KPower are now swapping the robust K-series honda engines into the NC Chassis MX-5 miata. They offer full service installs as well, for a flat labor fee of $2950.
Let us all imagine the Miata as it was supposed to be, with a roots-blown K-series, and pray:
"Lord, protect me from the things I want, and my want of things."
One of my college classmates who remains a close friend sent it to me before I had had a chance to check NY Mag’s website today. He is absolutely their core demographic - 35, highly educated, lives in the West Village, and taking the year off to figure out what he wants to do next (he made $3-4MM after his employer - a startup - sold).
He noticed that a female classmate of ours had “liked” The Cut’s post about the article on Instagram; this surprised me. She is also, obviously, ~35. Moderately attractive, perma-single (or at least no man has made it to social media, and she has attended a number of weddings and parties over the years). She is from a very wealthy Charleston family; she owns a house there and has a place in NYC (hybrid schedule NYC CRE job).
As I commented below, I have nothing negative to say about this woman.
As is fairly widely known on here, I earned an undergrad degree at a small, elite, and certainly elitIST liberal arts college situated in a small town in Virginia. There was literally nothing to do except go to class, study, drink, and (occasionally) sleep.
I was probably in the middle of the bell curve for males in terms of alcohol consumption - about 50 a week (I drink less than 50 drinks a year now). The women drank quite a bit, too. My close male friends and I have observed that virtually all of the women, whether single or partnered, are in far better physical shape than they were when we were in college.
Despite that fact, a number of the women seem to have (voluntarily) given up on finding a husband and/or becoming a mother. Of the most beautiful women in my class (of about 400 grads total):
-One is from a sizable, big money Texas family. She earned a top MBA, lived a charmed life in NYC, got laid off during COVID, and now lives in a small, unremarkable town in rural New England with her dogs. She abandoned the G-wagen and platinum blonde and couture for bangs, bad tattoos, and a Subaru.
-One earned an Ivy League grad degree in applied mathematics (after having earned a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Math) before moving to LA to be a stylist. She lives in Echo Park and posts frequently about her various mental illnesses, the patriarchy, etc. She got married and divorced last year.
I clicked like on the comment, because well-told, but allowing such cruel fates to befall these women's lives makes me shudder.
My college experience similarly combined elitism, challenging academics, and probably the best beauty-to-brains ratio in all of american collegiate life at the time. Difficult to draw comparisons. But it felt like the Studio 54 of its day.
Your stories are just like mine.
The facially flawless, 9.5/10 5'4 waif with the best drawing ability in art classes and 9 figures of connecticut wealth: cats
The gorgeous, zaftig-in-the-cool-way-not-Bryce's-girls east-coast daughter of a local law and political dynasty: MANY cats
Of all the things we've so badly fucked up... how did *this* particular unforced error come to pass?
The Texas girl has siblings who achieved far less academically but are married with children.
The LA stylist has a brother who is gay; their stepfather is a billionaire whose own children reproduced.
Another girl who is not *particularly* attractive but was genuinely nice and down to earth (nothing to prove) works for the investment bank her multi-billionaire father owns (she looks like him wearing a wig). Mid-30s, single, no kids. Her best friend married her brother. Without giving everything away (this is a public thread), you can probably guess where I went to school, which makes it easy to figure out the family I’m talking about here (hint - the I bank is HQ’d in Little Rock and is a sponsor of the Williams F1 team).
As the world burns to the ground, I find the ironies of postmodern society often feel like little victories... the world treats boys like defective girls, but the result is that women became defective men.
Ugh. "The oppression of marriage". Then why do women seem to get the best deal out of divorce? I got a buddy going through a nasty divorce and I'm not sure his soon to be ex was oppressed.
It's nasty because of kids and nasty because they were marry for all of 18 or so months.
There was no infidelity. She just thought she could stay at home and be a content creator without actually taking care of the kids while he was doing a real job.
I don't have a problem with splitting it down the middle of the SAHM or SAHD does their actual job. The problem is men can get screwed on this front.
Maybe judges should assign some real value here and if that part of the contract isn't held up then maybe you don't get half?
In a just world, it would be like that. In the real world, my wife thought she could stay at home and be an alcoholic without actually taking care of the kids while I was doing a real job. When the divorce was final I got the kids and she got 60% of our assets. If there was any justice she would have left with her personal effects and not a damn thing more.
Look, I'm boomer and as right wing and anti snowflake as the rest of this readership, but.....I liked the piece. I thought it was well written, thoughtful, and truthful. The author came across not as a dingbat, but a smart pragmatic young woman who perfectly executed the OODA loop within her environment. She observed her status and choices, oriented, decided her way forward, and acted. Admittedly, her brother may be slightly pissed! Thanks for this Sherman.
I anticipated that it would set the tongues wagging in here, which is why I shared it. The comments on the website and on the Instagram post were predictable.
I'm three paragraphs in, and she's said nothing indefensible. It's just not a high-status outlook or "luxury belief" to hold - thus controversial to some.
People [outside of here] may not know this but pure, individualistic "for love" marriage is a nigh-unprecedented luxury of the postwar industrialized middle-class-or-better West. Most other civilizations still have parental input into marriage and most WESTERNERS would have had substantial parental input if not something along the lines of arrangement had they been living in 1910.
Big age gaps work for everyone. He gets youth and beauty and at least some of her best years; she lets him spend time in the investment banking salt mines for a decade+, he gets to enjoy strange women for a decade+ and she gets to take vague, purblind stabs at career before being politely allowed to stop maintaining the illusion of caring.
Honestly it totally makes sense. Kudos to this woman, who seems happily matched.
