I could type pages on this one, but I’ll spare the readers. Most write better than I do anyway so I’m interested in their thoughts.
As for me, as soon as we meet, I throw up a wall until I can trust whomever you say you are. I also look for clues as to who they really are, not who they say they are.
For girls, I look for red flags like hair dyed in an unnatural color, excessive piercings (or one in the nose), too many tattoos (more than one hidden one. Most of all, check her friends and family. Crazy girlfriends means your petite petunia is likely been run through by a lot of dudes. Body count matters a lot too. No matter what, even if you are a way better guy, you are compared to the past.
For Guys, there is a line between confidence and cockiness. It can be smudged at first, but it shows itself. I don’t mind an Alpha male, as long as he’s decent to others. There is always a bigger fish.
Being an introvert, anyone who talks too much small talk instead of substantive conversation is kept on the sidelines. I just can’t listen to drivel for the sake of talking. Introverts will understand this.
The first line to break a relationship for me isn’t lying, everyone does that. It’s loyalty. That is like virginity, you can only lose it once. Once it is gone, our relationship is stalled probably where it started. So far, no one has gotten a second chance. I’ll never really trust you again, despite my best efforts.
The biggest thing I learned was to not talk back immediately, say no early and often to most things, and don’t commit to doing things you know you don’t want to do. That has saved me more time from the suck portion of life than almost anything.
Like I said, I can go on, and on, but that would just be a continuation of the life of an introvert.
Unless the rapture happens before they can do it, I think we’ll be there. Man is an explorer and Musk has trillions so why not? I’ll never see it in my short lifetime
As for what it looks like, I’m going with Ceti Alpha 5. If you don’t know what that is, look up the Wrath of Khan
There are times that I need to brake on some topics The chemo has me feeling almost sea sick. I still have some humor, life experience and every day stuff.
So unless I fall into the well of yo momma memes, this is the last post on this subject.. Steal them as I need to clear cloud storage space. They are high on my list to remove for the space in my cloud storage
I lose more readers on this category than any other I post about. Try to get that it’s a joke and doesn’t represent who I am, other than I thought some were perfect.
It used to be getting a fast car or a bigger house. The signs are always there. When you make money, you spend it just as easily.
Some want to be a Rocket Builder as a side job and is pulling off stuff NASA would only now be in planning meetings for.
Other, with a Musk type mood and wanting to have a dick measuring contest to see who makes that better rocket.
In this case, it’s one to Musk just for not doing this now. I know some or his blew up in the past, but this race to the moon is a new (actual) line of news and gets going before I’m gone.
Bezos can just blow up many millions of rocket pieces for nothing and build another one. That is called F/U Money, when there ain’t nothing left to spend it on.
Anywho: Here’s and Excerpt:
OAN Staff Lillian Mann 2:10 PM – Friday, May 29, 2026
Jeff Bezos’s “Blue Origin” rocket erupted in a massive explosion during a launchpad test after a hot-fire test went wrong, sending smoke flames and debris soaring miles into the sky.
Nearby homes shook as a bright orange plume erupted above the launch pad, billowing into the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.
Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, was conducting a routine prelaunch static fire test when the vehicle exploded.
The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket was reportedly being prepared for its fourth overall flight in early June, which was scheduled to deploy a batch of 48 Amazon Project Kuiper low Earth orbit (LEO) internet satellites.
An un-crewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad during a test, erupting into a massive fireball.
“All personnel are accounted for and safe,” Bezos said on X. “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.”
The satellites are designed to compete with billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink network — by providing high-speed, space-based internet service to users around the world, according to Reuters.
The 322-foot-tall New Glenn rocket has launched three times previously and is classified as a heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of carrying massive payloads typically ranging between 20 and 50 metric tons, as Blue Origin aims to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it. — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 29, 2026
-How do you ruin a layup. Everyone waited in lines for a good Marvel movie and you just put whipped cream on a pile of dog poop. I give you Mandalorian and Grogu
I could be very serious here and write a dissertation about the relationship between God, man and the history between the 3. Instead, the child inside of me will do this:
I’m going to have a hard time taking this one seriously, as it is my favorite Mensa joke.
It continues like this: and give 3 examples. Most people take it seriously and try to think their way through it, not realizing that it is a joke on them. I’ve heard some of the lamest responses by people of all levels.
Were I in college, it would be a couple of pairs of extra underwear, a few cases of beer and a few blunts.
Now that my life is half a century later, I’m willing to go to my mountain house. I have my stuff there, I know the place and I don’t have to fly or stay in a germ ridden hotel room that was barely cleaned. I’m getting sicker, so big travel plans are now not in my life
I stayed in an airbnb last year that was a dump. It was completely different from the pictures and description.
So for me, I go to one of my houses and that’s it.
The newly released novel, Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke, features a tradwife who gets transported back to the 19th century to live a truly trad life. Deeply humbled by her experience, the tradwife desires to return to the present day, replete with the luxuries afforded to her by the feminists she disdains. Already a New York Times bestseller, the novel is set to be adapted for film by Anne Hathaway.
It takes little imagination to anticipate how the film adaptation will go: Much like the dystopian vision of The Handmaid’s Tale, it will amount to a scolding for those lacking gratitude for feminism. The implicit message is exactly what feminists have always insisted: conservative women who embrace domesticity are either frauds, victims, or too dim to know the difference.
