“Capitalism innovates”

No-one.

Absolutely no-one.

If I get widowed tomorrow, imma gonna stay single for the rest of my days.

Not only am I edging into that age where I am becoming increasingly cranky and unwilling to change for someone else (I have changed enough for my wife of 30 years), but I have also been keeping a light finger on what’s happening out there between the sexes, and holy shite that’s become one hell of a mess that I want absolutely nothing to do with.

I mean, the door isn’t going to be barred and locked. But it is going to be firmly closed and with a cinder block in the way. If someone wants through, they are going to have to demonstrate real effort in their pursuit of me.

But then again, I would be shocked AF if any woman thought pursuit of any kind wasn’t beneath them. So I guess my peace and quiet would be quite safe. Thank the lord.

Even at my sickest, I was always able to make something to eat, even if it was simple like cracking open some of my own canned spaghetti sauce and boiling some noodles.

Being sick has always been a wholly inadequate argument for not making something healthy to eat.

Now, an evening where a sit-down supper would be impossible - Halloween being our only consistent pizza night - that is a different story. But those happen only a few days a year.

No, I have always phoned ahead to order, but I have always picked up the order personally.

The savings having done so have always been more than the fuel spent to retrieve the order.

twitch, twitch

…Wat??

The only things I have delivered to me are packages and envelopes through the mail.

Granted, I am GenX, but I can’t recall a single time in the last half a decade where I’ve had anything like food delivered. Or used the services of any kind of gig company.

And I simply can’t think of any benefit of doing so. It’s horrendously expensive, and simply not worth the expense.

I’ve looked at some tentative projections, and it’s downright apocalyptic.

At our current “business as usual” path, we should be expecting wholesale collapse of countries by 2035 or shortly thereafter, with +4℃ temps causing agriculture destruction that leads to a 60-80% drop in human populations by 2050.

And when people are desperate to live another day, they will absolutely tear apart any infrastructure they can get their hands on in order to survive. We’re talking about reverting to the Iron Age or even the Stone Age.

And when almost 100% of all resources required for building or even maintaining high tech civ are no longer accessible without high tech civ… there is no coming back from this collapse.

Epstien files exhonorated Michael. Apparently it may have been a smear campaign against someone on the spectrum that wouldn’t work with them.

I haven’t looked further into it myself, but I also heard much the same.

Props to him if this is anywhere close to being real. He was one hell of a damaged person carrying a shitton of psychological scars, but it sounds like he really did care about the kids.

And he was one hell of a good singer. I’ve got most of his albums on vinyl and MP3.

I absolutely approve.

I would do it, too, if I could get over the squick of even dealing with them in the first place.

So you are saying that millions of employers are rank morons and absolute idiots for hiring any man, instead of employing 100% women?

Because that’s the biggest counter-argument.

Capitalism is all about maximizing profits. If an employer could save 22¢ on every dollar of payroll by hiring only women - and payroll is frequently the very largest expense of a business - they would have to be among the lowest-IQ functional adults in existence by hiring ANY man instead of all women.

Companies go through extraordinary lengths to shave 0.01% off of their expenses, and yet you expect anyone with more than two functional neurons to believe they’ll leave a 22% gap in payroll just lying around, unexploited? That employers would willingly pay 22% more for the exact same work simply because it’s being done by a dude??

Giggity.

I would absolutely love if that gender pay gap actually existed, because that means I could instantly and immediately operate almost any business 22% cheaper than any other company out there, conferring an overwhelming financial competitive advantage in my favour. I could become a multi-billionaire within a few short years with that kind of operational leverage.

Furthermore, I wonder why this isn’t taught in every single BBA degree out there. Because that would be one hell of a buff to any business plan. And yet, labour market participation overall tends to be broadly equal between the genders. Gee, I wonder why?

Finally: at least I posted links to evidence. Yours are just wild claims with no supporting evidence.

Seriously, I skipped the rest because my eyes were rolling so hard at how confidentially incorrect you are. Uninstall the app, go into the mountains, have a cry and deal with your issues - because this ain’t helping you. In fact, it’s only making things worse for you. I was trying to help you find some middle ground, but you wear your bias on your sleeves - and it reads through what you write.

