This is what we should be working towards. There is nothing — not one thing — physically impossible about any of this1. We could do it if we chose to do so. It’d take a couple hundred years, though, and a huge amount of resources. But it could and should be done. And so much more.
Day: April 26, 2025, 9:28 PM
Schutzstaffel
Spotted this joker in Branford, FL.
This is very close to where I grew up. With my grandparents, I used to eat at a seafood restaurant in Branford in the mid-1980s that served all-you-can-eat boiled shrimp 1, among other things.
And that moronic display is about par for the course for the area.
Room With a G
Modern feminists are so damn brain-damaged. Unlike them, I prefer to presume women have agency. If you posit something else then you are simply not a feminist.
I’m in my 40s. I’m fit and have money. And the vast, vast majority of women who express any interest in me are in their 20s. A few in their 30s. Almost zero in my own age group. Are those twenty-three-year-olds grooming me? It’s so funny how far reality diverges from what feminists want us to believe is happening in the world.
And no, I am not doing anything about it. I love my partner, I’m tired, and I want to read my books. But if I were on the market it’d be vastly easier for me to be with a girl in her twenties than someone my own age. They are the ones who show up1!
Food Is Good Otherwise
This is true https://t.co/VHk1AsjlHl
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) April 24, 2025
I think there is something to this. The grass is always greener on the other side, but from a male perspective hot girls seem to have the world: everyone pays attention to you (even other girls), you can basically be in a relationship with nearly anyone you want especially if you’re straight, and nearly everyone tries to make the world easier and better for you whenever you’re around.
For men — even a lot of way above-average men — the experience of the world is the diametric opposite of that. The world does not cater to you, considers you disposable, and you’re treated as a default rapist by nearly everyone. Quite a different experience!
Of course, being a hot girl is not that simple. Most only want you for something you can give them (sex, status) and not for anything in particular about you. You’re just a tool or an accessory. A lot of the attention you receive is from people wanting that and/or wishing to harm you in some way. And if you’re an introvert, having people always up in your face is quite frustrating and can turn you into a recluse.
But I can understand where the hate comes from. From the other side, seeing none of the disadvantages, it looks like hot girls have the world on a platter. What you can’t easily determine from a distance is though the food on that platter is top quality, someone has taken a small shit in it.
He Ded
your family may die from violent diarrhea like they’re on the Oregon Trail, but at least you didn’t have to see pronouns in an email signature https://t.co/1brp7OIGL4
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) April 25, 2025
You have died of dysentery. And dumbassery.
Not So Grate
[THREAD OF GRAPHS]
People believe what they want to believe. Rightoids believe immigrants in the US commit a lot of crime (they don't) and leftoids think immigration in Europe from the Muslim world has been been good (it's been a disaster).
New stats tell the story for the US. pic.twitter.com/vDZQhUgF1r
— i/o (@rational_wiki) April 25, 2025
Europe is at risk from immigration in a way that the US largely is not. Allowing and even encouraging unrestricted immigration from Islamic countries is going to destroy a lot of those countries. That is, of course, if Putin doesn’t get there first.
Bubble Trouble. An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
What’s Legally Allowed in War.
Homebuilders plan for a slower and pricier year ahead.
Just a pale blue dot. When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance? That we need to get out there and take the rest.
With over 900 US measles cases so far this year, things are looking bleak.
Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes.
Showing Up
Being told what’s impossible and then deciding that you don’t care is the key to getting anywhere in life.
Amber
may not be too many more years before it’s feasible to keep prisoners in solitary confinement with fewer psychological effects by giving them copious social interactions with AIs
that’s gonna get freaky real fast
— David Hines (@hradzka) April 26, 2025
Shit, homie, that’s going to happen to non-incarcerated people too. AI companions will “solve” the loneliness epidemic.
I hate the future.
By the way, the only way AI companions could make a difference to the loneliness issue is if they were like Iris in Companion. And then they’d just be people (with all the rights and responsibilities that entails), so no real solution there.
I saw some dippy clown the other day “proving” there was no loneliness epidemic with her little science spreadsheets. And it was so cute! But of course she’s wrong. Your little science spreadsheets show you almost nothing of use here.
Nothing Compares Live
I’d never seen that before. What an amazing performance. All live, no backing track, no echo on the mic, singing parts most people wouldn’t attempt even if they managed it in the studio once.
And damn, Prince could write a song. I just wish they’d used a mic better suited to her big voice. That one is crap.