Currently in the midst of such an experience making me reevaluate some things. In this case it is of my own making. Worst illness in years. I believe that overdoing it since last year has compromised my health. I will have to make lifestyle changes.

I forgot - blasphemy 🙃

Yes - the latter is very likely right now.

Heard about this in the morning. It is effectively a crippling of GOS. However, there is GOS partnership with Motorola in the works. However it is going to take a Herculean effort to get freedom tech on mobile working within the draconian timeline being forced on us...

I first heard about the "closing the Strait of Hormuz" scenario on Antiwar dot Com back when Justin Raimondo ran it in probably 2007. Insane that almost 20 years later, here we are. I didn't think they had it in them...

A prayer to Mercury God of Wayfarers and Journeys that you arrive hastily and unerringly to your destination. Allah Speed !

Yeah if you want anonymous cypherpunk internet cash it needs to be something that doesn't have wild volatility. Ideally, not something where every single transaction can be traced since the beginning either 😂

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, intermittent insomnia kind of thing, and last night at probably around 3 AM I heard military jets going over. I don't recall late night military flyovers since the Bush years. Anyway it's pretty clear we have entered uncharted territory and we are facing a crisis in the months ahead. Just like before Covid, everyone is going about their business as if nothing happened. I suppose this is how it was in August 1914 or 1939 as well - unease and menace underneath a veneer of "this is fine".

Adding to my last remark, in my hobbies I occasionally meet 40-something women in my hobby who are still attractive because they have stayed active, had decent diets, and are probably higher IQ and of better genetics than average, but they still can't stand up to the younger women in raw vitality, health and therefore attractiveness. Young women just seem to radiate energy in a way that older women cannot match, though there is some wiggle room for the latter if they don't let themselves go too much. Also, being more socially active again taught me that Americans from Boomers on down to Millennials were/are way too reliant on alcohol. I mean borderline alcoholism is basically a normal condition in the contemporary West. This drove a lot of mating behavior and now the Zoomers are not drinking and also have attenuated social skills, so the whole mating scene is fucked up to the point where it has to be built up from pieces. But hardly anyone wants to admit this. I think this is part of why the dating scene got so weird, as Jay pointed out - it is not just women being difficult, it also reflects some very big shifting sands in society.

That was my basic point as well, especially since the "subfertility" curve begins even earlier. Women who want children really should just start young. This is not moralizing - it is practicality. I have seen lives ruined because of delusional thinking. I do wonder about high paternal age. I know this girl, she is a Zoomer, but her father is a Boomer (I am guessing this was a 2nd marriage thing). He must have been 50 when he had her, doing the math. She is an introverted high functioning autist/edgelord and very male-brained and high IQ by female standards. I wonder how much of the "neurodivergent" character of this girl is because of how old the father was. It's a bit like Donald and Barron Trump. That said, I still think it makes sense for younger women to pair up with older men if they want children. I mean that would definitely be the case if I ever go there. But high paternal age may not be ideal either.

I made a comment about taking your time whole driving and enjoying it as a road trip some time ago but in many cases it seems notifications on Nostr don't work so it may have been missed. But this is a golden opportunity to turn the move into a pleasant experience rather than a death march. Unless you have some specific reason to rush the trip.

Yeah I think the danger for women is that they can feel the wall coming on and this accelerates things, as you say, but they can't tap the brakes in time. Usually it takes until the 29-30yo "epiphany" at which point they're already across the threshold. Many of these who settle down also have an echo hoe phase in their 30s. Basically it's the story of many Millennial women and how they ended up so busted by now. I can see why Zoomer girls are more cautious because they have seen this dynamic in wine aunts, divorcees, etc in their own families.

I know people there. It is very dysfunctional, even more so than the USA it seems. Though the EU may even be worse yet.

That's what I meant - most PUAs are not really alphas. No real argument with your points about male hierarchy and what's good for different types of men. I think I fall into the "sigma male" concept that Vox talked about - similar to alphas in some ways, and I can talk to them as equals, but I just stay apart. I am too lone wolf to be a leader of men, and I don't care about or value the same things.