I’ve been writing about feminism for more than a decade. The main opposition is almost always the same: tedious clichés and skimpy narratives. I’m told that I want women to be subjected to vile men with no way to escape or that I don’t think women should work or vote. And then, there is some effort to remind me how I have personally benefited from feminism — usually because of my doctorate, or public voice. These tired arguments, gracing comment boxes, social media, and a wide array of publications, are repetitive, unthinking, self-righteous.
Few realize that these exhausted sound bites were established decades ago to protect feminism from criticism. Media, academia, and vocal influencers pushed these talking points deeply into the culture. They’ve become so entrenched that they’ve scarcely needed adjusting from outside pressure and remain so dominant that Hollywood can bank on them. This novel and soon-to-be-movie will follow the same playbook.
What is not generally grasped is that, despite its self-assured bravado, feminism is actually a fragile ideology. Because it is not based on a solid foundation of truth, it can only survive through power, so it relies on perception, PR, and political force. In the face of decades of its corrosive effects, it can’t draw from scientific studies or even principled arguments to defend itself. All it has is a broad defensive perimeter of clichés and a tidy narrative of protection. Western women and men have been unwittingly supplying it for decades, allowing feminism to expand unchecked.
The effect has been that most people genuinely believe they are protecting something good, buying into the largely fictional narrative that feminism “is just about helping women.” Few realize its connection to the havoc now on display in the culture.
What Is Feminism?
In its simplest form, feminism is the belief in two things: Men are contemptible, and women should be just like them.
This definition isn’t a one-off found in some obscure, unknown feminist. Rather, it can be seen in the work of every major feminist leader for the last 200 years: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, and Gloria Steinem. What is their biggest enemy? The patriarchy. And what do they want? To have the power they believe the patriarchy has.
These two ideas — men are contemptible, and women should be just like them — have been cemented together to form the bedrock of western women’s views on sex and marriage, resulting in highly destructive consequences: an ever-widening gap between men and women and steep decline in marriages, women’s battle with their fertility and bodies, increased abortions, the birth dearth, the push for same-sex marriage, surrogacy, gender fluidity and the trans movement, and the rise of anxiety and depression.
Between 5 different doctors appointments, 2 procedures under anesthesia and so many blood draws that they used all my veins on both arms, I gathered these for those who care.
Profiles of Valor: Armed Forces Day – I always thank anyone in uniform or that has a hat from a previous war (especially Viet Nam) for their services. I include the Police, firemen, EMS, ICE, and anyone who thanklessly helps the public, especially liberals who hate them (and don’t know why, other than they were told to)
Honda reported its first annual loss since becoming a publicly listed company in 1957. The $2.7B drop comes months after the Japanese carmaker scaled back its electric vehicle plans in the US. (See the scrapped models.) – no free government handout, no one buys them. Gas price goes up, people buy Hemi’s
(Note: this is an update. Will B. Done pointed out that the links didn’t work, so I fixed them so you can click and enjoy)
I’ve written this blog since August of 2005. It was originally meant for my job in analyst relations, but took a turn when I retired in 2011. It’s morphed into any number of things from humor, sarcasm, anti-Covid Jab and my ramblings on life.
I start Chemotherapy next week, so it’s going to slow down considerably, although I’ll post from time to time. I’ve scheduled some posts so it will look like I’m continuing as I suffer through the poison they will be putting in me. You’ll read something every day this week, but I’m not collecting headlines. I hope to be back, I just know I won’t have any energy
I want to say that I’ve enjoyed the 10’s of thousands of comments, and different groups of readers.
I mostly wrote it as it is my favorite form of communication. If you read anything about me, you know I’m introverted so small talk isn’t my greatest strength.
I pulled the list of top posts. It’s funny to me that my most successful post is Euphemisms for Stupid, which was number one on Google for over 10 years in that category.
As I look at the list, I see various stages of my life and different careers. I see family, pets and co-workers. I’m especially proud of My Dad. It’s the post, On Behalf of the President of the United States.
I wish you all the best and a longer life than me.
It’s not over, but for sure will not be as consistent.
If anyone wants to guest post, send it to me simonize@protonmail.com and I’ll try to put it up and give you credit.
It wouldn’t be my first choice to promote cancer awareness, but it’s quite a feat nevertheless.
ALERT: Man gets lit on fire as he pulls a police car with his pen-s in an attempt to raise awareness for prostate cancer.
John Stephenson, 50, is a strong man who, using a rope attached to his genitals, became the first person to pull a car, a 2-ton French police vehicle, with… pic.twitter.com/XgWEHFNopg
Are there more important stories we could be covering? Sure, I guess. Iran is still a thing. Trump is going to China. Democrats are being all a noun and a verb and a “raaaaaacism” over redistricting. Plus, generally speaking, when we here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website write about testicles, it involves a dude whipping them out in the girls’ bathroom and Democrats supporting them doing so. It’s nice to have someone put their balls to good use for a change.
John Stephenson, a 50-year-old kickboxer, shattered a glass ceiling, becoming the first bloke to pull a two-ton car with nothing but his dong WHILE set on fire. Technically, he didn’t use his entire one-eyed trouser snake, piece of pork, wife’s best friend, his Percy or his cock (he’s British, so I’m biting off of the Monty Python song). He just used his nuts. He also set himself on fire too. Why? Good question.
I’ve pulled a car with my testicles before and I’ve pulled a car on fire – so I thought why not combine the both, but this time do it with my penis.
