In fairness, I knocked over the Birch Khalifa with a pair of toenail clippers.

no sugar

I ded

Elon is the modern Epstein. Palantir is going to be some kind of insane new thing that haunts us for generations.

this isn’t exactly some random dude’s vibecoded slop website

It absolutely could be.

Am I crazy for thinking this was deliberate?

Does Peter Thiel have enemies? Is there something to be gained by making this information public? Absolutely.

Is the information out here because this super secret society didn’t trust anyone with basic experience to build a proper website? :-/

I’ve had very different experiences.

I just don’t like hair in my teeth

Oh sure. That’s just called “having kids” and I’m firmly in that stage.

but if I were single at any age, I would never approach a woman at a gym.

I mean, more power to you. I’m mostly just saying “Women over 55 who are fit exist, you can find them at gyms all over the country.” I’m not suggesting you need to hit on any of them.

That said, I can say from personal experience that people flirting with each other at the gym is incredibly common. I’ve flirted. I’ve been flirted. I even dated a Pilates instructor that I met there.

Feels only a small step better than approaching them at work.

Lot of flirting happens in offices, too.

“Captive audience” type shit

You meet people where you both are. But there’s a tactful way to approach people and a crass way. Don’t go running up to grab someone by the pussy. But smiles and small talk don’t hold anyone hostage.

It would take ten Wyomings to fill one Wyoming ten times.

And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny.

It’s a great setup for a long running joke. One reason why Garth Ennis is so obnoxious. He loves to squander a good premise on a cheap punchline.

I read the Preacher comic and… I gotta say, it falls off fast after the first couple of chapters. The mature-ish grotesquerie made to deliver context early on devolves into pure juvenille banging-my-action-figures-together by the end.

Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

I enjoyed “What if the Catholic Church tried to Hapsburg Family the Desposyni” as a concept. The execution was crass and fell flat. They could have had a legitimately interesting story arc introducing a severely disabled Jesus descendant capable of the odd miracle who the straight white male able-bodied main character could engage with. But it was more fun to make poop jokes and then splatter them in the punchline panel.

It’s nutpicking, to a degree. The odds of finding someone who wants to fuck the cartoons approaches 1.0 lightning fast on the internet. I’m less disgusted with the guy whining about an uninspiring upskirt shot (literally, why even shoot that frame? You could just not point the camera there!) I’m more disgusted with the AI Slop in the first panel, where they’ve replaced Kara Zor-El’s legs with the Hulk’s for some reason.

Jesus Christ, she’s 40% thigh in that first one.

Somebody just wants to see Supergirl crush a watermelon with her legs.

I mean, fit people still shop. It’s just going to be much more of a crap shoot.

As someone who has aged, I gotta disagree.

In high school, 20 year olds were ancient and wise.

In college, 20 year olds became peers and competitors

Once I started working, 20 year olds were the newbies

Now 20 year olds are indistinguishable from babies. Just having a conversation that ends with “After this we’re going to the bar, you want to come?” and getting told “Uh… I’m not quite old enough to drink” blows my mind every time I hear it.

It’s funny, because you can just go to the gym and meet people who are both old and in shape. In fact, you’re more likely to meet people who are both old and in shape at the gym because… older people who are in shape are the ones who go to the gym in the first place.

Why would a 40 year old lie about being 55?

So, on Tinder at least, there’s something I read about people under 40 being sorted and matched differently than people over 40. The end result being folks in higher tiers of service getting access to younger matches. But because it’s a semi-known exploit, you end up with people lying about their age to manipulate the match set.

You also get a weird phenomenon such that you see the same list of people showing up over and over again on your feed, until you cross the dateline and suddenly they all vanish.

God: “If you’d bothered to translate the texts properly, you would know this is exactly what I wanted.”

First time you saw it, though…

Clever bit

Oh no doubt. We’ve got friends with older kids and we’re getting a bunch of hot tips about what comes next - some good, some bad.

One of my friends swears the best day in a parent’s life is the day you change the last diaper. But the second best is the day your kids beat you at chess.

So I’ve got a lot to look forward to