My mate back in England married his first ever girlfriend.
They met at school. Never left our hometown. He still works at British Gas, the same company he joined at 21. Heads down the pub every Friday.
They've got two kids, a garden, a dog. She still looks at him like he's the only man in the room.
He's never read Atomic Habits. Never "worked on himself." Never bothered to optimize his supplement stack.
I moved to four countries, built a business, reinvented my entire life. I wouldn't change any of it.
But when he sends a photo of his family eating Sunday roast together, I think maybe we're all overcomplicating this.
Just had the creepiest scam ever happen 20 minutes ago.
I got a call from my wife telling me she forgot her wallet and needed the credit card to pay for her gas.
Except my wife was at home with me, and drives a Tesla. Same voice, bit... off, weird cadence but 100% sounded just like her. If she wasn't there, and it wasn't about gas I would have fallen for it.
I entertained it for awhile to get more out of it, I was so confused. Must be some sort of voice deepfake. The responses were too fast for ai, I think it was a voice filter. I wish I had thought to record it.
The future is about to get fucked. Warn your loved ones, do verbal passwords with your kids.
Bit taken aback
The unspoken thing here is that the jaw drop is not actually due to the scale of the dust plume but specifically because it is happening in New York. The same video taken in Beirut or Tehran would never get the same reaction from the viewer.
After Lindsay Clancy killed her three children:
- Marisol Vázquez suffocated her 21-month-old daughter in Chicago.
- Wilma Medina stabbed her 9-year-old son in the neck, killing him.
- Oninda Romelus shot her four children in a car in Texas, killing her 13-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.
- Naikishia Williams fatally stomped her 7-year-old daughter in Riviera Beach, Florida.
- Irene Whitehead of Cedar Springs, Michigan, suffocated her 2-year-old daughter.
- Cynthia Robinson of Chester, Pennsylvania, fatally beat her 20-month-old son.
- Ashlee Buzzard of California shot her 9-year-old daughter Melodee to death and buried her remains in Utah.
- Monika Rubacha of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, killed her two children, ages 11 and 14, in a murder-suicide while her husband was away for work.
- Janette MacAusland of Wellesley, Massachusetts, murdered her 7-year-old son Kai and 6-year-old daughter Ella.
- Marlene Vidal of San Antonio, Texas, set fire to her SUV with her two children, ages 5 and 6, inside.
- Sarah Myers of Mechanicsville, New York, poisoned and killed her four children before killing herself.
- Kailey Erhart of Mandan, North Dakota, murdered her 3-year-old and 5-month-old children and injured her third child.
- Corie Walsh, a Lindsay Clancy fan, strangled her 2-year-old son to death.
sinceramente, odio que hayamos normalizado la idea de que todas las opiniones son válidas. Creo que deberíamos volver a decirle a la gente que está mal informada y es ignorante.
Women were never oppressed. There was NO oppression. What women call oppression today was just PROTECTION.
Let me break it down for you:
1. VOTING:
Women say "we couldn't vote." But back then, voting was not a right, it was a RESPONSIBILITY. Only people who owned property, paid heavy taxes, held public office, or were drafted to DIE in wars could vote.
100% of the people dying in wars were men. You want to vote to send men to war, while you sit at home safe? Makes zero sense. Voting was linked to the DRAFT. You vote, you go to war. Men understood that.
2. BANKING:
"You needed your husband's signature!" Yes, because by LAW, a woman was LEGALLY PROTECTED from debt. Her husband was the head of household and by law HE was 100% liable for ALL debts she made. If she borrowed and couldn't pay, THEY CAME FOR HIM, not her. Creditors went to jail or lost everything - the husband.
So of course his signature was needed. He is the one who goes to prison if you don't pay.
3. PROPERTY - COVERTURE:
They cry about coverture. Coverture meant when you marry, your property merges under ONE name, the husband's, because there was ONE tax filing per household, not two like today. ONE household, ONE name, ONE tax.
It was not to steal from you. It was because the husband was legally responsible for you. If you got sued, he paid. If you owed taxes, he paid. He took your debts too.
These men had mothers they worshipped and daughters they would die for. They were not oppressing women, they were covering them.
4. CONTROLLING WOMEN'S BODIES:
The biggest lie. Back then there were NO abortion pills, NO condoms that worked, NO diapers, NO formula, NO government money to raise a child alone as a single mother, NO good jobs for women to survive alone.
Who bears the most risk in unprotected sex? THE WOMAN. She gets pregnant for 9 months, she risks death during childbirth, which was very common then.
So what did society do? They made sure women stayed virgins until marriage, and made sure men MARRIED them before sex. That is not oppression, that is PROTECTION from becoming a single mother with 3 kids and no food.
And it WORKED. Single motherhood rate was less than 5%. Marriage rate was 90%. Children grew up with fathers.
Today you have "freedom" - 40% single mothers, fatherless homes, abortions everywhere, and women crying that men don't want them.
There was never oppression. There was a system that understood biology and protected women from the consequences of their own choices.