Rest assured, everything is still intact! Stephen says that while “it did hurt quite a bit,” but he likes to set challenges and this was something no one has done before. He did the research.
Look, I played Handel’s Messiah over 200 times. I know classical music, I’ve played everything from Rhapsody in Blue, Fugue in G minor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and you name it. I’ve played them all
I also heard Charlie Daniels trying out The Devil Went Down To Georgia 6 months before He released it to see if the crowd would like it
Still, I enjoyed Robert Plant playing old Zeppelin tunes and Brad Paisley playing his greatest hits as much as anything. Rock N Roll, Trampled Under Foot, So Much Cooler Online, I’m Gonna Miss her were as much fun to listen to as anything.
Everyone likes their own style of music. I’m interested in what you guys like also.
I suppose it is packing up from Florida, where I’d lived my whole life, and moving the entire family to North Carolina without ever having been there. It was a new job, a new house, a new career, and a complete change of life. I was in my late 30’s so it was not one of those teenage roadtrips.
As it turned out, it set me on the course of a great place to live, out of the Florida heat and tourist trap living, and gave me financial security for the rest of my life.
While the job was still in the Tech industry, it was in an area that I’d never been a part of. In the interview, I got asked what I knew about Networking Hardware, and I (honestly) said that I was not well-versed.
My answer was that since this was a job dealing with the press, I knew what they wanted and my strengths were there. I nailed the interview, and we just up and left in a couple of weeks.
Brits poorer than Mississippians – yes, they would be the 51st state in poverty if they were part of the US. It’s stuff like this that makes my stomach turn when Europe trashes the USA. They have no idea who they really are other than the likes of the formerly Great Britain. I know this won’t stop the America bashing, but at least there are facts out there
NFL Reporter Crissy Froyd Fired From USA Today After Criticizing Dianna Russini for Mike Vrabel Photos – It’s not like we believe the sideline reporters are there for their football knowledge. Which one of them ever played the sport. They are decorations and submission to the whold equality experiment failure. Give me a guy who had to play the game and can do a better job of explaining why a team is performing or failing. If they just want to show cute girls, pan to the cheerleaders. We’ll be happy to look at them. Get rid of the catty girls and give them a different job.
New Major Study Finds Europeans Got Smarter – This explains Rome 2000 years ago vs Africa today. You have to count the USA as Europeans becuase that is where most of them came from (except the 13% from Africa)
I was working in the finance division of Burdines Department Stores when the IBM-PC was announced. I had been working with a System 34 and immediately saw my future. This was around 1981.
The head of our DP department said there would be no need for PC’s because you couldn’t do anything with them. So I left
Within months, I was working for the largest Independent PC store in the country and balls-deep into the world of PCs.
It was the biggest open door to opportunity that I’ve seen in my whole life. I knew there was a huge future, and I was about to get in on the ground floor at the very beginning. I started with CPM on Apple II and DOS 1.0 on the PC.
They weren’t ubiquitous back then. I learned more by fixing them and figuring out why they crashed than almost everyone I knew.
The other decision I view as one of my best is to not take the COVID-19 jab. While everyone pressured me to get it, I held my ground. To this day, I don’t regret it and never have to worry about what they put into it. You can never get un-jabbed.
If you’re introverted or neurodivergent, it means your brain is processing more during group conversations than other people realize.
I could feel myself disappearing into the background.
I was sitting at a table with six other adults in a noisy coffee shop. We were all strangers, meeting for a book club for the first time.
I had joined the group because I love reading, but also because I wanted to make a few new friends. As an introvert, I don’t always make friends easily, so I thought it would help to have a built-in topic to talk about — the book.
But suddenly, I was back in a familiar introvert struggle that had been with me my whole life: a group conversation.
The conversation moved fast, bouncing from person to person with no structure. Even when I had something meaningful to say, I couldn’t get my thoughts out quickly enough before someone else started talking. When I did speak, someone often interrupted me before I was finished, and I felt pressure to rush just to get my words out.
All around me, other people were talking and laughing. Coffee machines hissed. Orders were being called out. Sometimes I couldn’t hear well, but more than that, as a highly sensitive person, I could feel my mind getting overstimulated. I started mentally checking out.
If you’ve had a similar experience, you’re not alone. Group conversations aren’t always easy for introverts, highly sensitive people, or neurodivergent people. Since that book club, I’ve learned a few things about group conversations that make them a little easier. They might help you, too.
Why Group Conversations Are Draining
If group conversations feel harder than one-on-one conversations, you’re not imagining it. Group conversations are a different social task altogether. They aren’t just one-on-one conversations with more people added.
The more people in the conversation, the harder it becomes to follow what’s happening, know when to jump in, and get a fair share of speaking time. Research on conversation shows that human turn-taking is extremely fast. Usually, there are only a few hundred milliseconds between when one person stops talking and another person begins.
(Fun fact: In one study, Danish speakers had the longest average gap between turns, which I find interesting because Danish culture is supposedly very introvert-friendly.)
All of this adds to something called cognitive load. When you have to deal with multiple speakers at once, or keep switching your attention from one speaker to another, you listen more slowly and less accurately. That higher listening demand makes it even harder to know when to speak.
In other words, big groups place more demands on your attention, memory, and energy than one-on-one conversations do.
And it doesn’t help if you’re in a noisy public place, with other sounds and sights competing for your attention, like I was at that book club.
