My mother stabbed me. I don’t know how to keep going on.
My mom tried to stab me and got so close to doing so that the knife tip cut my shirt but never actually made it through to the skin before I caught her arm. (It wasn’t quite as close as that sounds; the shirt was baggy and it flared out when I was retreating to avoid the stabbin’.)
Ah, North Florida. There’s no place like it. Thank fucking Zeus.
Women are like, “You’d change your tune about attention if you faced potential danger and violence like women do on rejecting someone!”
Sister, I can assure you, absolutely fucking assure you, I’ve experienced more danger and violence than you have ever seen in your life. Unless you’ve been in combat or something consistently, I can 100% guarantee it. And I’d still — like most men — prefer not to be an invisible chair or a walking wallet.
Bullshit argument.
That’s also a good point in this thread that men are either seen as a threat or are invisible like a chair until they are useful.
That’s the experience of about 95% of men throughout their entire lives. I know that women often hate being noticed, but now that women notice me for the first time in my life commonly, it’s a nice change. Turns out you only have to work out for thousands of hours, eat right for years, dress flatteringly, be confident, have money and have loads of swagger for some women to pay you even a little bit of attention.
Easy, right? 
If you could make one “guy problem” instantly understood by women, what would it be?
I agree with top-voted comment. Hints don’t work. Hints are useless. Use your words. As a grown-ass adult, get some gumption and use your fucking words.
Men have been trained very very very well that one woman’s “obvious hints” are another woman’s “just being friendly.” And they are indistinguishable. So that’s why you only get harassed1 by losers and not approached by the guys you want to be near you.
Hints are not going to be noticed nor assumed to be worth a warm tin of cat spit from any man you’d want to be with. So woman up and make what you want to happen happen.
I’m not left or right nor anything that makes any sense in terms of the limited terminology of these times; I’m channeling an ethos and ideology from 10,000 years in the future.
I’m wearing my medium cap and I’m doing it. Though my medium cap is large because I have a big head.
Most of you won’t care about this, but Microsoft Graph is aimed at developers.
And that makes it nearly useless for sysadmin types like me. As are many other tech companies, Microsoft took away anything that made administration easy and is transitioning everything into a shitty development role. So now you have to write a thousand lines of code for what used to be a single-line command (not exaggerating; it really is that bad).
There’s no motherfucking way I’m going to start writing C# code just so I can add a few users to Active Directory. Fuck Microsoft and any clown who had anything to do with Graph.
It’s another example of making everything easy for developers but far more difficult for anyone who actually needs to be productive rather than sitting in front of the little code box and typing your little codes.
Would you eat a cockroach? What if it was sterilised? Why not?
Quit trying to make eatings bugs happen. It’s not gonna happen. Why is so much of the idiot degrowther left so obsessed with people eating goddamn bugs?
I realized this too pretty early. If you’re willing to accept the consequences (and I am), you can do whatever you want. I don’t want to be in a meeting? I leave. Someone’s abusing me? Just walking out works fine. Just try to stop me. You’ll find out what “world of hurt” means.
Being an adult means you get to choose. So choose. Quit being an utter wimp.
It’s been abnormally warm for a few days (15 degrees above the average high today) and I love it. It’s the first time I’ve felt truly warm since last October.
Dang I hate winter so much.
The NIH is responsible for something like 99% of drug discovery in the world, so killing funding to that is absolutely insane.
But “insane” is where we are now.
They want me to fix their computer as an ‘interview test.’
Oh, I want to do this. I’d go in and fuck everything up royally and leave. I wish it were closer. So many companies these days have interview tests and tasks that are just scam attempts to get free work.
Saying a Ukrainian who speaks Russian is Russian is akin to saying an Irishman who speaks English is English.
— Jesse Alexander (@jesse_history) March 22, 2025
Exactly. I’ve seen even friends of mine claims that Russian-speaking Ukrainians who identify themselves as Ukrainian are “really” Russian because of their language. I was not shy in pointing out how very insane that sounds.
2 In 5 Tech Workers Quit Over Inflexible Workspace Policies.
Anywhere that requires in-office work, I’ll quit right away. Attempting to work in an office reduces my productivity by 90% at least and it means I’d be sitting in a bullpen on Zoom calls with customers and vendors, rather than at home on Zoom calls with customers and vendors.
Nope, not gonna happen. I don’t care that extroverts “need” me there. Your social needs are not my responsibility nor my concern. Make some damn friends.
I’ve been watching a lot of combat footage lately to discern how our next wars are going to play out. The state of drone warfare is changing and advancing all the time. All the footage, though, is grim. I’m not going to link to these as civilized people1 shouldn’t watch such things, but there are numerous videos of a Russian soldier surviving one drone attack only for another drone and then another to come finish him off.
Supposedly, the Ukrainians now have semi-autonomous AI-powered drone picket lines. From the evidence I’ve seen, I believe it; even the indirect evidence is that they would’ve been overwhelmed now by Russian advances without this tech.
Does anyone realize that the Terminator franchise was a warning, not something to go ahead and create? Guess we’re fatally attracted to the torment nexus. The US and every other country is at least 10 years behind where the Ukrainians are with drone tech. We have to do something about that as we’re likely to be fighting in Europe and the South China Sea soon enough.
United Airlines Flight Diverts After Pilot Forgets Passport.
Archaeologists Excavated a Pyramid and Found 2,400-Year-Old Puppets That Look Hauntingly Alive. Great, now you’ve unleashed the curse.
Americans’ increasing antisocial habits, explained in one chart.
AMoRE experiment sets new limits on neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo.
Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests. Phone/social media addicts are screaming in rage now.
They’re Cheering for Trump in Moscow—Again.
America Is Done Pretending About Meat. Plant-based eating has lost its appeal. Good. Because it sucked.
Super Hornets Are Now Carrying Stormbreaker Glide Bombs On Combat Missions.