Here is someone who did the same sort of analysis I did (but more formally) and also arrived at around a 1KT blast in Beirut.
To be clear, the explosion was obviously non-nuclear. But yeah, about what I estimated.
Day: August 4, 2020, 5:00 PM
1KT
I rarely say holy fuck out loud to videos but holy fuck https://t.co/Lqah8LSLOc
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) August 4, 2020
I agree. Holy FUCK. That is about a 1KT explosion.
Jump in the Pool
I think one of the reasons dating has become so fraught and so many more innocuous behaviors are viewed as harassment is there are many, many fewer high-quality guys on the market lately and, largely, women control dating in most practical ways.
So it’s now tailored to suppress\weed out low-quality potential mates with minimum possible effort.
This makes total sense! I am not even criticizing women for it. The pool of men they want to date (which is very different than the pool of available men) is bad (from their perspective) and shrinking all the time.
Of course they want to use whatever leverage they can find to make sure hobo Kid Rock doesn’t get up in their face. When you understand the incentives, the choices made seem more sensible.
FS
The problem I have with Slack is that it’s a product “designed” for what MBAs like, rather than a product for what working people actually need.
It’s MBA-centric because it:
- Expects immediate response
- Requires excessive chattiness by its design
- Prioritizes “presence” over achievements
- Need chumminess to really work
- Is like having 30 or 40 email inboxes instead of just one
- Is about managing impressions rather than getting shit done
Fuck Slack.
Slackjawed
I’m using Slack at work now, and it sucks. It’s basically a clone of IRC from 1992, but it uses literally a million times as many resources.
Tech doesn’t advance; not really. Just more “geniuses” build poorly-executed copies of 25-year-old tech.
Movie Time
3 Men Marooned in the Pacific Are Rescued After Writing SOS in the Sand.
Wait…that works outside of a movie? Or maybe we are living in a movie now. If so, why’d we choose this dystopian badly-plotted implausible piece of turd?