One really big failure of mine has been basing my understandings of how men and women differ in personality on my social circles. Women who are engineers, philologists, musicians and martial artists are disproportionately more masculine in temperament.

The fastest way to end mistreatment is to reciprocate it. Is someone late? Don’t be punctual. Is someone indirect? Don’t be clear. Is someone passive? Don’t show initiative. Make them feel how awfully they treat you by reflecting that behaviour right back at them and see how it goes away.

I run into a lot of bitter men because of the program. In the same way that the first step is to stop using, and the rest of the journey is to understand and transform the person who used, I listen and sometimes offer perspective. But these guys are buying and using 1/

Evander has one of the greatest records in the history of boxing but will always be remembered first and last as the guy who beat Mike Tyson. Life’s funny that way.

I think I am the only person I know who sort of misses Mac OS 9 and below.

Costco sells gigantic bags of sliced pepperoni. This has led to me randomly going to the fridge and grabbing a fist of pork. Costco is why I will never be a cruiserweight.

I’m finally getting around to seeing the film version of Wicked. Arianna Grande as Galinda is really interesting. Kristen Chenoweth is slight, but substantive, she carried that role on talent. AG played a vapid pop star for years, and brings that to performing Galinda.

I’ve reached an age at which I need a speed bad more than I need a reflex bag. Age is only humiliating if you let it be, otherwise, it is just another changing condition.

The recent furore about "continental philosophy" exposes just how little of it the author has truly read. Most of what he dislikes is policed as outside philosophy by philosophers, it's the post-structuralist/post-modernist nonsense called "theory." People who work on Hegel and Levinas aren't fools.

For some reason, Pink Floyd, Tool and Primus all have very similar vibes to me. They sound nothing alike, but all have deep lore, concept albums and a complete narrative immersion. music.apple.com/us/album/sai...

One benefit of being friends with members of the Nation of Islam is that you can hang out with Muslims who are completely normal about other people being other kinds of Muslims. I've never had one of my black friends refer to someone else as a "kafir", even in private.

Twitter has enabled country identification for accounts. I think we will find that several of the worst accounts are based in Pakistan, Indonesia and other such places. There is a tremendous amount of money to be made in making Americans hate each other.

Anthony Joshua taking a “fight” against Jake Paul is not only a way to get paid, but an unbelievable opportunity to denigrate all opponents, past and future, by comparing them to Paul. Imagine being Tyson Fury and having to listen to Joshua calling Paul “dangerous.” Hilarious.

I spoke to a conversative reporter yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised at how fair her assessment of Speaker Pelosi's accomplishments was. Nancy Pelosi in all time great legislator and leader so much so that even the other side can see it, like Richard Russell was in the Senate.

I’ve been a puncher my whole life, a boxer-puncher, at best. Hitting power and chin have never been my drawbacks, but defense, endurance and strategy have been weak points for me. Learning to actually box, to make use of space to take away space, at this age is really hard, but very fun.

Some people are from Houston. I’m from Screwston.

Did you know that there are people who have hearing who do not enjoy the singing of Linda Ronstadt?

There are two types of people who know the word “ephebophilia.” The first are people with Classics degrees. The second are people who need to be pistol whipped to death. The latter seem to be out in full force today.

Anthony Joshua is going to have to cut a lot of weight to fight Jake Paul. Using light weight gloves, rather than sparring gloves, means that this is as close to a real fight as Paul has ever had. I hope Joshua demolishes him. www.skysports.com/boxing/news/...

Conversation on Twitter is proving my adage that to understand Bataille's ideas on sanctity, you can either read Hegel to understand alienated labour, then read The Accursed Share to understand consumption as destruction, or you can listen to women talk about engagement rings.

Democrats folding just as Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement is irony you’d expect from an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” This party is ready for a complete shaking off of the leadership, a revolt, a la Republicans in 2016 when Trump came to give voters what they truly wanted.

A very good way to describe one strand of the braid of neoconservatism is as "Marxists Against Leftists". I have joked for years that I am the founding member thereof, in that, like Marx, I take Hegel very seriously, and, unlike Marx, I have read and understood Hegel.

One thing that really stands out when you listen to incel men talk is just how un-masculine their complaints are. Almost everything that they complain about is how the world doesn't value them or think that they are attractive, socially determined standards of value, etc.

Reminder that attacks on gifted programmes in schools are a form of class protection, usually, racially so. Rich white kids will always be able to take calculus in private school, but middle class Jews, Hindus and Buddhists will be stuck taking dumb classes in public schools.