Cool: a mix of sour grapes and an ad hominem in an attempt to socially shame me into silence. Sorry, but I have an exceedingly low tolerance for anti-reality ideology of any kind, much less that which is found percolating through female supremacism. You can take your gender bigotry and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

How “profitable” are our fire departments? Our wildfire services?

How much “revenue” does the RCMP bring in?

Are our road crews and highways divisions being sufficiently “economically viable”?

All this hand-wringing about Canada Post is an alt-right psi-op designed to be one of many wedges designed to facilitate trickle-up economics; to impoverish the working class in favour of the Parasite Class.

Canada Post has no business being privatized. It exists to serve Canadians independently of any profit margin, and I would eagerly argue in spite of any “losses”.

People always forget that abortion - at least in sane places - is the mothers choice,

I would still call that insane, however it’s only half as insane as no abortion rights at all.

The only truly sane option are abortion rights for all… including men. It’s called a paper abortion.

And before anyone goes clutching their pearls and asking “what about the child?”, the only possible response is – WHAT CHILD?? The “child” is a fetus within the first trimester, it has no needs beyond what the mother’s body is providing it. There is nothing to support until at least six months after the man has that opportunity to “abort”.

And if the woman wants that child, she then has the opportunity to decide if she wants it without a legally-coerced ATM.

Paper abortions are truly equal rights made manifest, providing to the man all the same rights to “abort” as the woman does, at least from a legal perspective. Because all any kind of abortion is, is the ability to no longer have any responsibility over the fetus. The only thing a woman’s abortion adds is the physical removal of the fetus.

“Deadbeat dads” are a perfect example of this, where men who obviously weren’t ready to become a parent, is put in a position that will make their lives worse.

A fair minority were, but the legal systems in many areas are not designed to let them be a father once the woman decided that the relationship was over.

That when the woman is treated by the legal system as the “presumed caregiver”, the best option that most men have - that does not lead to life-long poverty as an ATM, or serious psychological damage, or both - is to just walk away.

So I appreciate the olive branch, but the details are a lot more ugly and less simple than what you broached.

there’s the gender pay gap

Oh, you poor little ignorant gender bigot. The “gender pay gap” DOES NOT EXIST to any meaningful degree.

This pernicious bigoted thing was “created” by taking the pay of all women, and dividing it against the pay of all men. It is quite literally comparing the pay of male lawyers against female baristas.

The truth is that when you take into account the career chosen, the specialties acquired, the hours worked, the overtime accepted, the riskiness of the work conducted and the willingness to work on-call, the actual “wage gap” falls to between 0% and 3%, depending on industry examined.

And in many metro regions, women now out-earn men. Where are the calls to close that “wage gap”?? crickets

Finally, Google was charged with underpaying women, yet when they investigated in 2019, the vast majority of “gender pay gaps” they found were men being underpaid. Not women. Men.

social dogma and beauty standards

Women have only themselves to blame. For the most part, women don’t doll themselves up for men - they do so to dominate other women and to establish a social pecking order based on how much resources (male wealth) they have access to.

It’s why two women at a fancy/prestigious public event will have meltdowns because they’re wearing the same dress - as in, economizing because they chose a male that’s too poor to provision her a unique dress - yet not a single man will give a single shit about two women wearing the same dress, and they themselves will be wearing highly similar if not identical suits and tuxedoes.

In reality, a large proportion men are either ambivalent about makeup or even dislike extensive makeup. It’s why almost all apps that strip away makeup in videos and photos were developed by men as a tool to see the real woman underneath. It’s why “catfishing” is nearly always a woman-on-man deception.

forcibly circumcize them

looks at rates of male circumcision, and how it negatively affects men in similar ways

You’re… being facetious and ironic, right?

Having your sexual organ half sliced off is not the sole domain of women. It’s occurrence in men - with many well-documented negative side effects - is many orders of magnitude more prevalent.

Like, FGM doesn’t even rate as a rounding error if we include it in all genital mutilation. Is it bad? Sure. Should it be stopped? Of course. But it’s blown wildly out of proportion.

girls and women across the world being subjugated

Granted, almost all studies show girls and women being a majority of slaves across the planet.

