What Elon, Mila, and the rest of us better worry about is all those illegals who weren’t excluded, but waved onto the juries because they already knew how the Soros DAs wanted the trial to come out.
Were I an illegal, the absolute last thing I would want to do would be go down to the courthouse and go through courthouse security daily for weeks on end to score the $15 a day they pay jury members here in the Singed Bear Flag People’s Republic, hoping all the while that not a single one of the deputies manning the metal detectors will shoot their ICE buddies a text and rat me out just to get back at the idiot politicians running the city and state all in the remote hope I could somehow get back at Elon.
Yeah but they still need volunteers. The folks I am familiar with who have, well, indeterminate status let’s say, are hustling like mad for income so they can continue to be here. $15 a day is just a joke, and they won’t think it is funny at all.
You don’t know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you receive a jury summons. You don’t even know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you report for duty on the first day.
So I’m with FM on this one. People here illegally aren’t going to go to a courthouse, where they’ll be surrounded by law enforcement, for a pittance a day (even compared to under the table wages) when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen.
She’s not upset at 44 year-old men trying to date her. That’s fine and dandy. She’s upset with 35 year-old men who want to start a family, and are aware that older women have a harder time getting pregnant (particularly if its a first pregnancy), and are dating women younger than her as a result. She spent the last 15 years pointedly *not* getting married, and now she’s upset that all of the guys in their thirties and younger are unavailable to her.
There are other memes floating around touching on this topic. The most popular riffs on “consent” in a relationship by having a guy and a somewhat younger woman both announce that they consent. But a woman that’s the same age as the guy suddenly pops up and loudly declares that she doesn’t consent.
The topic occasionally pops up on X, as well. I don’t know whether to take them seriously (trolling is always a possibility), but I’ve seen people declare that even a few years difference between the man and the woman is problematic.
“I had my fun decade and a half bed hopping in college and afterward, but now, as the ticking clock ticks ever onward, I need to get married and have kids before I can’t.”
But the guys don’t want a bed hopping champ, they want someone with some un-burned-out pair-bonding capacity, which probably means the unmarried 35s are shopping in the 20s range.
So she wants social pressure to counter her cumulative decisions.
Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
I don’t have an ex timeline, I have never dated in the first place.
For some reason, a good half of everything I see on linkedin is crazy people, and the other half is people I don’t know about making polite noises.
So basically, I do not buy the AI machine spirit hypothesis, and I also doubt that this stuff is completely and entirely useless. I ask Claes or Alpaca or Tobor how to do headers in Markdown, then I don’t get an answer because I am querying a nonexistent API. Anyway, why mess around with neural nets when we have time tested things like metropolis or simplex?
(In all seriousness, of the ten best algorithms of the twentieth century in some paper, an awful lot of the actual answers that have come up in the last ten years for me have been ‘just mess around with FFT for a bit, until you have a better idea what is going on’. )
If Emma’s numbers are correct, and describe real accurate perceptions, then an implication is that women date an average of 33 or more men, and use a sort that is basically uniformly distributed. Personally, I have doubts that average women are any better at psychiatric diagnosis than average (hence untrained) men, and I doubt the sort is uniform. I could buy that ‘female role models’ promoted by schools and shit are a really bad guide to dating, to evaluating people, and to orienting to basic sanity. I think if I had dated, say, thirty different women, the effects of that would tend to make me more insane, if I had not started out insane.
From an American POV, Amelia sounds like a nice moderate girl, the UK government needs to do a better job of warning the kiddos in the UK about the sort of people you can find in America. I think American style mainstream anti-Monarch republicans might be pretty extreme in terms of UK customs and mores.
Alternative explanation: 99% of women are entitled, and dismiss men not serving their entitled mentality as being narcissists, because nothing is ever their fault.
Yeah, I kinda figured that what Emma was actually claiming was women misreporting their experiences, perhaps due to honest misperception.
Personally, I am a fairly weird obsessive, and I suspect that there are people would interpret my conversational issues as being narcissism on my part.
Much of humanity is really into things that do not interest me much, and that is fine.
Though, I would not pick solely on TikTok, and would complain as well about highschoolers who read a book, or about college graduates who had an undergraduate course.
I’m somewhat aware that there are different degrees of emotional contact, and that some of them are definitely minor enough that an accumulation does not cause problems.
One date could/should be pretty minor.
I think this is definitely my bad. Reading what I wrote, I do not think I had a consistent idea in mind about that point.
Was not trying to say anything about all women. I think I figured the model in the tweet was a bit funky, and would be entertaining to talk about.
I feel I may forget too easily how much of the one-size-fits-all interpretations of dating wars are just meant for use as propaganda for wars between the sexes.
