All This Internet Stuff About the Psychology of Women
I have had gfs who...well...this kinda fits. I had never heard about all this at the time--and I was kinda brainwashed by blank-slate feminism way back then...but...it does fit...
But here's the big however...
It might not surprise you to hear that I've rarely had more than short relationships with such women.
Though I should add: I've known women who this stuff seems to fit...but, honestly, not all that many...
However, women I've really been into, and with whom I've had longer relationships, were absolutely not like this at all.
JQ, my longest relationship by miles, is not at all like this. She's much more reasonable, objective, level-headed, and completely-not-like-this than I am...
So anyhoo, I kind of hate to see otherwise reasonable guys making generalizations like this about women...for one thing, reminds me of the kind of generalizations wacko feminists make about men.
Helen Andrews: Overcoming the Feminization of Culture
I'm not completely onboard...I'm skeptical that an increase in the number of women in important institutions has been the biggest driver of the Woke plague of lunacy... But women do definitely lean left...and the left is a largely feminine ideology... I expect there's some kind of feedback loop at work...and, undoubtedly, some other things...but I'm not that sure she'd actually disagree:
Sabine Hossenfelder: New Climate Report (Justifiably) Sparks Outrage
So the climate hysteriac left's newest scheme: make up some bullshit models that pretend to show how much worse certain natural disasters are...BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE REEEEEEEEEEEE...and then pretend to calculate how much particular industries or companies have contributed to it...and then sue them for $$$.
In brief, the plan is:
Bullshit
More bullshit
Profit!
(Fund leftist causes)
Look, I neither have nor deserve a fixed opinion on climate change. The people I find most credible generally think that (i) there's some warming; (ii) we did some of it; (iii) we should be concerned and move to stop doing it...
Anyway, I do try to take it seriously.
I also realize that a climate catastrophe isn't impossible--and, so, given the horrific nature of such a thing...well, we have to keep that possibility on the table...even if it ought to be over on the edge and not in the center...
But these people just don't make it easy.
The left is its own worst enemy.
Even when lefties have a point, they surround it with so much insane bullshit that they become more dangerous than whatever it is they're crying wolf about...
Oh and: the NAS is in the thick of this scheme/scam.
Oh and: as for "extreme event attribution:" the IPCC itself says we have no appreciable evidence that climate change is affecting any adverse weather events...with the possible exception of heat waves...
It's already clear that there's substantial reason to suspect that "Omar" is involved in all kinds of financial and immigration-related shenanigans. It absolutely needs to be investigated. It should have been investigated more thoroughly long ago. Nobody's talking about stripping her of her citizenship because she is an opponent of the administration, you dolts. That's on the table because there's a good chance that she committed immigration fraud. In which case she should be stripped of her citizenship--and, consequently, of her status as Congressman.
She's presumed innocent by the legal system--but we're not obligated to make any such presumption in our ordinary judgments. I mean...I did start out presuming that...but at this point, it's lookin' kinda 50/50 for her at best.
Winston Marshall Interviews Larry Sanger on the Ideological Capture of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a cesspool of leftist bullshit...but, honestly, I think it's gotten less bad over the last couple of years. The entries on race and "gender" used to be pretty pure propaganda...both have improved. I've mentioned here before that I think there ought to be a site that comments on Wikipedia entries...and Sanger had the same idea...but instead of just taking about it, he's actually putting it up!
When it comes to the left, we're repeatedly forced to ask ourselves: are they lying or are they delusional? Often it's a bizarro combination of the two.
And, like Trump, they often assert things that generally cohere with the way they want things to be, without regard for how they actually are.
I was interested in VR for awhile. Read part of his book but lost interest. Didn't really know enough to form much of an opinion. His drug-company shenanigans sounded sort of slimy to me...but I don't know enough to say for sure.
I saw something about that ad the other day, though and...Jesus Christ... I mean, a lot depends on the actual facts of the case...but even a little bit of poking around seems to indicate that Acton's mom is shit...which makes the ad utterly beyond the pale. Though there's absolutely no reason for any legitimate political campaign to go there anyway. If Acton is/were such a liar, it would show up elsewhere.
Bad as it might be for Ohio...part of me kinda hopes VR gets stomped because of this.