No one seems to have noticed or picked up on my idea that Tumblr is killing itself primarily so Verizon can suppress where many young people learn about Net Neutrality.

Which is what I expect; about 20 people read this blog regularly, and I like it that way. I attempt to write just enough offensive or abstruse stuff to keep it that way. When I notice readership ticking up, I say some outrageous shit or write something recondite and philosophical and those people all disappear quickly.

But still, I think I am right about the whole Verizon/Net Neutrality thing.

Anyone going to #KubeCon next week: I’m very interested in chatting about your approaches to performance testing and benchmarking, including your experiences with tools like KubeMark

— ms claws (@alicegoldfuss) December 4, 2018

Container/Kubernetes-focused people are obsessed with performance testing because without an all-out effort, performance is absolute shit.

In a real environment, you don’t need to do much perf testing because it’s so far above the requirements that testing is only needed on the off chance it starts getting wonky under stress.

Containers: very young people making mistakes we made many years ago, to learn the same lessons we already learned, to repeat it all again unto infinity. Yay.

This is why I can’t live in any of the marquee cities that are supposed to be so great.

When my Midwestern family would come to visit me in NYC or SF, they would be shocked at my low standard of living. I had to explain that many of the things that they took for granted at home are extreme luxuries in Manhattan. You know, things like:

• A dishwasher
• A in-unit washer and dryer. For many NYC-dwellers, having one’s own washer and dryer gives the feeling of having “made it”.
• A spare bedroom for hosting out-of-town visitors
• Central heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
• Enough space to have people over or host dinner parties
• A kitchen area that can fit more than one person
• A comfortable and separate area to work at home

This, and worse, is how many liberals think everyone should live. Screw that noise. A future of concrete boxes with no amenities at all is pointless and has nothing to do with human flourishing. And it won’t even save the earth, as they imagine. But in the puritan-based mindset of (particularly) American liberals, suffering is its own virtue and proves one is on the righteous path.

To have the same standard of living I have now in FL and NC, I’d have to make something like $300,000 a year. Perhaps a bit more these days.

You know what, I want enough room for my exercise equipment. Otherwise, I’d never work out as I just can’t do gyms. I want an area I can get work done that’s quiet. I want a dishwasher. I want a fucking kitchen that can fit more than one person. I want a back yard. I want to not live in concrete box with a million noisy halfwits.

If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.

I continue to enjoy how much I cannot see on my mega-blocked YouTube:

Quite an improvement.

I can now do two unassisted, full-hang pull-ups (overhand pull-ups) in a row.

Three weeks ago, I could do zero. Nice.

Trump blinked on trade with China — and it was the right thing to do. Just ask the markets.

Ha. That’s a good one, NYT. The same market that bid up AIG and Enron to absurd heights though both their values were in the negative billions of dollars? That one?

The markets don’t know anything, especially short term. If they are right, it’s by accident.

(BTW, the market is more likely to be reacting to Fed statements and bond yields falling.)

I am losing weight, not gaining it. This is not good.

I’m still getting stronger, but that means I am getting stronger at a much less rapid rate than I could be. I might have to resort to drinking that protein crap that tastes like dog vomit. Ah well. It’ll be worth it.

Deleted all my Tumblr bookmarks. Pointless going there now. Most things are banned as their AI is so bad it’s nuking illustrations of fish and photos of sumo wrestlers.

Now that I think about it, I bet this is really about Verizon and net neutrality, as Tumblr was a hotbed of net neutrality activism and awareness-raising, particularly among young people.

Porn is always the canard, but preventing the younger set even being aware of net neutrality would be very, very worthwhile to Verizon.