A BernieBro just stole my drink while Putin laughed and dug holes in my landscaping. It was terrible!
Month: September 2020
NPRone
This is a political choice https://t.co/5SdfnU6Cug
— Mandy (@mandylibrary) August 31, 2020
There’s a reason I say that NPR stands for “nice, polite Republicans.” They exist to perpetuate the status quo and they do a very good job of it, too.
CanDoBetter
a hill i'd die on if i cared about programming is that plaintext source code is pointless at best, deeply harmful at worst and just represents laziness rather than any advantage whatsoever
— 🎃Utterly dispassionate documentary hog slaughte🎃 (@gravislizard) October 9, 2019
Agreed. Just inertia from the past. We haven’t explored a hundredth of the better paradigms that are out there. Thinking we magically hit on just the right answers in the first 10 years of computing is asinine. It’s like Oga with her round bashing rock in 3.3 million BCE thinking that she’d found the only tool she’d ever need, and we never advanced from there (which is…shockingly accurate, considering how very long the Paleolithic actually lasted).
I think we can and should do better.
Bernfoot
my friend met someone over the weekend who is voting for Trump because Bernie lost, and I can't stop thinking about the privilege
— bletchley punk is a fullmetal engineer (@alicegoldfuss) September 1, 2020
Ah, another sighting of the ever-present but somehow never-to-be-found BernieBros, extant always in the imaginations of Alice and many others, but as with Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster there is a complete absence of verified sightings or any real evidence.
Delusions are a comfort, I understand. Hard to blame people for that in these times.
Baud Rate Limited
Bruno’s thesis is that America is increasingly becoming a virtual society, focused on make-believe above all.
I have to agree. This novel vantage point unifies many otherwise opposed schools of thought. Fantasies of the past, delusions about the present, visions of the future. https://t.co/o3p0vpw3kB
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 31, 2020
Y’all have not read Baudrillard, and it shows.
Jorbs
I do not know how to express it well but so many of the problems of left discourse right now could be solved by specifically my undergrad lit professor.
"You're cherry-picking trivia to support your hypothesis, you can't analyze meaning without considering context."
— Dave Mayo‽ (@pobocks) August 27, 2020
A lot of the left seems preoccupied with going through every utterance anyone has ever made to find something “bad,” inevitably taking it out of context or misunderstanding it completely, and then demonstrating how that “proves” the person is terrible and irredeemable.
When you understand that it is all about competition for the declining number of good jobs, it starts to make a lot more sense.