2 paragraphs in and the Harvard Grad. was looking for a dude to "Settle" with.
Further down "A date, days later. A second one, where I discovered he was a person, potentially my favorite kind: funny, clear-eyed, brilliant, on intimate terms with the universe."
Further down some more. What she says about her brother and girlfriend? She's a complete asshole. They are going to read this. I'd have nothing to do with the buffoon.
That woman is so close to getting it. She puts the words down herself but still can't see. The stuff about girlfriends fixing up their boyfriends but not getting the long term benefit. The observations about two people stumbling to grow up together. "I pictured a three-legged race, two people tied together and hobbling towards every milestone." Well that's the whole point of a marriage, isn't it? The wife helps the husband grow up and she herself is there to benefit until the end.
The author felt herself to be too valuable at age 20 and decided to skip all that. Now she's empty, although still married, and writing for free on the internet. She sees everything more or less accurately but can't analyze the problems at all. She writes she'll expect a lot from him when raising a child. After she admits herself that he has done basically everything for her over a decade? At what point does she carry her own weight? They'll hire a nanny and she'll be posting about divorce in five years.
Sometimes I think that women, under the influence of feminism and leftist nonsense have permanently damaged relationships between women and men. Women have allowed themselves to be convinced that they they're all high value and that most men simply don't live up to their now high standards. Sort of a Bizzaro Lake Wobegone where only half of the population is all above average. When I ask them how that math works out they just say that men "aren't keeping up", which would mean there's been a massive change in the past generation or two after thousands of years of human society. They believe that women have finally thrown off the shackles of the patriarchy. They simply can't compute the notion that women have had an equal role in shaping society and that the patriarchy is a fiction.
They put a lot of stock in their financial independence and the fact that they don't need a man. Then they go on Facebook singles groups wearing their casual misandry on their designer sleeves in filtered photos taken from the most flattering angles, ready to take offense at just about anything if expressed by someone with a Y chromosome, and simultaneously complain that they are single and that there are no men worthy of them.
And, of course, bigger picture is that on the exact same arc of women rising to lead modern society - more women in Congress, more women running large corporations, more women in professional careers - modern society has suddenly turned into a frantic, dysfunctional dystopia where everyone is vain, talks a lot, and no one seems to know how anything actually works...
What confounds me is that the political right, such as it exists, has not been able to *capitalize* on leftist lies through truth-telling.
Obviously censorship plays a part, but amazed that the truth is just so well-hidden and so well-lied-about. Blog-dot-jim says the truth is the right's best weapon, but this doesn't seem to be the case, at least at the moment
Assuming a 50/50 split in sexes, I find the line "Those guys are going to be lonely later" odd when it's used by many. Which may be true, but unless polygamy takes hold or the women go lesbian, if it's not those lonely guys not stepping up, which guys are they going to hook up with for the long haul.
So I'll add to this that this girl went to the same high school as my wife in Miami and was taught by my sister-in-law there. She just sent this article our way, and if you know Miami and know that the author is a Miami girl, it does make a lot more sense given the values of too many folks down there.
Given what she wanted, you do have to admire her for willing to dive in and go and get it. In that regard she's not too different than other elite school girls, it's just that her chosen "vocation" was a bit of a throwback.
You say this but bridge lights are pretty vulnerable.
Many bridge lights be effectively turned on/off by radio signal for moments when a boat is passing through. Also, there’s a lot of industrial lighting controllers that both have their management interfaces open to the internet and still use default credentials. This means that your “fancy” bridges with RGB LED arrays (or even the Vegas sphere if configured similarly) can be tampered with by just about anyone with a pulse.
They're exemplary in their patience, explaining to Tyvequious for the 17th time that they're arresting him for Possession With Intent To Distribute, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting A Police Officer without raising their voices.
When the guy clearly deserves a wood shampoo and rough ride to the county jail.
I'm dealing with the race to the bottom at work right now...I helped hire a former employee back under a contract house (he used to be direct) at like 75% of his former salary and crappy benefits. His family is on vacation for Spring Break but he stayed behind to work because he has like 10 vacation days all year. He get no bonus, fewer holidays, unpaid sick days, and is under constant pressure to perform in an environment where cutting him loose is a phone call away at the mercy of our boss, essentially.
This is the new normal. We just don't hire direct anymore. We have people with no skin in the game tasked with managing complex engineered systems while we pay them less than they're worth.
I'm pissed. It isn't fair. It isn't just. It isn't the way we should treat people.
Good man. There is a lot of skeleton crew operation going on in a lot of companies, certainly from the service industry. The elements that have put that into motion don't show signs of reversing course and I don't yet see an easily worked out solution. I've next to zero response on job applications and inquiries for, well, too long in my book. Even for positions I may be overqualified for or simply more entry level positions (which are in no way beneath me). Everybody's hiring but nobody's hiring.
That story sounds similar to one my fiancé told me about one of her colleagues... Any chance this is taking place at a major automaker who's former world headquarters in A.Hills has a big star on the top?
Well let's be honest, as much as I love ol Momma Mopar in my heart, it's not exactly an American company anymore, and I'll be surprised if there isn't a Micheal Perna real-estiate sign up by the end of 2025.
Examples like this direct-to-contract demotion and the events of last Friday are an example of how PSA is simply going to gut everything in a way Cerberus or Daimler only dreamed they could have. That being said, there is irony in the fact that management is asking for more in-person "work" to be done, and adding more traffic enforcement on campus from AHPD... shame really, cause I did enjoy allegedly seeing how fast I could "dodge" potholes on the ring road.
