Author: Chill

Skimming

Chill Political Economy

Crazy to think that the majority of the money I used to buy the house I’m currently living in I made doing low-risk and perfectly-legal stock market shenanigans with play money1.

What I did shouldn’t be legal. Some companies do it at massive scale. And not (just) to praise myself, but it takes a big brain to do what I did. That is a good example of a de facto power imbalance that the left refuses to talk about ever. It is a real blind spot for them. Not to belabor the point, but the age gap crap they incessantly bang on about absolutely fucking pales in comparison to cognitive inequality.

  1. Meaning money that was not for retirement, not for anything specific and if I’d lost it all I would’ve gone, “Oh well! Such is life. Let’s get some dinner.”

She’s The One

Chill Regular-ass Post

When I watch videos like this, I am thankful for how great my current partner is in comparison. Because in all my other prior relationships, the problems she’s talking about have occurred.

Women love the, “If you were a real man, you would (insert something insane or demeaning here)” line. My current partner has never said or even implied anything like that. Women often have more toxic masculinity immanent than men they accuse of same is what I’ve noticed.

As always with things aimed at the so-called “manosphere” (of which I am not a part), I don’t agree with all of it, but I think she makes one particularly important point: Women often claim they do a lot of “emotional labor.” I think this is mostly bullshit. Many women don’t even believe men have emotions and if they do, they should suppress them wholly. For example women in the past I’ve been with spent hours a week trauma-dumping and I (and millions of other men) are expected to listen to this and react appropriately.

But the moment you even hint that you’re having a hard time or something didn’t go your way and it made you sad or uspet, the reaction of these same women is often, “Man up and fix your own shit!” Or, “I’m not here for a weak man.” Or they just lose all attraction to you. Like, you can literally see it drain out of their eyes.

Men know it’s mostly them who do most of the emotional labor in most relationships. It’s just that men having any emotions is seen by most women as “emotional labor.” Sucks.

Chill Links

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation: Overall CPI Accelerates for 4th Month, “Core” CPI for 3rd Month on Re-spiking Used Vehicle Prices & Rising Homeowner Costs.

Singles Want to Find Love in Real Life Again, if Only They Could Remember How. Goddamn this is all so sad; how far we’ve fallen.

‘Left turn and off the bridge’: Trump’s spy pick stuns intel world.

What happens when a vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida.

The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development.

Cornish monument is 4,000 years older than was thought and ‘without parallel.’

What Election Do These People Think We Just Had? Democrats are inventing wild fantasies about the power of Big Woke rather than confront the failures of their actual approach.

How China Capitalized on U.S. Indifference in Latin America.

Six inane arguments about EVs and how to handle them at the dinner table. Another example of most people believing mostly falsehoods.

Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering.

That Trump’s cabinet is going to be full of losers cheaters six-time users (I could do this all day) is 100% a classic fascist/authoritarian flex.

The Surgical Demolition of Public Trust & Societal Maturity. A Textbook Strategy for Upending Democracy.

Any line of separation between Fox News and the US government is about to vanish.

Europe must build resilience against Trump’s America – and welcome those desperate to flee it. Should but probably will not.

Global Oil Market Faces a Million-Barrel Glut Next Year, the IEA Says.

The nature of natural laws.

Fit Out Kit Out

Chill Culture

I’m not certain exactly what his point is, but I’m not sure you can separate the outfit completely from the person’s body shape — they work in synergy. I now look good in outfits I would not have six years ago because I am far more muscular and fit.

By the same token, it’s a nice-looking outfit on the woman in question but exactly the same outfit wouldn’t work on a woman without a trim midriff. However, a very similar longer mesh shirt with a shrug or something would look good on just about anyone. Dressing for the body you have isn’t something unfair or weird. It’s just what you do if you want to look good. Sure, if you’re trim and fit you have more options. But that doesn’t mean you have to look like a dumpster if you are not those things. It does mean, though, that you have to work at it a little harder.

Agent C

Chill Clowns, Evil, Politics

Tulsi Gabbard is quite literally a Russian agent. This is not speculation. Even Russia says this.

This is incredibly bad. And people who thought Trump was going to help Ukraine: LOL.