Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10.
So I will never use that distro again anywhere. Idiots.
Day: March 1, 2021, 11:44 PM
Doomers
The disconnect between data and public mood is the largest I can remember since a year ago, fwiw (except now the data is about vaccine delivery, and it’s very good!).
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) March 1, 2021
Yeah, it’s really fucking bizare. I think pandemic exhaustion combined with liberal social media doom-mongering explains most of it.
So Much Less
If it weren’t for Zeynep Tufekci, I’d have to do so much more of my own research. She saves me a vast amount of time because she’s nearly always correct and is a better systems thinker than I am (and I am very damn good).
Don’t get me wrong: I still do more research than nearly anyone, and probably any layperson you’ve ever met. But having her mind to rely on means I have to do so much less to avoid being a dumbass. Thankful every day I found her a year or two before the pandemic even began.
Hot Times In HR
I am still thinking about this infinitely moronic tweet. What was the strategy for doing something here?
Do I need to submit a photo of me having sex with someone to HR, taken in the last six months at minimum? What’s the end game of this type of thinking? Do we need to have someone tesify that we are sexually capable?
I just don’t get what the goal of this was or even could be.
Believe, Uh, Science!
Liberals: believe science
Scientists: schools should open
Liberals: actually believing science is racist now— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) March 1, 2021
That’s the standard liberal shtick though, isn’t it? At least another variant of same.
No Choice
A PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE:
Tomorrow I am getting together with a friend for drinks.
We both are fully vaccinated.
Vaccines work.
When you are vaccinated it is safer to do things that are fun.
That is a reason to get vaccinated.
So get vaccinated.— Keith Humphreys (@KeithNHumphreys) February 23, 2021
No, Keith, you should be hiding under your bed wrapped in tarps, wearing at least 10 masks, with a grim and determined look on your face as you spray bleach directly into your nose at least once a minute.
You can hear the virus banging on the windows; you can feel it creeping under the door. You have no choice but to put on an eleventh mask as the insidious Covid uses tiny jackhammers to break through your eleven layers of masks and begins shredding your immunoglobulin like Hulk Hogan bodyslamming Andre the Giant.
Meanwhile, a liberal is outside, emerging from the bushes wearing Level 5 suits one over the another like Matryoshka dolls, caterwauling about how we’ll always have to hide under our beds, in fact we’ll have to carry our beds with us to hide under them, no matter the vaccinations, no matter the case prevalence, no matter what happens, until the sun goes red giant and finally, all the stars wink out. Because…reasons.
CUG
I was a part of this lost world of computer user groups.
Most user groups encouraged new people to participate. It was far from a tech intelligentsia; the officers in my first user group were a silversmith, a postal mail carrier, and a retired newspaperman. Women were welcome. Introverts reigned. Nobody cared what age you were; enthusiasm was the only thing that mattered.
That was before computing changed, and become about gaming and testerone overdose. It was also part of a larger shift in society that the internet and the ascendance of the algorithm worsened greatly. People claim that things haven’t changed, that it’s no different now. But I was there and it was different. Very much so.