You certainly are! I'll take some blame as well. I don't even work there, but I work nearby, so the lady and I carpool when she has to go in. I have to imagine a few people were unnerved by a Compass maintaining double-nickel speeds all the way around to the north end. Not that there was anyone really around to witness such a thing.
The gutting is curious, because the American arm makes all of the money. That the most profitable products are all very specific to the North American market gives me hope that some semblance of former Chrysler survives to keep designing and building them.
Jeep and Ram aren't going anywhere, no. It is also good that they still actually build some of these in the city of Detroit as well.
The gutting, though, is happening in the American engineering base. Their plan is literally replacing local, experienced, but expensive engineers with remote engineering in "lower cost countries." Most all the engineers based in CTC will eventually be replaced with someone who's never seen a Wrangler or a Ram, and maybe never will, but they will be 80% of the cost to employ. Stallantis is calling this "efficiency." Eventually, they won't need CTC anymore (there's already been talks of selling the place) because all the positions formerly based there will be in India and Mexico, and the positions that STLA believes should stay expensive will be filled by the French. I don't see it ending with good cars that Americans want to buy, but that's obviously the goal.
Yeah, I've read articles to that effect regarding CTC sale and offshoring of engineering. I just don't want to believe that management would shift responsibility for hyper-American products overseas where, as you say, the locals have never even seen a Wrangler or Ram. Since, with rare exception, Chrysler had never been strong in midsize and smaller vehicles, I'm almost OK with the competency centers for those products living elsewhere. (And by that I mean France and Italy, not India.) But I sure hope something of Chrysler survives in Auburn Hills.
A lot of companies try and shuffle employees as contractors. If he's not really a contractor, BIG fines. If it's a big company, I'd think they know the rules well enough but a lot of companies don't.
1. Guntherwerks and social media influencers - I see this in the gun world, too. The value of the product to your life or shooting is inversely proportional to how many "influencers" are talking to you about it, and exactly inversely proportional to how much "lifestyle marketing" is used to push it. Sigarms' "Legion" marketing is an excellent example of this. It's a Sig, with certakote and maybe a couple of nice to have features (SAO on a P226 isn't bad) but there's a challenge coin and a "community" that you have to buy the "Legion" to join, and...
No, thank you. To quote what we would have said when we were 19: That's gay.
2. The Radical and the halo: In my second go through college I took forensics as an elective because it seemed like it would be mildly fascinating and it fit my working full time plus running a side hustle plus trying to get another degree schedule. It was more than mildly fascinating, as I ended up having Dr. Drew Richardson as my professor for that class. Dr. Drew was formerly the head of the FBI's Chem/Bioweapon unit, one of the last of the people in the Bureau who carried a gun as an agent AND who had a PHD. These days the Bureau prefers the gun toters, the number crunchers, and the people who use a pipet to be kept neatly apart.
He was one of the world's foremost experts on the polygraph and fought the Bureau to try and get rid of it for essentially any personnel screening. He was also a bit of a contrarian as he was one of the few voices in the wilderness saying that a lot of what is considered "forensic science" has precious little actual science behind it. The sound of that drum is still softer than it should be today, but it's getting louder.
The dude loved paragliding and did it as much as he could. He had great videos of it in just about every class.
Dr. Drew and I hit it off right away because the first day of class he saw I was reading a book on Delf Bryce and in a class filled with mostly disinterested college students and one active duty police officer trying to advance in his career and already hopelessly out of his depth, I was the guy he could "vibe" with. Delf was a heavy influence in FBI firearms and tactics, although I'd argue an entirely destructive one because his techniques weren't applicable past him (he had such superior eyesight he could literally *see* his fired bullets...which makes "point shooting" much easier). Delf was a snappy dresser and good looking and he could do some amazing trick shooting....which got the attention of J Edgar Hoover.
When J. Edgar wasn't busy blackmailing politicians, assassinating political rivals, or taking mob bribe money through his massive gambling habit, he was wearing a dress and sucking dick. I'm convinced he wanted to savor the flavor of Delf himself and upon that basis Delf became the rock upon which all of FBI firearms training was based for decades. He looked the part and the trick shooting was great PR. And J. Edgar could fantasize about him when he was engaging in unnatural acts with the underage boys the mob provided him with. Win/win/win for ol' Edgar!
Of course, I didn't go that deep with Dr. Drew about it because to him Delf was a legend. And he still had faith in the Bureau despite the number of times they'd gone after his career for stubbornly insisting on scientific and moral principle.
I mention all of that because Dr. Drew removed the rollover guard from his riding mower. A couple of years after my class with him, he was on the side of a hill mowing and the mower rolled over on him, snapping his neck and killing him. I'm sure that this guy who had been on the scene of every major terrorist incident around the globe in the prior 25 years, who had dealt with the most deadly substances known to man, actively fought violent criminals to the death, and spent his leisure time strapped to essentially an airboat fan and a parachute hundreds of feet in the air never thought that the riskiest decision he would ever make was removing the hoop on his lawnmower but as it turns out his assessments on that particular risk turned out to be fatally flawed.
Consider the odd confluences of life where you drop a throwaway line about your Radical that just happens to get read by a dude who lost an unlikely friend with an extremely unlikely career of spiting in the grim reaper's face because of a lawnmower rollover.
I'm not saying that I'm a messenger from God...but if one were to believe that any amount of life is, in fact, non random...well...maybe buy that halo.
3. Baltimore - As a part of my unusual circle of acquaintances I have buddies who are (or were) Navy Nukes and intelligence types. There's a lot of conspiracy theories about that crash being a deliberate event, but most of it seems to be worked backwards from the outcome rather than by understanding the factors at work.