If you’re introverted, sensitive, or neurodivergent, it doesn’t mean you have nothing to say. It means your brain is taking in and processing more stimuli than other people often realize.
How to Make Group Conversations Easier
Whenever possible, I try to socialize one-on-one or in small groups. It lowers my cognitive load and helps me protect my energy as an introvert.
But sometimes that’s just not possible. You may also have to deal with group conversations at work, at networking events, or at family gatherings.
So here are a few ways to make them a little easier:
1. Jump in early.
Research shows that as groups get bigger, it gets harder for everyone to participate equally. Often, one or two people end up dominating the conversation. That was definitely true at my book club. One man seemed to think he was the main character.
Making a comment early helps in two ways. First, it removes the pressure of trying to find the perfect moment later. Second, it makes it easier for other people to bring you back into the conversation as things go on.
It can also reflect well on you. Speaking early can make you seem confident, even if you feel anything but confident inside.
And your comment doesn’t have to be brilliant. It can be tiny, like an interesting observation, a moment of agreement, or a clarifying question.
Another reason to speak early is your social battery. As the event goes on, you may lose steam, and group conversations can drain your energy even faster. Even if it goes against your quiet nature, talking early lets you contribute while your energy is still at its highest.
Once the introvert hangover starts to set in, it gets harder to think clearly, listen well, and put your thoughts into words.
2. Use follow-up questions as your entry point.
Not sure how to jump in? Ask a question right after someone finishes talking. Follow-up questions are easier than coming up with a completely new topic under pressure.
Good examples are:
“What happened next?”
“How did you feel about it?”
“Was that what you expected?”
“Would you do it again?”
“What did you learn?”
In a group, follow-up questions do double duty. They lower your cognitive load, and they make the speaker feel heard.
Research has also found that people like you more when you ask follow-up questions, because it shows that you’re interested in them. In one study, people who asked more follow-up questions during speed dating were more likely to get asked on second dates.
This approach also plays to a natural introvert strength. One of our conversational superpowers is helping a discussion go one layer deeper instead of jumping from topic to topic. Introverts are often the ones who move beyond small talk and into more interesting, meaningful territory. And the science supports that instinct: People often expect deeper conversations to feel awkward, but they actually leave people feeling more connected.
Just make sure to read the room. If the group is joking around or rushing with excited energy, a deep question can feel a little out of place. For example, a group that’s quickly swapping travel stories probably won’t want to pause for a deep question about how childhood shaped the way someone experiences adventure.
3. Switch to listening mode when your social battery runs low.
When that happens, it may be time to leave. But if you can’t get away just yet, switch into listening mode. This can help you conserve energy without fully checking out.
Even if it’s obvious you’ve gotten quieter, you don’t want to give the impression that you’re uninterested. Use visible listening cues. Look at the speaker. Nod. Briefly reflect back a phrase. Offer a short verbal cue like, “That makes sense.”
In groups, not everyone talks all the time. Being visibly attentive is still a way of participating.
And if someone points out that you’ve gotten quieter, remember that the strongest response is usually the least dramatic one. Be comfortable with who you are, acknowledge the comment, and then move on.
“To be honest, I’m more of an internal processor.”
“I’m just not a big chatter, but I’m enjoying listening.”
“I get that question a lot, but I’m actually very comfortable.”
“I’m honestly more interested in hearing from you.”
“I tend to speak up once I’ve fully formed my thoughts.”
When the social event is over, plan for some extra “me time.” Because of everything going on, group conversations can be overstimulating, even when you enjoy the people you’re with. There’s nothing wrong with needing a breather afterward, or going home and planning no other social activities for the rest of the day.
The next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember it’s not personal. They need solitude because that’s how they’re wired.
I love spending time alone. There’s nothing better than being at home in my comfy clothes, reading a good book, or watching a show while munching on snacks. This doesn’t mean I don’t crave time with “my people” — those I laugh with and share my day with. But when I don’t get enough alone time, I start to feel tired, cranky, and overstimulated, even if I’ve enjoyed being with the people I love.
Sometimes when I need alone time, the people in my life feel hurt. They feel rejected, but that’s not what it means. I need little periods of solitude to recharge my energy and feel like myself again.
Why do introverts need alone time? Why does socializing exhaust us, even when we’re having fun? Recent research offers some interesting insights. I delve deeper into these findings in my book, The Secret Lives of Introverts.
The Curious Connection Between Introverts and Rewards
When writing my book, I spoke with Colin DeYoung, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota who had published a paper on introversion. He explained that one reason introverts need alone time is related to how we respond to rewards.
No, I’m not talking about the gold stars you might have earned in grade school (though it could be argued that stickers are indeed a reward for kids). For adults, rewards can be things like money, social status, social connections, food, and even sex. When you get promoted at work or convince an attractive stranger to give you their phone number, you’re receiving a reward. Hurray!
Of course, introverts also value things like money, relationships, and food. However, researchers believe that introverts are wired to respond differently to rewards than extroverts. Compared to our more outgoing counterparts, we “quiet ones” are simply less motivated and energized by these same rewards. It’s as if extroverts see big, juicy steaks everywhere, while introverts see overcooked hamburgers.
In fact, as any introvert can confirm, sometimes those “rewards” aren’t just less appealing — they can actually be tiring and annoying, like a big party. This brings me to another reason why introverts need alone time: We react differently to stimulation.
