Author: Clarissa

Power Play

~ Clarissa ~ 10 Comments

It’s this weird psychological mechanism where positioning yourself as a kindly benefactor to a man whom you fear makes the fear less intense. In your mind, he becomes a sort of a child, and you can’t really be angry with a child, no matter what he does.

What we call “toxic empathy” is not really empathy. It’s a power play. Let’s say, you tell somebody regarding a colleague at work, “Poor Peter. I feel so bad for him. That poor, miserable dude. Let’s be nice to him because he has so few things going for him.” Are you being empathetic towards Peter? Of course, not. You are using him to establish a hierarchy with yourself on top. Those who can pity stand above those who deserve pity. “Poor Peter” translates as “not poor me.”

We need to see these displays of fake empathy for what they really are, a power play.

Country of Origin

~ Clarissa ~ 7 Comments

Not of origin, I assume, but the country from which people post. Figuring out many users’ country of origin would be downright impossible.

Even then, say, I’m going to Spain tomorrow. Will my posts be marked as coming from a Spaniard while I’m there?

It’s an excellent idea but the implementation seems complicated.

Also, what’s with the spelling in the OP? Where is the author of the tweet from that he can’t use the apostrophe correctly in a 1,5-line sentence?

You Can’t Hide

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Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi Endowed Chair in Women’s Leadership

The successful candidate is expected to promote interdisciplinary research, innovative teaching and community engagement in women’s leadership, advancing understanding of leadership dynamics, gender equity and empowerment. Priority will be given to distinguished scholars with a significant body of work addressing challenges, practices and strategies in women’s leadership across sectors. The Endowed Chair will play a key role in advancing the university mission to foster an inclusive environment, advocating for women’s empowerment and social equity.

Key Responsibilities

Conduct and publish original research with an explicit focus on women’s leadership and advancement, women in multicultural and complex societies, or social justice and women’s advancement in the UAE and Gulf.

Even Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint can’t avoid empowerment, equity, and social justice.

Yes, it’s a real job posting.

Most Beautiful Women

~ Clarissa ~ 20 Comments

They have Japan and Mexico in the top five but no Ireland? No Sweden?

Ireland should be #1 with a huge distance from everybody else.

A Little Reminder

~ Clarissa ~ 25 Comments

They also have the number of children growing up without a father (even before the war) that are so high they make African American rates blush. Teenage overdose rates that are really out there. People who compare America negatively to Russia on absolutely any metric are either liars or congenital morons.

Bad Photos

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

Everybody over the age of 40 looks terrible from this angle. Trump is almost 80, and actually looks very good for his age. Why it’s cute to select purposefully ugly photos, I don’t know.

These infantile digs are very pathetic especially when the achievement under discussion is so impressive.

It’s scary that so many people don’t care about issues and only care to score wins for their imaginary team.

The Israel Win

~ Clarissa ~ 17 Comments

So the hostages did get released. Wow, this is an extraordinary win for the Trump administration.

I’m almost tempted to watch CNN to see how they are explaining Trump achieving the ceasefire they seemed to passionately desire.

Women’s Expenses

~ Clarissa ~ 7 Comments

I want it known that Eve Jobs, the daughter of Steve Jobs, the most thirsted after woman on Twitter has:

– $1200 hair cut and color (Margot Robbies stylist around this)
– $1500 worth of makeup
– $1000 nails
– $1200 facials/skincare
– $120 eyebrow waxing
– $700 lip filler (done subtly if she has any, most affluent women have)
– $10,000 clothing
-$5-10k health and fitness

After this litany of expenses, I thought the woman had to be sixty years old, at least. Turns out she’s 27. At 27, and honestly when at 47, nobody needs to put in so much money.

This exchange happened in response to a tweet pointing out a regular woman’s beauty costs:

Nails, OK, but everything else, I don’t know. Even my hair doesn’t cost anything close to $350, and I have a lot of it. Clothes, if it’s her entire wardrobe, fine, so I hope it’s not one outfit that the poster means.

It doesn’t cost that much to look pretty unless you are in your sixties and going for a young woman look.

AI Knows

~ Clarissa ~ 3 Comments

I never use AI translation for YouTube videos. Never turned it on. I watch everything in the original language, whatever it is.

Yesterday, I decided to watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Sam Altman. No matter what device I use to access the video, it plays in Russian. I switch it off but whenever I pause, the Russian translation comes back on. It sounds funny because Russian words are longer, so everything gets accelerated to fit in the Russian voiceover.

AI knows.

Naked Protesters

~ Clarissa ~ 7 Comments

Old people have been protesting for months in front of the library in my town, yet it never occurred to any of them to do a funny and get naked. Look how creative the Portland protesters are:

It’s raining, too! This is what I call true dedication to the bit.

I’ve seen a lot of mean jokes about them on social media but I find these goofballs to be endearing and very American in their absolute lunacy.