Did you know that the lead software designer of the Apollo flight software was a woman, Margaret Hamilton?

Neither did I, until today.

Tell me again why we’re trying to chase all women out of STEM fields?

True, true.

There’s no denying that black women’s sexuality is policed and derided in a way that white women’s is not. By white feminists, especially.

It’s also true that white feminists are falling all over themselves to criticize Iggy Azalea, while at the same time fawning over and praising Eminem.

Hypocrite much?

However, it’s always been true that oppression reproduces itself; it’s an apparently-innate human tendency to increase relative status by oppressing and diminishing others rather than attempting to eliminate oppression altogether. Feminism is not immune to this.

Adblock Plus, in addition to having sold out to the ad industry, is also now slow and very, very bloated.

When I was using it, my Firefox would routinely consume more than 7GB of memory. I have 32GB in my machine so the absolute amount of memory used wasn’t that big a deal, but it also caused the browser to crawl more slowly than me walking away from a milkshake store.

So next I removed AdBlock Plus and installed Bluehell Firewall. While that worked well, Bluehell has no options and no ability to whitelist anything. Good, but perhaps there was something better.

This might be it. So far, AdGuard has not resulted in any additional memory consumption, hasn’t slowed the browser down at all and has configurable options. I can whitelist things again!

I’ll wait a few more days to say for sure, but it seems pretty good so far.

Of all the things in the world that I can’t understand, the hatred of women is at the top of the list.

No, not every man, yada yada. But it’s common enough that it happens all the time and wide (mostly male, but not exclusively) swaths of the population gleefully participate in it when it does.

Usually most hatred is born from fear. What is it then that so many men fear? Sure, I can list the reasons. I know those. But I can never understand.