The media really dealt themselves a one-two punch with, first, their insistence that there were no substantive supply chain issues when anyone could walk into any supermarket and peep the empty shelves their damn selves. Guess to them there were no supply chain issues because their nannies and maids did all their grocery shopping.

And then, second, when they claimed against all evidence and reason that inflation really wasn’t a big deal, was transitory, and that the economy was humming along great — that all those insuperable price increases were just fabrications or your misperception. Just because you used to pay $4 for a Big Mac combo and now it’s $8 means nothing, they claimed. Just your lyin’ eyes doin’ what they do.

What a way to win ’em over. Command performance there.

It’s notable that when Justin Bieber was still underage, millions of very much adult women (some in their 40s and 50s) were talking about how much they wanted him — and oftentimes explicitly what they wanted to do to him — while facing nearly no pushback nor negative repercussions.

He was 14-16 at the time. Imagine if a bunch of men had done the same to, say, Selena Gomez when she was 15 and already famous. It would not have been permitted out in the open, and certainly would not have been seen as very hip and cool as it was for those creepy-ass women.

Women need their goddamn creep passes revoked en masse. My view is no one above the age of majority should be sexualizing underage people, while not denying they have a sexuality (nor punishing them for it, as we do in America).

You need the power of hundreds of GPUs to run ChatGPT that writes your little work summaries that you’re incapable of writing yourself.

I need the power of hundreds of GPUs to manage all the browser windows and tabs I have open as I ingest a significant portion of the world’s knowledge daily.

We are not the same. 😉