There is the curious effect that women are so fixated on the most desirable men that they ignore adequate men who would settle down with them, with the ultimate outcome that they turn into pesky “wine aunts” nobody can stand to have around. Similarly, I have noticed that a lot of companies believe that there… Continue reading Female Indecision in Dating and Hiring
You have probably all heard of the alleged glass ceiling, which is the invisible barrier in any hierarchy that women cannot push through. No matter how competent they are, the old boy network will keep them down. This is a feminist claim. In reality, society has gotten so subverted by leftists that they just put… Continue reading Glass Ceilings and Glass Cliffs
While the world has been largely homogenized, making travel even more frivolous than it otherwise already was, there is still a lot you can learn about your own culture if you spend some time abroad. Yes, there may be a McDonald’s or a Starbucks on every corner, but there are still limits to this kind… Continue reading Taiwanese Train-Station Toilets and Western Society
A friend of mine sent me a link to a mainstream article, unfortunately behind a paywall, in which young women talk about why they moved away from Berlin. Instead, they now live in the countryside. I do not need to read the article to discuss the general phenomenon. Berlin is a city I semi-frequently visit.… Continue reading When Women Flee Big Cities
There is a phenomenon in the business world I find quite fascinating. It is probably more common in tech and also in some healthcare startups than in bootstrapped businesses. In short, you have a bunch of guys with an idea, and investors with some money. Using investor money, the company founders try to set up… Continue reading The Escape Velocity of Societal Collapse
Quite a while ago I mentioned a curious interaction with one of my former managers in the office. I am about one foot taller than he is, but he was obviously my manager. This led to the bizarre situation, which occurred repeatedly, that if we crossed path in an office hallway, he made way for… Continue reading Conflicting Status Hierarchies
I want to circle back to my article, 250 Months Remaining, which has its starting point in the awareness of your life having a definite end point. In a recent comment, Maou referred to a partly related older article, and one I consider to be among the best pieces I have ever written, Getting out… Continue reading Survival is Too Easy in Western Societies
In clown world, we have seen a number of rather bizarre phenomena, such as women bragging about earning six figures in big-tech companies while not doing any real work. They seemed to believe that it was their God-given right to earn a fat paycheck for attending yoga lessons at work, “vibing” with their female co-workers… Continue reading The Societal Justification for Lazy-Girl Jobs
I recently wrote a few blog posts on the middle and upper class distinction recently (cf. income differentials, status trap, elite socialization). In this article, I want to tie together some of my observations. Thinking more about middle/upper-class issues, I came to the conclusion that the defining characteristic of the middle class is adherence to… Continue reading Rule-Following vs. Rule-Defining as the Quintessential Middle/Upper Class Distinction
Women are deeply competitive in the sexual marketplace. However, this competition is not fought openly, like with guys who try to be seen as bigger, stronger, more masculine, and financially more successful than their male peers. Women are a lot more secretive about their machinations. Being natural-born schemers, they encourage their friends to enjoy unhealthy… Continue reading Women Deliberately Sabotage the Reproductive Success of Other Women
I recently heard about a divorce involving a colleague. The guy is in his 50s. His wife is quite certainly of a similar age, and they have a child who recently moved out due to attending university. He spoke about his wife being in the process of getting a new place, and himself wanting to… Continue reading The Divorce-Industrial Complex
There is growing awareness, at least in conservative circles, that standards in the West have been dropping. A perfect example is Boeing whose airplanes are falling out of the sky. They also managed to send two astronauts into space on a mission that was supposed to take eight days but which is still ongoing, three… Continue reading Incompetency and Indifference Will Bring Down Society
The programmer stereotype changed a lot over the years. Before tech was a mainstream career, programmers were perceived as recluses, possibly with a hygiene problem and a complete disregard for fashion. This image persisted even throughout the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. However, with the next boom in the late 2000s, due to the… Continue reading Tales from the Cuck Shed: Tech Bro Can’t Stand the Guy Who Bangs his Wife
