Could you imagine Obama negotiating a trade deal? I don't think he could run a lemonade stand
— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) October 11, 2019
Yep. The supposed chessmaster couldn’t even play tic-tac-toe credibly. Eight years down the drain.
Day: October 12, 2019, 9:55 PM
Novelteatime
As I get older, I seem to be moving the opposite personality-wise of most people. I have increasing trouble watching older movies, listening to older music. Even works I’ve never seen or heard before just don’t click with me; they feel antique.
I suspect it’s because the culture is changing very quickly indeed now, though it’s extremely difficult to see this when one is embedded within it. Nothing older speaks to me because it’s now outside this light cone, in some other universe. It has nothing to do with me. The novel shares the universe, walks the same mental pathways as I do, while the old just feels like a world gone stale before the langoliers come along to devour it.
NatMonop
Seize all power companies, ISPs, other utilities. They should be under taxpayer control like all natural monopolies.
Applezilla
Why did they have to change font rendering in macOS Catalina?
Do they think it's fun to read old books in a new font?
— Trishank Karthik (@trishankkarthik) October 11, 2019
Because like Mozilla, they hate their users. The font rendering in the OS is now utter dogshit. It was changed before Catalina, though.
Apple (and apologists on Hacker News) claimed no one would notice. But a lot of people have, like Trishank, who aren’t even mega-geeks like me. This is what happens though, when you come to despise your users, just as Mozilla did.
We see where that got them.
Flix It Away
Netflix stock has fallen 30% in 3 months but its valuation is still irrational.
There’s a reason I sold Netflix stock. This is that reason.
Nietzsche-a Pet
Nietzsche gets blamed for Nazism and the other depredations of the 20th century. Unjustly, of course, and most people who assign blame this way have never read Nietzsche.
What Nietzsche, very briefly and in part, was attempting to say is that the loss of the traditional cultural infrastructure would lead to a very different situation from the human race, unlike any ever seen before. The trends he foresaw were inevitable outcomes of the shift of the civilizational nous and our collective mentation. In this, he was completely correct. We are still living out what Nietzsche foresaw well over 100 years ago.
But like most messengers, he is blamed for conveying the message.
Others
Such a perfect metaphor of what we all give up due to the fear that someone else might get something for free. https://t.co/ivr0LfpXAO
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) October 12, 2019
I am constantly amazed by just how much most people are willing to harm themselves to make sure that others don’t get anything at all for free. The calculation here just makes no sense.
Interp
A movie's surface elements being stolen and repurposed by political groups doesn't equal those movies being fundamentally in agreement with those groups.
— 👻Grave Mayo‽⚰️ (@pobocks) October 6, 2019
But if the “progressives” say it’s evil and fascist, why, it just has to be true!
Never mind that 99% of people and 99.99% of the left has a toddler-level understanding of film. The left here is far worse than it is with written material. Most of them have been trained a little to understand novels and such. But with film — oh boy.
Mars Is Not Heaven
I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s.
This is not some kook; this is the dude who ran the Viking experiment in the 1970s.
I agree with him, though I am no expert, and here’s what I think is going on: NASA does not want to know if there is life on Mars because that opens up all sorts of issues about the ethics of exploring Mars, of even visiting that planet in the first place. If we find life there (and I suspect we already have) then that drastically alters our future efforts in exploring the planet, other planets and moons (such as Europa, where life is also possible) and of course leads to questions about our place in the larger universe.
And NASA, as much as I love it, is a government agency. Discovering (or admitting to the discovery) of life on Mars changes the status quo enormously, and most of all government agencies do not want that. That’s why there have never been any more experiments designed to detect life, and probably never will be — at least not from NASA.
Away, Away
The pseudo-progressive left is happy to take away all those things supposedly no one needs until they start losing power and refrigeration and the like.
Of course, what’ll end up happening is they’ll wrench it away from all the “undeserving” and deplorables, while keeping it for themselves. This matches history and it’s bound to occur again.