What the fuck is even happening in the UK. Though I am sure that will be thing in the US soon enough. Schoolkids aren’t allowed at McDonald’s of all places after 5PM?
And we wonder why kids are trapped in front of their smartphones. I was going to places by myself when I was 10. Hell world.
In the era of the late sixties and early seventies, it was made socially unacceptable to have any expectations of women at all.
No roles, no duties, no responsibilities, no societal influence, only an infinity of choice.
No feedback.
If and when men express no expectations… https://t.co/VPIG8CgRcU
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) August 14, 2025
It’s a bit cruel, but I think his evaluation of her is pretty dead on. She seems incredibly self-centered. There’s no thought to what she can contribute to a relationship. She looks fine but is not beautiful enough to coast on that alone, so she actually has to provide something. And there’s no sign of that. Based on that short clip, I wouldn’t have stepped forward either.
It takes real bravery to get up in front of people and do that on video, so kudos for that at least.
Where I lived, it was more of a rolling, ever-changing lockdown condition.
The worst of it lasted 4-6 months, but even beyond that, gyms weren't allowed to operate normally or sometimes weren't allowed to be open at all. Certain services were shut down, some stores couldn't… https://t.co/jG6MdRBwr6 pic.twitter.com/M1loRedaTX
— Captain Doombeard (@CDoombeard) August 14, 2025
This disconnect is because leftists, liberals, Covidians and other associated clowns define lockdown as, “Armed thugs weld your door shut and arrest you if you leave the house.”
Everyone else has a better and more correct definition. Tell the kids who couldn’t go to school for two years and missed all their important life events that there was no lockdown. I know a woman whose daughter is still seething and enraged about that years later. Think she’ll vote for anyone who did that to her now that she’s an adult?
Lockdown wasn’t even that bad for us. We had a very pleasant place to live with a great view. And we actually like each other. But even with that, we didn’t eat out for 18 months. Many activities were restricted. Life was not normal at all. Just because there was no degrowther dream hard lockdown doesn’t mean a damn thing. It was still a bad time for everyone.
When you realize how little actual thinking or brainpower it takes to be significantly smarter than average, it doesn’t leave you feeling so intelligent. The average is terrible. It’s kind of like to a dog, any person seems like a genius.
But there’s a lot more distance between me and someone like Norbert Wiener than the average dog is from the average person. I only seem intelligent because someone at the average is not quite smart enough to discern the difference between Norbert and me.
But unfortunately I have just enough brains to measure that difference, and it’s vast. Far, far more than between me and Joe or Jane Average.
I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search.
Our Best Look At DARPA’s Defiant Uncrewed Surface Ship.
This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it.
‘Absolutely immense’: the companies on the hook for the $3tn AI building boom.
The Rule of Idiots. In the last days of all empires the idiots take over.
Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected.
They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose.
Trump Rate Hopes Burned as New Inflation Data Comes in Hot. Stagflation then outright depression inbound.
Cancer scientist Feng Gensheng leaves US for China as Trump cuts funding. We are determined to the stupid as hard as we can.
It would have been cooler if he’d used CRISPR to create a seven-foot-tall version of his wife and called that one Big Wife.
Now that would have had flair, pizzazz, some originality. Billionaires are so unimaginative.
Sysadmins thrown into customer calls – how do you stay composed?
I’m composed by nature, but it’s easy. When you don’t know something (which is always, always gonna happen on customer calls), say: “I don’t know the answer to that, but will find out and get back to you.”
Easy. Super easy. And then research with the relevant team, FAQ or whatever and actually follow up.
A junior of mine was shadowing me on a customer call once and was flabbergasted that I said, “I don’t know” to half a dozen questions. However, when I’d tried letting her have a crack at answering on another customer call, she couldn’t handle it and threw out tons of fabricated and incorrect responses that I later had to walk back. Or she otherwise flubbed them.
This is infinitely worse than just saying, “I don’t know.”
Because trust me, customers are always going to come up with some wild-ass crap ain’t nobody ever thought of before.
It’s fine to research and answer later. I do it with nearly every customer call and I know a fucking lot about a lot.
Agreed, Baumol’s is not an adequate explanation; it only accounts for about 20% at most of this massive change. Not nearly enough, in other words.
Essentially, we just don’t want to offer the services and benefits we could vastly more easily provide now. Like most things in this world, it’s a choice. And we choose not to do so. For no good reason, either. Nearly all of what we once were able to do as a civilization we could do now and it would benefit everyone. But in the descent into zero sum thinking that has occurred for an enormous variety of reasons, people are convinced it’s more worthwhile to hurt their neighbor rather than to help them.
This, they incorrectly believe, will raise them up. The reality is that it drags them both down. As we’ll see soon enough.
Gray Sabbath
Bus Halen
Boron Zeppelin
The Went-Wents
The Mashing Pumpkins
Blue Öyster Homeowners Association
Unsoundgarden
Joy Addition
Earth Wind & Smoke
Mildly Spicy Bell Peppers
OKTramp
Coldwork
Depeche à la Mode
Guns N’ Periwinkles
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces.’
Get this degrowther shit out of my face.
So I can stuff it with more pizza.
How do some girls manage to smell amazing all the time?
Easy: they’re robots.
Sydney Chandler does such an amazing job in Alien: Earth of duplicating the mannerisms of a child in an adult’s body.
(The backstory is that she’s a terminally-ill kid transplanted into a synthetic body. Since synths don’t grow, they migrate her consciousness into the body of fully-adult-mimicking synthetic body.)
She gives my favorite performance I’ve seen lately. Sydney manages to perfectly reproduce the gawky impulsiveness and awkwardness of a ten-year-old without overdoing it or seeming like an adult pretending to be a kid. She just gives total “kid” aura. It’s quite amazing.
Like, damn girl, leave some talent of the rest of us.
There's this generally very female brained conception of sex as a low order, primitive, animalistic drive that as enlightened humans, we ought to discount as basic and beneath us rather than good and beautiful. The "men are dogs" trope. No, men aren't dogs, men have been given… https://t.co/52zQGboeC2
— LIZZY💥 (@LizzyStarrrdust) August 12, 2025
And a lot of women actually like sex too. Trust me on that.
But I think a lot of this discourse lately is from women (and some men) who do not actually enjoy sex and are disgusted by it. Which, to be fair, is increasingly common, especially in Gen Z. And a lot of those women who do abhor sex are feminists. There’s probably a connection there.
Regardless, anyone who sees men’s sexuality as default evil and deviant is my enemy.
my basic view is that the future will look much more like the past than the present. we are at the end of a great historical abnormality: this level of cultural stability and homogeneity, and relative secularism is over. we’re going back to the basics of violence and divine faith
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) August 1, 2025
I basically agree with this. Europe will be Islamicized. It’ll be a backwater for 500 years, much as it used to be. The USA will go Christian dominionist and will resemble the pre-US 1730s and 1740s again, but for 300-500 years too. Also a horrible oppressive also-ran.
China is in decline, but probably will at least avoid being turned into a theocracy or theocracy-lite.
The future probably lies with Latin America and non-China Asian states (not India).
Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic.
So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who’s Going to Restore it?
Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Core Services Worst in 6 Months, Pushing Core CPI to Worst in 6 Months. Some Goods Prices Fell, Others Rose. It will only get worse from here.
Trump has turned FEMA itself into a disaster.
These West Virginians love Trump and food stamps—but they can’t have both.
BLS Commissioner Nominee’s Suggestion to Suspend Monthly Jobs Report Is ‘Like Gouging Our Eyes Out.’
Nonpartisan budget office: Republicans’ megabill will make the rich richer, poor poorer. Well, yeah, because that’s the point of it?
133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations.
Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap. Of course it’s a trap. Anyway, Russia thinks Alaska is Russian soil.
We live in a fascist nation. What now? Once they win elections, it’s already too late. Agreed. Probably no more meaningful elections at the national level in our lifetimes.
Softbank: 1,000 AI agents replace 1 job.
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed. Agreed. Just should be eliminated.
AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history. I’m no AI cheerleader, but liberals (as usual) are wrong about AI.