(I know I saw another iteration of that ‘women 20 to 30 went more left’ meme recently, and didn’t reflect that the swings in the trendlines(1) at best indicate a noisy process. )
(1) trendlines is almost certainly the wrong word, but I would need to see the actual saus, and be able to think, to understand what the correct term would be.
the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons, and other ways of funding scholarship misconduct
common sense loan control
common sense grant control
common sense accreditation control
we should harmonize with the EU, and declare that authentic university degrees can only be made in the pine barrens of new jersey, and university instructors have to be medival european men of good standing in the church
and basic schools can only have one classroom, and the instructor has to be an unmarried woman whose reputation is acceptable to the parents
I am a BIG fan of the Amelia mashup where some AI was told to find all the memes, then become Amelia and make a video telling us what she wants to say.
Angry, not researched: I was wondering yesterday, and Grok came up with this Cartesian variant: irascor ergo sum – idiomatically, that’s “I am outraged, therefore I am”.
Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
The Win10 machine I bought used to run Terrible-Tax got upgraded to ‘nix after I discovered just how horrible Win10 was, with T-Tax not much better. (Not sure if it’s changed, but TurboTax didn’t run under the Linux Wine Windows-adapter. OTOH, if I’m actually awake, I can do the taxes fairly well with my magic spreadsheet. OTOH, revised tax returns are my friend. [sigh])
Kmymoney does the books. Simple enough, and I was able to import Quicken data.
The last Windows I used extensively was Win 7. Once I got broadband (ish–satellite before StarLink), it’s been Linux. Doing updates on dialup was a pain, either in Linux or Windows.
And yes, PSR B1919+21 (AKA CP 1919) was the first pulsar ever discovered. The graph was seen by Joy Division’s drummer, and used for the cover of Unknown Pleasures.
Not familiar with the band, but I like the drummer’s taste.
My ex once called me a narcissist (I commented on something she specifically asked me to comment on, after she told me I was being too quiet). I have also not dated 99% of women (and may we all thank Himself for that).
Something tells me these women’s math is flawed.
The support group for antisocial people is working precisely as intended. I, for one, am quite satisfied with the service.
The Squeenix “adult woman fetish:” Picture it in your head. And there’s me over here, raised eyebrow with only a “Really?” expression on my face. Yes, facial expression with Southron accent is a thing, people.
Friederich August von Hayek was saying that back in the 80s, and since then it has not gotten any less true. If anything, recent developments have only further defined the general statement. That, and FA Hayek talking economics and capitalism never gets old.
“Live, Laugh Lay down suppressive fire” needs a belt fed. Just saying.
If my 2026, and your 2026, and Bob’s 2026, and… yeah, that’d probably cause massive, MASSIVE inflation and destabilize the markets quite badly. Let’s just go with “more profitable than 2020-2024.” That’s a safer target.
According To Hoyt 
I’m not in a good mood.
I’m tempted to say something Illegal, Immoral and Fattening. [Twisted Grin]
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Try more coffee…
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The Reader suggests that Ayn Rand Was Right be replaced with The Anti-Federalists Were Right.
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Thank you.
Might take that one down to the Constitution Party office.
Midterms will ne here before you know it.
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If not fren, why fren-shaped?
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What Elon, Mila, and the rest of us better worry about is all those illegals who weren’t excluded, but waved onto the juries because they already knew how the Soros DAs wanted the trial to come out.
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Wouldn’t illegal aliens on the jury be grounds for a mistrial?
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You can’t declare a mistrial on an acquittal.
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Were I an illegal, the absolute last thing I would want to do would be go down to the courthouse and go through courthouse security daily for weeks on end to score the $15 a day they pay jury members here in the Singed Bear Flag People’s Republic, hoping all the while that not a single one of the deputies manning the metal detectors will shoot their ICE buddies a text and rat me out just to get back at the idiot politicians running the city and state all in the remote hope I could somehow get back at Elon.
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FM, please don’t be obtuse.
They couldn’t care less about Elon…. but if they’re trying someone who’s part of their “community”, it’s a guaranteed mistrial.
Note that if YOU are on trial, that can swing the other way.
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Yeah but they still need volunteers. The folks I am familiar with who have, well, indeterminate status let’s say, are hustling like mad for income so they can continue to be here. $15 a day is just a joke, and they won’t think it is funny at all.
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You don’t know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you receive a jury summons. You don’t even know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you report for duty on the first day.
So I’m with FM on this one. People here illegally aren’t going to go to a courthouse, where they’ll be surrounded by law enforcement, for a pittance a day (even compared to under the table wages) when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen.
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when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen… instead a “Sanctuary” State.
Yep.
