Comp Time

I’ve seen this happen dozens of times. Mainly when I was in the army. What was usually happening is the woman’s “friend” was acting as a blocker so that she could head off the guy and then talk to him later and go home with him. Sometimes it was simple jealousy by the less attractive “friend,” though.

Another example of female intrasexual competition.

Interrodate

For all that she’s divergent, Aella is laughably-typical as an attractive women. Her dates are like interrogations.

I want to understand him fast. I am paying close attention, looking for novel words to toss at him. It feels playful for me, like wrestling, or leaning into tension. I want to see the green under his bark, the places where he’s unpracticed. I slip in fast, arrowhead questions, ones that carry intensity or exploration. “Are you smarter than your coworkers” or “When your ex broke up with you, did you deserve it?” or “So when your mom died, did you feel bad about it?”

I’m faster than just about anyone alive and I don’t get embarrassed or feel awkward. And yet even I hate these type of torture interrogation dates. I’d probably get up and leave.

And because men absolutely despise these bound-for-the-gulag-if-you-answer-wrong type experiences, they tend to avoid doing the same to women.

As with most attractive women, she’s looking for a fantasy person who doesn’t exist or who got married a decade ago. Her list of candidates is basically zero. She’s so close to having self-insight but does not quite make it there, even with as smart as she is.

Again, she’s like 99.99% of other attractive women. Aella at least in this realm is only unusual in how typical she is.

At Large

That is, largely, bullshit. You can change your hunger level and satiety settings over time. I know because I did it.

In my past I could easily eat an entire large pizza by myself. I used to do it all the time. Don’t anymore. The absurd idea that self-control is impossible is self-reinforcing into a doom spiral. I’ve seen it too often. And the above nonsense is the common lefty take.

But self-control is possible. And not even hard. It’s muscle you exercise — the more you do it, the better you get at it. Just like anything else. Don’t believe the harmful, self-defeating lies in that tweet.

Pancake

Heh. Exactly. Biking is a dangerous hobby because in the US we made different choices about how to organize our transpo infrastructure as compared to some rinky-dink European town.

Make adult choices about it, STFU, or get pancaked. Anyway, most of the US is unpleasant or untenable to ride a bike in 60% of the year. Right now, it’s 92 outside where I live and will get up to 98 later in the day. I’m resilient to heat and no way I’d ride in that.

Becons

Every major industry that has been developed anywhere ever has been government-subsidized all the way back to ancient times. It’s funny when idiots are like, “Buh-buh-buh, Tesla gets government subsidies! That makes it faaaaaake!” Or on the right, “Solar power got subsidized! That means it can’t worrrrrrrk!”

Meanwhile, oil companies and auto manufacturing incumbents receive dozens of billions in direct subsidies and tax breaks a year and no one says shit1. Makes no sense. If you object, at least be consistent. But no one any side ever does that. And the clown show continues.

  1. A rough calculation is that worldwide, oil companies since their inception have received somewhere around $1 trillion in direct subsidies in today’s dollars.