I came across a draft of this post in my notes. I originally wrote it about five years ago but did not publish it as it seemed a bit too gloomy for my liking back then. I made some minor changes to it, but kept the tone. Looking at this text again, I see no… Continue reading Aging and the Growing Sense of Urgency
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 #334
Last year, my ex-wife died. I do not know the exact cause of death, but I have reason to believe that it was due to suicide. I knew her quite well, after all. One of her biggest personality flaws was that she struggled severely with aging. For this I should add that she used to… Continue reading Reflections On My Dead Ex-Wife
You know about the WEF’s plan to abolish private property by 2030. The goal is that you “own nothing and be happy”. You rent everything, while a small but somehow not mentioned kleptocratic elite owns absolutely everything. It’s everyday life as a service or subscription. You may wonder how this will work in practice but… Continue reading The Planned Destruction of the German Middle Class
I keep noticing that quite a few women seem to have a problem with working together. Just like back in high school, there is a facade of all of them getting along just fine, but then they talk badly about each other behind their back. You can even encounter highly unprofessional behavior like women trying… Continue reading Conflicting Female Status Hierarchies at Work
It is easy to look around today and get disheartened. The elites have not been this hostile towards the general population presumably since the dawn of the French revolution. For instance, they ship as many jobs abroad as possible while opening the flood gates for both cheap labor and welfare leeches in order to justify… Continue reading The Breakdown of Elite Control Structures
Alek Novy left an interesting comment on female behavior some of you probably have observed as well. He uses the term “hallucinated rejection”, which is quite fitting. One of the things that irks me most about women is “hallucinated rejection”. I don’t know if there is a name for it, so that’s what I came… Continue reading Guest Post: Hallucinated Rejections (by Alek Novy)
There are a few big franchises out there that make a lot of money. Call of Duty or FIFA soccer bring in big vidya bucks, and regarding Hollywood, Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies used to be big earners, albeit not so much recently. I once thought that people who consume this kind of material are… Continue reading Encounter with a Mainstream Gamer
It is well-known that Latinas age poorly. However, I never witnessed this directly. Sometimes, albeit rarely, I run into Latinas, young or old, but I never worked closely with such a woman. The other day, though, a post by a Latina I had met years ago popped up in my LinkedIn feed. Her name sounded… Continue reading Rapidly Aging Latino Women
I am currently reading the novel “I am Charlotte Simmons” by Tom Wolfe, which is not exactly a page-turner but quite okay overall. There are some good observations about women, albeit plenty is downright bizarre and tells you that the author does not seem to have a lot of first-hand experience. Nonetheless, I found the… Continue reading Spiteful Women
Quite recently, a rather strange series of events happened, probably held together by a general sense of melancholy that may befall you due to being part of a civilization in decline. This is not my general state of mind. In fact, I tend to fluctuate between detached indifference and hope, and the latter is certainly… Continue reading Those Were the Days!
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 #333
I am currently on a business trip and now that companies in the tech industry have discovered that frugality is a virtue, I spend my evenings in a modest hotel room instead of lavishly dining. I am not kidding — last year I semi-regularly ate in restaurants in which B-list celebrities and politicians hung out.… Continue reading The Declining Utility of the Internet
We have spoken about the inability of women to intuitively understand numbers before, in the context of women who seemingly accidentally rack up huge numbers, albeit not in their bank account. Much more consequential is that Western women no longer have a lot of babies, and the implications are indeed quite worrying. Several months ago,… Continue reading Contrasting Small and Large Families
When the Russian special military operation started, the collective West was quick to denounce it. The hope was to get Russia to capitulate in response to economic sanctions. Some people were even fantasizing about breaking up Russia, just like it had been done to Germany or Korea in the not-too-distant past. As it turned out,… Continue reading Female Hysterics and the Destruction of Companies: The Example of the Boycott of the Russian Economy
Nowadays, it is basically unavoidable to interact with women in the workforce, in particular in an office environment. In recent years, there has furthermore been a heavy push, thanks to Larry Fink’s weaponized investment company BlackRock, to push woke policies. This means more women and more (non-white) minorities, and even more women. A practical consequence… Continue reading She is “Going Through Some Changes in Her Life”
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 #332
I started my end-of-year fundraiser post with the tongue-in-cheek remark that many of you “deliberately do not have an expensive girlfriend or wife”. Chris asked me to clarify what constitutes an expensive girlfriend or wife and mused if this is the case when the relationship-related expenses exceed your gross income. First of all, if your… Continue reading When is a Girlfriend Expensive?
It’s the end of the year and as many of you deliberately do not have an expensive girlfriend or wife, maybe you want to send some love to the author of this blog instead. So, think of all the enjoyment, education, and entertainment you got from this blog all this time and send some some… Continue reading End-of-Year 2023 Fundraiser
One of the less well-regarded Schwarzenegger movies is Running Man (1987). It plays in the late 2010s and predicts a cruel, authoritarian dystopia in which there is total surveillance and human life is worth very little. People who get rightly or wrongly accused of a crime may have to fight for their survival in the… Continue reading Sexual Mores Declined Much Faster than Predicted in 1980s Running Man
I recently chanced upon Homer’s Odyssey, obviously in translation, at the library. I had read it in my youth or adolescence. Then I thought of one of the dumbest statements of the huckster Tony Robbins. In one of his clips, he asks his audience, “Who of you has ever watched a movie twice?” Quite a… Continue reading Male Life Lessons in Homer’s Odyssey
About two weeks ago I left a comment with a link to Pika AI, a new tool that makes it possible to generate video from text prompts. The promotion video was pretty good, but sadly it has been taken down in the meantime. However, there is plenty of material available on the YouTube page of… Continue reading AI Video Generation and Its Effects on Society
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 #331
This week Spotify, a company that has burnt many billions of dollars since its founding in 2006, laid off 17% of its people. Based on what I have heard, cuts were quite uniform across all functions, meaning that one out of six employees is now gone. This is a lot. Given that a typical team… Continue reading Layoffs and Female Behavioral Correction
When it comes to contemporary mainstream gaming, I am pretty jaded. Basically everything released by the big Western studios is crap. The big Western gaming studios have been infiltrated by leftists activists, studio heads are lining up to fellate Larry Fink for some of that ESG money, and a well-funded but increasingly ineffective media hype-machine… Continue reading Grand Theft Auto VI: Upcoming Dumpster Fire With A Neon Paint Job