To understand what a God tier musician Michael Jackson was, consider that he was in a room with Quincey Jones, Steve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen and still was the guy who wrote the greatest guitar riff and rhythm guitar part of the decade. music.apple.com/us/album/bea...

I am hearing told that on his deathbed, Vice President Dick Cheney opened his heart to Jesus and was born again in the blood of The Lamb before ascending to permanence. Supposedly, his last words were of gratitude to Christ, “Jesus saves, not the government.”

There is an old feminist saying that nothing makes a man a feminist faster than having a daughter. A related idea is that nothing will make a man a radfem faster than his watching a housewife relative go through a divorce.

A lot of parents at my son’s school have started drinking Cirkul water bottles because of their kids’ influences. It took me a while but I am all in.

He already got Nas. @greene.haus , Play? music.apple.com/us/album/ent...

Do European and American cultures really not consider their parents’ cousins to be aunts and uncles? Every Asian family I know refers to their parents’ cousins this way.

One benefit of camera off, mute mode in meetings is that you can eat Oreos without the other people having confirmation, rather than suspicion, that this is what you are doing.

In mythology, they often speak of the weariness of prophets. People who can see what really happened, is happening, subsequently, will happen, are often exhausted by the people who cannot, and who cause the bad results to happen. I’m so tired of being right about people. It’s a curse.

If the purpose of a high heeled shoe is to extend the perceived length of the leg and change one’s gait, what is accomplished by a very small sized heel? Is the change perceptible?

If you are a no-name candidate and you are not only matching, but beating the sitting Governor in polling for a statewide seat, odds are that the anti-incumbent mood is so strong that a party committee rigging a primary for her backfires, she will be perceived as establishment in a general.

Dad sentences are amazing. “I’m going to the bathroom. Come get me if you need me, but try not to need me.”

We got such a beautiful tease of what it could have been like if Kool G Rap had made an album with someone who tried to make his drums as hard as the lyrics. music.apple.com/us/album/gun...

Since this has come up, you can tell that I am sincere in my belief that not all things used by Nazis are permanently ruined because I am an amateur scholar of German philosophy, first, a Mason, second, a Zionist, third. Nazism is abhorrent to me because of my family relationships to

There are very few symbols that are actually Nazi symbols. The Nazi method was to claim and appropriate all of history that preceded it. A skull and bones has a long history in the west, it’s even the flag of the Templar Navy, and Masons use it today. This is not a Nazi symbol.

One interesting dimension of having an eight year old boy and a really picky woman as a best friend is that outings turn into competitions for whose ridiculous demands will be indulged. “I want $fast_food!” “Only if the napkins are gluten free!”

What Christians have never been able to explain to me is what demons want with human souls. What do they do with them? Are they currency, like cigarettes in prison? Do they enjoy torturing us? Is the point of the transaction to trade ephemeral privilege for eternal torment?

When I say we are living through a second neoconservative moment, what I mean is that neither left institutions nor a liberal party are sufficient to the problems most voters perceive, and they perceive both as having caused more problems than they solve. Fixing the right seems like a better option.

My major response to the latest stream of words written by Helen Rittelmeyer is that most men would go to their deaths for a workplace that was run like a Montessori school. The problem is that most workplaces are not run like Montessori schools.

"Cultural pollution" and "stochastic terrorism" make everyone into hypocrites. Perhaps we can all take a minute and agree that political culture, in order to be political, should have bounds of civility enforced by norms, and that calling for people to die and using Nazi language are both wrong.

For that matter, group chats are social spaces where people perform hyperbole as irony and other such techniques. A Jewish friend, IDF Vet, at that, discussed being “Auschwitz’d” by his daughter’s tuition bill. The problem with this Republican chat is nobody believes they’re joking around.

I was the founder of my high school Republican club. I can tell you that who we were then was very different to who Republicans are today, and who the youth are. We were very ideological and partisan. These people are temperamentally transgressive, issues don’t matter, per se. This matters.

This is my first time working with anyone who has the budget for Databricks. It's amazing how many problems this solves, immediately. Smaller budget organizations spend so much of their smaller budgets on recreating the wheel every time. It's another case of it being more expensive to be poor.

Donald Trump ran for President on the story of American Carnage, jobs disappearing to tech and finance, government agents dominating people's lives, citizens having their lives destroyed and ruined over trifles, no sense of anything changing. His second term is about making carnage worse.

“We’re playing Sunday brunch.”

Am I the only one involved in traditional martial arts and boxing who has been getting an insane amount of ads for T'ai Chi as conditioning?