It should be noted that the Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger pseudo-foods are chock full of seed oils, which appear to be pretty bad for your heart and circulatory system.
Month: May 2019
PC PC
Ever since the advent of the PC, (mainly) large companies have wanted to kill it due to how much control it gives the user. Won’t be long before that comes to pass.
I predict it’ll be a good few years to be a PC owner, until that’s simply not something you can be anymore, thanks to licensing and availability.
— Lesley Carhart (@hacks4pancakes) May 7, 2019
The whole thread is worth reading but I figure PCs in their current form have another 3-5 years before they are essentially banned by licensing and piracy/security “concerns.” Right now, PCs are great as the smartphone droolers offer no competition in the job market at all and are getting increasingly further behind due to the incompetence this causes. Not sure what happens after, though.
PCs were always a lucky anomaly, and the most power any human has ever had individually. Couldn’t last. Steve Jobs said the PC is a “bicycle for the mind.” Smartphones and cloud crap are like a four-foot slot car track for the mind, beset with limitations and with no way to expand it.
Bothers
It bothers me more than it should when I see people wheezing and exhausted merely from walking from the parking lot into an office or workplace.
This is not normal, no matter what the Fat Acceptance movement claims.
SCN
How to Sink a $3 Billion Dollar Submarine: Forgetting to Close a Hatch.
Also, the screen door it turns out was a really bad idea.
Tincture
Cemeteries are an indefensible waste of space and should be used to house people who are actually alive https://t.co/LAu20C5zpp
— Holly Brockwell (@holly) May 7, 2019
Mine is that we should be engaging in massive and authoritarian population control measures as the only real hope of avoiding possible mass extinction in 50-150 years.
Sure, I recognize the human rights issues. But it’s either that or we’re goners.
Fix
Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide.
Great and accurate headline.
A lot of people don’t seem to realize the fix we’re in. They’ll learn, though, or their children will.
50
At least 50% of people’s computer “problems” could be solved if they’d literally just read what is right on the screen.
I will never understand that. Never.
In The Ethics Of It
10. Hillary Clinton's obvious corruption, Barack Obama's ineptitude and weakness, and Biden's bad judgment and creepiness are *selling points* for older Democrats. They hate ethical politicians. Ethical politicians embarrass and humiliate them.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 3, 2019
This is something I didn’t understand until I read Lance Mannion’s hooey on how Bernie Sanders was not corrupt enough to be a real politician, and how that was one of the reasons Mannion didn’t support him. Of course he didn’t say “corrupt,” he just said that Sanders hadn’t been forced to make moral compromises and to accept money from lobbyists, therefore he was not adequately-suborned by outside interests and thus could not govern.
Of course, that == corruption.
For the most part, Boomers do not want good politicians. They want the status quo, and that is achieved easily by compromised milquetoasts like Obama, and corrupt-to-the-core old yellow bellies like Biden.
Tail As Old As Time
Considering tail puts on $SPY. Options are not usually something I play with, but the stock market risk right now is very high and that’s when using puts makes sense. Five-hundred dollars a month might mean the difference between losing 70% and not.
Insurance is never cheap but sometimes it’s worth it.
SexPref
A whole lot of people’s idea of liberation is asserting the wrongness of other’s sexual preferences while using the most tortured logic imaginable to justify their own particular proclivities and ideals.
Generally, humans are nothing if not huge hypocrites.
All Lose
Windows 10 is shitty and full of Microsoft-installed spyware and malware, and Mac OS is shiity due to horrific fonts now.
No good OS to use. Don’t even talk to me about Linux. It can’t even handle 4K correctly, much much less multiple monitors at different resolutions.
It’s back to the 1980s, OS-wise. They are all terrible and unusable piles of detritus.
Spy
Privacy International’s data interception environment.
Whoa this is cool. I built something similar to this myself, though not nearly as good or as thorough (to spy on Windows 10’s spying).
Coronal Ejection
Can tell the job market is hot, at least in my field, because I got three recruiter emails today alone.
Don’t need another job but it’s nice to have options.
Benching
I hit 185 pounds on the bench press last night at a bodyweight of 165.
Getting closer to my 200 goal….
Dizz
The One Phrase Disney Theme Park Characters Aren't Allowed to Say — https://t.co/4WF0Tayx0b pic.twitter.com/gK8dCzvdOx
— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) March 30, 2018
I thought it was going to be, “I’m gonna shank you, motherfucker!”
It wasn’t. (By the way, this “article” is also a corporate PR effort.)