However, almost all studies also conspicuously exclude forced military conscription from that same definition. Include that, include all of the child fighters across the many guerrilla conflicts currently in play, include the men sent to fight on very real threats of long incarceration or even summary execution, and men would make up 90-95% of the victims.

Women don’t hold an edge on being actual victims, as much as the ideology of mainstream feminists/female-supremacists need it to be. A good chunk of their “victimizations” are either based on statistical lies or are outright self-inflicted.

When young people face a system explicitly designed to extract as much wealth out of them as possible, nerfing their economic potential well into adulthood via crushing debt, is such a response really that unexpected?

Criticizing men is a must, and a duty.

Criticizing women is misogyny.

Women are very well insulated from responsibility and the consequences of their own actions. One needs to only look at many of the “male crimes” that they hoist and froth over to see this in action. For example:

• 71% of nonreciprocal domestic violence is women beating up men
  • Many police precincts are forced to use the Duluth Model, which frames men as the only possible aggressor
  • Many police precincts still use software where the DV perps are hard-coded as male, and the victim as female, which allows the charges against female perps to be more easily thrown out on technicalities.
  • I have seen attestations from police where unwritten rules existed that forbid them from arresting women to avoid political blowback, and forced them to arrest the men, even if they were being carried out on a stretcher by EMS.
• Women rape men as frequently as men rape women
  • It took the FBI until 2015 to even begin collecting stats on women-on-man rapes because before that they refused to categorize that as rape.
  • As above, many police precincts cannot even record a rape victim as male, due to how the victim’s gender is hard-coded, and most police won’t even try to record the crime because the process requires them to conduct a female rape kit - which a male victim cannot satisfy.
• https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/success-men-now-face-more-hiring-discrimination
• For the same crime with the same damages, the gender sentencing gap is three times larger than the wealth sentencing gap, and seven times larger than the racial sentencing gap. Having been born female is the largest single “get out of jail free” card a person could possibly hold.
• Pretty much anything by TheTinMen.

Honestly, I have poked my nose into some femcel groups on places like Reddit, and those groups would make the incel subreddits look like rank amateurs where gender bigotry is concerned. Men have nothing on women when it comes to hating the opposite gender. They are so far behind the curve that women are blazing that I’m shocked they’re even a going concern.

And this is across the entire population, and not just among femcels - there are three times as many women under 30 hating men as men under 30 hating women.

Even Wozniak has said that while Jobs wasn’t a good engineer, he did know enough to be strategically savvy.

Edited in hindsight for clarity.

Finally, the bean counter steps down so that an engineer can take the reins again.

I mean, at least he didn’t fuck things up like so many other bean counters have. But he was only ever a bean counter.

Congee. It’s a Chinese rice dish. It’s not bad tasting, but it has all the looks and texture of regular boiled rice with equal parts runny snot. It even more closely matches the “runny snot” impression if it’s correctly salted.

Pork Shumai. Also Chinese, but actually delish AF. But like so many other Dim Sum foods, it also looks - if made correctly - like it’s dripping with gelatinous snot.

Chicken’s feet. Also Chinese, these are braised in soya sauce until they look like little clawed grave markers of an incompletely-buried avian body. You’re not Chinese if you don’t eat these with absolute gusto. Meanwhile I’m thinking if the barnyard poop indelibly buried in each crevice of that clawed monstrosity.

Sauce: married to ethnic Chinese first-gen for the last twenty years. I’ve been exposed to a lot of Chinese foods, especially those from the Canton region.

As a Canadian: fuck, no.

Poutine isn’t visually unpalatable in the least. It’s just fries with curds and gravy. Unless the kitchen did a total hash of the dish and fucked it up six ways to Sunday, there ain’t no way it looks bad.

It’s even better with extras in it, like pulled pork, wiggly bacon chunks, or chopped onion greens.

Sheep’s head, or sheep’s brain?

The former is fine.

The latter screams spongiform encephalopathy.

Biologist: “define what you mean by ‘fish’.”

ducksandruns sorrynotsorry

https://medium.com/illumination/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-fish-eca048dd6163