I honestly think that that was the best Windows.
OK, Windows 7 was also not bad. But everything since has been disappointing.
All that matters to me is that I understood this easily without needing to look up a single word. GOAL!!!!!!!
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Continue reading →: Inner Architecture
This is not a defense of Lindsay Clancy who should get the death penalty.
However.
Saying “but how did women 100 years ago give birth to 16 children, bury most of them and not get sad?” is retarded. People 100 years ago had an entirely different inner architecture. Their inner world wasn’t structured like ours is. They were not people in the same way as we are people. This is neither good nor bad. It simply is.
This is why conservatism is so important. We experience enormous changes at the very core of our selves. This happens because of factors that are external to us and that we can’t control. If there’s nothing stable at the core of your self, you are going to go mental. Look at the vast mental illness gap between conservatives and liberals. This is why.
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Continue reading →: Race Isn’t Real
In response to the Jason Arday debacle, leftists have started an extremely weird campaign of arguing that race isn’t real and is a social construct. This has gotten to the point where I don’t understand these people at all.
As a right-winger, I’m extremely happy to accept that race isn’t real, that it’s a social construct, that it’s one of Santa’s reindeer, or that it’s a big helium balloon. I am beyond eager to accept all of this and never to talk or think about race ever again. We, on the right, are not the ones who made everything about race. We are the ones who have been persecuted for using the word “colorblind”.
Let’s absolutely accept that there is no race. We’re all part of a big human family, so let’s immediately cancel all of the racial considerations, trainings, seminars, and reporting during hiring, teaching, admissions, etc.
It’s just completely out there that the people who made everything about race and lectured us for years about how water is racist are now freaking out for a week about how race isn’t real.
There is an old Soviet joke about a guy approaching two people who are in the midst of an animated conversation. He listens in on their conversation for a while and then loudly exclaims, “Oh, just leave me the fuck alone,” and goes away.
Such are the leftists. After racializing everything down to the elementary particles, they are having a gigantic meltdown over people who mentioned race. “Why are you so race-obsessed?” they shriek. Truly the least self-aware people in existence.
Here’s the leftist freakout I’m talking about:
This person is yet another Cambridge professor. Clearly, she was not hired because of her utterly non-existent race.
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Continue reading →: Figured Out the Sabbatical
It’s week two of my sabbatical, and I’m happy to report that I have already figured out how to have an extremely productive sabbatical. You need to go to the office and stay there like it’s a regular work day.
The Dean was very puzzled yesterday when he came across me in the hallway at 7:45 AM. “A sabbatical is not a vacation,” I said virtuously and strutted away.
This is my first real sabbatical, and it’s an amazing experience. I spend each day writhing with enjoyment. I have hours of uninterrupted thinking and writing each day. It’s so good that I don’t even care about the regularly scheduled university lunacy, such as, for example, the fact that our union has negotiated for us a 20% drop in salary for summer courses. And then got upset when we pointed out that this is not an impressive achievement
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Continue reading →: Woke Is Not Over
I have no interest in what the butthurty costume is, but look at the date and tell me that woke is over.
By its nature, it can’t go away, get better, or lighten up. It can only get worse.
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Continue reading →: Against Abortion
The widespread, massive, and global support for Lindsay Clancy is the most effective argument for a total ban on abortion. After observing it, for the first time in my life, I am less supportive of abortion rights.
Like gay marriage, trans rights, and every other progressive cause, it’s become clear that abortion has no off-ramp. The only reason for abortion is because pregnancy and childbirth would inconvenience the mother. One would think that the first 3 months of pregnancy would be enough to figure out if a woman is too beaten down by this inconvenience. But we are now seeing that large groups of women don’t believe that 6 years is enough.
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Continue reading →: My Leadership Mistake
Today is the first day of the academic year, with me not being department chair. I am strutting into the office feeling ecstatic that I don’t need to care about anything this semester except for my research.
At the same time, I am realizing that I made a big mistake in the six years that I was in this role. I invited lecturers – part-time temporary faculty members – to department meetings. Nobody had done it before I became department chair. I started doing it unthinkingly, and I now know it was a false move. We ended up in a situation where the hierarchical order is broken and lecturers behave in unreasonably demanding and prima donna-ish ways. And it’s all my fault. I allowed this mold to fester and grow.
I, of all people, should have known better. I love hierarchies. I understand why they’re important. I can’t even fully explain what led me into this pig-assed behavior. I most certainly don’t care if people like me, so it wasn’t about that.
The new department chair immediately kicked out everybody who is not tenure-track out of the department meetings. And the craziest thing is that I hadn’t even realized that I’d been making a mistake before I found out that she did that.
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Continue reading →: Church Food
How you know that Ukrainians have joined the parish:
I make these crepes for my family but unfortunately I can no longer eat them myself.
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Continue reading →: Tasteless
The administration of my university is refusing to negotiate a contract. The overpaid, incompetent top administrator is wasting gigantic amounts of money on vanity projects. Expensive new buildings are being built, but they stand filthy because janitors can’t take the terrible working conditions and leave in droves.
Yesterday, people went out to protest. And what I found interesting in the whole thing is that the top administrator called them tasteless to discredit them. Not dishonest, not wrong, not lazy, not confused, not entitled, but tasteless.
This is not the first time he does this. When people complain about low pay, inflation eating up the salaries that haven’t seen a cost-of-living increase in years, and the lack of a contract, this administrator routinely tells some anecdote that positions him as a fancy person with refined tastes and an expensive lifestyle. What’s really entertaining is that flaunting one’s wealth in the faces of people who say they struggle to put food on the table because you’re underpaying them is the most vulgar, low-class thing of all.
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Continue reading →: Snippets and Jingles
I have now read the phrase “Lindsay Clancy begged for help” in six different languages in my X feed. Obviously, there is no international propaganda campaign in defense of this horrible woman. People are chanting the same meaningless sentences around the world because that’s how most people are. Their entire inner world consists of snippets and jingles that they heard somewhere and repeat because the snippets sound smart to them.
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