I have NEVER, not once, not one single time, even once been able to see the magic eye image.
I’ve never seen one either. In high school I spent an hour looking at one. Never saw a thing. Whatever it is in other people eyes and/or brains that allow them to see these images, I just do not have it.
Wonder if that is related to the fact that I am incredibly terrible at math?
God, this whole fucking debate is clownish.
I thought at least he was smarter than this. The reasons for the malaise in young people are these:
Come on, this stuff isn’t hard. Why are motherfuckers so damn shit-stupid about this? The data is just fucking right there.
Fuck.
The problem with sites like Crooked Timber and their ilk is that they seem smart on the surface but the analysis there is no more erudite and no more nuanced than that which they are criticizing. It’s all cosplay of the contrarian educated. It’s not interesting and it’s only right by accident.
Well, that’s no kind of way to be right. It doesn’t delve. It just scratches the surface, leaves a mark but it matters not at all. It looks deep until you dive in and then hit the bottom two inches below.
I guess I just want everyone to be Zeynep. But only Zeynep can be Zeynep, sadly.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
At this point in my life I don’t understand why so many people are content to be weak dumb fat wimplets.
It’s a lot better not being that, trust me.
Men who gave up on dating, what happened?
I think social media has destroyed most women mentally. It’s had less of an effect on men because they don’t use it as frequently and when they do, don’t care about it as much. I truly believe social media combined with smartphones is an enormous cognitohazard, and that it affects women far worse than men.
On social media, women are told that their presence (and vagina, because men are nothing but raging sex beasts, natch) is enough — that they do not and should have not to do anything nor contribute a single thing to a relationship. Then they act all shocked pikachu face when that turns out to be untrue — but still take no lessons from it.
Social media of the Facebook/InstaGram variety is pure poison and ruined an entire two generations of women. There are a whole lot of 3s who think they are 10s and who deserve the princess treatment. They don’t realize, though, that they are just princesses of a meth-encrusted Port-a-Potty outside of Flint, Michigan. And then wonder why millionaires over six feet tall with six packs aren’t flocking to them.
It’s a mystery, that one.
I’m not the stalking type (who has the time for that nonsense?), but if I do become one and you want me to stop stalking you, just get a coupla tattoos. That’ll be the end of that. I’m petty, I know it. But I cannot help it.
Dang, Darby in A Murder at the End of the World is a snoopy kewpie. She paws through more people’s stuff than a Labrador who smells some beef jerky somewhere.
Good character but I’m not leaving anything laying around if she’s there. She gonna start pawing and licking.
Hate horror all you want, but I think Dawn of the Dead (2004) has the best opening sequence of any movie made before or since. What a banger. I’m having trouble thinking of a film that comes close to that open. Maybe Leone’s Once Upon A Time In The West?
The Matrix is also a strong contender. I saw it in the theater and the bit in the cold open where Trinity jumps and the film goes into bullet time, the whole audience gasped. That was magic. Glad I got to experience that.
Who should be responsible for training users?
Weirdly, the IT department is often responsible for training users on nearly everything — even areas that have 0.0% to do with computers other than a computer is involved somewhere or other peripherally. It’s odd. I’ve trained lawyers on how to do legal-related items they should 100% know how to do. I’ve shown accountants how to do accounting work. I’ve shown other professionals how to achieve things that were absolutely in no way in my bailiwick and I have should absolutely zero knowledge about.
These days, I fully refuse to conduct this sort of training. I am not a lawyer or an accountant or a nurse. But the problem, as I’ve observed before, is that the IT department often has the only generally competent people within it so they become a dumping ground for anything at all that requires any sort of abstract thinking or anything other than rote procedure following.
Don’t do this sort of training. It is the manager’s responsibility, not IT’s, to show a lawyer how to lawyer and the like.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I applied for a sysadmin position and I’m afraid I’ve bitten off far more than I can chew.
For some reason most programmers think they can be good sysadmins because programming is “harder.” Then they try it and become disillusioned right quick. Most fail at being sysadmins because they are completely different skills and require totally different types of thinking.
However, I’ve seen absurdities on Hacker News like, “Why do we need all these networking guys? I found my IP address at the command line easily.”
And, “Why do we need DBAs? I installed Microsoft SQL Sever and it was just ‘click, click, click.'”
The depths of cluelessness there is astounding. They see being a sysadmin the same way. But in a lot of ways programmers are the physicists of the IT world. They believe their insight into programming allows them to know and understand everything in less than a second that takes mere mortals years to learn and get truly skilled at. And, as with physicists, they are completely, totally, laughably wrong.
Not all programmers are this way. But most are.
The idea that some incel Silicon Valley dipshit mook who thinks the Louvre is something you do to a car knows how I should use my computer better than I do is fucking absurd. How did we let these clowns get so much control?
My friend, whose first language is not English, could not remember the word “speakers” briefly and came up with “song boxes.”
I think that’s a perfectly good name for them! I just hope she doesn’t do that in her role as translator and occasional interpreter. (She was very tired when that happened.)
Why do the higher ups in offices like to work such long hours?
This terrible disease is more common in Boomers, who actually got something out of it. Not a lot, but something.
For many people who have no hobbies, aren’t particularly social, and are not all that smart, working long hours was and is preferable to the alternative of no social life and boredom. Many of these types also dislike their own families, so spending time in the office is for them a good alternative to their existence at home.
And some people do honestly like to work. No one knows why, but they do.