People believe math is the truth because it gives definite answers — definite answers which of course depend on the input. GIGO and all that. But math can’t even solve math. Those not smart enough for the humanities think math is the answer to everything, when most often it can’t even ask a question worth asking.
Don’t get me wrong — math is a useful tool. But it’s only a tool, and not anything else. STEM worship is a disease.
as a kid, what did you think you’d definitely get as an adult that you never did?
Stabbed.
A few people tried, but I’m fast. I know the best way to win a knife fight is not to play.
You are given the power to criminalize one legal thing/activity- what are you making illegal?
I’d make it illegal for any C-level exec (or similar position) to make 10x or more than the lowest-paid employee tier in the company, with very strict and frequent enforcement. This would include any form of compensation, including stock and deferred comp. It’d also include busting the way they’d inevitably attempt to get around this edict.
This wouldn’t eliminate inequality but it’d be a good first step. And it’s much easier to enforce than a lot of clown-level thinkers want you to realize.
The Peripheral Season 2 Cancelled 6 Months After Initially Being Renewed By Prime Video.
NOOOOOOOOO! What the fuck? That show was really fun.
I was a fool in that I should’ve realized Ian Welsh was a uselss clown when he spent so much time writing that the internet and smartphones were really of no import, and had no material effects. In reality, both together were enormously society-altering and consciousness-shifting in multifarious ways that would take shelves of analysis to unpack.
Thinking so poorly about so much…I should’ve noticed this sooner.
Lord, that flow. Envious.
Building a digital music collection in 2023.
LOL at using fucking Git for this. What a crappy way to do it. Use Syncthing instead. It’s built for purpose instead of some dirty hack.
Men do not, generally, get hints.
I know the common wisdom among feminists is that men are being deliberately obtuse by missing all the “obvious” hints. But that is not the case at all. What they do not understand is that men are raised in a completely different social milieu where hints are really not a thing at all.
And combine that with the fact that these days many, many men are taught that any expression of interest in a woman at all is automatic harassment, most hints will go unrecognized or unacknowledged by any decent man. It’s no one’s fault, exactly, but it is what it is.
(However, by going so far down the path of “all interest is harassment,” women have created an eqilibrium where only the most detestable, desperate and dangerous men will engage with them in public. Not great, really!)
I did 26 dips for 3 sets on the dip bars earlier. First time getting 26×3.
I don’t even feel that dip-leted.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
We’ve noticed this too, how everything just seems to have gotten roundly worse and wildly unreliable since the pandemic. Despite what the NYT commentator clowns write, there are still supply chain issues as well.
Covidians want to blame Covid but the issues are far more fundamental than that. To be fair, Covid and the pandemic response contributed to the decline but is not really explanatory. Post-pandemic, for a variety of reasons that even I don’t understand, society feels run down, possessed by an anomie that seems more like an overhang from the Great Recession of more than a decade prior rather than any direct effects of Covid itself.
It’s like we’re only pretending to have a civilization, and the mask is slowly slipping.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
You have the power to give women men’s struggles for a week. What are you giving them?
Going anywhere and everywhere and being seen as an extremely dangerous threat (mostly by women) no matter how innocuous you act. It’s really soul-destroying.
And there’s no way to make it better.
The shit-for-brains Ian Welsh take on weightlifting is that it doesn’t really help with anything and that it’s some form of showing off.
The reality is that getting stronger makes every area of your life better, even minor ones that you might not even consciously think about. For instance I was carrying a plate downstairs earlier and I bumped it on the edge of the bannister accidentally. Five years ago, when I was weak as a kitten, I 100% know I would’ve dropped it. Would’ve been gone.
But now that my grip strength is ridiculous I was able to hold onto it so it didn’t escape my grasp and shatter into a thousand bits. It’s minor I know, but these things add up.
A lot of the “weightlifting is bad and doesn’t even do anything” on the left in general comes from Tall Poppy Syndrome and the belief that it’s somehow cheating to improve yourself.
Fuck all that noise. And my still-whole plate agrees.
Not a real survey of course, but correct in spirit:
