Also just to state explicitly: age gaps between adults are not inherently creepy, relationships after a power dynamic (e.g., dating a former student) is not inherently creepy, unattractive men are not inherently creepy. All these things *can* be creepy, but are not by default!

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) August 12, 2022

Yep. Most “liberals” seem to only want to allow people born on the exact same birth date and birth year to date — as long as they don’t work in the same industry (much less company), don’t live in the same city, don’t have the same friend group, have never been associated in any way, and don’t ever actually see each other (could create a power differential), don’t like sex and didn’t meet in person.

The sad part is that I’m only exaggerating a little above. How do people get like this? Do they just like worshipping the algorithm and corporate priorities, or do they not realize that’s what they are doing?

New Intel chips won’t play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation.

This, my friends, is exactly why you pirate everything.

It's become my conclusion people work way too hard justifying their aesthetic preferences with "facts". "I like the way it makes me feel / the subjective result" is the only reason you need for liking something. That's it. Parametric obsession is a waste of time for perception. https://t.co/N1atVJcgCr

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 6, 2022

Yep. Too many PMC types want to quantify everything, to have an Excel-spreadsheet-based reason they like something or want to do something. That’s a terrible way to live life, though, and one that doesn’t lead to happiness or fulfillment. Glad I moved past that stage of my thinking when I was like 10. Very fucking glad.

Time-sharing.

Cloud ideas are very old — it just used to be called something else. “Cloud” became propaganda more to seize control than cheaper/more useful in many cases.

The true advantage of the Cloud is speed of deployment, and that is real. A lot of the rest is just lies or propagandistic distortions.

I matched with a kinky girl in a wheelchair. Should I go for it?

I nearly dated a woman in a wheelchair, many years ago. I say “nearly” because she flaked out on me at the last minute. I think she was more worried about me worrying about her being disabled than I was. (I didn’t care in the least.) Which, understandable, given the reactions I’m sure she’d gotten over the years.

I tend not to dwell on “what could have been” — mainly since my partner is so wonderful — but I do hope she found someone. She seemed pretty cool.