Phones destroyed our civilization https://t.co/pwZwJ8oAuh
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 24, 2025
And just think: These people are about average. Many people are way dumber than anything you see there (I grew up with doofs like this, so they existed pre-smartphone. But I do think it has gotten a lot worse.)
I find this plausible. I’d expect a winter attack, though, not fall. Russia’s ambition is to take the three Baltic States and Poland. Also Germany if it seems feasible. They will do this while Trump is in office if they can.
Something I have long believed is that being thin is in large part based on not really enjoying food pic.twitter.com/2RgQRjvrow
— Misha, Photographer, Eligible Bachelor (@drethelin) January 2, 2025
I fucking love food. I could eat a whole large pizza, easy. And did back in the day. But I do not now.
I am thin because I willed it. No other reason.
There are very few things that unify most Americans anymore.
But if some IT person at 23andMe, as he or she is packing up to move out of the office, were to "accidentally" push the "OMGOSH DON'T PUSH THIS OR IT WILL DELETE EVERYTHING" button, America will have a new folk hero.— Yer buddy Don (@prayerborne) March 24, 2025
If they are at all a competent company, they have immutable backups that can’t be deleted. Where I work our safest backups I cannot even delete. In fact, no one can; they are object locked and literally cannot be deleted. No ransomware, admin, or user can nuke them. (In other words, even a takeover of my highest-level admin account would not be enough to delete these backups. The attacker would actually have to hack AWS itself, a vastly more difficult proposition.)
To delete our backups, as mentioned above someone would have to hack into AWS itself (very, very difficult), and then hack the object lock mechanism (nearly impossible) and then manually delete the data from all 20-30 datacenters it’s replicated across. This is something even a state-level actor with millions in funding would find just about impossible.
Any business that does not do something like the above is operating at clown level as it’s so cheap and easy.
Landlord put a 2nd fake window on my rental.
That is some hilarious stuff. And glad we never had a landlord this bad.
It is worth remembering that "women" or "whites" are not one in-consensus population of five people. https://t.co/rWnPzibFRT
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 23, 2025
True. Nevertheless, there was (and still is) a de facto flirting prohibition enforced by threat of cancellation by the dominant liberal feminist cultural consensus. That might be diminishing now, but was real for well over a decade.
In the view of that brand of pseudo-feminism, any unauthorized contact with any woman outside of a dating app was evidence of abuse and harassment. There weren’t any exceptions. “Good” men picked up on this cultural shift and stopped talking to or engaging with women in any public place at all. That therefore led to a spate of posts on Reddit and other places from women like, “I’m fun, I’m flirty, I’m decently good-looking, but no man ever talks to me. Why?” I saw at least 3-4 of those a week for years.
Well, there’s your answer. Women asked for and got this world. Turns out it sucks. Funny that.
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s).
There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger.
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA. Sounds about right.
The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant.