Live It, Don’t Diet

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

And everyone who claims that they only eat 800 calories a day and still gain weight is lying, lying, lying. Have to be, as that’s physically impossible.

I once saw a dude who maintained, “I only eat about 1,000 calories a day” routinely eat ~1,300 calorie breakfasts in front of me. He wasn’t counting his 300 calorie drink, nor any of the copious toppings he added to that breakfast. I never saw what he had for dinner (only breakfast and lunch), but I estimate if dinner was anything like the rest, he was consuming around 3,500 calories per diem. He was mystified why he was not losing weight on his “diet.”

This is how most people — for lack of a better word — think.

Song Times

Chill Music, Music Video, Video

Tonight, I was trying to think of which song I had listened to the most times in my life all the way through. And that’s difficult, as I listened to quite a few songs in high school over and over again in a way that I just do not tend to now.

A solid guess is “Bells Ring” by Mazzy Star. Damn, I must’ve queued that song up dozens of times in a row for a few years; it felt like its own tiny world to explore.

Incidentally, I saw that performance above the first and only time it aired. I even recorded it on VHS. Not sure why that version is cut off at the end, but that’s a great one despite the poor audio. In most ways, it betters the album version. I think Hope’s performance in particular is superior in the live edition. She sounds more pouty, somehow more depressedly impassioned, and more mysterious there. The album version is more sterile and more restrained despite using electric instruments.

The album version, though, does have a damn fine outro.

Chill Links

The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.

False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School.

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you “verify” the bug remains unfixed. They did that to my bug report about Finder (still unfixed to this day).

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant.

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN’s truck.

Hillary Clinton promoting age verification laws with JB Pritzker at an event supported by Zuck/Gates/Bezos.

At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity halted, Reuters calculations show.

The Sun Is 'Glitching.' Scientists Investigated and Solved a Cosmic Mystery.

The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data.

The Social-Media Shakedown Begins.

Trump’s Ambivalence on Taiwan Opens a Historic Opportunity for China.

The claim that men and women cannot be friends says more about you than about friendship.

2026’S historic snow drought is bad news for the West.

Iran Is Applying the Lessons of Russia’s Drone Warfare Against America.

She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China.

The Long-Term Decline of the U.S. Jobs Ladder.

Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.

America Depends Less on Oil Than Ever.

Libya, Iran, and the Limits of Airpower.

Electrostates vs. Petrostates.

The Fall

Chill Evil

That does embody Western leftist self-hatred and how they are destroying our and their own civilization. How did we ever let them amass so much power so unaccountably?

The Threat

Chill Evil

If you want to know why the far right is surging in France, this is why. Someone must resist this. Since the left welcomes this dystopia, and thinks women like Jade deserve this treatment, they will welcome feral third worlders until their society is destroyed.

I support whoever resists this.

Chill Links

“Little Darlin'”: cover or parody? Or is it two, two, two songs in one?

Reality TV Confronts a Harsh TV Reality.

In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC.

She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.

If women have no responsibility to invite an approach, then they have no power to control who approaches them.

The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine.

Apple is set to put ads in Apple Maps in services push. Ugh.

Self-healing composite could allow machines to last for centuries.

U.S. Battled Drone Incursions Over Key Bases At Home After Launch Of Epic Fury.

JWST reveals most distant red galaxy yet at redshift 11.45.

Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen.

Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded.

The Iran War Is Handing China A Playbook on How to Beat the U.S. Military.

There Goes the Spring Selling Season: Mortgage Rates Jump, Mortgage Applications to Purchase a Home Drop.

Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider In Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music.

Don’t Listen to Anyone Who Thinks Secession Will Solve Anything.

Schoolchildren Are Converting to Islam 'Out of Fear' in German Schools.

However It Goes

Chill Evil

This is the most disgusting, vile, inexcusable thing I’ve heard in a while. And I’ve heard a lotta shit.

Those migrants don’t need remigration; they need immediate execution. And then the rest of them sent back, in boats if they cooperate. In bodybags or as undifferentiated slurry if not.

At this point we should be sinking any and every migrant boat in the Med.

That poor girl. I have no sympathy and would give no mercy to anyone who had anything to do with this.