🇺🇸 🍊retired software engineer
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DebtCliff retweeted
At 23, I started sleeping with a guy I had a giant crush on who did not like me back.
To me, this was very obviously what it was: I liked having sex with my crush, and he liked having sex with me. We were not dating. We had sex between episodes of Archer & Community when we saw each other.
I didn't call it a situationship for the 2 years we slept together because my feelings didn't change what this was. I thought of him as a hook-up. I slept with and dated other men.
Was he predatory for sleeping with a woman he probably knew quite liked him? I would say no. I slept with him *voluntarily*.
(And I frankly realized my crush was irrational as I got to know him better. We would not have worked as a couple for many reasons; he was just hot & funny.)
I think calling a guy who has consensual sex with a woman a predator is frankly dangerous territory that dulls down the meaning of the word predator & takes away women's agency.
Some guys would tell him he was wrong to do that, but I would have missed out on 2 years of mind-blowing sex and disliked you telling him not to sleep with me, so where's my ability to choose here?
And funnily enough, there was a moment I realized he was vulnerable in this arrangement in a way I was not: the condom broke.
I wasn't worried; I said I'd get Plan B.
He was suddenly VERY worried & asked what I'd do if the Plan B didn't work.
It was hard not to laugh: there was no way in hell I'd have a baby with this guy.
But the relief on his face when I informed him of that made me realize men ought to be way more proactive in finding out what a woman would do if she got pregnant during a casual fling!
The woman gets the final say, after all; the man does not. So him being informed on what I'd do is incredibly important, no?
But this experience made me firmly believe that women don't end up in casual situations because we're helpless prey. Sex with a crush is undeniably fun; that's why women keep going back for more even if a commitment is uncertain.
He ended up dating the woman he'd marry and broke things off when they started dating. Was I sad? Yes, cuz bye bye good sex. Did I feel taken advantage of? Not at all.
I understand some women fervently believe their situationship will commit any day now, but while we can argue all day whether the guy is a bad guy for that, the responsibility for our own actions ultimately falls on us.
Carrie on SATC chose to keep seeing Big when he wasn't committing. A woman who has been informed there is no commitment & continues to see a guy is making a choice. She may not like the consequences of that choice, or feel hurt he's not committing, but it's still HER choice.
And if a choice is made, you don't get to blame anyone else for that choice. Welcome to adulthood!
A guy lying is a different story, btw. For the purpose of this specific argument, we're talking women who knowingly & willingly sleep with a man who isn't committed.
I just don't consider the man a predator. And people who argue those women keep showing up because they're hoping there will be a commitment, and therefore the guy is in the wrong, are ignoring the part where the woman KNOWS there's no commitment right now.
She can use her words & say she wants a commitment or she's not doing this anymore. But she doesn't. And I'd argue that's because she likes what she's getting enough to not do so.
Others argue she's a helpful victim of her desire for commitment & a casual sex culture, but I will always assign adult women more agency than that.
If you as a woman don't want to have sex without commitment... don't. But you don't get to blame everyone but you — the guy, the culture, the supposed social pressure — and expect me to take you seriously.
Women are either responsible for their own decisions, or they're not really adults. And I sure as hell don't like the implications of the latter. No woman should!
DebtCliff retweeted
I'll only say this once.
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DebtCliff retweeted
Marriages survived because men had the heart to endure women.
It lasted for generations because of MEN. Because of our emotional intelligence and our compassion for our wives.
Not because women were good partners. Because men learned to overlook a lot of stupid shit women do just to let peace reign.
Let's be real, women are NOT easy to live with.
They are not romantic. Their whole idea of romance is RECEIVING. What he bought for me, where he took me, what he did for me. Never what they give.
They are not funny. They are overly sensitive, they hate accountability, they hate saying sorry, they hate initiating sex with their own husbands, and they are controlling as hell. Stubborn and rebellious.
And that domestic violence you hear about in marriages? Most of it is STARTED by the wife. Pushing, slapping, throwing things, talking reckless, provoking until the man reacts. Then she wants to play victim.
