We've been watching the original "Will & Grace." They used words like fag, homo, mo, sissy, tranny, dyke, etc. Clearly the program set the whole LGBT rights movement back 20 years. (Except it didn't. It helped.)
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) July 10, 2018
Yes. Such stringent word policing is probably not helping the movements that many SJW types think it’s helping. It’s just community enforcement and intellectual stotting and turns away most people.
Saying as (many) physicists do that the world is completely deterministic and that minute particle interaction is all that is needed to understand the universe is fine and good, and even might be true. However, there’s no path to get from leptons to leopards and probably never will be.
So, physics is a cute dead end scientifically in most cases. Yes, I do love annoying physicists by inverting their typical narrative of how all the other sciences are worthless.
Yes, if I ever say I am half-deaf…I am. That’s what happens when a buncha shit explodes next to your head.
If I didn’t hear you, that’s why. Or I’m just ignoring you because I don’t like you. Either way, I really am pretty deaf in one ear.
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one).
This is true across the board. For many tasks, computers I used during the 1980s were much faster (especially once fully booted) than the exact same tasks I do now — that’s true even though on paper, many of the machines I use now are literally a million times faster.
I could compose and send an email faster in 1989 than I can now. What in the hell. Sometimes, I wish we’d never let normal people have computers or the internet.
Prediction: the current norm of banning people like Alex Jones et al. will very soon (is already, really) be used to justify banning the views of and sites belonging to people and orgs like Black Agenda Report, Naked Capitalism, etc.
The left will be duly surprised and claim it had nothing to do with their imposed censorship, but it’s all very predictable. And I will be angry when it happens because those are the sites I mostly read.
I have a big fucking brain (no, seriously, my head is really big) but there’s no way I need about a dozen virtual machines just for all my OSes and browsers.
Get a grip, man. A half dozen OSes and five or six browsers with a few dozen tabs each should be enough for anyone.