I make fun of moronic liberals often enough, might as well direct some ire at my real enemies: the conservatives and libertarians.
Well, that pretty much says it all.
Month: July 2018
Borsewr
It’s sad that my browser now is much less capable and usable than my browser nearly 15 years ago.
Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers!
A Book
True for most people, I assume.
Remember writing papers in school? Remember trying to eke out 1,000 words or three pages or whatever seemingly arbitrary number a teacher set?
That’s the first 15 minutes. Then what? Yep, I was and am that annoying person who can toss out a 1,000 word paper in 15 or 20 minutes, get an A on it, and not ever think about it. That’s where I can just play.
I know I could write a book, or many of them, and that I don’t do because it’d be a lot of work comparatively and there is no money at all in it.
Versions
I am glad I have lived in many places, had many careers and been to many countries. It’s like living different lives. I suspect it has made my life feel longer (in a good way) as diversity of experiences negates the grinding predictability of doing the same thing for 20 or 30 or 40 years. Life passes in a blink when it’s all routine monotony and tedium.
Buzzing
I was on the Moon! #Apollo11 @NASA https://t.co/6Nb2cQVU32
— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) July 21, 2018
Ok, greatest tweet ever.
It’s sad what’s become of our space program, and that people don’t even believe we should have one (good luck when that big-ass asteroid is heading our way).
FFM
Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers!
In Pizza We Trust
the best thing about this story is the opening words are “I am no fan of pizza,” which is a disclaimer that should be included on every opinion story if the writer carries that kind of ludicrous opinion pic.twitter.com/hPRUfGL18r
— Matt Berman (@Mr_Berman) July 19, 2018
Yes. I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t at least like pizza. They are probably a robot. An evil, evil robot.
Retale
Bezos claims “your margin is my opportunity” but how much money can you make delivering goods to customers instead of them driving a few miles to get it. #Amazon
— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) July 23, 2018
Have you been in a retail store lately? They aren’t even trying to compete. Most of them have jack shit, and the jack they have is shit.
I buy most everything except groceries and some clothes online these days because I could spend three days driving around finding nothing I need, or I could spend 15 minutes online and wait two days for it to get here.
The Structure
Some infrastructure that I set up was recently praised as “smooth, seamless and it just works.” We infrastructure folks rarely receive praise; most people only notice us if something is broken.
This infra been operating for a year and a half with — get this — 0 minutes of unplanned down time. Yep, so far, 100% uptime.
Not bad for only costing about $1200 a month (this might seem like a lot in the consumer space, but it’s absolute peanuts in the enterprise space).
Futurity
Every time I am forced to use the new, “improved” Firefox, I am shocked that a browser built in 2018 can feel like something from the mid-1990s. Sure, it’s fast, but it’s the kind of fast that’s also useless.
I am glad to see that they and their shit product are failing. The truly deserve it.
FB
If I were to make a reality show about a bakery, it would of course have to be called Fortunate Bun.
Gangstagrass
Damn that’s hot.
Fortunate Son
Can you imagine this being played on the radio or anywhere else widely now? It reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 for Creedence. Different times.
Dead Right
“We like to call our human intelligence ‘general purpose,’ because compared with other kinds of minds we have met, it can solve more types of problems, but as we build more and more synthetic minds we’ll come to realize that human thinking is not general at all. It is only one species of thinking.”
-Kevin Kelly
Gunn Down
To be clear, I don’t think Gunn’s tweets were funny, though they were clearly jokes — however, firing someone for years-old bad jokes marks just how authoritarian our society has become, and how corporations are the largest arbiters of what we can and can’t say, and are the de facto enforcers of censorship. In this case, unlike with Roseanne Barr, it’s an act of retroactive censorship.
Damn, I am so glad some of the offensive and terrible jokes I made in my teens and twenties are nowhere to be found. I’d be fired from any possible job if some of that crap were unearthed.