Pulling off a cyber-attack to produce that specific outcome would have required a lot of setup and the kind of precision in timing and location that is incredibly unlikely. Hacking a ship and doing so in a manner that will steer it directly at the most vulnerable part of the bridge makes for a good movie plot but it wouldn't be very plausible to people who know how ships work.
Poorly maintained equipment used by poorly educated personnel routinely produces disaster all over the place. And that seems to be the primary explanation for what happened here. Procedural mistakes by a low rent crew using a boat that probably wasn't maintained as carefully as it should be isn't as sexy as cyber attack, but it's a lot more believable.
If that worries anyone, it shouldn't because the crisis of competence gets way, way worse:
A generation of social experimentation on the US military combined with enthusiastically searching the world for new wars to get into has had it's toll on readiness and capability. Naturally the people at the top of the chain will deny that any gaps exist and they'll pretend it's still the military that just beat Hitler and Hirohito, but the catastrophic incompetence we've only seen peeks at here and there is becoming a pervasive feature.
This is one reason why we shouldn't be in any hurry to go finding more wars, especially not with near peer adversaries who are watching us *very* closely and probably have a much better idea of our true capabilities than any of the saber rattling dipshits in the State Department.
This is embarrassing and I encourage all my enemies to make fun of me after I die, but: I'm not gonna bankrupt myself to race in something with a dorky halo brace. At that point I might as well buy myself a Spec Corvette and a pair of lacy panties.
I generally try not to hate on the modified Porsche stuff too harshly. Mostly because I don’t have one and cannot afford one so my lamentation should count to no one. That said there’s just something “off” with the Gunther proportions. It looks inflated and bulbous with overly high front fenders and too long an overhang. More Cartoonish than refined design.
Half ass street / race cars has to be some sort of generational thing. You’re either all in one way or the other. A six point is about tops with factory safety equipment. I don’t even like driving my full cage car without helmet as it makes me nervous. Conversely I refuse to cage my c5 while it has stock seats, belts and bags. Like the rest of the car it’s playing pretend until someone gets killed. Guy really got lucky.
As for the boat and Biden…ugh. My thoughts will put me on a watchlist much less the discrediting of any supporters here.
Open thread:
KPower are now swapping the robust K-series honda engines into the NC Chassis MX-5 miata. They offer full service installs as well, for a flat labor fee of $2950.
Let us all imagine the Miata as it was supposed to be, with a roots-blown K-series, and pray:
"Lord, protect me from the things I want, and my want of things."
Src: https://kpower.industries/blogs/news/how-does-the-k24-nc-stack-up-to-the-original-kmiata-swap
Src: https://kpower.industries/blogs/news/big-news-bmw-transmission-upgrade-for-your-miata?_pos=8&_sid=ad88c93fa&_ss=r
Src: https://mercracing.net/shop/mr1320-tvs-supercharger-kit/
Note they're also doing full K-swaps for the FR-S/BR-Z for a mere 3 grand: https://kpower.industries/pages/turn-key-swaps
Relevant to my interests, because my wife runs in two classes (SCCA STU and NASA ST5) that would permit a K-swap.
For those of us unfamiliar with the rules, what would the limitations be?
Displacement, compression ratio, power at tire, ???
NASA ST classes are dyno-sheet power to weight with various mod factors.
SCCA ST classes are based on displacement and weight with various mod factors.
This is because the SCCA isn't a bunch of morons.
$3k labor for a full engine swap of a modern fuel injected engine into a modern chassis seems pretty darn cheap! K24 into an FR-S sounds awesome.
This is a legitimate option if you set aside 25-30k for everything...
The Cut strikes again, and the girls are BIG MAD:
https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html
Get your popcorn ready!
To follow up:
One of my college classmates who remains a close friend sent it to me before I had had a chance to check NY Mag’s website today. He is absolutely their core demographic - 35, highly educated, lives in the West Village, and taking the year off to figure out what he wants to do next (he made $3-4MM after his employer - a startup - sold).
He noticed that a female classmate of ours had “liked” The Cut’s post about the article on Instagram; this surprised me. She is also, obviously, ~35. Moderately attractive, perma-single (or at least no man has made it to social media, and she has attended a number of weddings and parties over the years). She is from a very wealthy Charleston family; she owns a house there and has a place in NYC (hybrid schedule NYC CRE job).
I know so many of these women from college.
Some of them, last I saw them 5 or 10 years ago, were breathtakingly, stop-you-in-your-tracks-on-the-sidewalk beautiful.
Alas, so many of them are such pains in the ass that they're destined to die alone.
All that potential. Multiple thousands of years of conscientious breeding to produce such exemplary creatures...
all of that effort and work... POOF!... gone
As I commented below, I have nothing negative to say about this woman.
As is fairly widely known on here, I earned an undergrad degree at a small, elite, and certainly elitIST liberal arts college situated in a small town in Virginia. There was literally nothing to do except go to class, study, drink, and (occasionally) sleep.
I was probably in the middle of the bell curve for males in terms of alcohol consumption - about 50 a week (I drink less than 50 drinks a year now). The women drank quite a bit, too. My close male friends and I have observed that virtually all of the women, whether single or partnered, are in far better physical shape than they were when we were in college.
Despite that fact, a number of the women seem to have (voluntarily) given up on finding a husband and/or becoming a mother. Of the most beautiful women in my class (of about 400 grads total):
-One is from a sizable, big money Texas family. She earned a top MBA, lived a charmed life in NYC, got laid off during COVID, and now lives in a small, unremarkable town in rural New England with her dogs. She abandoned the G-wagen and platinum blonde and couture for bangs, bad tattoos, and a Subaru.
