Isn’t it fucking demented that many feminists classify 15-year-old boys as adults and 35-year-old women as children? Where the fuck did that come from?

It really is. Anyway, terms like “summer” and “winter” are always relevant and true if you just figure out where the event is taking place. Shouldn’t be hard. We simply cannot (and should not even try to) excise anything and everything potentially (usually not really) exclusionary from our lexicon as then we’d not be able to discuss anything at all.

In the future all dates should be given in all calendars, including the Elven Calendar, the French Republican Calendar, and by Stardate. You know, to be inclusionary.

Why are preferences okay until I mention tattoos?

Because after people have sullied themselves and their essence with tattoos, they still expect you to look at them the same way, to feel the same attraction as you would to uncontaminated skin.

You can and should be able to do whatever silly-ass thing you want to your own body. But no one owes you attraction after you choose to defile yourself.

The worst thing to happen to email was attempting to make it be in “conversation” mode. Can’t find a goddamn thing that way.

It’s amazing how much less “creepy” I am to women now that I’m a whole lot hotter!

HUH! Funny how that works, isn’t it?

FEMA chief calls false claims about government’s Helene response ‘truly dangerous.’

Agreed. The FEMA and federal government response in general has been pretty good, especially given the extreme amount of destruction. I’d give the effort a solid B+, as compared to a D- during Katrina.

The MAGA freakazoids are spreading all sorts of false rumors in concert with many Russian troll farms. It’s amazing the absolute clown crap people will buy without doing even a millisecond of fact checking or using any critical facilities at all to determine if something even passes an initial sniff test.

When you outsource your brain to Trump and Putin, you’ve got problems.

On my older blog that was much more popular ~20 years ago, I had people who absolutely hated me yet read every post and commented on some of them. I never understood why they kept reading, especially so religiously. If I despise someone I generally just stop reading them. That’s even true for Ian Welsh, who is my ideological nemesis. These days I don’t read anything of his except if someone links to it and I need to endure it to understand the argument. (Incredibly redundant, though, as it’s usually just Putin worship.)

Why spend so much time reading the work of someone you hate?

Oh shit, I forgot it’s about to be evil Standard Time again. Always a terrible part of the year. We should just stay on Daylight Saving permanently.

Because men are seen as disposable and the “natural” recipients of violence, no one cares what happens to us. I can guarantee that I’ve gotten my ass beat more than all but the worst female recipients of domestic violence and no one gives a crap about that. Hell, I don’t even care all that much to be perfectly honest. It’s just something that happened.

But because men are the most common perpetrators of violence (though that is overstated, it just doesn’t get counted when women do it) and seen as worth less, it’s a fact that there isn’t much concern with its effects on men. For some reason, men are seen as deserving it as it’s mostly men who perpetrate it.

But I’ve been attacked by both men and women and it didn’t seem to matter to me who was attempting to harm me. All felt about the same.

It’s too bad the incels were right about a lot of things but chose such a dumbass way to deal with it. It’s a conversation we need to have and now can’t, societally, because the well has been utterly poisoned by their clownery.

Remember, when someone wants to control you “for your own good” it will almost never be actually good for you — whether it’s the government, a software developer, a conservative, a feminist or any other person on group.

Any time you hear that or “security” or “for the children,” someone is nearly all of the time trying to con you, gain power over you, or lead you down a bad path. Just a useful general heuristic for life.

I am a unicorn, as they put it in corporate terms; I can do everything from level 1 help desk to very complex network design to compliance under multiple national and international frameworks to security to contract negotiation meetings with difficult customers. And far too many more to list here.

In my field, maybe 0.0001% of people at my level have a comparable skillset. This is not (just) to toot my own horn. It’s in the service of expressing something else and that is: no matter how glorious and resplendent a unicorn you happen to be, it most often works against as you as the more you can do, the more you are expected to do.

There was an earlier post where I said I had 14 different job titles. That’s actually now (and even was then) incorrect. It’s expanded to about 22-25 and still growing.

It’s become clear that I am going to have to do something about this as it’s not sustainable, but not sure what yet.

When it comes to reading people’s thoughts on Israel and Ukraine, often I am totally unable to tell if it’s a leftist or a MAGA nutter anymore. And I don’t care to research. I just ignore the rabble gabble and continue on as best I can.