In my article The Status Trap: The Middle-Class Pretending to be Upper Class I explore the problem of the middle class wanting to prepare their children for ascension into the upper class, and mostly only ending up wasting their money. Even though the money for expensive private schools and universities may not be worth it,… Continue reading Elite Socialization in Private Schools and Universities
The PUA community spent a lot of time exploring how to become “popular”. I recall bizarre posts and videos on how to build a social circle or become the guy others seek out and want to hang out with. However, largely this is all based on looks. People want to hang out with you because… Continue reading Popularity is a Beauty Privilege
I wrote a long piece on class differences recently, Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential. As a follow up, I want to go into detail on an issue that you could describe as the “middle-class status trap”. In the aspirational part of the middle class, families spend a lot of money on giving their children… Continue reading The Status Trap: The Middle-Class Pretending to be Upper Class
I grow a bit of food in the garden. This year, our raspberries did very well. During summer and autumn we harvested a lot of these berries. Of course, as the weather got colder, the yield declined. However, I was not aware that these plants just keep producing berries until nature puts a stop to… Continue reading What Plucking Frozen Raspberries Taught me About the Will to Survive
The other day a friend of mine sent me a video that discusses the significance of radiant and muted Christmas lighting in the movie Eyes Wide Shut, a movie I wrote about three years ago. The hypothesis presented in that video seems plausible, but that is not the point. Instead, my mind got stuck on… Continue reading Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential
One of the more interesting thoughts I came across when reading about Europe in the 20th century was that there are some countries that seem to be better off if they are poorer. The example given was Germany, with its tremendous post-war economic performance, rising like phoenix from the ashes. Yet, after life had gotten… Continue reading Looks-Maxing is a Sign of Societal Decline
I recently heard of a most curious incident in Germany. I have verified it but I want to keep the exact details for myself as that is not relevant for the point I am going to make, and the people involved probably do not need further attention. Anyway, there used to be an iron-clad law… Continue reading Why Would People Protest Against a School in the Neighborhood?
Leftism is a loser mentality. People endorse leftist ideology for one reason alone: they realize that they cannot compete fairly and openly, so they want to band together and rub the productive members of society of their wealth, income, and even status. They vilify even the merely comfortable middle class. Of course, there is also… Continue reading When Leftists Encounter Meritocracy
In the comments section we recently had a discussion about social climbing and the fact that good-looking women may get lucky and ascend to the highest levels of societ, simply by giving a wealthy man a boner and that guy following his desires. There are plenty such examples. For instance, a prominent one in German… Continue reading Social-Climbing is a Three-Generations Project
A few weeks ago, a bridge in one of the larger German cities collapsed, seemingly out of nowhere. This happened in Dresden, which is probably only known to people outside of Europe for the Allied bombing campaign. Presumably the Allies thought there were child soldiers hiding in tunnels and the Germans were using civilians as… Continue reading Infrastructure Collapse is the Tipping Point of Clown World
The other day I had to get up early for an errand. On the way, I crossed paths with primary school class. It seems they were on an excursion. All the kids were holding hands in pairs. Of course, doing so is good practice, assuming the kids follow this simple instruction, as it makes it… Continue reading Forced Race-Mixing in Primary School
For some reason, YouTube recently recommended a video to me with the title “The disturbing life of German pensioners in Thailand”. The video is in German, but even without subtitles, you will quickly figure out what it is about. Even the video thumbnail, which puts a supposedly 73-year-old guy next two four Thai women who… Continue reading White, Male Pensioners Are Not Allowed to Enjoy Life
Recently I spoke with a friend about nightlife in Berlin in the late 2000s compared to today. While there were obvious changes in the demographics of the various districts, i.e. the city is more diverse than ever and rental prices have skyrocketed in the wake of large-scale gentrification, there is another aspect that is perhaps… Continue reading Low-Budget Airlines and Female Party Tourism
