Sooooo, has Hyper-V entered the chat yet?

Hyper-V works fine if set up correctly. I have put it into production for more than one client. All were pleased with it because I did it up right. It’s harder to set up and its requirements for functioning reliably are more finicky than VMWare. A lot of people screw up the Hyper-V config and then complain it does not work well. Not surprising, then, is it?

To be fair, it does have more bugs than VMWare but even before Broadcom’s shenanigans it was vastly cheaper. Hyper-V is good enough for 98%+ of businesses.

By the way, core inflation — the measure you should care about — is still at 4%.

The “Brave Fed Has Vanquished Inflation” fairytale is just that. Notice how when core inflation is up, the media does not mention that. They switch to some other measure. Conversely, when that other measure is rising they then switch to core. And that’s how the narrative is shaped. And most of you just fall for it without a second thought.

Get better minds that less resemble behinds.

Do girls like dangerous/violent guys?

No, not in general, but women are very (probably too) attracted to confident guys (mostly) and those two qualities often go together. And too often women mistake “dangerous/violent” for confidence — when anyone who is a guy knows that belligerence is often just a way to mask insecurity and weakness. Try to convince many women of that, though, and you’ll get called an “incel.”

But they usually find out — unfortunately for them — on their own. Some lessons can only be learned the hard way for most people, women or men.

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation, November: Core Services Inflation Accelerates on Rents, Insurance, Healthcare.

The conventional wisdom is that inflation has been defeated. (Even though by the “transitory” idiots’ own measures, inflation is still ~50% above the 20-year pre-pandemic average.) But inflation is still raging in many sectors and is likely to get worse. The so-called victory against inflation is nowhere in sight.

To summarize all that, the things that matter are still inflating rapidly (housing, food, personal services) while the volatile energy and ever-decreasing information tech prices make the numbers look rosy.

But cain’t no one eat a damn TV or smartphone, ya fuckin’ mooks.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

What’s the scariest reveal in a horror movie?

Someone mentions it in the comments and it’s not a movie, but what immediately came to mind is when Violet finds her dead body in the first season of American Horror Story. Dang. I did not see that coming and I felt so very sorry for her — trapped forever in the house where she was murdered and not even realizing until that moment that she’s a ghost and has been for weeks (?).

Since she did not recall her own death, as a ghost she was continuing to be friendly with her own murderer too (who of course very much knew what she was). Argh.