-One earned an Ivy League grad degree in applied mathematics (after having earned a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Math) before moving to LA to be a stylist. She lives in Echo Park and posts frequently about her various mental illnesses, the patriarchy, etc. She got married and divorced last year.
I clicked like on the comment, because well-told, but allowing such cruel fates to befall these women's lives makes me shudder.
My college experience similarly combined elitism, challenging academics, and probably the best beauty-to-brains ratio in all of american collegiate life at the time. Difficult to draw comparisons. But it felt like the Studio 54 of its day.
Your stories are just like mine.
The facially flawless, 9.5/10 5'4 waif with the best drawing ability in art classes and 9 figures of connecticut wealth: cats
The gorgeous, zaftig-in-the-cool-way-not-Bryce's-girls east-coast daughter of a local law and political dynasty: MANY cats
Of all the things we've so badly fucked up... how did *this* particular unforced error come to pass?
I wonder what their parents have said or done?
The Texas girl has siblings who achieved far less academically but are married with children.
The LA stylist has a brother who is gay; their stepfather is a billionaire whose own children reproduced.
Another girl who is not *particularly* attractive but was genuinely nice and down to earth (nothing to prove) works for the investment bank her multi-billionaire father owns (she looks like him wearing a wig). Mid-30s, single, no kids. Her best friend married her brother. Without giving everything away (this is a public thread), you can probably guess where I went to school, which makes it easy to figure out the family I’m talking about here (hint - the I bank is HQ’d in Little Rock and is a sponsor of the Williams F1 team).
Agreed. I REALLY wonder about the parenting part.
And what media, friends and environments shaped them
This is why the Bene Gesserit would never work in real life.
Perhaps. If I'm understanding the gom jabbar correctly they're doing what they're doing at gunpoint-
-and a lot of things work at gunpoint that mightn't otherwise
Like getting a nation of people to file taxes!
bet shes miserable
do you have her insta by chance
It’s private.
I have nothing bad to say about her, and I keep in touch with her intermittently.
As the world burns to the ground, I find the ironies of postmodern society often feel like little victories... the world treats boys like defective girls, but the result is that women became defective men.
Brilliant!
Ugh. "The oppression of marriage". Then why do women seem to get the best deal out of divorce? I got a buddy going through a nasty divorce and I'm not sure his soon to be ex was oppressed.
Is your buddy a “ CIS-male?”
WELL THEN OF COURSE SHE WAS!!1!
They split it right down the middle, and gave her the better half?
It's nasty because of kids and nasty because they were marry for all of 18 or so months.
There was no infidelity. She just thought she could stay at home and be a content creator without actually taking care of the kids while he was doing a real job.
I don't have a problem with splitting it down the middle of the SAHM or SAHD does their actual job. The problem is men can get screwed on this front.
Maybe judges should assign some real value here and if that part of the contract isn't held up then maybe you don't get half?
In a just world, it would be like that. In the real world, my wife thought she could stay at home and be an alcoholic without actually taking care of the kids while I was doing a real job. When the divorce was final I got the kids and she got 60% of our assets. If there was any justice she would have left with her personal effects and not a damn thing more.
Look, I'm boomer and as right wing and anti snowflake as the rest of this readership, but.....I liked the piece. I thought it was well written, thoughtful, and truthful. The author came across not as a dingbat, but a smart pragmatic young woman who perfectly executed the OODA loop within her environment. She observed her status and choices, oriented, decided her way forward, and acted. Admittedly, her brother may be slightly pissed! Thanks for this Sherman.
I enjoyed it, as well.
I anticipated that it would set the tongues wagging in here, which is why I shared it. The comments on the website and on the Instagram post were predictable.
I'm three paragraphs in, and she's said nothing indefensible. It's just not a high-status outlook or "luxury belief" to hold - thus controversial to some.
People [outside of here] may not know this but pure, individualistic "for love" marriage is a nigh-unprecedented luxury of the postwar industrialized middle-class-or-better West. Most other civilizations still have parental input into marriage and most WESTERNERS would have had substantial parental input if not something along the lines of arrangement had they been living in 1910.
Big age gaps work for everyone. He gets youth and beauty and at least some of her best years; she lets him spend time in the investment banking salt mines for a decade+, he gets to enjoy strange women for a decade+ and she gets to take vague, purblind stabs at career before being politely allowed to stop maintaining the illusion of caring.
Honestly it totally makes sense. Kudos to this woman, who seems happily matched.
Be sure to dig into the comments.
Holy shit they're great. thanks!
Women really don't like each other.
Stopped about ten paragraphs in.
If she’s happy, and he’s happy, what more matters?
2 paragraphs in and the Harvard Grad. was looking for a dude to "Settle" with.
Further down "A date, days later. A second one, where I discovered he was a person, potentially my favorite kind: funny, clear-eyed, brilliant, on intimate terms with the universe."
For fuck's sake.
There is nothing wrong with women who are this clear-eyed and merciless about it all.
Life is merciless
someone told her commas were free and she went nuts
Hahaha 🤣😂
Further down some more. What she says about her brother and girlfriend? She's a complete asshole. They are going to read this. I'd have nothing to do with the buffoon.
That woman is so close to getting it. She puts the words down herself but still can't see. The stuff about girlfriends fixing up their boyfriends but not getting the long term benefit. The observations about two people stumbling to grow up together. "I pictured a three-legged race, two people tied together and hobbling towards every milestone." Well that's the whole point of a marriage, isn't it? The wife helps the husband grow up and she herself is there to benefit until the end.