An Extrovert and an Introvert Go to a Party
Take, for example, two friends at a house party — one an extrovert, the other an introvert. They’re crammed into a crowded room where loud music blares from huge speakers. Everyone is practically shouting to be heard over the din. There are a dozen conversations happening simultaneously, with just as many things demanding their attention.
For the extrovert, this level of stimulation might feel just right. He sees potential rewards everywhere — an attractive stranger across the room, opportunities to deepen old relationships, and the chance to make new friends. Most importantly, tonight offers a chance to boost his social status within his friend group, especially if he plays his cards right.
So, the extrovert feels energized and excited to be at the party. In fact, he’s so motivated that he stays late into the night. He’s exhausted the next day and needs time to recover — after all, partying is hard work. But to him, the energy spent was well worth it.
Now, back to our introvert. See him over there, hunkered down in the corner? For him, the environment feels overwhelming. It’s too loud, there are too many things happening at once, and the crowd creates a dizzying buzz of activity. Sure, he wants to make friends, fit in, and be liked, but these rewards just aren’t as tantalizing to him. It feels like he would have to expend a lot of energy for something he’s only mildly interested in to begin with.
So, the introvert heads home early to watch a movie with his roommate. In his own apartment, with just one other person, the level of stimulation feels just right. He exchanges some texts with a woman he met a few weeks ago in one of his classes. Like the extrovert, he too wants friends and a romantic partner. However, he finds it too tiring to deal with the noise and socializing at a big party to make those connections.
The Dopamine Difference
Chemically, there’s a good reason the introvert in the above scenario feels overwhelmed, and it relates to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This chemical, found in the brain, is often referred to as the “feel good” chemical because it regulates our pleasure and reward centers.
One of its roles is to make us notice potential rewards and motivate us to pursue them. For example, dopamine alerts the extrovert to the attractive stranger at the party and fuels his motivation to come up with a cheesy pick-up line.
Another important function of dopamine is reducing our cost of effort. Socializing requires energy because it involves paying attention, listening, thinking, speaking, and moderating our emotional reactions. Technically, socializing is tiring for everyone, including extroverts. However, dopamine helps make it less exhausting for them.
According to DeYoung, extroverts have a more active dopamine reward system. As a result, they can better tolerate — and often push through — the tiredness that inevitably comes with socializing. Much of the time, they don’t experience the same level of mental and physical fatigue that introverts do, thanks to dopamine.
It’s called the “introvert” hangover, not the “extrovert” hangover for a reason.
A New Theory of Introverts and Dopamine
In her 2002 book, The Introvert Advantage, Dr. Marti Olsen Laney speculated that introverts may be more sensitive to dopamine. In other words, we “quiet ones” might need less of it to feel good. Too much, she wrote, could leave us feeling overstimulated.
Science has come a long way since then. When I caught up with DeYoung again, he told me that theory had since been disproven. In fact, scientists now think it’s the opposite.
In fact, DeYoung told me, extroverts are the ones who are more sensitive to dopamine. For example, if introverts and extroverts are given the same drug that affects dopamine, extroverts tend to have a stronger response and become more motivated by similar stimuli later on.
It’s not that dopamine itself makes introverts feel overstimulated. Rather, when introverts do overstimulating things, like going to a party, they may not get as much dopamine release. Extroverts, on the other hand, may get a much bigger dopamine hit from those same activities.
“Without the sense of reward, the extra focus, and the sense of being ‘worth the effort’ that dopamine initiates,” DeYoung told me, “the introverts simply find the activities overwhelming and/or tiring instead.”
Extroverts Place More Significance on People
Finally, a study found that extroverts might simply find humans more interesting than introverts do. This finding aligns with the idea that introverts are less motivated to seek social rewards.
In this study, researchers observed a diverse group of individuals and recorded their brain’s electrical activity using an EEG. As participants were shown pictures of both objects and people, the researchers measured their brains’ P300 activity. This activity happens quickly in response to sudden changes around us and gets its name because it occurs within 300 milliseconds.
Interestingly, researchers found that extroverts showed the P300 response primarily when viewing images of faces, whereas introverts only exhibited this response after viewing objects. Essentially, extroverts’ brains became more active when looking at people.
This doesn’t mean that introverts hate people (though, admittedly, the human race can get on my nerves occasionally). Researchers still don’t fully understand introversion. However, these findings suggest that extroverts might simply place more importance on social interactions than introverts do.
So, the next time an introvert in your life needs alone time, remember that it’s not personal. Introverts need alone time because their brains are wired that way. It isn’t necessarily a reflection of how they feel about you or your relationship.
As for me, you can find me at home tonight. Preferably with the whole place to myself, that is.
That’s easy. With my health problems, I’ll be a pile of ashes spread out somewhere.
Even though I’ll post it as a reminder, I’m going under the knife tomorrow morning. I’ve scheduled some stuff in advance, but I can’t promise much after Wednesday.
I may get headlines out tomorrow, but that will be the last day until probably the weekend.
What Do Americans Consider Immoral? – Republicans and Democrats differ sharply on whether abortion, homosexuality and the death penalty are morally wrong
Let’s see, I’m not having any lions, badgers, monkeys, gorillas, any animals from the weasel family, skunks, pigs, chickens, and I could go on. I think you get the picture.
