Badges of failure

This might not be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of, but it’ll sure do till I remember what that stupidest thing actually was.

Being proud of breaking a chair is pure farcical lunacy.

What’s next, being proud of your having your foot depoditated (I just made that word up) when you are 50 due to diabetes?

Don’t laugh. It’s almost guaranteed to happen. When a movement goes fucking barking at the moon Olanzapine-snarfing crazy, it usually goes all the way.

It all repeats. Unfortunately.

Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit.

Congratulations, you’ve re-invented blogging.

Which itself is just a re-invention of the BBS. Which I was using in 1986.

Since tech is mostly run and built by the (clueless) young, much is forgotten. Instead of building on what came before, all is torn down, all lessons forgotten, and ever-more-rickety structures put in place that function more poorly but are “completely new!”

Right.

Mate prefs

It’s hardly worth writing about because it won’t amount to anything without a huge genetic-level change in human nature, but it’s hard to believe how many FA types and parts of the feminist (?) movement are telling people it’s wrong to have sexual and mate preferences.

Yeah, that’s never, ever, ever ever gonna work. Ever.