The author felt herself to be too valuable at age 20 and decided to skip all that. Now she's empty, although still married, and writing for free on the internet. She sees everything more or less accurately but can't analyze the problems at all. She writes she'll expect a lot from him when raising a child. After she admits herself that he has done basically everything for her over a decade? At what point does she carry her own weight? They'll hire a nanny and she'll be posting about divorce in five years.
The comments there on that are even better. I particularly like the ones from KumKum. No baggage there. No Sir Ree.
why did i read the whole thing
Nelson voice 'HA HA'
why would sherman do this
he made me read about some navel gazing waif whinging about aging and stuff
He was attempting to FORCE you to learn speed-reading (critical in information age)
thank you sherman
digesting massive volumes of pointless words was a skill i picked up in school
i dont remember any of it
The guy married her. She might have the looks of an "11" on a 10 scale for all we know. I think he's a fool and it wasn't worth it.
"Her looks make her an 8. Then she opens her mouth and instantly becomes an Ohio Hard 4."
Getting old sucks.
67. Tell me about it. 27? Not so much.
she spent the whole piece saying just that
tiring
She'll be self-deleting by 35. She's already lived a hard life and 35 will be her golden years.
Sometimes I think that women, under the influence of feminism and leftist nonsense have permanently damaged relationships between women and men. Women have allowed themselves to be convinced that they they're all high value and that most men simply don't live up to their now high standards. Sort of a Bizzaro Lake Wobegone where only half of the population is all above average. When I ask them how that math works out they just say that men "aren't keeping up", which would mean there's been a massive change in the past generation or two after thousands of years of human society. They believe that women have finally thrown off the shackles of the patriarchy. They simply can't compute the notion that women have had an equal role in shaping society and that the patriarchy is a fiction.
They put a lot of stock in their financial independence and the fact that they don't need a man. Then they go on Facebook singles groups wearing their casual misandry on their designer sleeves in filtered photos taken from the most flattering angles, ready to take offense at just about anything if expressed by someone with a Y chromosome, and simultaneously complain that they are single and that there are no men worthy of them.
It's very depressing.
And, of course, bigger picture is that on the exact same arc of women rising to lead modern society - more women in Congress, more women running large corporations, more women in professional careers - modern society has suddenly turned into a frantic, dysfunctional dystopia where everyone is vain, talks a lot, and no one seems to know how anything actually works...
Weird.
how could this have happened
Well said!
What confounds me is that the political right, such as it exists, has not been able to *capitalize* on leftist lies through truth-telling.
Obviously censorship plays a part, but amazed that the truth is just so well-hidden and so well-lied-about. Blog-dot-jim says the truth is the right's best weapon, but this doesn't seem to be the case, at least at the moment
Assuming a 50/50 split in sexes, I find the line "Those guys are going to be lonely later" odd when it's used by many. Which may be true, but unless polygamy takes hold or the women go lesbian, if it's not those lonely guys not stepping up, which guys are they going to hook up with for the long haul.
They think they're above those lonely guys. They think their grandmother settled for their grandfather.
So I'll add to this that this girl went to the same high school as my wife in Miami and was taught by my sister-in-law there. She just sent this article our way, and if you know Miami and know that the author is a Miami girl, it does make a lot more sense given the values of too many folks down there.
Given what she wanted, you do have to admire her for willing to dive in and go and get it. In that regard she's not too different than other elite school girls, it's just that her chosen "vocation" was a bit of a throwback.
Can anyone explain which purpose the HDMI meant to serve? I read that part twice and am still confused.
A prop to explain her presence at the HBS party (is how I read it).
Is the implication that the cord fit the party's theme?
Just that the party might have involved multimedia.
A connection so that they could show a video?!
Did not yet read past the title, but I will. Don't think this is anything new- what was the maiden name of Mrs Irving Berlin?
So you’re saying a Hyundai crashed in Baltimore. Have we conclusively ruled out teenage gangs being responsible?
The lights went out when they hacked it with a cell phone.
You say this but bridge lights are pretty vulnerable.
Many bridge lights be effectively turned on/off by radio signal for moments when a boat is passing through. Also, there’s a lot of industrial lighting controllers that both have their management interfaces open to the internet and still use default credentials. This means that your “fancy” bridges with RGB LED arrays (or even the Vegas sphere if configured similarly) can be tampered with by just about anyone with a pulse.
https://codykretsinger.com/info/This-Little-Light-of-Mine.html
Sad, comic, twist: someone was on the Key Bridge trying to hack a road crew's Hyundai (car) but accidentally hacked the Maersk's Hyundai (ship).
That's no Palisade... that's a CARGO SHIP!
Well, I didn't see 37 cops behind it with their guns drawn, screaming "DRIVER, SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!!"
That sentence is about 7 "FUCKING"s short. IF YOU FUCKING <inaudible> I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU. DON'T MOVE! WALK FUCKING BACKWARDS TOWARD ME!"
It's the key putting the citizen, presumed innocent, at ease so that you can cooperatively resolve the situation.
Of course! The fuck is wrong with me?
I really have no excuse, watching all those cop cam vids on YouTube.
Wisconsin is wall-to-wall scumbags, apparently.
I have seen more GOOD police behavior from Wisconsin than bad. Either they're just good at propaganda or maybe trying to make up for the Konerak Sinthasomphone thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer#Late_20s_and_early_30s:_subsequent_murders)
I'm a little reluctant to go to Arizona or Colorado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhWF239Bclg
They're exemplary in their patience, explaining to Tyvequious for the 17th time that they're arresting him for Possession With Intent To Distribute, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting A Police Officer without raising their voices.
