The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #426: Misc.
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #425: Women/Dating
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #418: Clown World/Politics/Economics
In a recent comment I pointed out that the days of the elites raging against video games are long gone. If you are old enough, you may recall the decades-long elite campaign against gaming. Prominent examples are the moral panic surrounding 1990s titles like Doom and Mortal Kombat, or the 2001 smash-hit GTA III, which… Continue reading The Elites’ Diet for You: Vidya, Porn, and Weed
I do not need to go into much depth about r/K selection theory. In short, you can subdivide species into two categories. There are those that produce many offspring but invest very little in them, which is the “r” strategy. In contrast, other species produce relatively few offspring but dedicate a lot of time and… Continue reading Financialization and Democracy as Root-Causes of Western YOLO-ism
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #424: Misc.
There are some bizarre conspiracy theories floating around about the Democrat party having been compromised by China. In particular, the Biden family is often singled out, with at best circumstantial evidence of protecting if not promoting the interests of foreign parties. This is all just made up right-wing nonsense. What’s next, people promoting the idea… Continue reading How China Could Really Take Over the West
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #423: Misc.
I like arcade games, but so do enough content creators online, and there is no shortage of game journalists writing on this topic either. However, after having sunk my teeth into arcade games, it became blatantly obvious that a lot of information out there is downright nonsensical, with people not understanding certain gameplay principles or… Continue reading An Autistic Take on One-Credit Clears and 1990s to early 2000s Arcade Games
One of the most bizarre Clown World stories I recently read is that Harvard, once supposedly the top university in the United States, nowadays offers remedial mathematics courses. Harvard also offers “the most difficult mathematics course in the world”, the infamous Math 55. For non-US-citizens, the content of Math 55 is not too different from… Continue reading Slavery is Freedom, War is Piece, and Edumacation is Education
Tattoos are apparently going out of fashion these days. However, it stills seems that the majority of young women have visible tattoos. It has been well-established that women first began getting tattoos due to their association with the underworld. They wanted dangerous Chads to fuck them and since Thug Chad has tattoos, they also got… Continue reading Is Porn the Reason for Tattoos Being Considered Sexy?
There are some memes floating around with before-and-after pictures of women. The “before” pictures show slim, healthy, and attractive women. Once they enter college, though, their looks take a nosedive. They get fat, shave their head, neglect personal hygiene and may even get piercings and tattoos that will permanently lower their sexual market value. This… Continue reading How Feminism and Leftism Wreck Women
In the black-pill community the term “monkey branching”, i.e. the often-observed female behavior of only ending a relationship once the next sexual partner has been secured, was popularized a few years ago. This is a real phenomenon. It of course also often happens that women who only seemingly secured their next sexual partner end up… Continue reading Is Mission Impossible II the Origin of the Term Monkey-Branching?
I have little interest in traveling these days, for a variety of reasons. One is that I have extensively lived abroad and witnessed the marvels of multiculturalism this way already. Granted, I have hardly left the Western world, but I have seen quite a bit of it. Otherwise, I have spent a few months in… Continue reading Pilgrimages in Clown World are Impossible
In a recent article I lamented the dumbing down of popular culture. Today, I experienced a variation of the theme of societal decline first hand when I attempted to buy a new suit. It was quite a remarkable experience, so let me tell you how well it went. I own multiple dress jackets and a… Continue reading Buying a Suit in Clown World
A topic I have circled back to repeatedly is the decline of both high-brow and low-brow culture. It is bad enough if you just look back at the last ten or fifteen years, but if you look further back, the decline is absolutely unbelievable. Earlier today, I was reminded of a Beach Boys song, California… Continue reading Cultural Decline in a Nutshell
I’m heading back closer to home soon and leaving the city behind, at least for now. Wanted to outline some thoughts about banging whores and one of the misperceived pitfalls associated with it: Pros in general are only slightly more reliable than hooking up with non-pros based solely off of attraction. Allow me to explain.… Continue reading Advice on Choosing a Prostitute (Guest Post by Pickernanny)
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #422: Misc.
