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Chris Williamson retweeted
These Big Brother UK contestants will one day have their own Ross Kemp moment.
Remember when Kemp sat stunned as he learned almost everything he believed about incels was wrong. He thought they were a massive, mostly white, right-leaning threat to national security who killed lots of women.
Those ideas, fed by media and official briefings, turned out to be false.
Same energy here. They treat anyone right of centre as a permanent threat to society. ❌
They assume conservatives are mostly bigots, racists and fascists. ❌
They think their media bubble has the full picture. ❌
Those preconceptions will eventually collide with reality the same way.
This Big Brother debate is a perfect snapshot of the hysteria we’re dealing with. A conservative mentions he thinks Reform will win the next election and the house reacts like he’s announced a purge.
Zero basis in anything he’s actually said or what the party has proposed.
They’re treating him like a cartoon supervillain for holding ordinary views.
One housemate is genuinely convinced that if Reform form the government, “my friends who are gender nonconforming are in danger. My friends who aren’t white are in danger. I genuinely believe that”.
No evidence offered. No policy cited. Just the media line repeated as fact: Reform are dangerous, Reform are racist, and anyone who supports them is a threat.
Another piles on: “My mum wears a burqa and I get scared wondering if she’ll come home from work. You worry about lower taxes and I worry about whether my mum’s going to come home at night.”
Lower taxes framed as callous privilege, while unfounded fears about ethnic and sexual minorities being hunted are treated as serious analysis.
This is exactly why the media keeps pushing this stuff. It still lands with enough people.
These housemates are living in a state of constant, manufactured dread over a right-wing party simply winning an election. It’s not healthy, and it has almost nothing to do with reality.
Chris Williamson retweeted
One of the most annoying social media trends is people who aren’t able to regulate their own behaviour with some level of moderation, hence having to give up things entirely and then preaching like they’ve found the key to life.
Chris Williamson retweeted
1. Never stop exercising or learning.
2.Accept compromise to begin relationships.
3. Manifest the power of compounding.
4. Never gamble.
5. Have kids and be a good parent
6. If it flies or floats, rent it.
7. Buy half the house you can afford.
8. Art in the eye of the beholder is cheap.
9. Be thankful for and to all.
10. Be charitable.
Chris Williamson retweeted
I wrote a story about how basically every man I know in my station of life — millennial, in a long term relationship, in possession of a fake email job — does all the cooking in their relationship, which is something I have a lot of theories about.
The 15 least attractive hobbies to women
Comic books
Cosplay
Debating
Drinking
MTG
Anime
Makeup
Crypto
Cigars
Clubbing
Marijuana
Funko
Arguing online
Porn
Gambling
Manosphere
The 15 most attractive hobbies to women
1. Reading
2. Foreign languages
3. Playing instrument
4. Cooking
5. Woodworking
6. Painting
7. Writing
8. Gardening
9. Swimming
10. Photography
11. Astronomy
12. Hiking
13. Archery
14. Blacksmithing
15. Travelling
Chris Williamson retweeted
I am pretty supportive of legal restrictions on obscene material. However, "porn is fine but we are going to micromanage the specific fantasies you can indulge" is such a great microcosm of the 21st century progressive mind.
Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says bbc.in/3TF2Ijx
Chris Williamson retweeted
Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X.
When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5:
You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app.
However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening:
It was strengthening X.
If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet.
But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app.
Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet.
And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.
Chris Williamson retweeted
Men are learning about women from stories designed to make them angry.
You see guys take these unusual interactions, where a woman suddenly loses interest or ghosts them, and write elaborate, attention-grabbing stories. Then those stories go viral. But part of the reason they go viral is that they’re unusual.
If you see something like, “Hey, I met this girl, we really liked each other, and now we’re engaged. We’re getting married.” That might get 17 likes. But if you post, “I had a one-night stand with this girl, and then she ghosted me,” or, “She was leading me on through the app, agreed to meet me, and then stopped talking to me,” and you add, “It’s over, boys,” that’s the story that goes viral.
The other point is that the relatively small group of women who are more promiscuous are highly sought after by men looking for casual sex. Very attractive men have access to that group. Less attractive men see this, get jealous, and want access to the same group. But they mistakenly think that’s all women, without realizing that the majority of women have had either zero or one partner within the past 12 months.
It’s a kind of availability bias. You see all this stuff online, all the chatter about sex and chads and so on, and assume that’s what everyone is doing. But you’re not seeing this “dark matter” of women who aren’t posting, who aren’t on the apps, who are just living their lives.
The 3-step process of how to win:
1: Realise no one is coming to save you
2: Take responsibility for your current position
3: Be willing to sacrifice who you are for who you want to be
@AlexHormozi
Chris Williamson retweeted
Men’s penises are getting longer.
While testosterone and sperm counts are declining, average penis lengths have increased by around 25% over the last 3 decades.
“We looked at flaccid, stretched and erect length and created one large database of measurements.What we found was quite different from trends in other areas of male fertility and health.
Erect penile length is getting longer, from an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches, over the past 29 years.”
This study from Stanford showed it’s a trend happening around the world.
The increase may be another indicator that environmental exposures — such as environmental pollutants or increasing sedentary lifestyles — are causing reproductive-related changes.
“Any overall change in development is concerning, because our reproductive system is one of the most important pieces of human biology. If we’re seeing this fast of a change, it means that something powerful is happening to our bodies.
We should try to confirm these findings and if confirmed, we must determine the cause of these changes.”
@hubermanlab
I’ve got the sense that there are three levels of productivity: inputs, outputs, and outcomes
Most people stop at the first two then wonder why nothing in their life actually changes.
I call this "The Input-Output Delusion".
Inputs are effort applied
“I sat at my desk for eight hours.”
“I spent two hours drafting outreach messages.”
“I went to the gym five times this week.”
Inputs feel noble. They prove you’re working hard. But you can spend all day trying and still be no closer to the thing you want.
Outputs are work done
“I sent fifty emails.”
“I published four blog posts.”
“I completed all my programmed workouts.”
Outputs feel even better because you can count them. You can look at the spreadsheet and think, I’m being productive. But outputs don’t prove impact.
- You can send fifty emails and get no replies.
- You can publish four podcasts that don’t move your audience.
- You can lift weights every day without changing your diet and see zero results.
It’s motion, not momentum.
Outcomes are real-world results.
“I closed three new clients.”
“My latest article doubled our inbound leads.”
“The new training plan added twenty pounds to my bench press.”
Outcomes measure change. They tell you whether your work actually did what it was supposed to do.
That’s the line between looking busy, feeling productive, and being effective.
Busy people count hours, and actions. Effective people count impact.
If you measure inputs, you’ll get good at trying.
If you measure outputs, you’ll get good at producing.
If you measure outcomes, you’ll get good at winning.
Stop keeping score with time and activity and start asking one question after everything you do: did this actually move me closer to my goals?
If it didn’t, it doesn’t matter how long it took or how much you got done, it wasn’t progress
You don’t have to be worthy, but you do have to know what it is that you want.
“You have to focus.
Try to do that.
Try writing out what it is you want and condensing it down until you’ve reduced it to a concise statement of desire or intent.
Your path can only be meandering and your life a blur until you do that.” - Jed McKenna