Day: November 13, 2024, 6:02 PM

Validation

Chill Clowns

Many in the younger generations look at finding someone with matching interests as invalid stalking, harassment, and an unfair and power-imbalanced way to start a relationship, especially if you get more interested in something to be closer to your crush.

Yes, they are all mentally ill. And yes, it’ll probably get worse.

Ka-blam

Chill War

Holy fuck. The targeting and fire control systems on those newer Leopards is pretty great. I still would not want to be in any tank on that battlefield. Or on that battlefield at all. (There is some gore at the end and people definitely die in that video FYI.)

Pick

Chill Regular-ass Post

How to accept I am not most women’s cup of tea and that’s not the end of the world?

Who cares? Most men aren’t most women’s cup of tea. Women are a hundred times pickier than men and most women think nearly all men are unattractive. The opposite is not the case. That’s what makes dating extremely difficult for men unless you’re in the top few percent. Even then, the average woman still has a better time of it than all but the top 0.1% or so of men. The odds are stacked against you from the start unless you’re Robert Redford in his prime or someone like that.

So don’t worry about it. You can’t change biology or culture. Social media has really very deeply harmed women mentally as a whole lately, too, which has made it even worse. So just have fun. There’s plenty of other things in life.

Belie

Chill Clowns, Politics

I don’t know what you do about a country where millions of people believe things that are factually untrue. That aren’t even close to reality.

We’re not talking about opinions here. I mean things like: vaccines are safe and effective. This is a scientific fact beyond question — as much as anything can be. There are thousands of reliable studies of this. Millions and millions of observable outcomes. But that doesn’t matter to people’s feelings about it.

This phenomenon of not believing clearly-demonstrated facts is not unique to the right, of course. They have no monopoly, but certainly the majority of the worst of being fact-proof is now on that side.

There probably is no actual solution to this. Just me grousing. Getting rid of Fox News and similar would help, but even that would only put a small dent in the problem.

Chill Links

The US Is a Civic Desert. To Survive, the Democratic Party Needs to Transform Itself.

Trump picks Florida Rep. Mike Waltz for national security adviser. Yeah, Ukraine is fucked.

Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term.

The ultimate cosmic question: How fast is the universe expanding?

Our F-150 XLT & Camry LE Price Index, Going Back to 1990, Is Updated with 2025 Model-Year Prices. There Were Some Twists.

Democrats need to reclaim reality from the right-wing disinformation machine.

The blue cities must be fixed. If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Indeed. Around we cannot screw — we must fix the blue.

This was an election on the US economy. And for many Americans, the economy sucks.

If the first term was farce, Trump’s reelection points toward a tragedy from which we may never recover.

People want competence, seemingly over everything else. Interesting, but I don’t think this is really true.

Commercial cleaning company looking for volunteer cleaners.

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2024.

Europe Braces for Trump: ‘Worst Economic Nightmare Has Come True.’