I’ve had cats and dogs, but I’m down to dogs now. It’s the typical Ford/Chevrolet debate over which is better. Since this is about me, the answer is dogs.
They love you, are more loyal, and learn to obey better. They get you out to walk so that you get exercise and are happy to see you, whether you’be been gone all day, or to get the mail.
Pick your own and don’t criticize mine. I like animals better than people, but that is the introvert in me. I love my dog, and still love the dogs that have been in my life.
I’ve been a huge Olympics fan since 64 in Tokyo. I suffered through John Carlos and Tommie Smith in Mexico City in 68 and the terrorists in Munich in 72. I started watching during the Cold War, so the whole US vs. the USSR was going on.
I was always a track fan, especially the sprints and hurdles. I tend to miss the field events unless there was a spectacular athlete like Duplantis in the pole vault at present. I’d pick the 200 over the 100 as there is more going on with a turn involved than who can go the fastest in a straight line.
I swim for exercise, having been on swim teams as a kid. Unlike track, I like the distance events. I never miss a chance to see Katy Ledecky swim. I know her career is coming to a close sometime soon, so seeing greatness is a pleasure.
I enjoy the other events to a varying degree, but have less patience for a lot of the events.
I watched surprisingly little of the Winter Olympics this year. While I have in the past, I lost interest this year.
Yannow, they’s assholes evrywhar. The entier country wants the Save Act, including the libs, yet Thune can’t get it passed. It would stop cheating as we know it, although I’m sure they will think of a new way
The Senate has packed up and gone on a two-week vacation without passing the SAVE America Act. They also passed a compromise bill to fund DHS, except for ICE and CBP and their support staff, which House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected.
I know he hates Trump, but does he hate Americans and Republican control of the Senate also?
Hard as he tried, he still couldn’t be a bigger asshole than the wife of Gavin Newsom. Yes, he’s running for president and his wife just did this:
Gavin Newsom’s wifey brags about taking her kids to southern American states to see “racism” up close and personal
How about the homeless, the people and companies leaving the state that her husband ruined, and the shithole that California has become?
She is vying to be 1st Lady and pulls this kind of shit.
According to Jennifer, the Newsom family took the kids on a red state tour to show them firsthand what racism is all about. The problem with this, however, is that these states and their inhabitants are not racist. In fact, implying people are racist simply by existing would, in fact, be racist.
She went as far as to claim that she wanted to see racism, misogyny, and bullying for them to effectively “be the change they wish to see in the world.” She believed visiting these states would “expand their hearts” so that they could continue on the leftist mission their father had embarked on. And while it is great to teach your kids that things like racism, sexism, and bullying are wrong, she largely missed the mark here.
She went looking for trouble when it was in her backyard.
She’s trying to outdo Hillary, Michelle (Big Mike) Obama or Jill Biden as the worst first lady.
That probably won’t happen, but what will is that she is the asshole of the week.
The real answer is almost everything. From the minute you are born, you live a different life from everyone else.
So the real answer is life. It shapes everyone differently, from the experiences to how we handle them. Even Identical twins have separate lives.
Unless you could do everything at the same time with the same person and have the same response, you are different.
That is comforting to me, because I don’t want what anyone else has. My life is mine.
On a side note, have you ever looked at a group of people together? How is it that we have that many people and not a one of them is the same? Different eyes, nose, ears, chin, size, shape, coloring, and the list goes on.
I could bring God into this conversation, but I know a lot of you have different views, so I’ll just leave it at this. Go ahead and try to find 2 people who are the same, or even close.
Aside from the fact that there is a God, this is an easy one.
No one gives a shit about you, really. Not long after you die, people don’t even think of you, other than in a story. Two generations after you die, virtually no one remembers you or anything you did.
Think of all the people who have come and gone in your life. You don’t think about 90% of them. Who remembers every kid in elementary school? How about the kids on the street you grew up on. When did you speak with them last? Did they initiate the conversation?
Most people overestimate their importance, especially to others. Your spouse will likely even get remarried if you die.
This works for me on a lot of levels, though. I have eliminated a lot of people from my life who weren’t making it any better. That’s a thing that is best for introverts, though.
This fact has been my best friend in a lot of instances. I even got rid of Facebook because too many people wanted back in my life that I thought I’d gotten rid of.
Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2? – If he didn’t, he sure as hell had something to do with it because they also created the Moderna version of the jab. I lived near their, it other than basketball, there was a lof of shit associated with that school (and Duke)
I got into computers before there was a PC. When I saw the introduction of the Apple II and the IBM-PC, I saw the opportunity door of life open, and I was first in line.
No one else could figure out what to do with them, as I lived in a mainframe world. I learned everything I could, and by the time others started playing with them, I was an industry insider. I worked with some of the smartest people in the industry. It was fun to know what was coming years before they announced it.
I learned way more from mistakes than I did from successes. I expected them. Having to re-do something, or being embarrassed for saying or doing the wrong thing, were lessons I never forgot. For the record, I consider losing the same thing as a mistake. I hate to lose at anything. If I do, I make sure it only happens once in a row,.
Life is a great teacher. When you get old like me, you’ve been through a lot. School can’t teach you much other than how to learn, or some facts to memorize. Having to survive is a lesson that I get every day. Hell, I’m grateful every day I wake up now.
It was hard to choose this week. John Thune wouldn’t let the Save act get a vote, despite most of the country on both sides wanting it. Honorable mention, but still an asshole.
