It’s *imperative* in the midst of a public health crisis that we able to question and CONTRADICT “Authoritative Sources” like the WHO when they appear to be lying to us or covering for endangering the public. Google, Facebook & Twitter are expendable.

Freedom & science are not. https://t.co/5kLUirQccR

— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) April 21, 2020

Hey everyone, remember all my warnings over the last two years as the liberals celebrated their censorship “wins?” This is the result. It wasn’t hard to figure out this would happen. It was, after all, the desired goal. (Not of the liberals, who are clueless pawns. But the goal of the people who have real power.)

How many times has the WHO lied recently, at great cost of lives? How many other organizations have as well? In case it’s already memory-holed, the WHO lied about mask wearing and the infectiousness of SARS-Cov-2, among other things. Also, others raced to admonish you for social distancing and not shaking hands, as both those were “racist.” Many other organizations repeated these and other lies.

Now we will be unable to challenge any of this on the largest public platforms.

Liberals got exactly what they wished for. Wonder if they still want it. Turns out de-platforming works, and the real targets all along are being de-platformed now.

There has never been a sitcom or sitcom-like show that I’ve enjoyed watching. I guess that format is just not for me.

Something about sitcoms just seem like too much nothing. The only one I didn’t hate was The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, because that show kind of reveled in its artificiality.

What is something small that you have achieved in life that you wouldn't put on your resumé but that you are extremely proud of?

— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) April 21, 2020

This occurred after being frustrated by the lack of education in my eleventh grade AP English class and multiple conflicts with the teacher. One day, I stood up in the middle of class and said, “You’re not qualified to teach me anything.”

Yes, I was an enormous jerk, but I am also proud of myself.

Later on after that class, a girl who I thought disliked me came up to me and told me she was glad I did that as she was just as disappointed as I was and that she wished she had the guts to do the same.

Perhaps not the best approach but you have no idea how frustrated and done I was with entire sham.

It has been dispiriting to see computers get more difficult to use.

Despite being endlessly fawned over by an army of professionals, Usability, or as it used to be called, “User Friendliness”, is steadily declining. During the last ten years or so, adhering to basic standard concepts seems to have fallen out of fashion. On comparatively new platforms, I.E. smartphones, it’s inevitable: the input mechanisms and interactions with the display are so different from desktop computers that new paradigms are warranted.

Worryingly, these paradigms have begun spreading to the desktop, where keyboards for fast typing and pixel-precision mice effectively render them pointless. Coupled with the flat design trend, UI elements are increasingly growing both bigger and yet somehow harder to locate and tell apart from non-interactive decorations and content.

I wonder if part of the impetus to make computers hard to use is to push people to shitty smartphone experiences? That was explicitly the goal of Microsoft’s “Metro” disaster, so that’s quite likely.

Overall, designers of desktop applications seem to have abandoned the fact that a desktop computer is capable of displaying several applications and windows at the same time and that many users are accustomed to this. Instead, we’re increasingly treated to small-screen, single-app paradigms copied from smartphones. That’s a turn for the worse in its own right, but perhaps more troubling and annoying is the recurring sidestepping from the tried and true UI design that is so ingrained in many users it’s practically muscle memory by now.

This is something I’ve discussed with my partner. Even if you’ve actually found a better user interface or paradigm, forcing hundreds of millions of users to change their workflow and to learn new approaches wastes hundreds of billions of person-hours. So it must be really, really great to warrant such a change. In almost all cases this is not worth it especially considering that the new UIs are almost always far worse than the old ones.

Have there been any other industries that have deliberately destroyed so much time and value as this one? I want to understand more about what drives this.

This made me laugh:

And what it makes it even funnier is that the economic left isn’t even correct about the “uses” for that money because, again, they don’t understand how complex dynamic systems work, how money works or where it comes from, or follow-on and stimulus effects.