scorned Gamer invents a new color of face that is reportedly "Worse than blackface" — Beyond Fucked – Theres Never seen anything like this.
— wint (@dril) January 6, 2020
Most dril tweets don’t make me laugh but that one very much did. True Jack Handey-esque absurdism in compact form.
I won’t single anyone out (this time), but browsing Twitter you truly realize how absurdly stupid most people are outside of the one specific area they went to college to study.
We’ve considered doing this. Why buy a home in an area where you have no intention of living permanently? It’s just a liquidity trap and a huge risk.
Back in the day we helped a customer find a lost server by popping it’s cd tray out!
— Tim Panton CES Booth no1708 Westgate (@steely_glint) January 7, 2020
Have done this. Also have found lost servers by blinking the drive lights.
Florida woman arrested for threatening McDonald’s employees over dipping sauce dispute, police say.
Dipping sauce is serious business. As the Beastie Boys once nearly expostulated, “You’ve got to fight, fight for your right to dipping sauce!”
It’s amazing how just a few more inches of muscle makes you look more imposing.
A woman I work with said she glanced across the parking lot this morning as I was walking in (I park far away) and thought, “Huh, who is that bruiser walking across the parking lot?” And then she realized it was me.
Ha. Absolutely no one would’ve described me as a “bruiser” a year ago. I don’t really think it’s that accurate, because I think a bruiser really needs to be over 200 pounds, but I sure am a lot different than I was then.
Impossible Dumplings and Beyond Buns: Will China Buy Fake Meat?
Fuck, let’s hope not.
With the war in Iran looming, remember that what it’ll cost could’ve paid for Medicare for All four times over, and a complete conversion to renewable energy for the entire US — as well as free college for everyone.
Easily.
I spent 2019 hearing people ask how we’d pay for Medicare for All.
Thus far in 2020, I have not heard any of those people ask how we would pay for a war in Iran.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 5, 2020
And we should send all those people to fight in Iran. Problem solved.
So one must believe hominids ate toxic saturated fats over 3 million years of evolution, until the great day roughly 100 years ago when we learned to extract healthful unsaturated fats out of seeds. This absurd idea persists only because seed oils are obscenely profitable. https://t.co/yZw5Ei27bI
— Brad Lemley (@BradCLemley) January 4, 2020
That’s pretty much it. Really need to increase my meat consumption greatly. Bittman was wrong, mostly.
If Clinton had won, we’d probably already be at war with Iran.
That’s not very comforting as to the future, but alas true.
Since people are apparently forgetting, here is your reminder to eat a food.
Any food. You need calories to live, and a food has calories. Food has no moral value. You can just eat ice cream and potato chips for dinner! But please eat a food.
— 🚩Auntie Shepherd🏴 (@NeolithicSheep) January 5, 2020
Fuck this awful bullshit. Might as well put “Sponsored by NabiscoTM” after it.
Food has no moral value, agreed. But that doesn’t mean one should just consume it for kicks. It has consequences, though we are not really allowed to talk about that openly any longer. (You feet will let you know, though, when they fall off due to diabetes at 50.)
Why do people care so much about enforcing mediocrity, of being worse than they can be? Of course it’s because capitalism depends on this, but why do people apparently want this? Because I want no part of any of this.
Occam’s Razor, “correlation is not causation,” and other intellectual rejectamenta like that are a sign that someone is not thinking, but rather relying on broken heuristics and is similar to some rubbish ML algo that can only throw out phrases related to what it’s been trained on.
Avoid these people at all costs because they can contaminate your own thoughts.
Photo I took in McDowell Nature Preserve near Charlotte, NC, in April 2018:
No manipulation other than making it look closer to what it appeared to a human eye in real life (no filters, etc).
The idea that innovation only happens in big cities is dumb. Throughout history as well as today we find innovation in all places, from rural to urban. Don't believe the hype.https://t.co/nknboydEjf
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) January 3, 2020
Yeah. I’ve always been suspcious of the progressive mantra of “Innovation can only happen in big cities, agglomeration effects, yada yada” hype but hadn’t researched it much on my own. It appears I was correct to have doubts.
I have not read the entire paper yet, as I have a huge backlog already, but will in the next few weeks.