Look at any relationship that doesn't have a man in it,it doesn't work.
Lesbians? Highest divorce rate. Highest abuse rate. Because there is no man there to tolerate their violence and their emotions. Two women together can't handle each other.
Female friendships? Even worse. Pure gossip, backbiting, jealousy, cutting each other off over the most childish things.
They will have 10 female friends by 2022. By 2026, only 2 are left. She has fought with ALL of them. Every single one is now an enemy.
But men are the problem.
DebtCliff retweeted
First date rules:
1 - Drinks only
No dinner dates, no activity dates, no coffee dates
2 - Always hug her when you meet
Never shake hands
3 - Phone on Do Not Disturb
There’s nothing cool about getting texts and dating app notis while you’re with her
4 - Sit next to her, not across
The bar is ideal, but a table works too if you’re at the corner
5 - Give her all your attention
Don’t go on your phone (except to show her something). Expect the same from her
6 - DO NOT talk about politics
Unless you’re fully aligned with her political views (you’re a man, you shouldn’t be), it’ll tank the date
7 - Relax & have fun
The point of the date isn’t to show off, or convince her to love you, or anything else. It’s to relax with a pretty girl and have a good time, that’s ALL
8 - Kiss her at the end
Or earlier, if the moment presents itself. DO IT
9 - Ask her to come back to your place
If you do things right, she’ll say yes about half the time, and even if she says no it’s still a W
10 - Text her after the date
Wait an hour or two and see if she texts first. If she doesn’t, send something simple like, “I had fun with you, I like your energy. Have a good night” to keep the spark alive
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If you break these rules, you WILL get ghosted or HR texted
If you follow them, you WILL get sex or 2nd dates more often than not
DebtCliff retweeted
Scott Bessent wishing Elizabeth Warren a happy Indigenous Peoples' Day…
I’m never deleting this app.
DebtCliff retweeted
A Starlink subscriber has paid $85/month for satellite internet for 2 years.
He mounted the dish on his roof. He connected to the WiFi. He opened Netflix. That was his entire Starlink experience $85/month for WiFi from space. Fast enough. Reliable enough. Good enough.
His neighbor a network engineer who also runs Starlink told him something during a fence-line conversation that made him pull out his phone and open the Starlink app for the first time since installation.
“You’re running Starlink on default settings. The default router name is broadcasting to everyone within a mile that you have Starlink including the serial number. Your WiFi bands are merged meaning your devices are fighting between 2.4GHz and 5GHz instead of connecting to the optimal frequency. You’ve never opened the hidden debug page that shows real-time satellite connections, latency, and obstruction data that the app doesn’t display. Your security is on WPA2 when WPA3 is available. You don’t have a guest network every visitor who connects has access to your entire local network. You’ve never run the split speed test that tells you whether your slow speeds are caused by the satellite connection or your WiFi signal. You’ve never configured content filtering the free malware and adult content blocker built into the router. And you’ve never opened the obstruction tool that would have told you the tree on the south side is blocking your signal for 6 minutes every hour.”
He showed him 11 Starlink settings, diagnostics, and capabilities that optimize speed, improve security, reduce cost, and unlock features the dish has been capable of since the day it was mounted.
Here’s every hidden Starlink feature most subscribers never configure 🧵
DebtCliff retweeted
On December 1, Elon and SpaceX officially start building Terafab, the biggest building in human history.
Without it, there's no city on Mars.
A 100 million square foot chip factory in Grimes County, Texas (near College Station), more than 5 times the size of the largest building on Earth today.
- At least 2.5 miles long
- Nearly 3 Central Parks under one roof
- Brings its own power, off the Texas grid
- Every chip factory on Earth combined makes about 2% of what Elon needs
- Each year's chips will need twice the power of the entire US
- Chips for 1 billion Optimus robots, plus Cybercab, Grok and self-driving Teslas
- About 80% of the chips go to space
- The Moon: a city first, plus a magnetic rail that launches AI satellites into deep space
- Mars: robots land first to build, then people, in roughly 5 to 7 years by Elon's count
No chips, no robots. No robots, no city on Mars.