Here is a simple exercise for your critical reasoning skills: when following mainstream news, you quite frequently come across rather disturbing stories. We hear that cancer rates are up. There are now also turbo-cancers around. Young people get cancer, too, something that used to virtually never happen. Similarly, for a couple of years, there has… Continue reading Experts Baffled: Fewer Pregnancies, More Cancers
A friend recently sent me the video below, in which a diverse Google manager, Mo Gawdat, talks about how “intelligent” AI is, making some truly outlandish claims. By the way, Mo is shorthand for “Mohammad”. (I have met a surprising number of Mo’s in tech.) Anyway, Mohammad Gawat tells us that he current version of… Continue reading Putting the AI Hype in Perspective
There is the hypothesis that highly-functional autism, i.e. Asperger’s, is nothing more than a manifestation of an “extreme male brain”. People with this condition do not care much about social validation or conforming to mainstream opinion. These men pursue various interests, normally a small number of them or perhaps just one, and dedicate themselves to… Continue reading Women, Perennial Dabblers
In a recent post, I had added a reminder that we have video evidence of one woman sucking two dozen dicks in two minutes in a night club, confirming our worst stereotypes about women. However, this is hardly the worst. There is a “performer” on OnlyFans named “Bonnie Blue” who seems to have made it… Continue reading Woman Has Sex with 22 Guys in one Night, 122 in Three Weeks
The original idea of the Olympics was to compete in sports that were not just of a recreational nature. You could make the argument that every single discipline of yore had direct or indirect applications to warfare: riding a horse, running, throwing javelins, jumping, rowing, archery, etc., were all highly relevant skills before the industrialization… Continue reading The Olympics After the Inclusion of Break Dancing
At least every few weeks I casually interview, primarily to keep my interviewing skills sharp. It is also good to not have to start from zero whenever the company you work at needs to lay off people, which is a frequent occurrence nowadays. This year I had two interview processes that were a bit different… Continue reading The Feminization of Work Continues: Female-Style Hiring
I recently watched the movie Uncut Gems (2019). Supposedly, it showcases Adam Sandler’s best acting. I completely accidentally came across it, and I watched it for two reasons. One, it was mentioned in one of the disreputable corners of the Internet I like to frequent and, two, it is made by A24, a studio I… Continue reading Uncut Gems (2019): A Movie on Jews, Blacks, and Women
It seems that every other week there is a new story about yet another developed country reaching a new low for child births. Singapore had the lowest number of child births in 50 years, the earliest date for which records are available. What is worse, in the early 1970s, Singapore had only about 1/3 of… Continue reading The Baby Crisis Can Be Solved
I recently rewatched Silicon Valley, a TV series that ran for six seasons from 2014 to 2019. There is a lot that is wrong with it, but the first three seasons have some pretty decent humor. My favorite character is Erlich Bachman, whose actor unfortunately got tired of this role and left. Rewatching it was… Continue reading Silicon Valley (2014 – 2019) and Cultural Homogenization
One of the biggest news stories last week was the Crowdstrike software update disaster that led to many millions of Windows computers crashing. The solution was a manual intervention, meaning that millions of working hours were wasted. This affected critical infrastructure, such as airports, as these are the kind of machines companies prefer to have… Continue reading The Microsoft/Crowdstrike Disaster and the Fragility of Modern Society
My wife recently sent me a link to a Reddit post in which some woman wrote about her experience in Finance. As a recent graduate, she makes six figures, working in “investor relations”. Details were a bit sparse but her job consists of flying around, looking good, and staying in fancy hotels. While I do… Continue reading Easy Jobs for Good-Looking Women
A few days ago I had to buy something at a medical supply store, hardly the kind of establishment I normally frequent. Judging by the products on display in the store, walking aids are their bread and butter. I was not aware, albeit I am not surprised, that there are various price tiers in order… Continue reading The Tragedy of the Once-Hot Sales Clerk
In a recent comment, Pickernanny posted a video ad of an ultra-expensive 1:3 scale statue of the modern-day sex symbol 2B, the heroine of Nier: Automata. It sets you back over $2,000. The very tasteful video, which you can watch below, does not highlight 2B’s backside, a part of her body that found universal appreciation… Continue reading Real Men Buy Sexist Figurines!
