Fuck, ya’ll, I am reading too many books. When you read like 12 books at once you don’t make much progress on any one of them. Do not recommend. But I also can’t seem to stop myself. It’s an addiction, and one day I’ll get help. Today is not that day.
Day: October 24, 2018, 11:24 PM
Ween
It’s surprisingly easy to remove someone’s face. It isn’t attached by much — no tendons or any of that, really. Just peel it back like the skin off an avocado. If you cut in the right places, it’s dead easy.
(Full surgeries used to be aired on the Discovery Channel many years ago. I’d watch them. That’s how I know this.)
Flixed
Damn, ya’ll, I am so good. And so humble!
Cash Out, Cash In
Panic-like selling takes hold on NYSE as stock-market slump intensifies.
This is why I have a lot of cash. These are my times, people! This is what I came for. The time is not yet ripe, but it will be soon. Yes, soon, my pretties.
They Are an Advertising Company
Has anyone noticed that Google has gotten….bad at searching for things?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2018
This has been true for a while. Google has absolutely no interest in helping you find what you are looking for and instead it’s 100% in their interest to point you to what makes them the most money or shapes politics the way they’d prefer.
Google is an absolutely atrocious search engine now that can generally find only the most recent information, and often the most useless instances of it at that.
Image search is even worse than their text search. Search on the internet is now back to where it was in 1998 or so in quality — the alternative search engine are sometimes better, yes, but even they aren’t great because they have almost no money compared to Google.
Presented
I’m smarter than everyone said I was, and even all the people who hated me thought I was pretty smart. But I didn’t need to prove it to anyone and didn’t care about school, so I just did my own thing. Learned a lot more that way and didn’t need external validation to thrive.
Most “gifted” kids get into the program because they are from rich or well-off families. I was not. My partner wasn’t, either. We both got in on natural fucking talent rather than our parents pushing for it or having us tested. I don’t think this makes me better than anyone else; I am very concerned with cognitive inequality reinforcing and exacerbating other inequalities.
Once I got into gifted, though, it was obvious that most people in there were certainly a bit above average, but none of them seemed all that bright to me. Most just had the right parents. None of them could hold much of a conversation with me. (Later on, I realized there was one kid in there who was my equal or greater, but he never spoke up or did much of anything due to extreme shyness, so I didn’t know it at the time.)
If this all sounds very arrogant to you, you’ll get over it — I’m just reporting what happened. Most gifted kids seemed pretty deficient to me and I only kept going to get out of class.
Destable
I mean, no evidence aside from then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supporting a brutal coup in Honduras that led to a proliferation of death squads and the targeted murder of social movement leaders. But no evidence aside from that, I guess… https://t.co/jRUn5JiCvX
— George Ciccariello-Maher (@ciccmaher) October 20, 2018
We didn’t wholly create the refugee situation in Central America, but we and the Democrats (and Republicans) certainly had much to do with its genesis and continuance — Hillary Clinton and the Democrats fully included in that.
It doesn’t mean I support the moronic idea of open borders, but I do recognize culpability for making people’s lives much worse when I see it.