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #421: Women/Dating
In the recent Joe Rogan podcast with Elon Musk, there is a rather amusing bit at the start where Elon demonstrates the latest Grok-infused AI persona, jokingly referring to it as “unhinged mode”. His unhinged AI has a female voice and the attitude of an utterly spoilt brat. She ignores the questions she is asked… Continue reading Hyper-Attractive Women and Their Attitude Problems
Recently I wrote an article on my experience with job interviews while under the influence of methylphenidate (MPH). The overall aim was to illustrate that with MPH, my performance is a lot more consistent. In particular, I find the experience overall a lot more tolerable whereas in the past I sometimes just got bored or… Continue reading Job Interviews Without Methylphenidate
In the looks-maxxing community there is the belief that if you improve everything about your life you are going to enjoy greater success with women. By and large, this view is correct. However, there are very obvious limits, which is where the “black pill” comes into play. In the end, you can only maximize your… Continue reading The Limits of Fashion-Maxxing
Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking of the relation of society to beauty. Whereas beauty used to be actively promoted by our rulers, in contemporary society the exact opposite is the case. What is worse, the status quo is so bad that you may not even realize how perverted society has become… Continue reading The Disappearance of Random Hot Women in Media and Society
In my article on why Math Olympians are generally unattractive, my main point was that physical attractiveness opens many doors. Thus, a highly-gifted yet highly-attractive teenage boy or girl has many more opportunities than someone who is highly gifted but also highly deficient in the looks department. Thus, the alpha-looks and alpha-IQ crowd tends to… Continue reading The Value of Beauty in an Enforced World of Ugliness
Methylphenidate (MPH) is not an amphetamine, but it basically functions like one. It is obviously a stimulant, and out of curiosity I also explored how to use it in this way. Normally, I take MPH in order to become more focused. When I am my non-medicated self, I have the problem that I sometimes get… Continue reading Using Methylphenidate as an Upper
I recently wrote an article that was quite critical of generative AI, but the focus was on fairly simple tasks, which these AI tools could already not properly deal with, such as compiling lists. A modicum of domain knowledge makes you realize that the information you got was incomplete, sometimes comically so. In order to… Continue reading The Low Ceiling of Artificial Intelligence
I have been promoting the methylphenidate (MPH) lifestyle quite a bit over the last few months. Despite my various articles on this topic, I do not think that people should take this drug, for instance via sourcing it in GTA, if there is no medical justification for doing so. There are also some side effects.… Continue reading Methylphenidate and Weight Loss
I recently came across a picture of some local students who competed at a national mathematics competition, doing pretty well. To nobody’s surprise, none of these teenage boys and girls, of which there were much fewer than boys, would score high in the Looks Olympics. However, as IQ and physical attractiveness are positively correlated, it… Continue reading Why are Math Olympians Unattractive?
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #420: Misc.
In a recent post I mentioned that I decided to go through a job interview I otherwise would not have taken, due to methylphenidate (MPH) kicking in. This was about a month ago. In the meantime, I have systematically explored how MPH affects my interview performance or my general willingness to even go through an… Continue reading Job Interviews on Methylphenidate
Ever since ChatGPT was first released, there is incessant chatter about human labor being increasingly replaceable. We have read that even high-skilled professions like software development will be eviscerated by an AI, presumably one that ultimately writes itself. All it took was some business guy ask ChatGPT how to write a loop that counts up… Continue reading AI is not an Equalizer
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #419: Women/Dating
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #417: Misc.
