The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: November 6, 2021, 3:46 PM
Both Digs
The idea that “men only want sex” is as demeaning as the supposition that women are just gold diggers.
Upshook
Milkshakes are so good the libs probably want to take them away.
(Kinda yeah? A lot of them do want to take milk away.)
Barnburnin’
november by Helena Fitzgerald.
Jesus Christ, how can you just haul off and write like that? What an essay. It’s Bradburian with a little less sucrose; it’s DFW without the slight hint of condescension.
Best essay I’ve read in a while, for sure.
Tech Eval
8 hour intense interview with no breaks just to be still told I’m not technical enough. I need a break from the interview process for the near future.
— Tae’lur Alexis (@TaelurAlexis) November 2, 2021
If they took eight hours to figure out a person was “not technical enough,” that’s on the interviewers and their complete failure. I hate that odious phrase but even within that framework, I can usually tell this in 2-3 questions. The roles I hire for are generally very technical, so I actually do have to evaluate for this to some extent*, but it doesn’t take more than five minutes.
*If you don’t understand networking pretty well, how DNS works, scripting, how to do pretty deep work in various OSes, and if you don’t have just a whole lot of general IT knowledge, you gonna have a bad time, and we’re too busy to train someone for 2-3 years to get them up to speed.
Dem Losing
I know the Cultural Left doesn’t want to hear this, but unchecked Woke — the front line of which is schools — is going to kill any possibility of a mutualist renewal in this country. I observe this with no joy. https://t.co/YPLaqENpST
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 3, 2021
It’s forgotten already, but wokester identity jackassery was one of the main causes of Bernie’s tanking in 2020. Most normal people rightly want no part of that, don’t believe in 900 genders, and don’t want biological males dominating women’s sports. (That said, the main reason McAuliffe lost was the Dems keeping the schools closed for so absurdly long.)
And they are not wrong, whatever the excesses of the Republicans. Lots more Dem losing ahead becasue they can’t deliver anything important, but they can deliver things people hate.
Monkey Trouble
People live complicated lives, y'all. pic.twitter.com/OuA6y19IY8
— Wesley Chu (@wes_chu) November 5, 2021
That’s a headline that definitely makes you say, “No, no, no, no…” progressively louder as you read it.
No Light No Warmth
The end of Daylight Saving Time is a time of intense sadness for me. Ban standard time and winter.
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) November 5, 2021
Agreed. They both fucking bite ass.