Ok, I‘m not judging, I‘m just showing the facts.

1. Migrants are mainly young men, not women and children as the left green media tends to portray them

2. Refugees lie about their age to enjoy minors benefits, the spike just under 18 years is simply statistically not possible pic.twitter.com/vyVhHwOnR7

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) March 29, 2025

Allowing in a lot of unattached young men, often from countries with quite backwards/Western-averse cultures, is a terrible, terrible idea. That’s not racism. That’s just reality.

Someone from my former side gig (who is also a friend of mine) contacted me good-naturedly complaining that they’d had to hire four different consultants to do what I used to do by myself, and in far less time. On a project that’s still not done after weeks, that I used to handle in a few hours.

So that was nice.

I think Long Covid is real, but I suspect only about 5-10% people who claim to have Long Covid actually have the condition.

That’s just how trendy but difficult-to-verify diagnoses work. Always have.

Something I always try to impress on junior team members is to not skip steps in troubleshooting. Even when you “know” it couldn’t be something, check it any-damn-way. Especially since if you’re troubleshooting correctly the first few things you try should be the simplest, most obvious and the quickest. To wit:

1) Is it plugged in?

2) Is it powered on/started?

3) Is there a DNS entry?

About half the time when my juniors can’t solve something, I come behind them and try the easy initial things it definitely “couldn’t” be and fix the issue.

Most people just do not have minds suited for troubleshooting I guess.

Actual conversation I had today at work (on Slack, paraphrased and condensed to remove company information and for clarity):

Them: (User) has an ongoing issue that needs to be resolved and hasn’t been fixed by your team.

Me: Ok, what’s the ticket number? I looked through the queue and didn’t see anything from that person.

Them: They haven’t put in a ticket for the issue.

Me: No worries, did they let anyone know to it was a problem so we could enter a ticket and work on it?

Them: No, they mentioned it to me [their manager] and said no one had fixed it yet.

Me: So there was no ticket and they didn’t let anyone know about the problem?

Them: No, but it still needs to be fixed as it’s been broken for a while and it’s causing them to miss meetings. Isn’t your team monitoring things?

Me: We have monitoring in place for all infrastructure, but we have no way of knowing about anything being non-functional if it’s never reported. We do not monitor every single bit of functionality of every application on every single computer out there. That’s just not possible.

Readers, the “broken” thing was that the user had turned notifications off for Outlook and forgot or didn’t know how to turn them back on. And then never reported it or even Googled the issue. Ain’t no monitoring in the got-damn universe would ever catch that.

My mother stabbed me. I don’t know how to keep going on.

My mom tried to stab me and got so close to doing so that the knife tip cut my shirt but never actually made it through to the skin before I caught her arm. (It wasn’t quite as close as that sounds; the shirt was baggy and it flared out when I was retreating to avoid the stabbin’.)

Ah, North Florida. There’s no place like it. Thank fucking Zeus.

I’m not left or right nor anything that makes any sense in terms of the limited terminology of these times; I’m channeling an ethos and ideology from 10,000 years in the future.

I’m wearing my medium cap and I’m doing it. Though my medium cap is large because I have a big head.

I realized this too pretty early. If you’re willing to accept the consequences (and I am), you can do whatever you want. I don’t want to be in a meeting? I leave. Someone’s abusing me? Just walking out works fine. Just try to stop me. You’ll find out what “world of hurt” means.

Being an adult means you get to choose. So choose. Quit being an utter wimp.

It’s normal and reasonable for a man to care what you look like, and prefer you to keep the look you had when he met you (outside of inevitable things re: aging) https://t.co/hegN9jl0h2 pic.twitter.com/hl9RR882qZ

— Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) March 22, 2025

Agreed. I think the same is true the other way too (or for same-sex couples). This tendency to let one’s self go is worse in women (or at least I notice more), but women who are like, “He should still love me even though I now weigh 500 pounds and am one with my couch!” seem to me to be fucking insane. Why would you think that?

And then men are castigated for caring that the woman who was 120 pounds and fit when they got together now can’t be distinguished from the herd if she gets too close to a group of bovines.

No thanks.

