What an impoverished life people lead who read only those pieces they agree with and things they “know” are correct.
Year: 2019
Zenith
I once met a man who had summited Everest several times. I asked him if he didn't think it would be funnier to climb up, but turn around 50m before the summit, as a statement of moral fortitude and grown-up-ness.
I received a very blank stare in return.
— Ole Peters (@ole_b_peters) May 12, 2019
This is the kind of thing I do that no one understands why I do it. I have no desire at all to climb Everest but knowing you can do something is often just as good as actually doing it, and less time-wasting.
Not always, of course. Sometimes you have to reach the goal, capture the flag. But self-control and self-mastery is more than about reaching goals. It’s prioritizing your autonomy and your dominion over your own being and constitution.
Horror Film
Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 – and it won’t end well this time either.
Exactly. If it’s Biden vs. Trump, unless the economy crashes, it’s a guaranteed win for Trump. We’ve seen this movie before and know what happens before the credits roll.
UWP and DOWN
Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32.
Wow. Was not expecting that. Very good news, as UWP is utter slow garbage, dysfunctional both for developers and end users. Now if they could make the fonts not look so eye-shatteringly atrocious.
Outré Age
All of the people who seem to spend most of their time outraged, how do they find the time? Man, I got shit to do.
If Int
If intuitive eating, then why not intuitive cracksmoking, intuitive heroin injectin’, and intuitive opioid pill poppin’? Makes about as much sense.
Acc
Accidentally losing weight again. I need to eat more. I am not intentionally eating too little, but I probably burn an extra few thousand calories a week now and haven’t compensated enough in my consumption.
Not a bad problem to have, but it’s impossible to gain muscle at a calorie deficit.
Prospects
Can't emphasize this enough: teens are fed up with adults bullshit.
"Survivors of the shooting at the charter school in Colorado that killed one student and injured 8 others stormed out of a community vigil, calling it a 'political stunt.'"https://t.co/CdXjlZhNUw via @TasneemN
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) May 9, 2019
Strange time when young people have better political instincts and moral claims than almost any adults. It is of course because these young folks accurately realize they are going to face the consequences of decades of poor and directly-harmful adult decisions, while most of the adults will be dead by the time the full bill comes due.
Facing the prospect of a terrible life and early death sharpens one’s mind a bit.
Go Team Go
at #NatSec2020. Ideas of electoral China messaging are incoherent or conspicuously absent so far. Yes, wider trade policy is a mess, but w China, if not tariffs, then what? How else do we deal with a predatory trade partner?
— Mike Pilger (@mikepilger) May 10, 2019
Exactly. Tariffs are just a tool. Sometimes, they are useful and helpful, depending on your goals. Sometimes they are not. Like anything, they are not an unalloyed evil or an unqualified good. As with nearly everyone, Democrats here lack nuance and are just fighting for their (ridiculous) team goals, absent any real plan.
Free trade ideology declares that all tariffs are always bad all the time. This as noted is an ideology and does not match the actual world. Because the Dems are good little neoliberals, they must believe this whether it is true or not.
ICB, um, M
Drones used missiles with knife warhead to take out single terrorist targets.
Okay, guys, years ago I was just joking about ICBMs — Intercontinental Ballistic Machetes! You didn’t have to go and do stuff like that for real!
Hot Take #2
Kubernetes is the bitcoin of infrastructure.
Prove me wrong.
Banned Camp
Algorithms are built by human beings, they’re not impartial
Silicon Valley is operated by techies, 90% of whom don’t operate in the “real world” and thinking programming and coding makes them gods
To say they’re “out of touch” would be understatement. They’re barely human
— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) May 9, 2019
I don’t agree with Cortes on much (mainly follow him for his fitness stuff), but this is 100% true. The left right now thinks they are doing great and grand things by banning some real Nazis and “Nazis.” What they are doing in reality is a grand exercise in self-harm.
This is because in the future, it’ll mostly be the left getting de-platformed and banned. Currently, it’s trans ideology that’s being used as the cudgel to discard people on the left but that’s already expanding. Right now, it is admittedly about 60% conservatives being banned and canned, but I expect that to switch to about 90% left in a year or so with no return to the previous near-parity.
Dangerous road, with more risks than rewards.
No Lift
I’d be much more likely to want to take up a vegetarian or vegan diet if nearly every single person advocating that didn’t look like a pasty, palsied weakling on the verge of anemia and death.
Not a good advertisement for the cause, really.
What Kind Of
I can no longer find the article, but some clueless tech bro said that poetry was just “random word association,” like a neural network.
Motherfucker, no. Just no. That’s not even a bad take. It’s a take so monumentally clueless that some being in another solar system is saying, “What a dipshit” under its argon breath.
Seed
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.