My dog tore up my blanket and this was underneath.
I bet you wish you did Nazi that.
Ruby Gill – The Flood
Intelligent weirdos are very much my jam, so I really like this.
This Is the Land of Wolves Now.
Magnolias are so ancient they’re pollinated by beetles — because bees didn’t exist yet.
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research. So fucking moronic. Like everything those idiot clowns are doing.
I now see how people become homeless.
Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order.
Trump’s Trade War on Canada Could Devastate Northern Border States.
Trump Could Hand China a ‘Strategic Victory’ by Silencing Voice of America.
The Drone Dilemma: How Unchecked Warfare From Above Threatens the Indo-Pacific.
Glassed Out
Something like 80% of all commercial products are the result of government research. Which Trump, working for China and Russia, is currently trashing.
C Long
I think Long Covid is real, but I suspect only about 5-10% people who claim to have Long Covid actually have the condition.
That’s just how trendy but difficult-to-verify diagnoses work. Always have.
Cat’s Meow
What Cat Name Should Northrop Grumman Give Its Fighter If It Wins The Navy’s F/A-XX Competition?
The F/A-XX Grumpy Cat.
It’s a winner.
Traitors
They really do work for the Russians, huh. https://t.co/lP78n25D6F
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 28, 2025
Indeed. That’s been pretty clear. And the Chinese, too.
Trashing
Mom?
It does actually look a whole lot like my mom when she was 35 or so. Weird. And she was definitely a white trash psychotic chick.
Steppin’
Something I always try to impress on junior team members is to not skip steps in troubleshooting. Even when you “know” it couldn’t be something, check it any-damn-way. Especially since if you’re troubleshooting correctly the first few things you try should be the simplest, most obvious and the quickest. To wit:
1) Is it plugged in?
2) Is it powered on/started?
3) Is there a DNS entry?
About half the time when my juniors can’t solve something, I come behind them and try the easy initial things it definitely “couldn’t” be and fix the issue.
Most people just do not have minds suited for troubleshooting I guess.
WWT
Have you ever truly thought you were living the wrong life.
I felt that way when I was growing up in rural North Florida with everyone — including much of my own family — telling me how worthless, weak and terrible I was.
I thought, there must have been some mistake. And there was. I was born in the wrong place, among ignorant losers who hated anything intellectual and anyone with more than half a brain. Luckily, I had a big ego and am more stubborn than a herd of rhinoceroses.
So I escaped, made my own life, and prospered. But those were rough years. I’m frankly glad nearly all of those people are dead now.
Attent
The primary unfairness in dating — and one thing incels are completely right about — is that mediocre women get 100x as much attention and interest as even above average men. To receive the attention that a totally average woman gets, you need to be a top 0.1% man.
And that’s actually a pretty huge and psychologically-damaging inequity. It doesn’t make how incels deal with it likely to work or morally correct, but they are not wrong at all with their diagnosis.
Enemies
Every American should watch this. We did this. For no good reason. Everyone is worse off, except our enemies. https://t.co/lrxKWDom7w
— BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital) March 28, 2025
Huge self-own that made China and Russia stronger while weakening both Canada and the US. Fucking moronic.
Our enemies are now in control of the country. And I don’t mean conservatives. I mean (obviously) China and Russia.
The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain.
Unveiling the mysterious ‘red sprite’ lightning strikes over the Himalayas.
Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? It absolutely has.
How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?
The Housing Market Needs More Condos. Why Are So Few Being Built?
After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers.
Volution
Why is everything so convoluted these days?
In the tech world, everything has become difficult and convoluted because all is now becoming aimed at experienced developers instead of any users or sysadmins.
And it’s just become more complex in general. When I started you could do the job with a 110 IQ. Now you need 130 at least — more like 140+ to do it well. At some point we’ll reach an upper limit to being able to find humans to do the work as those with 140 IQ and above are only 0.48% of the population.
Will AI help with this? Maybe. But the base knowledge has to be generated by humans first. In tech and in many other areas, we’ve created a civilization too complex for most of the people who live and work in it to begin to understand.