Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don’t notice.
Food quality in the US has always been bad, but since the pandemic especially it is in precipitous decline. A lot of packaged foods these days taste like sidewalk scrapings. Just vile. How do people eat that crap?
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.
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.
Society ‘disappears’ ageing women.
Indeed it does. At the back end of life, women are treated like 99% of men are treated for their entire lives.
Isn’t as nice as it seems, right?
Broadcom announces new license changes to VMWare.
And the inevitable destruction begins. This is what Broadcom does.
Indeed we can. Many third world countries have better and more stringent labor protections than the US. The US is the world’s premier first world third world country.
It’s hard to remember, but in the early ‘70s some scientists thought the Earth might be cooling.
I remember as this belief persisted into the mid-80s. No, fucking clowns, it wasn’t just fringe crackpots who said this. It wasn’t the scientific consensus (as there was not one then), but it was very much part of the scientific mainstream to believe that the earth might be cooling.
It’s so damn odd that people attempt to deny this when it was common, all to preserve some narrative that science is ever-unassailable and always 100% correct and has been forever. But it’s not. I remember; I was there.
My gender is not binary or non-binary. It is unary — I am every gender at once, infinitely, for all time.
This is my prerogative as Galactic Overlord.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
An Example of Aging Gracefully. Susanna Hoffs, 1980’s vs Now.
I saw this picture linked above with this headline on Reddit. This is not achievable for most women. Susanna was already in the top 0.000001% of human attractiveness. That just naturally ages far more gracefully unless you become a heavy meth or other drug user. She’s also had some tasteful and very-expensive high-quality plastic surgery too — not to the extent that she looks inhuman, but definitely some work.
And she’s rich. That alone reduces stress and you just look better longer. And she works out, which also promotes skin youthfulness and elasticity (and this seems to be even more true for women than men here).
That said, no, contrary to popular belief, you really don’t have to look like a blazing dumpster when you’re 64 years old, unlike a lot of Americans believe. It’s not inevitable. But you aren’t Susanna Hoffs and looking like her at any point is not a realistic aspiration.
Economy’s great though! Everyone who is anyone says so!
