Michael Augustine

this is the only substack i've ever written, and as far as I know only three people have ever read it substack.com/home/post/p-33…

why do all black people have handicap parking

@st_louis_stan it can actually all be reduced to older men viewing young men as their competition--for mates yes, but also status, promotions, etc and most boomers are not actually sleeping with them, because the women know exactly what is happening and are managing it

Saying that high-status men dote on junior women in the workplace because they want to fuck them is simplistic and mostly wrong. There are a few reasons for the phenomenon of women being preferred in modern white-collar environments by older men and they are - Natural protectiveness towards women. The types of men in these roles are atypical men, meaning they're smart, pro-social, college-educated, etc. These kinds of men are more inclined to look out for women, even if that means doing work for them, making their upward path a little easier, helping them skip a few rungs in the ladder. Think paternal more than sexual - Many of these guys buy into the story that women have been unduly oppressed, and their pro-social inclinations will urge them to redress this by giving women special treatment. A lot of these men have a (perhaps misplaced) sense of justice and fairness and many of them really believe they're doing the right thing by preferring women at the expense of men - In the eyes of these men, young men need to "earn their place" in society, so helping them out, guiding them, presenting them with opportunities is oftentimes considered coddling them, interfering with the natural process of men having to cut their teeth and prove themselves. In their eyes, any man who is worth a damn will "figure it out" regardless of what help he may or may not get - Young women are extremely agreeable. Imagine you're a 55-yo man. A pretty 25-yo woman gets hired at your office, she's eager to please has a go-getter attitude. Add in the "women are wonderful" effect. Now look at the 25-yo man they hired at the same time, he's just Some Guy, maybe a little ugly a little disagreeable, and presents male energy that you'll have to deal with (though he may be the more competent of the two!). The woman is the path of least resistance, even if choosing her means abdicating your traditional social responsibility of guiding and shaping the next generation of young men Take all of this, and scale it, and you can begin to understand why we're having the problems we're having

@vers_laLune this is true but extend it to wall street nobody at the major banks are doing anything remotely important

Bro nothing of use is happening in person at any job short of wall street. No one has any information to share with you AI can't tell you and boomers have ruined everything. None of that is worth driving in traffic and not having free time to yourself

@BonesawMD been saying literally since chatgpt came out that LLMs are amazing search tools but not much more (for now) it does also help people with minimal coding experience actual write functional, but basic, software

Everyone has been 'vibe coding' for like 2 years with this 'insane' tool and there are still 0 (zero) notable game changing products that compare to what dedicated humans created in their basements prior to AI. Anyone w/ expertise in any subject immediately realises how overrated it is for giving you anything beyond the most basic information in it. If you can legitimately write, any writing produced by an LLM is a disgusting insult to all of your senses. Good for the boring and tediously repetitive tasks + organising information, but still so unreliable and far away from what Silicon Valley keep trying to shill us.

@NatPurser that argument falls flat because everybody knows the corporate world is fake and a gay

talking to young people who wish their jobs were fully remote makes me feel like i’m losing my mind. you’re at the point in life where you could most benefit from in-person relationship and knowledge building … but … you wanna get some errands done,

is this where weaves come from

I'd bet testosterone would solve about 90% of male depression yet for some reason the doctor wants to put you on an SSRI that kills libido curious

@lymanstoneky please enlighten us with both what is causing and how to solve fertility decline

Never ceases to amaze me how much people believe that “what caused fertility decline” and “how do we fix fertility decline” are similar questions. The questions may not have any relationship to each other at all!!

@adamemedia1 the best argument for fuentes being controlled by some outside influence is that he regularly takes completely incongruous positions when it matters most

Dan Bilzerian is trying to unseat Randy Fine. Why would Nick Fuentes be against that?

@BonesawMD TBH i've never been able to get proper chest activation on BB no matter what I try to do it becomes an arms and shoulder workout, whereas dumbbells and even pushups i feel in my chest

Barbell Bench Press. Just a pointless ego exercise when the alternatives are so much better for gains & have a much lower risk for pec tears or violently caving your chest in to your spine

boarding a flight and the guy in front of me asks the very clearly deeply chinese guy if he's the air marshall funniest thing i've heard in a while

@VERYKOOLLUKEY silver is one of the only thing that looks reasonably priced right now youtu.be/D1yeylP_2WA?si…

Realistically what even is there to invest in on a 5-10 year horizon? S&P at ATHs Gold near ATHs Treasury bills barely above the rate of inflation Housing market is cooked The dollar is cooked WHERE DO I PUT MY MONEY

@miltonappl3 what the fuck are you talking about

Marco Polo describes an ancient tactic for creating assassins that I'd bet 9/10 people would agree falls under the category of MKULTRA. Shakespeare uses this same method to frame-narrate Taming of the Shrew and experts with the wrong idea about what Shakespeare is are v confused

@Mubarak_mubious consulting literally the only value is for management to outsource blame for bad decisions

what industry is entirely built on a house of cards and would collapse overnight if people realized the truth about it ??

@redkacheek why do the police care about this when literal murderers are walking free

FREE THIS MAN

@SnobbyScheffler every time i've been recently the chicken tastes like popeyes, what a shame

🚨It’s time to declare Time Of Death on Chick-Fil-A 🚨 4/28/26 8:42 p.m. May be the worst falloff in food history

@PalmerLuckey @TukiFromKL more like the actual expenses of immigrants are never properly recorded

@TukiFromKL The more they push down American wages, the more this will be the case. Terrible argument.

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023.. not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute.. they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid.. the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

@micheal_ws18 deadlift for sure, bodyweight deadlifts aren't even really heavy

If you get paid $10,000 for each rep of an exercise but the weight is your bodyweight what exercise are you choosing, and how many reps are you doing?

@whoistife_x lots of time, better to take a rest day during the week since more is going on

i still don’t understand people that hit the gym on sundays.

@antoniogm @FukuyamaFrancis he completely misses that the stagnation caused by the success of "liberal democracy" creates its own very real grievances

One of the IQ tests in the discourse is whether you think @FukuyamaFrancis is a discredited naïf or a prescient, cynical genius, because you actually read past the title ‘End of History’ through 30 chapters of reinterpreted Hegel and Nietzsche and got to the devastating conclusion.