Guess this has become a common belief now even though it’s scientifically baseless and frankly ridiculous:

Of my younger friends, the youngest one (in her mid-20s) is more mature and sensible than 95% of the people I grew up with who were in their 30s, 40s and 50s in North Florida.

People are individuals. Strangely enough, right?

Something I’ve noticed in obese people is that they often order a fairly normal meal but then do things like ask for four cups of ranch dressing to accompany it and slather it on everything. What is up with that?

Is there some taste bud or neural-level malfunction going on there regarding the taste of food? Someone should investigate that as it might be a clue to something.

To me, it looks disgusting but people do things for a reason…so it’s worth checking out.

Look what I wrote on February 29, 2020. Ta-dow, someone should pay me for this shit:

Of course, no one pays you if you’re right. Ain’t nobody like that.

"That will only fix the problem temporarily" is one of the most common and worst reasons to not do something, at both the personal and societal scale

— Emmett Shear (@eshear) January 25, 2023

To many people in our world there is no such things as “tradeoffs” and “good enough for now.” Or even just “good enough.” Like the absolutely moronic pseudo-debate about electric vehicles, to these goofuses if something isn’t perfect it’s worthless — even if it would bring substantial improvements.

It’s just a way of bolstering the status quo, in most instances. Of course that’s not how these “impossiblists” see it because they are drowning in propaganda. To them it just sounds like being sensible which is of course how propaganda is most-effectively presented.

Live versions of songs are never as good as the studio / album versions. Now reply with the rare exceptions to this rule..

— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) January 3, 2023

Tori Amos’ “Winter,” Montreaux Pop Festival, 1991. Far superior to the album version, and one of the best live performances ever captured.

in fairness to the tech guys who are amazed that a chatbot can pass an exam, those tech guys can’t write for shit and think written exams are extraordinarily difficult

— knife-wielding hemophiliac (@NickTagliaferro) January 23, 2023

This is true. I can spew out an essay on anything at any time with no reference materials. It’s not even hard. Conversely, most people in tech are terrified of writing and very, very bad at it.

The Ukrainian military claims to have killed more than 121,000 Russian troops in Ukraine. I suspect this is roughly accurate.

At this rate, assuming the conflict goes for another three years (my guess), roughly half a million Russians will die there in a pointless war.

Jesus Christ.