You might think Starbucks is a ‘progressive’ company. You’d be wrong.
What kind of disphsit assclown thinks that about Starbucks in the first damn place? I mean, come on.
Month: September 2022
Sans bruitages tonitruant
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Regardened
The book I’ve enjoyed the most lately has been A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys.
This is a tale well-told despite the author’s shaky understanding of what makes sustainability live up to its name. That said, the characters are realistically flawed and human (even the ones who are not human) with no Mary Sues to be found. If you like Kim Stanley Robinson but want his writing to be more like Ursula K. LeGuin (which I do) this book might be for you.
It’s the rare book I didn’t want to put down. Recommended.
Fake Sec
Most of what I used browsers for and formerly did with them has been banned in modern browsers to snooker the rubes for security.
This is true of most crapplications these days, but with browsers it’s particularly galling as they had so much potential, all wasted, all foregone.
Waiting and Anticipating
My girlfriend got rid of my cat and I don’t know what to do anymore.
If someone did something like this to me, I’d wait ten years and then that person would just disappear, never to be seen again.
So…don’t do that to me.
Inconv
I just love dead tree so much better than Kindle. I have the nice Kindle (whichever one that is… Paperwhite?) and I rarely use it. I’d rather just read dead tree. The experience is like 500% better somehow.
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) September 4, 2022
Dead tree book experience is vastly, vastly worse. They are heavy, a hassle to hold and to hold open, and just a bad interface. I switch between books often. I can’t carry a dozen fucking books in my bag. The font is often tiny. This bothered me when I was younger but now that I can change the font size on ereaders I find it utterly intolerable.
Physical books are just so inconvenient and annoying. Really hate them these days.
Opposite Of
Tanks for the memories https://t.co/pPdL0YgihY
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) September 3, 2022
So if 1,000 are visually confirmed as lost, there’s probably 30-50% more than that destroyed.
To Ian Welsh, that’s winning. To anyone else that’s colossally horrible.
Prot
I keep staring at the "conventional wisdom" part of this tweet. Literally *whose*?
We had data from Qatar 2 months ago showing a substantial protective effect: https://t.co/w8dv9W6UJEDenmark also had similar findings:https://t.co/tZvzdmcv66 https://t.co/Xsa6PuzNNC
— Edward Nirenberg 🇺🇦 (@ENirenberg) September 2, 2022
The Covidians all over Twitter said there was no protective effect. They were extremely adamant about it.
How We Did
Fantastic way to troll literally everyone over 35, hats off to this https://t.co/yRlDCZE23k
— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) September 2, 2022
We went places, talked to one another, didn’t think being attracted to someone in person was harassment and we just up and asked each other out. Even girls (and guys, though I only asked girls) in Waffle Houses and bookstores. And didn’t see that as harassment, either.
You chat up the girl in the grocery store, ask her what she’s doing Saturday night. Back in those days it also wasn’t verboten to ask co-workers out, so we’d date them very often too. Happened all the time.
Some things were worse and some were better, but that’s how we did it once upon a time.
Alarm
Ten years ago, scientists who predicted this were accused of being alarmist. If only they had been wrong. https://t.co/ukCi6IyPwW @MichaelEMann @KHayhoe
— NaomiOreskes (@NaomiOreskes) September 2, 2022
I remember that, and that it was also “alarmist” to predict the now-happening mega-drought in the West.