Do we really need a Breaking Bad movie? The series already had the perfect ending (Walter Bad saying “Maybe I’ll try breaking good for a change”)
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) October 11, 2019
I thought it was Walter Breaking saying, “I was born to be bad” and then doing the Forbidden Dance of the Mithraists to the George Thorogood song. That’s how I remember it, anyway.
I know it makes me SO RACIST but housing should be for the people who actually live there.
If the biggest disaster in your life was Trump getting elected, first of all, you haven’t lived much of a life and second, you’re a huge fucking numpty.
at least once a day, i have to secretly google something that one of my coworkers said. sometimes even during a meeting with them.
— Trista Kempa (@tristajaye) March 19, 2019
I am usually the person making other people Google. I don’t mean to. I just read a lot. I’m not sorry, though.
To be fair, over the years I have lost all sense of what other people know and what’s “common knowledge,” and I don’t even bother to keep track as it’s just too tedious.
PC sales are growing despite processor shortages. A million more PCs were sold year-over-year.
But, but…PCs are dead! Smartphones and tablets have killed them!
Hope this teaches more than a few people to be skeptical of press hype and two-bit propaganda. But it won’t.
Amazing: this new Fox poll shows the groups that most trust the CIA – THE CIA! – are liberals, Democrats & Clinton voters. 77% of Dems trust the CIA; only 22% don't. 64% of liberals trust CIA; 22% don't. This is the enduring sickness of Russiagate/MSNBC: https://t.co/HcnCEeP24x pic.twitter.com/PQDeNUWTGA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 10, 2019
What the ever-livin’ fuck.
I know people have problems with the H-1b program. Some of those are even legitimate problems (though often exaggerated).
But I'm starting to wonder if racist attitudes against South Asians play a role in the general opposition to the H-1b program.
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) October 10, 2019
Apart from the fact that H-1B hires often are worse at the job, the reason they are so loved by corporations is because H-1Bs will work more cheaply, are easier to abuse (they can’t just leave), and often have no/few family attachments in country so will be willing to do things like work 14 hour days for weeks. I’ve seen H-1B hires brought on for half or less for what the pay should be for that position. (And yes, I’ve been directly involved in hiring so I know exactly what everyone’s salary was.)
So, no, I do not support more H-1B visas in the US, as it harms American workers and allows corporations to commit wage and time theft with impunity.
But this is the neolib playbook, isn’t it? If you object to American and foreign workers being abused and exploited by global liquid capital, it’s certain proof that you’re racist.
Has there been another time in US history when one party believes their leader is playing five-dimensional chess and winning while the other party believes he's playing two-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe and losing?
— Kim Weeden (@WeedenKim) October 9, 2019
How quickly these amnesiac goofballs forget the eight years of the Obama administration, where during all of Obama’s immense failures the centrist Dems insisted Obama was playing eight-dimensional Star Trek space chess but in reality he was “negotiating” by giving away the ranch and hoping the Republicans tossed some clods of soil back in his direction out of pure pity.
Proof:
Mr. Obama is like a championship chess player, always several moves ahead of friend and foe alike.
Obama Is Playing Three-Dimensional Chess.
So don’t tell me it didn’t happen. The evidence is all too easy to find.
I'm a lil sympathetic to the "if housing is too expensive then move somewhere cheaper" argument. I know jobs and friends make it hard but like, almost the entire US is pretty cheap besides a few dense hotspots.
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) October 8, 2019
The problem is, those dense hotspots are where all the fucking jobs are — something numpties like Kevin Drum and Noah Smith conveniently forget when it’s time for them to “prove” that housing is really cheap in Redturd, Iowa.
Nearly everyone but Greta Thunberg is a climate change denialist. Glad I’m 43 and not 23 or 13. Those younger people are going to see some bad times indeed.
It's gonna be hilarious when the election rolls around and these people have to rationalize why *this* is evil and against human rights but it's okay for Twitter to suspend all the groypers because it's a private company. https://t.co/CIYPnDozhZ
— T. A. Jackson Classic (@TAJackson20) October 9, 2019
Well, the same shitheels who were moaning about “corporate censorship isn’t censorship because the government didn’t do it” are now calling Chinese censorship by proxy of American corporations censorship.
Funny to them it’s only censorship when it’s views that they approve of being banned….
Didn’t mean to unleash some of my actual writing in the below post. The mood struck. Bet all ya’ll thought I could only curse and call people fuckwits, right?
We like to think we can define our identities by our own efforts, that we can create ourselves from nought like the primal Greek gods who ruled before the Olympians.
Not only is this not true, but humans can only be defined in relation to others; our cosmogony necessarily always includes those we orbit and those who orbit us. Shifting orbits is possible, but it is not easy, and no one springs from the nether fully-formed, Khaos in robes of air and mist.
Identity is indeed not immutable, but the way we believe we can try on and slough off identities as easily as a model doffing and donning dresses in a changing room is not the way human psychology or culture works, or even can work. This is neoliberalism refracting through and corrupting the psyche, offering choice where there really is none, producing nothing but anomie and dread of the inevitable unmasking that reveals no face at all beneath.
Identity games are what we play when we’re convinced that the insubstantial and the irrelevant is paramount, while the great criminals are allowed to infringe against our civlization unrestrained.
Mozilla went wrong in many areas — pretty much all of them. A herd of toddlers could’ve done better because their decisions would’ve been basically random, which would’ve bested the Mozilla aggressive mediocrity.
One of the common Mozilla strategies to nuke a feature the devs didn’t like was to hide the feature well, claim no one ever used it (because they couldn’t find it), then get rid of it as “no one used it.”
The quote below reminded me of this Mozilla strategy.
On the flip side, Wroblewski found that making it harder to find common features reduced user engagement. When the (former) Polar app simplified their navigation design from a segmented control menu to a toggle menu to make the design seem “cleaner,” user engagement dropped because the primary functions were no longer continually exposed to users.
I hate Mozilla, but it’s also an interesting study in how hard an organization with so much goodwill and potential can fail, and how you know it’s over when the organization and developers derive joy from defying and disappointing the users of the product.
Mozilla is going to die anyway, but if I had a billion dollars I’d spend a large portion of my fortune fucking them all up.
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said ‘This is mine’, and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau