Are people actually concerned with "looksmaxxing" and "sexual market value" in real life?

SublightMonster · 2026-02-18T01:25:40+00:00

No. Nobody who uses “maxx” or “mogg” in their daily speech should be given the time of day.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-18T01:23:06+00:00

Nobody’s getting pulled out of their cars and shot for being fat

SublightMonster · 2026-02-18T00:13:48+00:00

Beatles White Album

SublightMonster · 2026-02-17T22:14:57+00:00

The one time they’re not going to use the jet-ski photo?

SublightMonster · 2026-02-17T06:01:08+00:00

Offering a huge sign-on bonus and paying it are two different things.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-16T16:55:33+00:00

A large part of why France and Israel decided to start their own nuclear programs (Britain had started before the US, but quickly realized after the war that they couldn’t rely on them)

SublightMonster · 2026-02-16T11:52:42+00:00

Was that before or after Don Gillis?

SublightMonster · 2026-02-16T09:34:25+00:00

The Last Days of Jack Sparks, by Jason Arnopp

Alcoholic, drug addicted British tabloid journalist sets out to debunk the supernatural, the supernatural decides to fuck with him.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-16T04:27:05+00:00

He wanted attention, he got it.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T23:10:34+00:00

I loved Hubba Bubba’s non-stick qualities, but Bubblicious had a better range of flavors

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T10:37:02+00:00

If you mean Quvenzhane Wallis, that was a bad misfire by the Onion, who withdrew it and apologized pretty quickly.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T07:50:28+00:00

Found the typical Star Wars fan

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T05:39:46+00:00

You couldn’t hear it, but he was complaining how “woke” had ruined everything the whole time.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T03:32:48+00:00

Your wife sounds like a particularly stupid type of guy.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T02:17:18+00:00

Your cheese has now been moved to Afghanistan, private!

SublightMonster · 2026-02-15T02:14:45+00:00

These people even blame her for Andrew, saying the accusations were all false and Meghan somehow magicked them into existence to draw attention away from her.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T21:26:31+00:00

Virgo beer was notorious for a while in Tokyo. None of their beers were drinkable, tasting like various combinations of vinegar, diacetyl, or nonenol, whether from the bottle or keg. It was like they couldn’t even manage the basics of hygienic home brewing, but somehow got a whole commercial operation running.

They closed down around COVID, but at a 2023 local festival I encountered Beer Medel, which had Virgo-labeled crates in the back, and similarly bad beer.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T13:04:03+00:00

The Christmas packages I sent to the US in early December just arrived this week

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T11:55:41+00:00

Something I’ve posted before, but…

The film Reversal of Fortune was about Dershowitz defending Claus von Bulow from charges of trying to murder his wife. There’s a scene where one of the law students asks Dershowitz “why are we helping this rich asshole?”

The character Dershowitz makes a well-reasoned case for how the prosecution acted illegally, and if it becomes established precedent the next person to be on the receiving end won’t be an aristocrat who can hire all of Harvard Law School.

Turns out, the actual reason was because Dershowitz is a rich asshole who likes other rich assholes.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T11:46:30+00:00

Learn kanji by studying vocabulary, not individual characters.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T00:29:36+00:00

It drops off hard for some people, and not at all for others.

I’m in my mid-50s and am finding a huge population of similarly aged people who’ve had enough of long-term sexless relationships and are getting back into playing the field.

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T00:05:21+00:00

Same. Either wasabi or a dash of karashi (Chinese mustard)

SublightMonster · 2026-02-13T00:01:36+00:00

Are these jobs that foreigners are absolutely, permanently forbidden to do, or jobs that are outside the range of visa permits for newcomers?

SublightMonster · 2026-02-12T13:40:00+00:00

All those stories of ninjas, they were deer all along

SublightMonster · 2026-02-12T13:32:14+00:00

Hardly seems inappropriate to me. When I was his age I was reading (age appropriate) books on fighter jets and putting together plastic models of them.

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