The haunting sound that Roman soldiers would have heard from their Celtic enemies before battle came from the Carnyx, an ancient wind instrument used between 200 BC and 200 AD.
Trainers that are in good shape that “coach” overweight & out of shape early 20’s and/or middle aged men by “guiding” them through 2 sets of 4-5 exercises of a pieced together full body workout under the unspoken illusion that this is how they train are fucking criminals
Guys stop telling me Sandisk has run up so much yada yada like broooo I don’t caaaaaaare I don’t look at the chart like a baboon.
The chart just confirms when I was right. All that matters is problem solving, this is engineering, this is not commodities.
Buy companies that solve important problems and provide value. There’s a lot of value to create in the world still.
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
In order to be fully American, you must possess a capacity for violence in the face of what aims to destroy your nation.
Otherwise, you’re just a beneficiary. And you will never fully belong.
Thomas Sowell gets it: He's 94 years old and has never held political office, never had a viral moment, never begged for your attention. He just wrote 30 books, spent 50 years dismantling bad ideas with data, and let the work speak. No green room. No cable news contract. No ideology to sell you. While academics were chasing grants and politicians were chasing polls, Sowell was in the library proving them all wrong. The most dangerous intellectual in America isn't the loudest one. It's the one who doesn't need you to agree with him.
Helen Andrews dropped a blunt explanation for why wokeness proved so hard to kill:
It’s rooted in feminine patterns of conflict — where disagreement isn’t debated, it’s treated as emotional harm that must be punished or silenced.
Instead of open argument (like James Damore’s memo at Google), the response became “I can’t believe you said that” followed by attempts to get the person fired. Men tend to argue, resolve, and move on. Women, she argues, are more likely to hold onto grievances.
If wokeness is partly a byproduct of rapid feminization of institutions, Andrews warns it won’t simply vanish with one election. It may be structural.
She points to overly “HR-ified” workplaces where feminine preferences for emotional safety now dominate promotions, culture, and daily life — often sidelining masculine strengths in the process.
Do you think some institutions have become too feminized in ways that suppress open debate and masculine virtues? Or is this framing off-base?