When the guy clearly deserves a wood shampoo and rough ride to the county jail.
Might be a LITTLE early for that!
Still—ouch! 😲
I'm dealing with the race to the bottom at work right now...I helped hire a former employee back under a contract house (he used to be direct) at like 75% of his former salary and crappy benefits. His family is on vacation for Spring Break but he stayed behind to work because he has like 10 vacation days all year. He get no bonus, fewer holidays, unpaid sick days, and is under constant pressure to perform in an environment where cutting him loose is a phone call away at the mercy of our boss, essentially.
This is the new normal. We just don't hire direct anymore. We have people with no skin in the game tasked with managing complex engineered systems while we pay them less than they're worth.
I'm pissed. It isn't fair. It isn't just. It isn't the way we should treat people.
I'm on a 90 day contract right now, and I feel this in my bones.
Good man. There is a lot of skeleton crew operation going on in a lot of companies, certainly from the service industry. The elements that have put that into motion don't show signs of reversing course and I don't yet see an easily worked out solution. I've next to zero response on job applications and inquiries for, well, too long in my book. Even for positions I may be overqualified for or simply more entry level positions (which are in no way beneath me). Everybody's hiring but nobody's hiring.
That story sounds similar to one my fiancé told me about one of her colleagues... Any chance this is taking place at a major automaker who's former world headquarters in A.Hills has a big star on the top?
Former!?
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Well let's be honest, as much as I love ol Momma Mopar in my heart, it's not exactly an American company anymore, and I'll be surprised if there isn't a Micheal Perna real-estiate sign up by the end of 2025.
Examples like this direct-to-contract demotion and the events of last Friday are an example of how PSA is simply going to gut everything in a way Cerberus or Daimler only dreamed they could have. That being said, there is irony in the fact that management is asking for more in-person "work" to be done, and adding more traffic enforcement on campus from AHPD... shame really, cause I did enjoy allegedly seeing how fast I could "dodge" potholes on the ring road.
I will admit that I am part of the problem wrt the AHPD presence. Why wait for red lights on a private road when there’s no traffic, amirite?
You certainly are! I'll take some blame as well. I don't even work there, but I work nearby, so the lady and I carpool when she has to go in. I have to imagine a few people were unnerved by a Compass maintaining double-nickel speeds all the way around to the north end. Not that there was anyone really around to witness such a thing.
Just come work in the city. Every red light is a rolling 4-way stop if you have the bigger vehicle.
The gutting is curious, because the American arm makes all of the money. That the most profitable products are all very specific to the North American market gives me hope that some semblance of former Chrysler survives to keep designing and building them.
Jeep and Ram aren't going anywhere, no. It is also good that they still actually build some of these in the city of Detroit as well.
The gutting, though, is happening in the American engineering base. Their plan is literally replacing local, experienced, but expensive engineers with remote engineering in "lower cost countries." Most all the engineers based in CTC will eventually be replaced with someone who's never seen a Wrangler or a Ram, and maybe never will, but they will be 80% of the cost to employ. Stallantis is calling this "efficiency." Eventually, they won't need CTC anymore (there's already been talks of selling the place) because all the positions formerly based there will be in India and Mexico, and the positions that STLA believes should stay expensive will be filled by the French. I don't see it ending with good cars that Americans want to buy, but that's obviously the goal.
Yeah, I've read articles to that effect regarding CTC sale and offshoring of engineering. I just don't want to believe that management would shift responsibility for hyper-American products overseas where, as you say, the locals have never even seen a Wrangler or Ram. Since, with rare exception, Chrysler had never been strong in midsize and smaller vehicles, I'm almost OK with the competency centers for those products living elsewhere. (And by that I mean France and Italy, not India.) But I sure hope something of Chrysler survives in Auburn Hills.
Thanks for being a decent dude about it.
A lot of companies try and shuffle employees as contractors. If he's not really a contractor, BIG fines. If it's a big company, I'd think they know the rules well enough but a lot of companies don't.
He wasn’t converted, he left a couple-three years back to work for a startup. The startup folded and I submitted his resume for a job back here again.
Randomness about various subjects:
1. Guntherwerks and social media influencers - I see this in the gun world, too. The value of the product to your life or shooting is inversely proportional to how many "influencers" are talking to you about it, and exactly inversely proportional to how much "lifestyle marketing" is used to push it. Sigarms' "Legion" marketing is an excellent example of this. It's a Sig, with certakote and maybe a couple of nice to have features (SAO on a P226 isn't bad) but there's a challenge coin and a "community" that you have to buy the "Legion" to join, and...
No, thank you. To quote what we would have said when we were 19: That's gay.
2. The Radical and the halo: In my second go through college I took forensics as an elective because it seemed like it would be mildly fascinating and it fit my working full time plus running a side hustle plus trying to get another degree schedule. It was more than mildly fascinating, as I ended up having Dr. Drew Richardson as my professor for that class. Dr. Drew was formerly the head of the FBI's Chem/Bioweapon unit, one of the last of the people in the Bureau who carried a gun as an agent AND who had a PHD. These days the Bureau prefers the gun toters, the number crunchers, and the people who use a pipet to be kept neatly apart.
He was one of the world's foremost experts on the polygraph and fought the Bureau to try and get rid of it for essentially any personnel screening. He was also a bit of a contrarian as he was one of the few voices in the wilderness saying that a lot of what is considered "forensic science" has precious little actual science behind it. The sound of that drum is still softer than it should be today, but it's getting louder.
The dude loved paragliding and did it as much as he could. He had great videos of it in just about every class.
