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 #353
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch a cinema screening of the now classic 1997 Hollywood movie “Titanic” with an audience which consisted mainly of teenagers. Those teens of course knew about the tragic sinking of Titanic in general terms, and I also guess they certainly knew that there exists a “really… Continue reading A Rendezvous With Hell: The Titanic Abyss of Romantic Love in James Cameron’s 1997 Movie “Titanic” (Guest Post By Lucretius Carus)
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 #352
If you have ever worked with Indians, you may have noticed that they are utter sycophants (in Minecraft). If needed, they also lie and deflect criticism. At the same time, they exhibit a staggering sense of entitlement. It only takes a weak manager for comical situations to emerge. For instance, I know of a case… Continue reading Amazon’s Just-Walk-Out Deception is a Glimpse at Our Indian A.I. Future
A while ago the documentary India: The Worst Country on Earth (2024) made waves. It was made by one guy on a mission to educate the world on the true state of India, a country in particular Western women seem to be fascinated by. Of course, this is due to a carefully manipulated image whereas… Continue reading Free Information Flow and Race Realism
One of my readers informed me that the grift group “Women Who Code” is shutting down. For those not familiar with it, this organization promoted women in tech, as did many others for a brief moment in time. Their demise is quite telling, so let us dive in! The official statement released by this grift… Continue reading The Age of the Sassy Girl Coder is Over
The most surprising piece of knowledge I gained this week was that the affectionate name “Pajeet” to refer to people hailing from the future superpower India has been made up and did not exist until a few years ago. According to Wiktionary, this is the etymology of this name (term?): An invented Indian-sounding given name,… Continue reading “Pajeet” is a Made-Up Name
In my post on the layoffs at Tesla, I made the schizo statement that the United States surely strong-armed its European vassal states into subsidizing the purchase of EVs. In this post, with my schizo hat firmly put on, I will expand on this. The first and completely uncontroversial statement is that the United States… Continue reading The Tesla Psy-Op
I recently watched the movie Logan’s Run (1976). This is a cult sci-fi movie that is set in a dystopia in which humans live in fully regulated lives and have been freed from the burden of labor. The only catch is that they have to die at the age of 30. The concept is not… Continue reading Logan’s Run and the Problem of Postulated Utopias
Today’s big story is that Tesla is going to lay off an incredible 10% (or more) of its workforce. The company employs about 140,000 people, so this means that at least ca. 14,000 people will get the boot. If this story was about some industry dinosaur like IBM or Microsoft, it would be business as… Continue reading The Implications of Tesla’s Massive 10% Layoff
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 #351
In my last post, I wrote about the follow-up costs of a marriage proposal, without even taking into account the fiscal calamity of divorce, alimony and child support. In this post, I want to outline how easy single guys have it in comparison. Despite the recent cost-of-living increases, a single guy is in a pretty… Continue reading Single Guys Live Life on Easy Street
I came across the video below in which a guy proposes to his girlfriend with a “ring pop”, which is candy in the shape of a comically large ring. It seems they are quite common in the United States but I do not recall having ever seen them in Europe. The proposal goes about as… Continue reading Ring Pop Proposal
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 #350
Quite recently, Candace Owens promoted the conspiracy theory that Emanuel Macron, the French president, is married to a tranny. There is plenty of evidence that seems quite difficult to refute, but even if his supposed wife was not a tranny, it is rather odd that he married a woman who is 24 years older than… Continue reading Is the Ideal Western Politician a Childless Pervert?
We have talked before about Hollywood being a gigantic psy-ops incubator that produces movies with the goal of pushing beliefs the elites like. This is not at all controversial. While it is true that Hollywood went completely overboard in roughly the last decade, the rot set in way before. When rewatching some classic movies from… Continue reading Your Favorite Classic Movies are More Pozzed Than You Think
We had a discussion about Andrew Huberman on the Open Thread #348, in which we also explored this guy’s SMV. I elaborated on my view in that thread already, but I there is an interesting aspect related to age and financial success, which is why I decided to expand on my views a bit. For… Continue reading Andrew Huberman’s SMV
The other day a cargo ship took down a major bridge in the United States. I got a bit suspicious when the media incessantly pointed out that this was a “Singaporean vessel”. Singapore is a high-IQ society, thanks to its Chinese majority, and the Chinese are rather rule abiding. The video below gives a good… Continue reading The Baltimore Bridge Boo-Boo and the Problem of Societal Collapse
I recently rewatched the first two movies in the Die Hard franchise. It’s quite clear that the first movie was not supposed to be the start of a franchise. Because creativity is limited, the sequel basically repeats the plot of the first movie, except on an airport rather than a skyscraper. It also uses self-referential humor,… Continue reading Manipulative “Fact Checking”: The Link Between Aphasia and the Vaxx
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 #349
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 #348
A few months ago I wrote about women saying that they are “going through some changes in their life”. I recently came across a very similar phrase. Some woman, instead of saying that she is getting a divorce, instead spoke of “going through marital change”. This made me wonder about the apparent female inclination of… Continue reading A New Euphemism for Divorce: Marital Change
When I claimed, in early 2020, that Covid was bullshit, and warned people of taking the vaxx, I was far ahead not only of the mainstream but even of the lunatic fringe. Yet, I was proven right. Today, only the mentally ill seem to be lining up for their vaxx booster shots. The damage has… Continue reading Is the Vaxx Wiping Out Japanese Creators?