I still like the image of a courthouse guard spotting one and getting a little payback.
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I have to admit, my wife would be completely taken in by that “Free Goat” gambit. I can just imagine that phone call.
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So, a man who’s 44 can’t date that 35-year-old woman?
Who had Dumbass Apocalypse for 2026?
The Mobius cheat sheet 🤣
Halloween cat and dog skeletons have ears, which are not bones.
I wouldn’t want to meet a bunch of antisocial assholes either. Wait, where are you going?
Throwing whole dead pigs is a waste of perfectly good pork. Get a few bushels of pig guts from the slaughterhouse.
I suspect every illegal alien deported is at least 4 less Democrat votes. Of course, the ones that die here will vote Democrat for eternity.
Kalifornia is where, when a Republican candidate wins, they keep ‘counting votes’ for a month or more until the Democrat wins.
Locking down the tiny bags of Doritos 😁 They used to be bigger before BidenFlation ☹️
Find the meme of that USA political map with the caption: 95% of the guns are in the huge red areas. 95% of gun violence is in the little blue spots.
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She’s not upset at 44 year-old men trying to date her. That’s fine and dandy. She’s upset with 35 year-old men who want to start a family, and are aware that older women have a harder time getting pregnant (particularly if its a first pregnancy), and are dating women younger than her as a result. She spent the last 15 years pointedly *not* getting married, and now she’s upset that all of the guys in their thirties and younger are unavailable to her.
There are other memes floating around touching on this topic. The most popular riffs on “consent” in a relationship by having a guy and a somewhat younger woman both announce that they consent. But a woman that’s the same age as the guy suddenly pops up and loudly declares that she doesn’t consent.
The topic occasionally pops up on X, as well. I don’t know whether to take them seriously (trolling is always a possibility), but I’ve seen people declare that even a few years difference between the man and the woman is problematic.
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This.
“I had my fun decade and a half bed hopping in college and afterward, but now, as the ticking clock ticks ever onward, I need to get married and have kids before I can’t.”
But the guys don’t want a bed hopping champ, they want someone with some un-burned-out pair-bonding capacity, which probably means the unmarried 35s are shopping in the 20s range.
So she wants social pressure to counter her cumulative decisions.
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Also the women who focused on career to the exclusion of relationships and family, and suddenly realized that their biological clock is ticking.
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Guess I should have put an emoji after that one, too. 😜
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Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
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Probably deserved a magazine article titled ‘the hidden racist conspiracy against vampires’.
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I don’t have an ex timeline, I have never dated in the first place.
For some reason, a good half of everything I see on linkedin is crazy people, and the other half is people I don’t know about making polite noises.
So basically, I do not buy the AI machine spirit hypothesis, and I also doubt that this stuff is completely and entirely useless. I ask Claes or Alpaca or Tobor how to do headers in Markdown, then I don’t get an answer because I am querying a nonexistent API. Anyway, why mess around with neural nets when we have time tested things like metropolis or simplex?
(In all seriousness, of the ten best algorithms of the twentieth century in some paper, an awful lot of the actual answers that have come up in the last ten years for me have been ‘just mess around with FFT for a bit, until you have a better idea what is going on’. )
If Emma’s numbers are correct, and describe real accurate perceptions, then an implication is that women date an average of 33 or more men, and use a sort that is basically uniformly distributed. Personally, I have doubts that average women are any better at psychiatric diagnosis than average (hence untrained) men, and I doubt the sort is uniform. I could buy that ‘female role models’ promoted by schools and shit are a really bad guide to dating, to evaluating people, and to orienting to basic sanity. I think if I had dated, say, thirty different women, the effects of that would tend to make me more insane, if I had not started out insane.
From an American POV, Amelia sounds like a nice moderate girl, the UK government needs to do a better job of warning the kiddos in the UK about the sort of people you can find in America. I think American style mainstream anti-Monarch republicans might be pretty extreme in terms of UK customs and mores.
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Alternative explanation: 99% of women are entitled, and dismiss men not serving their entitled mentality as being narcissists, because nothing is ever their fault.
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Yeah, I kinda figured that what Emma was actually claiming was women misreporting their experiences, perhaps due to honest misperception.
Personally, I am a fairly weird obsessive, and I suspect that there are people would interpret my conversational issues as being narcissism on my part.
Much of humanity is really into things that do not interest me much, and that is fine.
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“…honest misperception…”
Alternately, it highlights the absolutely uninformed widespread misuse of actual well defined clinical diagnoses by people who watched a TikTok video.
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Yes.
Though, I would not pick solely on TikTok, and would complain as well about highschoolers who read a book, or about college graduates who had an undergraduate course.
