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We extend a special thank you to our visitors from St. Helena, Taiwan, and the British Indian Ocean Territory. We love islanders!
According to Awstats, you guys currently spend an average of 185 seconds on this site before realizing that we are completely full of shit. We've had 10 visits that lasted between 30 minutes to over an hour. Those folks fell asleep at their desks from boredom. So really, those visits lasted about 10 minutes before they nodded off. Most of our visitors hail from the United States, the Russian Federation, Greece, India, and Great Britain. Linux is the most popular OS, followed by MacOS, and then Windows, and the vast majority of you are desktop users. iOS and Android account for only 20 visits this month. Google Chrome is the top browser. We don't use it. We don't use Linux obviously, or Google Chrome even for testing purposes. It's a much different picture than Webalizer offers. We don't know which is better or how accurate they are.
We have the Dave's Crap High Fashion page fleshed out.
High Fashion with low standards
Important Numbers for May 2026
| Metric | Current Rate |
|---|---|
| Unemployment Rate: | 4.3% |
| Core Inflation Rate: | 2.9% |
| Annual Inflation Rate: | 4.2% |
News
Gaming!
I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming
Good News!
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other Real-life Vault-Tec
A billionaire crypto bro will lead humanity to Mars atop Musk’s Starship Considering the wealthy's disdain for expertise, what could possibly go wrong?
Here’s why the failure of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
Two years of low gravity, radiation poisoning, social isolation issues, and the potential for unfixable catastrophic failures? Piece of cake.
Too Stupid For Words But Here Are Some Anyway
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future Pro-business outlet Forbes tried to take the moral high ground by accusing the protestors of cheating on their exams...
College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams Which went over about as well as most moral high ground stances in the business world...
AI is boosting Forbes’ publishing capabilities
Forbes now has its own AI search engine
How many journalists did Forbes let go after adopting AI to streamline its operations and boost profitability?
Forbes Lays Off Around 5% of Staff Two years after adopting AI
Physics
This could be the case...
Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says
But decoherence is more likely...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Whether it is multiple universes or past lives, the lure of those ideas is rooted in our dissatisfaction with the present. Greatness is ours or was ours, just not on high-probability scientific terms.
Yuck!
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
And the first person who would likely sign up for this is...
Artificial Intelligence Stupidity
Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science One bright spot: They continue to understand the use of the Middle Finger as a social convention
“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Kevin O’Leary would really love an Emmy Award for his public statements
Artificial Stupidity News Archive
Crypto
SBF Files Trump Pardon Application: Long-Shot Bid for Freedom? All the cool kids are doing it, the sentiment goes...
Exclusive - Binance set to lose permission to operate in EU, sources say
Trump family’s crypto venture is quietly minting money through Binance stablecoin deal
Tiny Tim Sweeney
Nice!
The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible All stock prices are speculative bets
Taking a Musk right now? The Musk Archive!
Meta
Meta secretly integrated facial recognition software with smart glasses, report says
Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking
Meta Platforms Investors Reject Proposals as Zuckerberg Bets Big on AI
Lots of Blah, Blah, Blah
Ignoring Logistics In Astronomy
It’s not a problem to suggest that something could be done in space. Instead, we need to ask ourselves if a proposal is practical at all given the time, cost, risk, and distance involved. There are excellent reasons why aliens wouldn’t bother trying to conquer the Earth militarily or why they wouldn’t harvest high-energy plasma from black hole jets. We could hitch a ride aboard a rogue exoplanet hurtling through our galaxy, but it’s a fantastically poor idea. We could terraform Mars, but it won’t be easy or quick in the slightest. This latest proposal regarding Titan, a moon orbiting Saturn, throws logistical challenges to the wind as if they were nothing.
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
The view from Titan presented in the article doesn’t look like that at all. The surface looks like this instead.
It’s a really poor idea on many levels. Titan doesn’t have a magnetic shield. Therefore, colonies have to be constructed underground. Titan’s liquid methane is flammable, colorless, and odorless; it can crowd out oxygen and suffocate your colonists. You must constantly filter it and any hydrocarbons out from your environment. That means no leaks and no lasting contamination introduced by explorers or resupply missions.
Oxygen is a very precious commodity. There’s no reason to get excited about any propane, butane, gasoline, or kerosene on the moon’s surface because using any of that as fuel consumes oxygen. None of that will function as fuel outdoors for any purpose because there is no oxygen.
Then there is the suggestion that Titan’s hydrocarbons could be harvested and refined to produce a wide range of products. Just producing plastic is an enormous undertaking.
Even if you transplanted those hydrocarbons and delivered them to Earth, doing so wouldn’t be worth it. Titan is three years away using our current technology. How exactly would anything on Titan be a benefit to anyone whether they lived there or not?
The devil in the details revolves around logistics. The infrastructure, risk, launch costs, and time demands for this latest proposal make it impractical. There’s nothing to get excited about.
Confirmation Bias In Science Research
Some scientific research suffers from bias. Meditation studies that conclude that meditation offers benefits are often conducted by researchers who meditate. Obviously, there’s a problem there. Similarly, a recent study concluded that smoking pot benefits the brain’s cognitive powers. It was conducted by Carl Hart, a Columbia University psychologist and neuroscientist, who also smokes weed and advocates for its decriminalization. The linked article below doesn’t disclose Hart’s drug use, but it certainly needs to mention it.
Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is so desperate to find aliens that practically any event or finding that hints at advanced alien civilizations gets him unreasonably excited.
Harvard prof finds alien life evidence in ocean and says NASA is 'arrogant' for doubting
Science is based on probabilities. Tentative doubts about everything are core to its use as a tool for discovery. What is arrogant about calling Loeb’s conclusion into doubt? British astronomer Fred Hoyle was so in favor of his steady state universe proposal that his approach suggested that he advocated his viewpoint simply because he found it more entertaining than boring. A steady state universe is certainly more comforting than one that dies after 10^100 years, but it faces formidable problems such as the need to create matter endlessly. Simulation Hypothesis is an interesting proposal, but it presents daunting challenges that its champions refuse to recognize. If your aim is to prove Simulation Hypothesis against all other considerations no matter how reasonable they are, you aren’t any better than a rabid conspiracy theorist or an intelligent design advocate who refuses to admit he or she could be on the low-probability path.
Science research goes wrong when the researchers are already strongly in favor of whatever conclusion they are pursuing. That isn’t to say the above examples might not become high-probability ideas in the future, but they face too many significant obstacles today that interfere with their widespread scientific acceptance.
Science test design is another problem, particularly in gender studies. You aren’t doing real science if you aren’t willing to challenge assumptions. Men and women who are approached by suitors are equally judgmental and selective about the people seeking them out. Most experiments had the men approach the women instead for reasons of convenience. Women were found difficult to read not merely by men but by other women as well. No one could easily figure out if they were interested in someone or not. If women can’t tell the difference between other women’s friendly or seductive overtures, it indicates the problem lies with how women communicate with others. It’s not merely a problem to be laid at the feet of clueless men.
"I Drive Better Drunk And Write Better, Too"
Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?
This goes along with we wrote earlier about the writing profession.
The Math Of Writing And Acting
The article above it focuses on published authors, but plenty of authors finding no meaningful success (98% of writers) could wind up with nothing but their addiction to cement their legacy. Writing is such a bad profession with high barriers to entry that it is hard to recommend it at all, whether you are rich enough to find success or not. We understand the therapeutic effects of writing to calm a fevered mind, but writers conflate their emotional state brought on by addiction with positive outcomes regarding the quality of their work.
That same misappropriation happens with notions of success. Steve Jobs was a horrible human being who got lucky so tech founders want to be horrible people to achieve that same success. The logic doesn't hold up at all. Neither does celebrating the success of people who were born rich. People who send sites like Farnam Street money ignore the role luck plays in building fantastic wealth. The only person who might make an excellent living from published self-help advice is the person selling it.
What might really matter is the vector for addiction rather than activity that obstensibly benefits from it. "I have to drink and use drugs to succeed at writing." It's offered as a matter of causation rather than correlation. It reinforces the idea that addiction is an existential consideration. Without it, I'm nothing. Writing becomes an excuse for excess after the writer begins his descent into debauchery and diminished output. In the end, the addiction overtakes everything.
No, we aren't addicts. We aren't writers. We have real jobs.
Intelligence Test
Study this pattern for 10 seconds.
Did you find the image dazzling and a bit disorienting? If so, you are clearly too intelligent to be wasting your time here.
Community Profiles
That picture of Orchid Radowski is strangely mesmerizing and hypnotic. It isn't of Elizabeth Holmes, unless she did modeling work for Adobe Stock before heading up Theranos. It's surprising what you can end up with when you just screw around with photo stock.
The one of Feline Cordoba is even stranger to us. It's like experiencing wincing pain and pleasure all at once.
Feline Cordoba - My issues are solved with facial tissues
Likes solo sychronized underwater dancing, startling others using fake knife jabs, and posing as an online proxy for long-dead celebrities
Seeks a Tylenol for her crushing headache and parkour between her home's rooftop and attached garage
Relationship Status: Single. I feel safe enough to laugh cruelly in your face. Thank you. That made all the difference.
Dave's Crap High Fashion
This just in...
Manhood graciously downgraded from King Size to Fun Size by tell-all female co-worker following a date
Dorky, annoying kid no one can stand refuses his school-issued lab safety glasses that make him feel uncool
Local candidate vows to create the office she is running for in her first official act
Trump on the hunt again for future cabinet members, federal judges, and senior intelligence officials
Man's blind date quickly becomes awkward after their conversation turns to enlarged prostates. "I'm thinking only about our future, hon."
The thoughts of a true Alpha Nerd. "They used a negatively-sloped hyperbolic surface instead of a torus-shaped algebraic manifold to make this calculation? Why? What were they thinking?"
The thoughts of a true Zeta Nerd. "I'm a science expert. I've binge watched the entire Star Trek Original Series."
Nerds forced to adopt 'It' pronoun in matters of gender identification by a prominent global standards body
Trump seeking high-5's for passing a test that reveals only dementia onset instead of his self-described extreme intelligence. "Extremely low or extremely high? Is there a difference?"
Loud, annoying, lonely nerd who smells like a landfill wonders when women's tastes in men will dramatically improve. "I mean, this is pathetic! Them, I mean. Uh, women. You know?"
Father fiercely protective of his daughter's sexual purity runs across her OnlyFans account while browsing for lesbian porn
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