In a comment on my recent article An Evolutionary Explanation of the Perma-Horniness of Pregnant Women, I was asked the following: How do you explain that there are so many women with rape fantasies? Were women with rape fantasies more likely to survive? I think there is a pretty simple explanation. Form genetic studies, we… Continue reading An Evolutionary Explanation for the Existence of Female Rape Fantasies
There is the rather curious fact of human sexuality that pregnant women are a lot hornier than non-pregnant ones. This statement does not refer to average horniness over the course of an ovulation cycle, which would obviously be lower, but to peak horniness due to ovulation. Even an ovulating woman is not as horny as… Continue reading An Evolutionary Explanation of the Perma-Horniness of Pregnant Women
In my article The Limitations of Humiliation Rituals I pointed out that there is an upper limit with regards to the nonsense our hostile elites can subject us to because at some point the structure they profit from so much will be affected. The same is true for typical third-world behavior that is seemingly getting… Continue reading Corruption and Short-Term Thinking are the Core of Third-Worldism
I have turned both the archives and categories pages into drop-down menus. This should improve the usability of this blog, in particular on devices with limited screen real estate. I only became aware of this being a potential issue when I checked up on comments on my phone on a recent trip.
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 #347
In the current Open Thread, aj left an excellent comment on how men and women deal with their past and decisions that may have been suboptimal. His observation strikes me as perfectly valid and well-deserving of greater visibility. His comment is replicated below. The previous open thread had an interesting subthread about women rewriting memory.… Continue reading Male and Female Approaches to Dealing With the Past (by aj)
We are at the point where it is non-trivial to distinguish between real and fake videos. In the following, I assume that the video below has not been staged. It shows an apartment with a special kind of windows that can display any scene. Have a look at it yourself: Even if this video has… Continue reading Pod Living and Augmented Reality
There is the popular explanation that women are having fewer children due to women’s liberation. Now that they can work as HR drones, social media experts, or PowerPoint princesses, they just no longer have the time to take care of children. Also, for them it is so much more fulfilling to go to an office,… Continue reading Suburbanism, Cars, and Two-Kids Families
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 #346
Fashion has long stopped being merely utilitarian. Instead, it is at least as important if it makes us look good. This is particularly important for women. However, when you think about it briefly, you realize that spending a lot of money is downright misguided if the purpose is not to fit in with a crowd… Continue reading The Fashion Cope
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 #345
A few weeks ago I had a work-related conversation with a somewhat senior guy. After we were done with talking about business, and probably also because that dude did not have enough to do, he struck up a personal conversation with me. Among others, he inquired if I ever considered going to the US to… Continue reading Boomer-California Dreaming
In the comments section of my recent article Dating Before, During, and After Apps there is an interesting discussion about manipulative statistics and their utility for promoting marriage. Let me just quote what Gert wrote: What I found funny was the claim that men in marriages are happier and live longer. I know so many… Continue reading Fake Statistics and Supposed Marital Benefits for Men
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 #344
Some of you may have come across news regarding the new Miss Germany. If you were expecting a young, slim, hot blonde, you would be sorely disappointed. Instead, the winner was a 39-year-old and very unattractive Iranian. If the winner of a national beauty contest looks worse than the average 18-year old in your country… Continue reading The Limitations of Humiliation Rituals
We truly are living in the end times. The other day, I read that Vice is shutting down. Vice has been integral to the Western way of life in the last two decades and shaped culture like no other journalistic outlet. Not even a multi-million cash injection by our favorite Jew investor George Soros could… Continue reading Vice Media, Paragon of Journalistic Integrity, is Shutting Down
Sometimes, guys ask me for advice on how to pick a girlfriend. No, not in the abstract but when they have a chick at hand and want to get some objective feedback from a third party. These are either guys who have been reasonably successful with women but also guys who just so happened to… Continue reading Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch
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 #343
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 #342
Looking back, it is quite astounding how much worse the dating experience for the average (!) guy has gotten due to technology. If you were a boomer, the women you interacted with met so few men that you probably had a chance somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 of marrying the first woman you made a… Continue reading Dating Before, During, and After Apps
OpenAI recenty announced “Sora“, their video-generation tool. The landing page contains a few video snippets. (I particularly like the clip showing two battling pirate ships in a cup of coffee.) While this and the other clips may seem whimsical, the implications are quite staggering. Let me walk you through a few. First, OpenAI heavily hamstrings… Continue reading High-Quality AI-Generated Videos Have Arrived
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 #341
Today I looked up Paul Dini as I came across a discussion in which he was praised for his story-telling abilities. Skimming the Wikipedia article, I read the following about his personal life: Dini and his wife Misty Lee, a magician and voiceover actress, live in Los Angeles. Their two Boston terriers, Mugsy and Deuce,… Continue reading When Pets Replace Kids
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 #340
I do not think that anybody seriously questions that your level of success with women is primarily a question of looks, status, and money. This is the well-known LMS formula. Obviously, for a one-night stand, money and, perhaps, status are not the primary factors. If you are a broke Chad with very few future prospects,… Continue reading Picking Up Women and the Question of Social Rank
The other day I went to a somewhat exclusive recruiting event. It was almost eerie because almost all of the 15 guys in attendance where white. This does not happen by accident in tech. Instead, it takes effort and determination. The event took place at a five-star hotel and the company hosting us even booked… Continue reading Cougars and Gold-Diggers at the Luxury Hotel
One of the obsessions of the former pickup community was to develop a “game plan” that would work for any woman, regardless of age, personality, social class, or personal circumstances. Partly, this was motivated due to marketing as it is a lot simpler to attempt to sell yet another DVD course that promises to hold… Continue reading Dealing with Fast and Slow Life-History Strategies
