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One wanton girl “A” charges $14 a month and has 250,000 subscribers. Even with normal churn, the scale is still absurd. That’s $3.5 million per month before the platform takes its cut. And this isn’t for curing cancer – it’s for yet another young woman.   Who are these people paying?  They’re all around us.

The phrase “she was lucky to monetise her outstanding looks” sounds odd mainly because of the word “outstanding”, as if we’re discussing a scientific breakthrough. “marketable”, “packaged”, or simply “in demand” would fit much better.

Another busty saleswoman, “K”, reportedly earned about $67 million in three years and then announced her “retirement”, having produced 506 photos and 33 videos (like all her other videos – barely ten seconds long,Carl!).  What an achievement! What a creative legacy!!! I urgently need to deliver something to Lurv

Zooming out. According to OnlyJarkers’ financial reporting, by the end of 2024 the platform had 377.5 million accounts and 4.6 million creator accounts, with subscribers spending about $7.2 billion in the 2024 fiscal year.

Wxnkers publishes fewer hard numbers, so estimates vary, but most industry analyses place it around 130 million users and over 1.5 million boobs.

If you crudely add the two platforms together, you get an upper-bound total of roughly 500 million accounts – about 6% of the world’s population. (Of course, with large overlaps and inactive accounts.)

As for people earning money by posting sexualised content: combining rough global estimates, they make up about 0.075% of humanity – that’s one person out of roughly 1,333.

And the financial reality: analysts estimate that the average creator income on OnlyFans is around $150–$180 per month, with the overwhelming majority of earnings concentrated in the top 1–2%. 

These are the values of the 21st century  . And not your spirituality, creativity, self-development and the like [your option]...

The 2026 World Cup has turned into some kind of rubbish heap with seventy-two group-stage matches just to produce a couple of decent ones. There will be thirty-two matches in the knockouts. So officially, two thirds of the World Cup is basically a draw that doesn’t really decide much. I stopped watching football a long time ago, though I can occasionally put on an old match, but now it’s not only uninteresting – it’s honestly crap. Here’s an idea for FIFA: instead of forty-eight teams, bring back thirty-two and make twelve matches per group. Or just go ahead and add sixty-four or even one hundred and twenty-eight teams and start with straight knockouts – that would actually be more fun 

Overall, people who actively run social media accounts (when it’s not about making money) often, to one degree or another, struggle with feelings of inadequacy, narcissistic traits, or psychological trauma.

What do you think about this?

💰 Living with San Francisco 💰

Honestly, I almost fell off my chair when I started running the numbers. In San Francisco, even a very high salary can stop feeling “big” surprisingly fast. Real compensation data from tech companies shows that $40,000 a month before tax for a single-income family with two kids quickly goes into the basics. Rent for a family-sized apartment runs around $3,500–4,500 a month, childcare is roughly $1,800–2,500 per child, or $3,500–5,000 for two. Add taxes, health insurance, food, transportation, and everyday expenses, and if you’re not watching the budget, you can easily reach the end of the month ...

At around $20,000 a month, things become more sensitive. You can still live fine, especially without luxury, but saving consistently means keeping an eye on spending, being more deliberate with big purchases, and occasionally deciding what to skip.... Well, that's by wealthy standards, if anything

Wow! People were just hugging… such a trivial thing… but look how it shook the world! It feels like there’s nothing more important happening and the whole world is full of angels… but no! At a Coldplay concert, a seemingly innocent kiss-cam moment caught a woman and her boss hugging and sharing a brief kiss during the show – nothing out of the ordinary. But that tiny clip exploded online, going viral and becoming a global scandal. It turned out the pair were executives at a tech company, both married, and the internet response triggered massive online scrutiny, threats, doxxing, and career consequences. That 16-second clip upended this woman’s life – her personal information was leaked, she faced harassment, her children were frightened, and her career was derailed all because of a few seconds on a big screen.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymail/video/7585188068202745102

Life will never be the same again: big boobs are, for the most part, just more fat. When it comes to breastfeeding, the actual size of a woman’s chest barely matters. What really counts isn’t the volume, but functional glandular tissue and proper hormonal regulation. And it’s not some special “emergency fuel tank for twins”, lol

The current Champions League group stage feels like a huge, dull orgy that has been repeated for the nth time. The storyline barely changes from year to year. In the end, 2–3 weak teams through, 4–5 equally weak ones drop out, and everything else is more or less the same mass. And for this, we get 144 matches.

It would have been far simpler and more honest to have 8 or 10 teams playing 7–9 matches each, instead of this endless conveyor belt. Football is slowly turning from an art form, from real emotions in the stands, into pure commerce and some kind of game simulator. And because of all these expansions, 80–90% of the matches exist purely for form’s sake – without tension, without risk, and without any real meaning.

Ten Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers wiped out two NATO battalions in a single day during exercises.

One of the European commanders reportedly admitted emotionally: “We’re finished.”

