Not surprising. Before my intense working out started again, I felt about 35. Now I feel about 26.
When I was fat 10 years ago, I felt 50.
Day: October 17, 2019, 5:15 PM
At Least Not Bronies
I’m glad to see notable Bernie Bros like *checks notes* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ihan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have endorsed Sanders. You can tell they are Bernie bros because anyone who endorses Bernie automatically becomes male. Isn’t that the way it works now in braindead centrist land?
I’m not a Bernie voter. I will vote for Warren, if Florida lets me vote. I am going to attempt registering again for the third time. But I kind of want Bernie to win anyway because of all the ridiculous and inane “Bernie bro” centrist lying.
Convo
I notice that email programs in general are pushing fucking worthless conversation view hard now. I wonder why? Outlook (on Mac) auto-switches to it now regularly, and I have to constantly change it back. Absolutely impossible to find anything that way.
But I do wonder why it’s being pushed so hard? Certainly it’s not to benefit the users; absolutely no one cares about that, not even the users, who are utterly clueless anyway for the most part.
Nuke From Orbit
2009: Wow, smartphones are amazing, we're interconnected and literally have all the worlds knowledge at our fingertips
2019: Idiocracy is real. Every day I watch society disintegrate and descend deeper into the Pit.
— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) October 16, 2019
Pretty much my reaction, too. I can’t believe how much we’ve squandered, and how quickly. We’ve laid waste to our own society and our own minds for “convenience” that’s not even real.
No Stretch
Disaster Recovery Faking, Take Two.
That is why you don’t use stretched VLANs. MBA types (and poor infrastucture engineers) say, “But it’s the same!” Sure, it’s the same and that’s the whole damn problem. Making things “the same” in a disaster recovery scenario is not what you are going for.
Routing and DNS exist for a reason, and they work. Freakin’ use them. All of this layer 2 stretched across half the continent means a world of pain when you actually need anything to work. Looks pretty on paper and to the MBAs, but in practice your DR becomes all disaster and no recovery.
And just wait till spanning tree has a problem and it’s all layer 2. That’ll be a whole other level of pain for you to enjoy!
Warren E Gonna Regulate
Economists regularly get things wrong across a wide swath of topics, and this is no exception.
Automation has been happening since the beginning of time…outsourcing manufacturing to low wage countries is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Warren got it right.
— BovineObserver (@BovineObserver) October 16, 2019
Yes. That AP “fact check” is absolute garbage and doesn’t at all match up with the best studies of the issue. Automation is not (yet) the principal problem. It is corporate power and offshoring of jobs.
Or as Matt Stoller says:
Aside from being largely bullshit, this claim is so insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who ***trained their foreign replacements.*** https://t.co/Z4HdMmVVA2
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 16, 2019
What the crap do economists know, anyway? They’ve been wrong about everything for the past 50 years, and continue to be wrong today.
Future Should’ve Been Cooler
I too miss these days. What we have now is far, far worse. This isn’t nostalgia — just the way software and computers/smartphones are now is utter crap.
Back then, we called them applications, or software, or sometimes just downloads. It’s hard not to drown in nostalgia over those good old internet days, when a free app almost never meant that you were the product. The industry was dominated by a few big players and a lot of software cost well over $100. But there were also independent developers making all kinds of amazing games and utilities.
Computers have been getting less useful yearly for about the last decade or so, with it really ramping up around 2014. It’s a huge loss. The “bicycle of the mind” has been melted down and smithed instead into a manacle.
I used to love computers; loved working on them, figuring out how to make them do things, and the joy of discovery. Now I mostly just tolerate them or actively hate them as they have turned into nearly-useless surveillance devices with most functionality removed.
I really did think the future would be cooler.
Summoned
Blood fills Iowa family’s basement.
How many times do I have to tell everyone, when summoning demons one simply must have a proper containment grid. This can happen — and worse — in an incompetent summoning. They probably used steel instead of silver in their grid. It’s a risk.