Next, also on the Save Act is Chuck Schumer, Thune’s counterpart on the (seemingly) other side.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the SAVE America Act “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation” he has seen ahead of the bill being brought to the floor for a vote this week.
Speaking to reporters on a Sunday phone call, Schumer claimed that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are attempting to “disenfranchise millions of Americans and undermine democracy by pushing this despicable SAVE Act,” also called the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act.
He also called the election integrity bill “one of the most despicable pieces of legislation I’ve come across in the many years I’ve been a legislator.”
“Nothing is more important than defeating this dagger to the heart of our democracy,” the Democrat leader told reporters.
He’s an asshole because he knows that if they have voter ID, the Dem’s can’t cheat. On top of that, he said Trump wanted to use voter ID to cheat in the mid-terms. Imagine that, calling out your opponent for doing what you are doing, cheating.
BUT
While it happened during the Biden administration, there was this:
‘Living in sex-slavery’: Biden admin was ‘paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking’ kids
During the Joe Biden administration, the federal government actually was paying human traffickers to take unaccompanied migrant children.
“The one thing that has been challenging is that under the Biden administration, the government paid sponsors,” under HHS programs, which were tasked with relocating and taking care of unaccompanied children.
“Those sponsors, many times, we found instances where they trafficked these children themselves,” Noem told Congress.
“Under the Biden administration, she said, “we not only had children in this country that were part of a program, the government was paying individuals who were knowingly trafficking them and abusing them.”
A report from the Washington Stand noted the trafficking was in addition to the fact that the Biden administration also misplaced hundreds of thousands of children.
The Scientific Shift Toward God – Overall, scientists have been able to calculate that the odds of our universe existing from random chance are 10 to the 60th power. As a contrast, there are roughly 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand in the Sahara Desert.
It seems that despite women preaching for decades that they don’t need a man and that they’re “above them,” now, when they look to find a partner, there’s not one to be found. Funny how that works, eh? There are tons of videos out on social media showing women and their current plight in “finding a man,” but one particular video seems to really capture the sheer breaking point a lot of ladies have reached. Let’s break it down.
In the clip, the woman is literally in tears, ranting from, of course, her vehicle, where she painfully describes feeling overwhelmed by the toll modern dating has taken on her. She claims that she cares more about the men she dates than they seem to care about her. She says she’s mad. No, not mad. FUMING. No, not fuming. On literal fire.
After screwing men over from the time they were boys in school, to putting them in the friendzone because they weren’t the ideal 666 man, now girls are paying the price. No one wants to put up with their shit and feelings of entitlement anymore.
Guys just want peace and a supportive partner. Girls want the next best thing that will make them look better or improve their status, either on social media or in life. Life has become a Facebook page, trying to get likes and adoration.
Imagine if guys were nice to you always, buying you drinks or complimenting you. After a while, you think you are special. Sure, they wanted some action, but at least they tried, and I promise there were some good guys you tossed away. You can only be shut down so many times before you give up and stop trying.
But regardless of the specifics, the fact is that the dominant message for eons now has been that women don’t need men. Their independence was paramount, traditional relationship structures were dismissed as outdated, and masculinity itself was frequently portrayed as something disposable or problematic.
Yet the desire for partnership, stability, and connection clearly didn’t completely disappear… and now, both men and women are left out in the cold.
NOW YOU KNOW
Push men out of the culture long enough, and eventually the real ones stop showing up. Here are the comments:
“Modern dating: where everyone wants love, but nobody wants the responsibility that comes with it.”
“It’s really hard out there. Feminism F’d everything up.”
“Seems like such a catch…”
“I guarantee she has like 30+ good men in the friend zone.”
“We’re watching a woman reach her breaking point in real-time, and the scariest part? Millions of people are looking in the mirror and seeing the same exhaustion.”
Relationships have been against men for years. They demeaned boys in school because they couldn’t sit still. The mean girls grouped together to diss any guy who wasn’t the star of the sports team. Guys have to put themselves out there and mostly get rejected. If you get married, Divorce courts take at least half of what you own, including the kids, who almost always go with the wife. Why would you want that deal?
Dating is a joke. The story that women can have it all is a lie that feminists have told girls. Fuck around until you are ready to settle down. Get a career and put family on hold. Live the party life, drink and date, keep upgrading boyfriends as you throw away great marriage men. It all changes when you wake up older one day, childless, and the men can now date younger girls who don’t have the attitude of this twunt.
Guys are tired of this shit from entitled females. The truth is that every girl has a vagina. They are everywhere, and not a one of them is the golden one. Girls are giving it away to everyone. No man wants a used bicycle, and the girls are letting all the best men take a ride. They think that just because they slept with a 9 or a 10, that this is their potential. They tossed out the 7’s or less, who were better men that would have taken care of them.
The reality is that they were never above a 6 without makeup, and it’s downhill for them after 30.
A lot of guys just said fuck it, and live their lives without the hassle.
Woke Media Struggles To Explain Why Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Feminism
The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think that through time and indoctrination, they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population. Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last. However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.
Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive. And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past.
Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z. After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda. No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity.
Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.” Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive.
Gen Z men have been taught from an early age that they are inherently evil monsters that must be subdued and caged (figuratively or literally). They are warned that they will become “Incels”; dangerous landmines just waiting to explode unless they embrace feminism.