In 2020–2021 the US, Germany, France and Italy locked in massive amounts of debt for 10–30 years at absurdly low rates – from zero or even negative yields in the eurozone to about 1–1.9% on 30-year US Treasuries and roughly 1–1.5% for Italy – and then, wow, inflation suddenly jumped to 6–9% in 2022–2023, turning real returns deeply negative and quietly burning away a big chunk of that debt. For governments it was a once-in-a-generation jackpot; for investors it was a slow, perfectly legal loss, not on paper, but in real purchasing power.

The same trick worked for big corporations too. For example, Apple issued 20–30-year bonds in 2020–2021 at around 2–2.7%, and when inflation later ran above 5%, that debt basically turned into near-free money, recycled back into the business and share buybacks – while bondholders were left holding returns that quietly melted away in real terms.

That's how it is...

This comes from a Schofields (UK) survey of 1,000 UK adults aged 18–33 about which factor most influences their choice of holiday destination.

Results (in order of popularity):

– How “Instagrammable” the holiday will be – 40.1%

– Cost/availability of alcohol – 24%

– Personal development – 22.6%

– Chances to experience the local cuisine – 9.4%

– Opportunities for sightseeing – 3.9%

Some thoughts about life.

After you’ve lived through a certain stretch of the road, an unpleasant kind of arithmetic starts to show. Life isn’t always fair – and quite often it’s not “the best” who win, but the ones who are more flexible, attentive, and cautious. About a quarter of your time goes to work, another quarter to sleep. Then comes the unavoidable everyday grind: food, showers, cleaning, commuting, the small errands that seem insignificant but, in reality, eat up your days. Whatever is left can easily dissolve into your phone and into sheer exhaustion.

And that’s what’s scary: in that timetable, real emotions and the feeling of being alive sometimes take up a tiny percentage. As if you’re not living, but servicing life.

Can you change it? Sometimes – yes. A holiday, a weekend, or a period without work can give you a short breather and the sense that “this is the real thing”. But even that dulls quickly: your receptors adapt, joy becomes background noise, and sooner or later you still have to step back into the loop.

The way out, it seems, is not to wait for some perfect future, but to change the quality of ordinary days. Your job doesn’t have to be your dream – but it matters that there’s at least some meaning, growth, or freedom in it. Rest doesn’t have to be a celebration – but it should actually restore you, not just fill the emptiness. And most importantly, protect your attention: live less on autopilot, choose more deliberately what you let into your head. Because life doesn’t disappear only into work and chores – it disappears into whatever you give your time to.

In London, around 116,500 mobile phones are stolen each year. According to available estimates, this is one of the highest figures in the world.

On average, in both the US and Europe around 45–50% of people do not work in the field they formally studied. In other words, roughly every second graduate at some point moves away from the official profile of their degree. Several factors come together here – and the truth really lies somewhere in between.

🎓 Universities are slow, bureaucratic systems. Curricula can take decades to change, while the labour market shifts every couple of years. In this sense, a degree often prepares a «classic specialist», whereas the market is looking for a flexible generalist.

🧠 Second, a degree is not a profession, but a starting framework.

⏳ Third, people change – and that is normal. At 17–18 almost no one truly knows who they want to be. By 25–35 interests change; there is a clearer understanding of personal strengths; some people grow tired of their original profession; others discover a more meaningful or better-paid niche.

Halloween originated more than two thousand years ago, but its modern form took shape gradually.

Originally, it was the Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrated on the night of 31 October to 1 November. For the ancient Celts of Ireland, Britain and northern France, this date marked the end of the agricultural year and the beginning of the “dark half” of the year. It was believed that on this night the boundary between the world of the living and the world of spirits became thin, allowing the souls of the dead to return to the earth.

With the spread of Christianity, Samhain did not disappear but was reinterpreted. In the 8th century, the Church established 1 November as All Saints’ Day. The evening before it was called All Hallows’ Eve, which over time was shortened to Halloween. Old folk beliefs blended with Christian traditions, and the celebration became less religious while retaining its themes of spirits, masks and the supernatural.

Modern Halloween took shape in the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly in the United States and Canada, where Irish and Scottish immigrants brought their customs. It was there that familiar elements appeared – carved pumpkins, costumes, going from house to house with the phrase “trick or treat”, and later the large-scale commercial culture of the holiday.

A Gallup survey showed that 40% of American women aged 15–44 would like to move abroad permanently – a higher share than in most regions of the world.

The American diaspora already numbers in the millions. Large communities have formed in Lisbon, Dublin, Bali, and in various cities across Colombia and Thailand.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

🌌 Is the Universe an organism?

If we look at the cosmos as a living being, this idea reveals a surprisingly precise kind of “biology”. In the beginning there is an almost uniform “nutrient medium”: hot, dense, barely differentiated 🔥. Like an embryo – everything seems fluid and simple, and then, suddenly, boundaries begin to appear, the first “rudiments of organs” take shape. In cosmology this resembles the moment when tiny irregularities start to grow out of an almost even distribution of matter and radiation: somewhere it becomes slightly denser, somewhere slightly emptier – and over time, from these faint “hints”, large structures emerge: stars ✨, galaxies 🌌, clusters.