The first presidential debate between the Democrat and Republican nominees was a complete disaster. Donald Trump was tired but Joe Brandon was not even there. He walks in, greeting an imaginary audience, and for large stretches does not even speak coherently. If you have not watched the debate, maybe click on a random segment on… Continue reading Biden’s Disastrous Debate Performance and Its Impact on the Mainstream Narrative
There was an interesting comment on my post, The Tragic Life of the Supermodel Toni Garrn, related to the uncertain future of that woman. She did not manage to cash in on her looks, is a single mother, and was seemingly not able to save up enough money to last until retirement. Lucretius Carus writes,… Continue reading Ex-Models do not Have a Good Plan B
I recently had to travel quite a bit for business and got the chance to inspect, with a scientific eye, the status quo in female fashion and fitness. During the scamdemic, it seemed that women were getting fatter and fatter. In fact, you apparently could go for weeks without seeing a woman who was in… Continue reading Young Women are Slimming Down Again
In my last post, Women and Mass Layoffs in the Tech Industry, I wrote about the problem of companies hiring people they have no actual need for, if it were not for diversity mandates. While it is true that some people do not do a lot of work, another issue is that people not doing… Continue reading Why Nothing Gets Done Anymore
A few years ago, when the scamdemic was being ramped up and companies told their employees that they should work from home, the societal consequences were probably not quite as expected. Fuel to the fire was provided by die DEI agenda, according to which you needed to stop hiring white men and instead increase the… Continue reading Women and Mass Layoffs in the Tech Industry
Societal support for rainbow colors is no longer as prominent as it used to be. This is most obvious when you look around on LinkedIn or disable the adblocker in your browser. Whereas a couple of years ago, even fifty-people outfits were falling over themselves to proclaim their allegiance to the anal flag, nowadays support… Continue reading The Diversity Gravy Train is Slowing Down
In 1999, Gigi D’Agostino released the banger L’Amour Toujours, which has been enjoying a surprising resurgence in Germany, topping the charts once again. I believe it has something to do with this song being used as a dog-whistle for anti-immigrant sentiments, but these are all unconfirmed rumors. When I looked up the music video to… Continue reading Media-Endorsed Female Beauty Standards in 1999
Recently I came across a study on preferences among gamers. As it turns out, gamers nowadays enjoy any kind of strategic aspect in their games a lot less than they used to, from more than 50% in 2016 to around 35% in 2024. This is a staggering decline. Here is the chart: This decline happens… Continue reading Gamers Are Getting Dumber, Study Finds
In the wake of the George Floyd riots, and with the helping hand of BlackRock’s Larry Fink, companies all over the world have created untold numbers of positions related to diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE). Of course, there also had to be Chief DIE Officers who pocket seven figures a year, despite a complete lack… Continue reading Shaqueesa Found Embezzling Millions from Facebook and Nike
A few months ago I wrote a post on people humanizing pets, reaching such levels of retardation that they refer to animals the same way they would have referred to kids. The leftist dirt rag Wikipedia is playing along as well, unsurprisingly. In the discussion section, I made the following comment, on which I am… Continue reading Utilitarian and Non-Utilitarian Female Pet Ownership
As we are all fully aware of, diversity is our greatest strength. Working in highly effective racially and culturally homogeneous teams and companies is therefore no longer something we can do. Part of it is perhaps because it would just be too easy to operate with a shared set of values. Instead, the modern employee… Continue reading Foreign Names and The Subtle Frictions of Diversity
