creepy,” and that men are responsible and accountable for everything, while women should have power with no responsibility or accountability.

Needless to say, that puts many men off and makes them angry. Including me. I just don’t think that punishing or hating women for it will actually fix anything. Nor will voting for Trump.

But yeah, it’s perfectly understandable to not want to vote for a party that’s supported people and still contains some people that tell you that you are inherently terrible.

Big fucking shock.

  1. Since voting for Trump won’t help them and will likely hurt nearly all men.

Expectation Expectoration

Chill Regular-ass Post

Why do men seem so much more desperate to find partners than women, generally speaking?

Contra what women tend to think, most men aren’t desperate — it’s just that they are the ones expected to do nearly everything to start and form a relationship. It’s all on men to face storms of rejection, being called a “creep” simply for existing and trying, and paying for dates, etc. It’s all on men.

Women could change this equilibrium but won’t, because on the surface it benefits them too much (though hurts them in ways they don’t acknowledge).

Chill Links

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data.

Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC.

Location tracking of phones is out of control.

Top ten most annoying advice while not able to find work.

AI Discrimination Risk: Workday and Other HR Software Under Fire.

New Ways To Stretch F/A-18 Super Hornet’s Range Sought By Navy. Gonna need that in the South China Sea.

Producing Lithium Is Slow and Dirty. Is There a Fix?

As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse.’

Trump is promising voters the moon, and the only way to deliver will be to smash the system that has kept inflation contained for the last forty years.

The MAGA Threat to American Greatness.

The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations. One candidate gets graded like a normal candidate would. The other gets excused for talking about Arnold Palmer’s junk.

Volumetric Energy Density of Lithium-ion Batteries Increased by More than Eight Times Between 2008 and 2020. I remember when this was “impossible.”

Ukraine’s population has fallen by 10 million since Russia’s invasion, UN says.

Fat acceptance has ruined my life.