Next comes the phase of growth. The organism grows, space stretches. The “growth” of the Universe is not just galaxies flying apart in emptiness, but the expansion of the very fabric of space itself, against which matter gathers into knots, as if the organism were expanding and becoming more complex at the same time 🧬. Within this growth there is its own metabolism: stars ignite, synthesise elements, flare up and die, scattering “building material” for new generations of stars and planets. In this picture, galaxies are like organs, stellar generations resemble cycles of cellular renewal, and heavy elements act as the “minerals and vitamins” of cosmic chemistry ⚛️. After a bright “youth”, a calmer and much longer stage begins.

And then the conclusion follows naturally: death does not have to mean “collapse back inwards”, but rather “old age”. Not an explosion and not a crunch, but a slow cooling ❄️, when something still exists, yet the “strength to do anything complex” is almost gone. An infinite Universe is like a promise of “eternal youth” ♾️. But it seems the cosmos has chosen a more realistic plan: a long life and a quiet old age 🌒.

Dumbing Down – or Why Everything Feels More Primitive 🤔

It used to genuinely surprise me: why do some people have such poor taste – why do they willingly watch obvious nonsense, listen to primitive content, and gravitate toward strange and cheap things? Of course, everyone has their own preferences, age, experience, and context. But there’s still a feeling that, on average, the bar is slowly dropping.

Maybe you’ve noticed it too: on YouTube, it’s often not talent that explodes in popularity, but noise 📱; interesting products quietly disappear from store shelves, while some bland, generic item stays there for years and keeps selling perfectly well 🛒.

If we remove the snobbery from the discussion, the picture is actually very simple – and it’s not really about «stupid people», but about a system that pushes everyone toward the same kinds of choices.

1.The disappearance of filters 🎛️

In the past there were barriers – editors, gatekeepers, selection channels, reputation, limited airtime, and a restricted range of products. This system wasn’t always fair, but it worked as a filter: to reach a wide audience, something had to meet a certain level of quality.

Now those barriers are mostly gone. Content is endless, instantly accessible, and competing not for quality but for attention. And attention is limited. In the end, what wins is what’s easier to grasp, louder, more immediately catchy, and requires the least effort.

2.The economy of exhaustion 😴

After a stressful and demanding workday, people don’t want a «second shift» for their brain. They want to switch off. They don’t want to analyse complex ideas, hold layered meanings in their head, or mentally struggle.

When a person has little energy left, they don’t choose the best option – they choose the easiest one: short instead of long, bright instead of deep, familiar instead of new. Algorithms see this and keep feeding more of the same. Gradually, the person just slides further down that slope.

3. High culture hasn’t disappeared 🎭

It simply stopped being visible «by default». In the past, the centre of attention was limited, and sometimes complex or sophisticated works appeared there simply because there were fewer alternatives.

Today that centre has been diluted by millions of options. As a result, complex or «high» content struggles much more to capture attention. It still exists – but it often lives in smaller niches.

4. Hard times vs comfortable times ⚔️

There’s an idea that wars and difficult historical periods produce strong art. Sometimes that’s true: when reality becomes too sharp, people start asking deeper questions about meaning, pain, moral choices, and human limits.

But it’s not a universal rule. During prosperous times, entertainment multiplies rapidly, and the market produces more and more content designed purely for comfort and relaxation 🎬.

In crises, both depth and primitive content can grow at the same time – just for different reasons.

5.1 And then there’s food 🍔

For producers, it’s often more profitable to create not the best product, but the most efficient one in terms of margins: cheaper ingredients, stronger flavour enhancers, longer shelf life, more stability, less risk.

Strong taste, sweetness, fat, convenient packaging, and long storage sell better than subtlety and quality.

From the consumer’s side, the psychology is similar. If a person is tired, stressed, or burned out, they want quick dopamine: something sweet, salty, fatty, maybe alcohol – something simple and comforting.

And honestly, I’m not immune to it either. I still enjoy a cup of black tea with sugar and a sausage sandwich sometimes 😄.

5.2 Why this seems stronger in America 🇺🇸 than in Europe 🇪🇺

The United States is built heavily around efficiency, speed, and service. That environment naturally produces a huge industry of convenience: fast, bright, easy, immediate.

Europe has traditionally preserved local habits, food culture, regulations, and leisure traditions a bit longer. Cultural inertia is stronger there.

But global market pressure still pushes everywhere in the same direction: cheaper, simpler, more universal, faster.

Conclusion 🧠 Accessibility plays a huge role.

The most important thing is simply to be aware of what you consume – what you watch, listen to, and eat. But at the same time, there’s nothing wrong with occasionally indulging yourself once a week 🙂

😄 girls in America / France: “Oh, you seem like a fun guy. Maybe we should have a wild night tonight?” 🔥😉

girls in Ukraine: “No sex before the wedding!” 😇💍 (irony, but still)