We had a whole glorious van era in the 1970s and 1980s that kids today will never understand https://t.co/yu2a6Wxhsm
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) March 24, 2023
Just look at this masterpiece. Who wouldn’t want this sublime exemplar of vehicular excellence?
Reading: Lowest in 30 years
Math: lowest since testing began 54 years ago
Mental health: ED visits up 50%
Physical activity: "It's like wet cement"
Future: "This will be a kind of lost generation"
Predictable: totally
Apologies: none
Accountability: nonehttps://t.co/simMmeC7dK— Margery Smelkinson, Ph.D. (@MSmelkinsonPhD) March 27, 2023
Where y’all Covidians at who told us this “wasn’t happening?” Or even worse, that it didn’t matter because…reasons.
The next few decades are going full of new, exciting sociogenic illnesses. Better start updating your ideas about what makes a mental illness "real." https://t.co/ML02JLElb1
— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 1, 2023
Agreed. I think Long Covid is real, too, but probably 60-70% of cases have no physical cause because it’s a result of mental trauma and is sociogenic primarily. Thus, no physiological or pharmacological treatment will work that well.
The idea that everyone hates tech because of some woke media psyop is just an autopsyop. Your products suck! They're painful to use! The experience of computing is awful! Enough with the cope! People hate the industry for good reasons.
— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 13, 2023
Indeed. The experience of computing in general has regressed greatly in the last decade. It’s now disturbingly terrible. Tech people like to lie and say it’s for “security” and “for your own good” but that’s just flimflam concealing what’s really happening: the soul of computing was sold to predatory capitalism and there is no going back now.
People seem to not understand that visually similar meals could have quite different caloric contents.
— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 26, 2023
It is in fact very easy to make two meals that are visually similar, but one has 1,200 calories and the other has 500. Hint: butter, oil, lard, any source of fat, and more protein too. Laughably easy to do. Same appearance and volume but vastly different energy content.
Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans.
Told ya MBAs were going to can WFH ASAP. They really, really hated it and it’ll only persist for some tech people like me who have skills too rare to attempt to constrain. The end of WFH will harm productivity, reduce family formation, increase fossil fuel use and in general hurt America — but that don’t matter as long as some petty MBA can feel a sense of power over others.
Because an aggrieved MBA’s hurt wittle feewings is what really matters in this country.
Pandemic Lesson #3: We Need an Air-Quality Revolution.
If the Covidians concentrated on this instead of claiming we’ll all get Long Covid and civilization will end because of it, the world would be far better (and I wouldn’t make fun of them nearly as much).
That we aren’t concentrating extremely hard on air quality is such a huge fail.
Was slightly harder today. Took me three guesses and 1.5 minutes. Got lucky with the first guess; having a letter in the right position already makes it 1,000x easier. This cuts down the possibility space immensely.
So many traditional foods are actually recent inventions. Same for many other “traditions.”
“Tradition” is often (not always) just code for “things invented around the time I was a child that I enjoyed often.” pic.twitter.com/NGi2KdZ9Wi
— The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh) March 25, 2023
Yeah. I’m old enough now to remember when some glorious, extremely authentic ancient traditions of cultures that we should not appropriate were invented. And it was like when I 10.
As I’ve said many times before, most Extremely Ancient, Definitiely Inviolable traditions are less than 100 years old. Culture changes. Whiny babies cry. It’s just life.
Iowa’s sharp right turn: From centrist state to ‘Florida of the North.’
Red states are just going to be unlivable really soon. Leave now while you can. It’s not going to get better; quite the opposite.
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy.
Easy? I never successfully solved a quadratic equation on my own, and spent years trying. Whatever it is that allows people to understand math like this just did not make it into my brain. I probably did 2,000+ of these as practice and never could solve a single instance on a test.
What are some things you wish you liked but just do not?
Mine are audiobooks and anime. I can’t tolerate either one but I see how much many people dig them and wish I could too. But no matter how many times I try I just hate both. I’ve figured out neither one of those things is for me.