Lifting is fine, but it’s rarely done in a way that is athletic. As a supplement to athletics, fine, but by itself, it creates bodies that look good but don’t move nearly as well as an athlete or dancer.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) August 22, 2020

So what? Lifting makes you vastly healthier. I will never, ever be an athlete or a dancer. What I will do is feel better and look better because I lift. I’ll also never be in the trades, so I’ll take these “useless muscles” and my vastly better health, thank you very much.

Amazing the horseshit people spew. You don’t like lifting? Fine. Don’t fucking do it. Solved!

Aella asked this question:

And this was one of the responses:

You made a risky investment. Boo-fucking-hoo. Pouring your life savings into any one thing is an extremely dangerous thing to do. It’s stupid, fantastically so. Zero sympathy here from me. Make a bad investment decision, reap the consequences. More of the rentier class should experience this.

An important difference between the renters who can’t pay and this person: when the renter can’t pay, they eventually get evicted and lose their home. When the landlord can’t pay for the houses they’ve over-leveraged and poorly invested themselves to buy, they still have their primary residence in which to live.

Huge difference, there.

As a former fighter pilot, I can attest to the fact that HUDs, even for expert pilots, can often cause attention tunneling and can lead to accidents. As a researcher, I have yet to see a design outside of the cockpit that provides actual value beyond the cool factor. https://t.co/TaBYyc4ZAP

— Missy Cummings (@missy_cummings) August 15, 2020

My car has a HUD. It provides the speed of my car where I don’t have to look down at the speedometer to know how fast I am going. This is extremely useful and provides actual value. The less time looking down at a display == the fewer chances of something unexpected happening while you’re looking down instead of at the road.

It also provides other info like when a song changes — meaning I am less likely to look at the stereo, another accident-causing distraction in cars.

HUDs provide huge value to me. I don’t really want a car without one because it keeps my eyes on the road rather than down in the display gauges. I don’t believe she must’ve looked very hard, then, as the HUD in GM cars is extremely well-designed and keeps eyes up.

This link is porn, so don’t click on it if you don’t want to see a woman naked.

I found it because I click on any old shit on Reddit, and I don’t have thumbnails enabled so I never quite know what I will get for sure. But I noticed when I clicked on it, it did not play in Waterfox or in Safari. It only worked in Chrome. Been finding more and more sites like that, especially on the Mac.

Anyway, she’s cute, so there’s that. (She posted the link voluntarily herself on Reddit — I’d never link to or even look at anything I suspected of being non-consensual or revenge porn.)

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make.

This headline is 100% false, and the article is largely wrong. We’re only a small fraction of the way through the stelliferious era (about 3% if I remember right), so the universe will make lots, lots more stars. I don’t know the exact number, but it’s far more than this article claims.

The absolute number of stars extant at any one time and the stellar masses of them will not be much greater than now, but there is just loads more star formation in the future of the universe.

After that explosion of rage, just spent a bit checking Firefox and 70% of the 50ish extension I used to use have no replacement, and sans those I cannot use the browser because without them everything is just too slow/unusable and insecure.

If I had a few billion dollars, I’d take over Mozilla and close the damn thing and fire everyone hard.

Why, why do dumbasses have to optimize everything for hopeless droolers? What a clownworld we live in.

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?

And all I have to say about this is a very reasonable FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU and I am glad your shitty product is dying.

Fuck you and all Mozilla assclowns who had anything to do with this. When your office closes forever, I am going to piss on your HQ front door.