Talcosis

I only noticed because the second time I sat on the other side of the couch she was sitting on to check when the fireworks were gonna be, and she straight jumped up and out of the room. I wasn’t like, close to her or leaning her way or anything.

I probably give off some kind of creep vibes, I just don’t really understand how or why, and at this point I have zero clue on how to fix it. Guess I just gotta accept that single straight women under age 50 avoid me like the plague. Old ladies at the yacht club love me.

I mean, I definitely don’t start convos the way people want me to start convos, either. Idk. Just had the weirdest experience last night. Two weeks ago, I met this girl who was pretty cool in a friend way. Also, she doesn’t swing my way, no problem. Cool person. So last weekend I went out with her and some of her friends. One of her friends was kinda cute, we talked a bit, but not long at all. Nothing I would consider serious. I wasn’t trying to hit on her. She didn’t seem uncomfortable at all.

Then last night, hanging out with the same group of people. This girl I talked to would straight up run away if I got within ten feet of her. Happened twice, and then I started avoiding her because like…clearly causing distress with my presence alone.

What do I do with that? I mean apart from keep avoiding her, cause clearly she doesn’t want to be anywhere near me.

It’s absolutely a skill issue by my age.

I have gotten dates at the grocery store before, which is where the second skill issue comes in: women don’t stick around very long.

Lol I don’t get laid

Eh.

I’m still in my mid 30s and involuntarily celibate. I’m just not an incel. I recognize this is a skill issue on my part, not the fault of women.

Fuck it, in a couple of years I’ll fuck off into the ocean and go sailing.

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“American companies have long taken advantage of these trends. A leaked report from the 1980s, which was prepared for a waste-management company seeking a community for “locally undesirable land use,” listed the “least resistant personality profile” as: “longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest,” “conservative,” “Republican” and “advocates of the free market.””

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-is-china-treating-north-carolina-like-the-developing-world-122892/

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“American companies have long taken advantage of these trends. A leaked report from the 1980s, which was prepared for a waste-management company seeking a community for “locally undesirable land use,” listed the “least resistant personality profile” as: “longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest,” “conservative,” “Republican” and “advocates of the free market.””

Facebook and shit don’t matter much, but whatsapp is the primary form of communication for a good chunk of the world.

Fun fact: in some places, whatsapp and Facebook (and a few other sites) isn’t even considered to be “internet”. Like, if you don’t pay an ISP you still get access to those. Then paying for “internet” gives you access to everything else.

Problem with that is that there’s a very small window in which saving an incel/femcel is easy. Before that window, they’re generally still normal but maybe withdrawing. After that window…interacting with them just kinda sucks. You need to have a certain willingness to deal with excessive self-deprecating sadness and basically make life worth living for them.

Incel/femcel communities stew in that toxicity, so it’s easy to add your own toxicity to the stew. Normal people don’t want to put up with that shit.

Source: a dear friend from back in the day dealt with my nearly incel ass, preventing me from falling all the way down the hole.

I assumed you were from Europe. Feel free to tell me where you were from, so I can properly tailor blaming you for failing to address the prevailing local issue from my international perspective.

I already seek out “made in China” for certain goods, because of the quality

It’s still being built, I think they had one of the planned production lines close to complete?

Chip fabs take like 10-15 years to get going

Hey, what’s up with that chat control? Y’all surrendering?

Does disappearing into one of the most brutal prison systems in the world count as a “slight inconvenience”?

Alright John Wick, I wouldn’t want to see what you call an “annoyance”

I don’t much like hypotheses that require certain size groups of people.

But I guess that’s just the instability of the dictator applied to the entire world.

That knowledge is nowhere near as restricted as you think. People regularly build small thermonuclear reactors in their basements for shits and giggles. It’s not exactly cutting edge technology.

Similarly, anyone with slightly more than a passing interest in model rockets knows someone who’s been visited by the ATF, as your average solid fuel model rocket engine is basically a pipe bomb with one of the endcaps taken off.

I came across this conspiracy theory the other day.

You know how back in the day, company towns had to use company scrip to make sure workers couldn’t leave?

Well, not you can be tracked by AI, and as soon as you leave your “boundaries” granted to you by your level of privilege, suddenly your bank card stops working, because that looks like a “fraudulent transaction”.

The systems are already in place, too. If I go on an impromptu road trip and spend money six states over, my bank calls me and tells me my card is being used in a weird place, and they ask if that transaction is legit. Usually I can be like “yep, let it through” and everything is fine.

What if the AI decides that in fact everything is not fine, and I don’t need to be able to spend money outside of my town?

This feels a lot like the collapse of the USSR. Like, yeah, shit wasn’t necessarily great before, but what comes after is worse.

Couple dudes showed up with some trucks and some tools. Literally cut down a bridge, then sold it for scrap.

That kind of thing was happening everywhere in a less literal sense: as the government collapsed, government property was being rapidly taken control of by random people.

It’s like how the US government is being sold for scrap to rich people, but with a whole lot less control and a whole lot more violence.

Conduction sigh