They are conditioned to see traditional manhood as a “social construct” that will ultimately end in a bullet riddled rain of toxic masculinity. They are told that the very root of their future happiness and sanity depends on leftist women accepting them as viable, docile and “safe”.
In other words, leftist women have positioned themselves as the arbiters of society by declaring they they will be the people who decide what manhood should be. It’s an interesting narrative. It is specifically designed to give progressives total power over the one thing that could destroy their socialist empire: Strong men who wake up one day and realize they are being treated unjustly and that the system does not work.
Ross Kemp made an entire docuseries on inceldom after watching Adolescence.
Female social circles tend to function on collectivist terms: The group determines membership through a series of struggle sessions and shame tests to ensure that new members submit to their control. Male groups determine membership by merit – Who is most useful, the hardest working, the most intelligent, the most able to move the group’s success forward.
Woke ideology is a vehicle for building a society using effeminate group structures. Most men are held back within such a system and left to rot, never fulfilling their roles because they are seen as threats to the power dynamics of the collective.
According to recent surveys, Gen Z is abandoning this feminist paradigm at record pace. In 2019 in the US, just one third of Americans surveyed agreed that traditional gender roles were becoming more popular. In 2026, that number rose to 40%; among Gen Z the number spikes to 61%.
The woke media is struggling to understand what is happening and trying to figure out how they can shame Zoomer men into coming back to the progressive fold. As Esquire Magazine asks:
“What the hell is going on with Gen Z?”
Both Esquire Magazine and The New York Times have recently lamented new data showing an unusual spike in support for traditional male/female roles in society among Gen Z males. Perhaps the most interesting data point comes from a recent survey out of King’s College London which polled a total of 23,000 adults across 29 countries worldwide. It indicates that 57% of Zoomer men agree that women’s rights have gone too far – to the point that men are being discriminated against.
The media, of course, acts as if this view is absurd even though it is entirely accurate. For the past decade in the US (until Donald Trump’s return to the White House) DEI initiatives in corporations, colleges and within many government institutions were deliberately designed to treat straight white men as second class citizens regardless of their qualifications.
They used to call it conspiracy theory, but numerous successful lawsuits have been filed against these institutions after years of rigging the system against men in favor of “equality of outcome” over equality of opportunity.
When it comes to relationships in the modern west, women have been given carte blanche through the “MeToo” Movement to act as destructive, promiscuous and unhinged as they please under the protection of the feminist zero accountability clause. If anything goes wrong they can simply blame men, and for a long time everyone was expected to automatically believe them.
Esquire engages in this same refusal to question women; blaming “podcasts” and the “male loneliness epidemic” for the rise in traditional views among Gen Z. They will not consider the possibility that this trend is caused by blowback from the trespasses of militant feminist ideology. Feminists can do no wrong. Esquire notes:
“The study doesn’t get into the why of respondents’ answers, but one guess is that this is the result of a generation raised on podcasts. Around every corner on the Internet, members of the so-called manosphere lurk, assuring young men that their failures and setbacks are not their fault. In fact, they are the persecuted ones; the world would be better off if women were subservient to guys. Progress, they seem to think, has gone too far…”
The “manosphere” did nothing more than point out the inconsistencies of the feminist movement and warn about the clear social decline that feminism has caused for men and women alike. Progress for the political left requires that men continue to sacrifice for the collective while never gaining any individual benefits in return.
The imbalance of society in scrambling to appease narcissistic women has radicalized an entire generation of men. Esquire notes:
“What’s most interesting is how divided Gen Z men and Gen Z women are on gender roles in relationships. Which makes a ton of sense, because if you haven’t heard, Gen Z women are facing a nightmare of a dating scene. In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Christine Emba claims that it’s not just app burnout or incels—at least, no more so than in my generation. Instead, there is a fundamental disconnect between what straight young men and women want from one another…”
Thirty-one percent of Gen Z men now agree that a wife should always obey her husband (compare this to 18% of Baby Boomers). 59% of Gen Z men say that men are expected to do too much to support equality. In every category, Gen Z greatly surpasses aging Baby Boomers on traditional values.
Big changes are coming in the form of a masculinity-driven cultural reckoning. Perhaps it’s because feminism flew too close the sun and got burned. They got a taste of power and went insane, once again confirming the theory that women should never be in charge. No matriarchy in history has produced anything of historical or technological significance. Biology and natural law recoils at the idea of a female-centric society.
Feminists try to use scare tactics, like the theory of the “male loneliness epidemic”, as a means to frighten men back into line. However, surveys also show that by 2030 nearly half of all women 25-44 are projected to become single and childless.
The truth is, feminists no longer hold the power of social rejection; it’s men who make that determination, and they are walking away from the woke system. What feminists should be more concerned about is the female loneliness epidemic that is looming for them in the near future.
Dylan Mulvaney Confirms He Is a Woman – every cell in his body is XY. He’s as much of a girl as LeBron or any other dude born with a dick. Not even he believes it. No one can be that catty unless you are born a female. He may be a pussy, but he doesn’t have one
Iranian targets are being decimated by U.S. forces, paving the way for continued delivery of overwhelming American military firepower. pic.twitter.com/wQUER9cXWw
When the BLM Grift Runs Dry – it was about getting money. Corporations donated $90 billion, and it’s all gone with nothing to show for it. Even some of the mansions bought by Cuellers burned down in LA. It was as big fo a lie as the Climate Hoax. Free money for a lie
Delusions of Adequacy 