The effect social policy has on mate selection seems to a taboo subject that the elites want to keep out of sight. In reality, though, social policy has far-reaching influence on mate selection. An easy example is an exuberant welfare state in which even the non-productive members of society can live like millionaires. If economic… Continue reading Social Policy Influences Mate Selection
We spoke about suboptimal female dating strategies before, such as systematically fishing in the wrong pool, which leads to at best achieving a local optimum. There is an interesting inverse to this problem, which seems to explain why a lot of women are obsessed with “fixing” their guy. While women normally realize that they cannot… Continue reading The Female Fix-the-Guy Fantasy
A few years ago I attended a conference on machine learning. There was a connection due to the company I worked for at that time so we got a few free tickets. The conference itself is not really the point, though. Instead, I want to talk about a most curious side event that perfectly illustrates… Continue reading The Amazing AI Girl
As part of my explorations on how methylphenidate (MPH) changes my perception, I explored what it is like to play video games on this drug. I should add that I do not condone taking MPH for the sole purpose of improving your performance in video games as this would be quite frivolous. My own usage… Continue reading Methylphenidate and Gaming
There is the right-wing saying that at the top and bottom of the wealth pyramid consists of an hereditary aristocracy. Let us ignore that the terminology is wrong as the etymological root of “aristocrat” is the Greek aristos, i.e. “the best”. By definition, if you stratify society based on wealth, then the wealthiest end up… Continue reading The Welfare Aristocracy is Real
I recently thought about the problem women have in selecting a suitable mate. As they are not the one’s approaching men, for the very most part, their theoretically best approach is to put themselves in an environment where they can meet the highest-status men that would consider them as a mate. While men do not… Continue reading The Directionality of Female Mate Selection
Following the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is very entertaining. Basically every day they cancel DEI contracts for grifters and kick out huge swatches of Deep State bureaucrats. Looking beyond just the government, however, I had the impression that the impact of his work will be much more far reaching and… Continue reading Will Musk’s DOGE Decimate the IT Services Industry?
Today I had a very interesting experience that ties together my two last articles, Nihilism in Clown World Companies and Methylphenidate and Personality Changes. As I am part of a clown-world industry which provides a living, yet very little job security, I casually apply to jobs basically all the time. I send out about a… Continue reading Ad-Hoc Personality Changes on Methylphenidate
I wrote about tech being a clown-world career before. Tech is not the only clown-world career. Clown world is far reaching. I think every company that is not making profits and instead pursues bogus metrics, such as “downloads” or “monthly active users” or “gross merchandise volume” is quite likely a clown-world operation. These companies can… Continue reading Nihilism in Clown World Companies
As a regular user of methylphendidate (MPH), a very serious and highly effective drug, I spend considerable time paying attention to my mind and body, trying to articulate how this drug impacts me. This also includes tracking biomarkers. There is one aspect that is sometimes pointed out as a potential risk, namely personality changes. Apparently,… Continue reading Methylphenidate and Personality Changes
I just finished watching the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which recently had been mentioned in the comments section. This film pairs two of the biggest stars of their time, Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. In the 1990s, this was comparable to pairing up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, albeit both of them look a… Continue reading The Interlocked Dual Fantasy Story of Pretty Woman (1990)
Arguably the biggest news of the last few days is that the official regime-change operation of the US government, USAID, is getting its wings clipped, with a far-reaching cut in spending and the introduction of adult supervision. Up until very recently, this agency seemed to have operated without any accountability, using US taxpayer money to… Continue reading The Limits of a Superparasitical Economy
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #414: Clown World/Politics/Economics
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #413: Misc.
As you know from a previous post, I accidentally ended up with a prescription for methylphenidate (MPH). I take it not infrequently as the benefits are quite noticeable. Quite frankly, I think that MPH is an incredible drug. That being said, I do not want to conform to the default drug dosage regimen as I… Continue reading Pushing and Coasting: A Responsible Regimen for Taking Cognitive Enhancers
I detest a lot about the unhinged left, in particular their never-ending word games. In this article, I point out two instances, one related to immigration and the other to higher education. They are completely obvious, yet we have a multi-billion media apparatus that wants to tell us that blue is akshually red and that… Continue reading Leftist Word Games: Non-Illegal Illegal Immigrants and Non-Free Freedom of Speech
Recently I wrote, albeit more in passing, about my increased focus on health, based on tracking certain biomarkers. This is not because I live an unhealthy life, which I most certainly do not. Instead, I want to better understand my body and be aware of any potential issue, however minor. This became more relevant after… Continue reading Experiments in Lowering Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
