LOL. Hell no.
This is a real Southern mac ‘n cheese recipe. The above is clown shit. My gran used to make mac ‘n cheese similar to the recipe I linked and it was glorious. Any time the NYT claims some recipe is “Southern,” you know it ain’t gonna be.
vCentered comments on Why are so many people in IT so introverted and grumpy?
This person has been in the fucking trenches. That’s exactly it. You’re seen as the “computer janitor” no matter what level you reach. Hell, I have “director” in my title and am senior to nearly everyone and people get pissed off when I tell them to put in a help desk ticket for their laptop won’t play audio through their headphones.
As if my manager wants to be paying me large sums per hour to help some salesperson unmute his headphones.
Every job has its drawbacks, but it’s uniquely an IT thing where people believe you owe them your time for the most trivial bullshit, no matter what your job description is or what you might be working on otherwise.
i have a doctor friend who lives in Miami who observes that it's almost a morphological speciation event btwn bubbles of fitness and vast hinterlands of obesity https://t.co/8VSJ5lgK2c
— Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) November 5, 2022
I was observing something similar recently as we were in the richer areas of where we live. There were a few older women (50-60-ish) walking or running on the sidewalk and I said to my partner something like, “When you come to a rich area, even the older women look well-put-together and attractive. And aren’t the size of houses.”
Think it’s offensive? Something can be offensive and true at the same time. It really is like almost two different species.
Something I figured out very early: if you know the basic textbook material about a subject with a passing familiarity, you know more than 99.99% of people about that subject. And if you can read and understand post-grad textbooks in that area, you know more than 50% of even experts in that field. It’s unfortunate but it’s true. Most experts are fairly mediocre.
That’s the reason I’ve read hundreds of textbooks. I wanted to avoid the dipshit version of doing my own research and instead actually do it for real. And I spent a large part of my life working on that. Paid off, too.
I tried to pay the amount I owe the IRS after they finally got around to processing my tax return and got the ol’ “We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later.”
Not making it easy for me, are you? I am gonna pay it in Mikecoin now. It’s worth infinite Mikebucks. (I know this makes no sense, but neither does crypto coin BS.) It’s the hot new currency.
It wasn’t “Washington insiders.” It was the press claiming this. Anyone who believes press narratives — ever — is delusional. They get it wrong nearly 100% of the time. And no, the election wasn’t “stolen.” Dobbs made young women and young people in general vote in extremely high numbers and that tanked the Republicans. That along with Republicans killing themselves off in certain areas with anti-vax craziness led to defeat. Simple as that. No Dobbs and it certainly would’ve been the red wave the press “predicted.”
It’s great to observe clowns shoot themselves in their stupid clown feet. Both the press and the Repubs achieved that extremely well in this election.
"permanent energy crisis" is when the entire developed world temporarily decides not to make nuclear reactors because one broke from a 9.0 earth quake and killed 0 people https://t.co/CVTG7mFiYP
— Gnomadtaro (@pnwnomad123) November 12, 2022
We have chosen to have an energy crisis. It didn’t have to be, and should not be. There should be a nuclear reactor every 20 miles. We should have so much energy we turn on all the lights all the time.
But no. We’ve chosen the way of pain.
Russian troops didn’t “withdraw” from Kherson, by the way. That was Russian propaganda that the Western media was happy enough to buy into for some reason.
In reality the Russian forces were in a disordered retreat while taking heavy losses as Ukrainian artillery and HIMARS fire relentlessly proceeded to nearly wipe them out. It wasn’t so much a withdrawal as it was a whipping.
President Biden just granted all US veterans and Gold Star families free lifetime admission to National Parks.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 11, 2022
Huh. I just got into all national parks for free, forever.
Cool.
HOW ARE THOSE COMPLETELY UNREGULATED FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS GOING GUYS?
I never bought a cent in any sort of crytpo coin. Knew it was all a scam the very second I ever heard of any of it and that everyone involved would lose all their money.
The fact that settler colonialism was evil doesn't in itself mean that the epistemologies of those whose lifeways colonialism disrupted are relevant to the challenges facing the 8B humans who cohabit a rapidly warming planet with myriad rapidly dying off ecosystems and creatures.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 11, 2022
Yup. But degrowthers love that sort of thing. The answers mostly aren’t in the past, though — we must create them anew.
There have been many acquirers who have bought things they were unfit to run, but a public-facing self-immolation of this scale is historically unprecedented https://t.co/mtAv2R5Hly
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 11, 2022
Y’all are being punked. This is deliberate. Elon has clownish aspects for sure, but he and his billionaire buddies are conning you here because you want to be fooled.
The most effective cons are those where the marks believe they are too smart to be snookered. That’s exactly what’s happening and even people I consider pretty smart like Nils are falling for it without even a moment’s thought.
XFCE is still the best desktop environment out there. Works great, stays out of your way, is snappier than dialogue in an Amy Sherman-Palladino show and does not fucking spy on you. I love it. If there were any decent 5K monitors outside of the Apple ecosystem I’d switch back to Xubuntu in a damn instant.
XFCE is pretty near perfect for what it is.
People are saying Zlibrary is gone. It’s not. Works fine — just their domain names have been seized. If you use the Tor Browser and go here, no issues accessing it:
http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion/
Anything you do from then on out is up to you. But it’s not gone. Just “gone” for normies, which is probably better overall.
Shoulda believed in vaccines, folks. https://t.co/n1LH0CDSNT
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) November 10, 2022
Told you that vaccine denial was going to kill off enough Republicans to swing elections.
And I was right. Get used to it because it’s gonna keep happening.