Dr. Drew and I hit it off right away because the first day of class he saw I was reading a book on Delf Bryce and in a class filled with mostly disinterested college students and one active duty police officer trying to advance in his career and already hopelessly out of his depth, I was the guy he could "vibe" with. Delf was a heavy influence in FBI firearms and tactics, although I'd argue an entirely destructive one because his techniques weren't applicable past him (he had such superior eyesight he could literally *see* his fired bullets...which makes "point shooting" much easier). Delf was a snappy dresser and good looking and he could do some amazing trick shooting....which got the attention of J Edgar Hoover.
When J. Edgar wasn't busy blackmailing politicians, assassinating political rivals, or taking mob bribe money through his massive gambling habit, he was wearing a dress and sucking dick. I'm convinced he wanted to savor the flavor of Delf himself and upon that basis Delf became the rock upon which all of FBI firearms training was based for decades. He looked the part and the trick shooting was great PR. And J. Edgar could fantasize about him when he was engaging in unnatural acts with the underage boys the mob provided him with. Win/win/win for ol' Edgar!
Of course, I didn't go that deep with Dr. Drew about it because to him Delf was a legend. And he still had faith in the Bureau despite the number of times they'd gone after his career for stubbornly insisting on scientific and moral principle.
I mention all of that because Dr. Drew removed the rollover guard from his riding mower. A couple of years after my class with him, he was on the side of a hill mowing and the mower rolled over on him, snapping his neck and killing him. I'm sure that this guy who had been on the scene of every major terrorist incident around the globe in the prior 25 years, who had dealt with the most deadly substances known to man, actively fought violent criminals to the death, and spent his leisure time strapped to essentially an airboat fan and a parachute hundreds of feet in the air never thought that the riskiest decision he would ever make was removing the hoop on his lawnmower but as it turns out his assessments on that particular risk turned out to be fatally flawed.
Consider the odd confluences of life where you drop a throwaway line about your Radical that just happens to get read by a dude who lost an unlikely friend with an extremely unlikely career of spiting in the grim reaper's face because of a lawnmower rollover.
I'm not saying that I'm a messenger from God...but if one were to believe that any amount of life is, in fact, non random...well...maybe buy that halo.
3. Baltimore - As a part of my unusual circle of acquaintances I have buddies who are (or were) Navy Nukes and intelligence types. There's a lot of conspiracy theories about that crash being a deliberate event, but most of it seems to be worked backwards from the outcome rather than by understanding the factors at work.
Pulling off a cyber-attack to produce that specific outcome would have required a lot of setup and the kind of precision in timing and location that is incredibly unlikely. Hacking a ship and doing so in a manner that will steer it directly at the most vulnerable part of the bridge makes for a good movie plot but it wouldn't be very plausible to people who know how ships work.
Poorly maintained equipment used by poorly educated personnel routinely produces disaster all over the place. And that seems to be the primary explanation for what happened here. Procedural mistakes by a low rent crew using a boat that probably wasn't maintained as carefully as it should be isn't as sexy as cyber attack, but it's a lot more believable.
If that worries anyone, it shouldn't because the crisis of competence gets way, way worse:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/19/least-3-engineering-incidents-and-poor-leadership-kept-uss-boxer-deploying-investigations-reveal.html
A generation of social experimentation on the US military combined with enthusiastically searching the world for new wars to get into has had it's toll on readiness and capability. Naturally the people at the top of the chain will deny that any gaps exist and they'll pretend it's still the military that just beat Hitler and Hirohito, but the catastrophic incompetence we've only seen peeks at here and there is becoming a pervasive feature.
This is one reason why we shouldn't be in any hurry to go finding more wars, especially not with near peer adversaries who are watching us *very* closely and probably have a much better idea of our true capabilities than any of the saber rattling dipshits in the State Department.
Well said, and delightfully told, on all counts.
Both of my Radicals have the conventional roll structure that has served these cars for nearly thirty years, as seen here:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e571fa414fb57216f8a07f/1595799044858-YQG5I2C0M0ASGTW23JW7/radical_sr3_side_view_rgb.jpg
The new ones have a halo bar, like so:
https://primalracing.com/assets/img/radicals/sr3-xxr/sr3-xxr-3.jpg
This is embarrassing and I encourage all my enemies to make fun of me after I die, but: I'm not gonna bankrupt myself to race in something with a dorky halo brace. At that point I might as well buy myself a Spec Corvette and a pair of lacy panties.
If you are going to die, can you please put it off until at least August. but BEFORE the renewal billing. Be careful out there.
"We should put a steel tube directly in front of the driver's line of sight, this will show how dangerous and manly it is to race one of our cars."
Yeah, that's another thing I don't like about the halo.
Fantastic read.
I generally try not to hate on the modified Porsche stuff too harshly. Mostly because I don’t have one and cannot afford one so my lamentation should count to no one. That said there’s just something “off” with the Gunther proportions. It looks inflated and bulbous with overly high front fenders and too long an overhang. More Cartoonish than refined design.
Half ass street / race cars has to be some sort of generational thing. You’re either all in one way or the other. A six point is about tops with factory safety equipment. I don’t even like driving my full cage car without helmet as it makes me nervous. Conversely I refuse to cage my c5 while it has stock seats, belts and bags. Like the rest of the car it’s playing pretend until someone gets killed. Guy really got lucky.
As for the boat and Biden…ugh. My thoughts will put me on a watchlist much less the discrediting of any supporters here.
R.I.P. America. I so briefly knew you.
Well, regular 911’s look inflated and bulbous, so they had to turn it up to 11 for their target market. Garbage in, garbage out.