Also I'm fine with one monitor. Dual displays were great for film editing, but I haven't need them as much for engineering.

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) July 9, 2018

It blows my fucking mind when people who do programming and such and don’t use (at least) dual monitors. How?

Having dual monitors (or more) increased my productivity so vastly much. I am literally 1/4 as fast at real work when I am stuck on a single display. It’s so agonizingly terrible that I just can’t comprehend how anyone can live with it who is doing any serious work. I don’t know how they get anything at all done.

This is no criticism of Alice; it obviously works for her and she is very successful. But fuck, I’d be unemployable if I had to use a single display as I’d be just worthless for work. Tasks that I can do in a day now would take me four days. My mind just does not and never will work that way. You can just do so much more, so much faster with dual monitors or more.

People have always told me that I have a way with words. The reality is that they have a way with me; I am their vessel and they flow through me unbidden.

When I say that I often have no idea what will come out of my mouth, this is absolutely accurate. It took me a long time to develop an effective filter. I am not taciturn due to lack of but potential loquacity, but rather due to the need for restraint.

Someone asked me if I'd be willing to improve Amazon's working conditions if it meant we couldn't have Amazon Prime, as if they can't imagine a world where they aren't paying $100/year to get shampoo delivered like a day early.

— SovCit, Esq. (@CORPORATE_NAME) July 8, 2018

I understand that this is a thought experiment, but this is false dichotomy of a particularly pernicious type that liberals are especially enamored of. It is possible to have both of these things, especially since productivity has increased so vastly much since it took 6-12 weeks to get orders delivered.

In the liberal mind, one can only achieve one good thing if one is punished somewhere else — it’s kind of like a BDSM relationship with reality.

Yes, I frequently use Amazon Prime and like it. But that’s not why I am pushing back against this. I disagree with the implicit reasoning because this is how you get a worse, more impoverished world, not a better one. Too long to go into the reasons here, as I try to keep all posts to this blog five minutes of writing and under.

Regardless, properly fund the Postal Service again, make it a truly public entity again, and everyone could have Amazon — or anything at all — Prime, with a better use of resources and a better outcome for everyone altogether.

Done and done — no ridiculous false dichotomies anywhere.