Most people would shrink the plan to fit the supply chain. Elon builds his own.
The next step to Mars isn't a rocket. It's a factory in Texas.
🤖 Made with AI
DebtCliff retweeted
I am the proudest mother in the world. @elonmusk received the National Medal of Science from @POTUS
Other awards were for @JensenHuang @MichaelDell @satyanadella @LisaSu and Serge Brin 🏅🏅🏅 👏👏👏
DebtCliff retweeted
I just read that a historian who set out to prove that Leonardo DaVinci was not Jewish ended up instead proving that in fact he was born to a Jewish teenager named Caterina, who was captured by the Tatars and sold into slavery.
Around 1439 she was shipped across the Black Sea to Constantinople, then sold to Venetian merchants and taken to Venice, then on to Florence by about 1442, in the household of Donato and Ginevra. Donato had traded in the Levant and the Black Sea and already used Circassian slaves in textile work.
In Florence she did household and workshop service and was rented out as a wet nurse. The Tablet article says she was also used as a sex slave, and that she already had children by the time Piero “borrowed” her as a nurse for his daughter and then freed her after Leonardo’s birth. She would have been about 15.
The historian Carlo Vecce found an emancipation act in the Florence State Archives dated November 2, 1452, about six and a half months after Leonardo’s birth on April 15, 1452. It was drafted and signed by Leonardo’s father, the notary Piero da Vinci, acting as solicitor. It frees a woman named Caterina, described in Latin as filia Jacobi eius schiava seu serva de partibus Circassie: “daughter of Jacob, his slave or servant from the parts of Circassia.”
Apparently, Circassian women were especially sought after. “Caterina” was a name often given on forced conversion to Christianity.
“The most probable hypothesis, given what I found, is that Caterina was Jewish.”
His background: Carlo Vecce is a historian and philologist. He is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” and a specialist in Renaissance literature and civilization. His doctorate, at the Catholic University of Milan, was on that field. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Commissione Vinciana, the official body for Leonardo studies, and he has edited Leonardo manuscripts — the Libro di pittura (Codex Urbinas) and the Codex Arundel — plus a Leonardo biography and a reconstruction of Leonardo’s library. In 2023 he was named a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in the class of moral sciences, under philology and linguistics.
DebtCliff retweeted
"It's Springtime for Zohran!"
Dang this SI is getting good! Love it!
Think Mel Brooks will approve?
@HeyAbbatt video credit! Great Job!
DebtCliff retweeted
The US suspending Microsoft’s green card pipeline is a watershed moment for tech hiring.
You can’t lay off thousands of workers and turn around to claim a "critical talent shortage" on PERM applications anymore. Big Tech's favorite labor loop just got closed.
.@VP: "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft."
Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers in 2025 after certifying that it could not find qualified American employees — yet the company was approved for more than 6,000 H-1Bs and filed 3,682 PERM applications, including nearly 1,000 applications for the same positions as the laid off American workers.
DebtCliff retweeted
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DebtCliff retweeted
The Texas Triangle will see the biggest economic expansion in the US over the next ten years.
Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio.
Nothing else groups like this:
- low cost of living
- high quality of life
- ample and relatively cheap land
- no state income tax
- central location
- good weather
- diverse economies
- business and regulatory friendly
- good education & healthcare
- Giga Texas + Terafab + Bastrop
The suburban and rural areas will also benefit massively from technological and cultural shifts:
- work from anywhere
- self driving cars, no traffic
- transportation: drones, flying cars
- food delivery improvements (not just TexMex and BBQ anymore)
- AR/VR/AI in education
- decreasing social isolation
- influx of talent and high-caliber people
- patriotic, pro-American, homogenous culture & values
DebtCliff retweeted
If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:
— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million
— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation
— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies
— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”
— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.
— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
isdglobal.org/partnerships-a…
— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
DebtCliff retweeted
Realizing that 8 "far-right" candidates have won in Latin America since USAID was defunded
