Looking at that chart, you might conclude that Britain made some really bad policy decision circa 2016. Whatever might that have been? https://t.co/jqDJIqv4cI

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) May 17, 2022

That is Very Bad. Far worse than I expected. UK will be getting poorer for a long time.

Bluetooth headphones are the American “cheese” of audio tech.

Friend of mine: The part that connects the hemispheres of the brain, can’t remember the name.

Me: Corpus callosum.

Friend of mine: No, that can’t be right. It’s something else.

Me: No, it’s the corpus callosum.

Friend: Ah, pretty sure that’s not it. I’m going to look it up.

Me: That’s it, I promise.

Friend: I looked it up and you’re totally right. I have a degree in neuroscience and now I’m not only embarrassed but wondering where the hell you came from.

Me: I come from the place where I’ve read like 10,000 plus books?

Yeah, the idea that an inner, felt "gender identity" is the one real, durable, fixed-at-birth part of the whole equation is the giveaway that you're dealing with religious fanatics. https://t.co/4i6H4bbso4

— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) May 16, 2022

The moment where the trans and “there are 900 genders” people lost was when they started insisting biology doesn’t exist and that there are no differences between women and men. I know that’s when I abandoned them and I’m very liberal indeed.

I don’t oppose them, exactly, but I always try to stay away from crazy. And they’re fucking crazy so I want to have not the first thing to do with their policy proposals and ideas.

Seriously, how do people tolerate how bad Bluetooth audio is? I’m not even that sensitive to poor audio, and every Bluetooth headset I’ve ever listened to sounded like a 64Kb/s MP3 from 1999. Usually worse, but those are the “good” ones.

Damn, I cannot understand. I just can’t. It sounds like my dad’s eight track from 1976. It’s just intolerable.