Aug 21

All Fired

After that explosion of rage, just spent a bit checking Firefox and 70% of the 50ish extension I used to use have no replacement, and sans those I cannot use the browser because without them everything is just too slow/unusable and insecure.

If I had a few billion dollars, I’d take over Mozilla and close the damn thing and fire everyone hard.

Why, why do dumbasses have to optimize everything for hopeless droolers? What a clownworld we live in.

Aug 21

F Harder

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?

And all I have to say about this is a very reasonable FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU and I am glad your shitty product is dying.

Fuck you and all Mozilla assclowns who had anything to do with this. When your office closes forever, I am going to piss on your HQ front door.

Aug 20

Chieve

Got it in one.

This is why so much art is so very boring now. Groupthink and good art have no relation.

Aug 20

Noncom

Exactly.

FUCK THAT.

No matter how many plutes and puling libs want me to, I will not live in the pod and I will not eat bugs.

Aug 20

Not Read-y

Something like 80% of print books are now unreadable for me as the font is too small. I can still technically read them — my eyesight is about the same as it was at 18 — but I’ve been spoiled by e-readers so just can’t tolerate it anymore.

Why would I want to squint at six-point font intended for ants when I could read some other book available in a format where I can easily change the font size and everything else? I do not and will not.

Aug 20

Full Up

If you replace the “US Green Party” with the “US Democratic Party” the sentence is equally true.

We are surrounded by morons.

Aug 20

Hourly

Every hourly worker I’ve ever met in a service industry has experienced wage theft. Every single one. And yet no one goes to jail for this.

Aug 20

Terrible Just

Bernie or even Elizabeth Warren would’ve won in a landslide.

That Biden still might lose to Trump (legitimately lose, not due to election tampering) shows what a terrible fucking candidate he is.

Aug 20

In Spite Of All The Damage

I think about 100-300 million, but certainly not greater than a billion. Since a +4C world seems about what we’ll hit, I’d say by 2200 if we don’t completely apocalypse ourselves (also very likely, due to nuclear war), there will be 300 million people alive on earth.

If we do nuke ourselves (I give this a 60% chance), possible extinction, but I’d say 2-3 million alive on earth as most likely, with about 50/50 chance of extinction.

Aug 20

Not Loss

That is funny. My teachers told me the same thing. It was a lie, and I knew it even then.

This is apart from my dislike of doing math, but I can almost guarantee that math education will become less and less relevant over the next 20-50 years. It’ll all be handled much more competently and quickly by AI/expert systems and beyond understanding the basics in 50 years, even 99% of scientists won’t actually use much math directly. It’ll decline in teaching and importance and the “M” in “STEM” will come to stand for “Machine Learning.”

Most math education is an utter waste of time and is just busywork anyway, so no great loss.