Hey everyone, r/truckers wouldn’t let me post this but I had to get it off my chest after a couple years.

Terrible story, but probably an example of inattentional blindness. The person driving the car wasn’t expecting to see a large tractor-trailer blocking the road (and the trailer part is often the same color as a grey sky), so just did not see it.

I have seen things like this happen personally (though not resulting in death) so I know it occurs. I’m always surprised by what people do not see/notice as I have a really wide attention and see things others miss most of the time.

How did you feel about your mom as a teenager and how do you feel about her now?

As a teenager I hated her, but not because of the usual teenage angst reasons. No, I despised her because she was a negligent and mildly abusive alcoholic who had fucked up her own life in very preventable ways and blamed everyone else for it. I vowed not to be like her. And I succeeded in that.

Now, I no longer hate her¹. I still think she was terrible and could’ve done better but I have more understanding now.

My mom was someone like me with a large ego and extremely high intelligence² who thought she was special — but the difference between us is that she never did anything to demonstrate that she was exceptional. She just thought people should recognize how amazing she was with no achievements to her name. In that respect, she was sort of like the incels who sit around in their basements making no mark on the world and expect to have supermodel girlfriends and plush jobs fall in their laps (in the former case, literally).

She thought she deserved the world, did nothing to achieve that, and was bitter because it didn’t just happen as if by magic. Very incel-like, as I said above.

I have some sympathy for her plight because in a different world I might’ve ended up like her. Not too likely but at least I can see the path. She married my dad at 19 to rebel against her parents, got pregnant (with me) and the bitterness and regret followed from there.

And after that, instead of actually bettering her life, she decided she wanted to become a party girl at age 29. And that went about as well as you’d expect.

She died as a result of her drug use and alcoholism, much diminished, at 64. Her life was bleak throughout and the only joy she got was from drinking, I think.

I don’t miss her and I feel pity for what and who she became.

1. She’s been dead for a few years now.
2. Before she destroyed her brain with alcohol, IQ in the 160-170 range.

“Space colonization isn’t real, it’s a utopian fantasy.”

I could say the same thing about the inevitably authoritarian and regressive variants of socialism the people saying this idealize.

Actually, space colonization is far more feasible than communism.

— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) March 17, 2025

I agree with that, with some caveats. Communism is contra human nature; space travel is contra human biology. Which is easier to change, human nature or human biology?

The future is vast and our successors will find out. Probably will be changing a bit of both, to be fair.

I have no interest in starting something like this, but I bet you could make significant money by spooling up a dating site that only allowed women with no tattoos.

A lot of men would fork over some serious cheddar to be on that. I would, were I single. I’d probably consider up to $500 a month, though I know I am an outlier there. In the $50-$80 a month range is probably more realistic.

So multiple intelligence agencies knew the pandemic was a lab leak from Wuhan and it was covered up from the public. This is massive. https://t.co/k1faLdSszz

— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) March 16, 2025

I believe that Covid was a lab leak, but I don’t think “knew” is the right word here. “Knew” implies certitude, which we’ll never have. There will never be a smoking gun. I’m sure China destroyed that long ago.

“Beyond reasonable doubt” as stated in the intelligence report is more accurate. The preponderance of evidence and simple common sense all point to a lab leak. The evidence against this conclusion appear to be all engineered or an attempted coping mechanism by scientists who are worried about their funding being affected by the consequences of revealing such a large mistake (though lab leaks happen rather frequently, just usually not so consequentially).

It is good to see the lab leak hypothesis going from “wacky conspiracy theory that only terrible, terrible racists believe” to relatively accepted.

I think it could happen. A whole lot of the left is against anything that you do to improve yourself physically because they see it as “eugenics.” That includes working out, drugs, plastic surgery and anything that might give you some sort of advantage over anyone else. I mean, Vonnegut wrote a whole damn short story about this phenomenon many years ago. And it’s only gotten worse since.

So of course liberals would be against GLP-1 drugs because they make you look and feel better. And can’t have that.

Today, I did lots of eugenics. I worked out hard enough that my arms still aren’t functioning quite right. I’m gonna do some more eugenics tomorrow too.