Day: July 24, 2019, 3:58 PM

Now Lost

Chill Uncategorized

Except now someone says, “I’m a vegan” apropos of nothing. A woman says, “I have a boyfriend” in response to “bless you,” and a tech bro goes on about how it’s not rational to say that “bless you” at all. Then an SJW claims they are triggered by someone smiling at them, and a feminist says it’s “anti-manspreading” to not pull her legs in as someone walks down the crowded aisle. The dude in the lifted red pickup with a MAGA sticker runs you over and kills you without stopping. And everyone agrees that saying “I like your hat” is definitely harassment as you never, ever talk to strangers, especially to compliment them.

Lift Lift

Chill Regular-ass Post

Lift weights and absent chronic illness of some kind, you won’t have this problem. No one has to age poorly — it’s a choice, like most things people see as inevitable and unalterable. I chose to avoid the “inevitable” decline, and I’m now about as limber and getting back to being as strong again as I was in my early 20s. (And I was very strong in my early 20s.)

Lift weights, eat decent food, walk a bit. It’s amazing the difference it makes if you keep it up.

Liber

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I guess the new FA phrase is “body liberation.” You know, the best body liberation I’ve experienced is losing weight then getting fit and strong. It seems as if those folks devoted 1/10 the effort to true liberation rather than endless carping they’d be in better stead.

Yes, it’s hard to lose weight and to work out, but many things in the world are difficult. Adults fucking deal and get it done. Children whine and hurt themselves and claim it’s “liberation.”

Wired Up

Chill Uncategorized

Exactly. This has happened to me in at least two jobs:

Me: I really need admin access to my workstation to install the tools I need to do my job daily.

Company: Against IT policy! Impossible! It could destroy everything to let you install Wireshark and the Sysinternals suite!

Me: You realize that I can with a few commands delete all the virtual machines for the entire company, and every customer VM, and all the backups, right? That’s not a threat but just a statement of fact about the rights I have. Letting me install software I need is nothing at all comparatively.

Company: Ok, here’s that admin access.

If 10

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If humanity exists in 10,000 years, it’s likely the only event remembered and honored from our era is that we sent humanity to the Moon for the first time. It’s possible that Neil Armstrong’s name is the only one that will be recalled from this time. Perhaps Hitler’s.

Narrowness

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I quibble with the lack of scientific value, but the framing of Apollo as an epic art project is one that I also like and agree with. Getting away from the technocrat progressive worship of narrow utilitarianism is an extremely good goal, because just as people cannot live under conditions of absolute realism, they also cannot abide the abridged technocrat conditions of life.

Humans need far more than that, on a far larger scale. The prog technocrat utopia of everyone subsisting in gray concrete boxes eating reprocessed maggots and licking algae out of recycled glass bottles is utterly uninspiring and no future can be created from that, nor will it be. It’s a dead end, just as is unrestrained capitalism.

Rationality, extreme utilitarianism and absolute realism are in fact all dead ends. Let’s not waste time heading in those directions.