Wow, looks like I graduated from WGU just in time.

I’d never, ever, ever in a million trillion years install this piece of crap hellishly invasive surveillance malware on any machine of mine ever ever. I never would’ve considered WGU if they had this requirement when I started there. Real-time proctor monitoring of your screen and testing environment was bad enough; this is full Stasi.

This should be required of no one and is incredibly harmful.

Yes, yes, I could’ve easily gotten around this by buying a cheap computer only used for WGU. But why should I have to do this? And many students who attend the school (like every school) cannot afford to do this or are in an environment where this would not be possible (overseas soldiers, those testing on company computers, etc.).

I just squoke by before this was implemented; I would’ve gone to ASU Online or U Penn’s online program or UF’s if this insane requirement had been in place at WGU, despite those being a lot more expensive.

Will no longer be recommending this school to anyone, despite having a mostly great experience there myself. Avoid avoid avoid.

We’re passing through ‘the worst housing affordability crisis’ ever seen, former Housing Secretary says.

For an illustration of how very few people comprehend how house prices work, read the comments in the thread above. Nearly all of them are frankly fucking retarded. Just complete brain damage in every way possible. There are maybe a few thousand people in the country who understand what drives housing prices. All the rest are clownishly wrong in every way possible.

Why is it this way? Is it just propaganda? Wouldn’t it be to people’s benefit to understand this, the largest amount of money most people ever spend in their life? The comments on this post were better than any comedy I’ve watched lately. Just belly laugh after belly laugh.

This is such a great, perfect pop song.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I hope the new neighbors like a lot of Argentinian and Mexican female rap, cuz they’re gonna be hearing a lot of it this Fourth of July. What I was just playing loud, it rules harder than Catherine the Great.

Why there’s so many China bootlickers on Reddit lately? Is this some kind of targeted gov campaign?

China has millions of people whose job is solely to spew propaganda. So, yes, that’s partially the reason. Some are genuine authoritarian bootlickers, like Ian Welsh. But some are actually compensated.

I’m not sure which is worse.

There are very few actually sexy scenes in films. And that’s because it is incredibly hard to do. This is one, from Death Proof, but you need the lead-up too.

Vanessa Ferlito is so great here. I love that she does the scene in flip-flops. That really helps sell it. And just how tight the blocking is, how cohesive the scene is, and just the entire mixture of threat, dread, enticement and strangeness. Nothing else quite like it.

And “I ain’t stalking y’all but I didn’t say I wasn’t a wolf” is such an iconic line.

There are so, so many fun Spanish-speaking women artists now.