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Are we distinguishing between “dated” and “went out on a date with” in this data set?
Or are we just eliding it all so we can pretend that all women are whores and all men are pure as the driven snow?
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I have no idea.
I’m somewhat aware that there are different degrees of emotional contact, and that some of them are definitely minor enough that an accumulation does not cause problems.
One date could/should be pretty minor.
I think this is definitely my bad. Reading what I wrote, I do not think I had a consistent idea in mind about that point.
Was not trying to say anything about all women. I think I figured the model in the tweet was a bit funky, and would be entertaining to talk about.
I feel I may forget too easily how much of the one-size-fits-all interpretations of dating wars are just meant for use as propaganda for wars between the sexes.
(I know I saw another iteration of that ‘women 20 to 30 went more left’ meme recently, and didn’t reflect that the swings in the trendlines(1) at best indicate a noisy process. )
(1) trendlines is almost certainly the wrong word, but I would need to see the actual saus, and be able to think, to understand what the correct term would be.
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the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons, and other ways of funding scholarship misconduct
common sense loan control
common sense grant control
common sense accreditation control
we should harmonize with the EU, and declare that authentic university degrees can only be made in the pine barrens of new jersey, and university instructors have to be medival european men of good standing in the church
and basic schools can only have one classroom, and the instructor has to be an unmarried woman whose reputation is acceptable to the parents
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Those skeletons might not be an “octopus skeleton” they might be mind flayer skulls MHI sells when they complete a job. ;-)
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SFBS!
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I am a BIG fan of the Amelia mashup where some AI was told to find all the memes, then become Amelia and make a video telling us what she wants to say.
Angry, not researched: I was wondering yesterday, and Grok came up with this Cartesian variant: irascor ergo sum – idiomatically, that’s “I am outraged, therefore I am”.
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Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
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Smart cities, if only some had made a movie to warn us, eh Logan?
Lots of Amelia over at John Carter/Barsoom’s place on Substack.
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thank you for memes!
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the windows stuff is getting worse everyday. Im going Linux on my next pc rather than windows 12.
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Bravo! I went Linux in 2004, and have never regretted it.
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The Win10 machine I bought used to run Terrible-Tax got upgraded to ‘nix after I discovered just how horrible Win10 was, with T-Tax not much better. (Not sure if it’s changed, but TurboTax didn’t run under the Linux Wine Windows-adapter. OTOH, if I’m actually awake, I can do the taxes fairly well with my magic spreadsheet. OTOH, revised tax returns are my friend. [sigh])
Kmymoney does the books. Simple enough, and I was able to import Quicken data.
The last Windows I used extensively was Win 7. Once I got broadband (ish–satellite before StarLink), it’s been Linux. Doing updates on dialup was a pain, either in Linux or Windows.
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Joy Division shirt FTW! (I have the parody “Meow Division” shirt. Those who know, grin and thumbs up. Those who don’t, don’t.)
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I have that image (sort of, it’s an animation) as one of my screensavers. IIRC, it’s an image of a pulsar’s light output.
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And yes, PSR B1919+21 (AKA CP 1919) was the first pulsar ever discovered. The graph was seen by Joy Division’s drummer, and used for the cover of Unknown Pleasures.
Not familiar with the band, but I like the drummer’s taste.
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The only way to self-medicate – no, wait. Chocolate, soda and pizza also qualify.
Have known bio grad students, can confirm the grant money would do it.
I’m not fighting that guy – I want him on my side!
When different groups come into contact… yep, that scans.
But he is destroying the government – exactly!
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My ex once called me a narcissist (I commented on something she specifically asked me to comment on, after she told me I was being too quiet). I have also not dated 99% of women (and may we all thank Himself for that).
Something tells me these women’s math is flawed.
The support group for antisocial people is working precisely as intended. I, for one, am quite satisfied with the service.
The Squeenix “adult woman fetish:” Picture it in your head. And there’s me over here, raised eyebrow with only a “Really?” expression on my face. Yes, facial expression with Southron accent is a thing, people.
Friederich August von Hayek was saying that back in the 80s, and since then it has not gotten any less true. If anything, recent developments have only further defined the general statement. That, and FA Hayek talking economics and capitalism never gets old.
“Live, Laugh Lay down suppressive fire” needs a belt fed. Just saying.
If my 2026, and your 2026, and Bob’s 2026, and… yeah, that’d probably cause massive, MASSIVE inflation and destabilize the markets quite badly. Let’s just go with “more profitable than 2020-2024.” That’s a safer target.
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Rather like the ex who called me a control freak because I wouldn’t do everything she told me to. 😧
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Sounds like those Narcissists are getting ALL the tail. I need to work on my Narcissism.
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