Tickety Boo

The New Pornographers.

I’ve never used TikTok. Never will. Too large a cognitohazard. I’ve seen vids from it re-posted on Reddit and watched a mid-20s friend of mine scroll through it over her shoulder. I said, “This seems like absolute hell.”

She said, “Yes, but it’s a very addictive hell.”

No thank you. Not for me.

Gap Clears

If I had a daughter, I would not care if she was in an age gap relationship. Even a large one (15+ years). But I’d be worried if she were to date someone much smarter or much dumber than she was.

(I wrote “daughter” since everyone seems to think it’s fine if a 52-year-old woman is with a 20-year-old man, etc.)

Bar Wars

Something I appreciate about the Star Wars world is there are not screens everywhere, nor ubiquitous surveillance despite having extremely high tech. Used to, I objected to this. But I was wrong — how we use technology (and even what tech we create) is highly dependent on culture. In our own world, we could’ve made other decisions, chosen other paths. But we did not.

That does not mean another culture would do the stupid just because we did.

Nevers

I was also told by women several times in my youth that, “Women never cheat. It’s always men.”

Well, I am pretty smart so I immediately said, “Then who are the men cheating with? Doesn’t seem mathematically likely.” I mean, that one woman they are all getting with must be very tired. Of course that just made my interlocutors angry. Which I enjoy, don’t get me wrong.

(I grew up in rural North Florida so they were definitely talking about straight people only here.)

Obliviousness

Remember that clown who said there are no videos of people dying on the internet? There always were, but since that idiot posted that I’ve probably watched 2,000 Russians die on the Combat Footage sub-reddit.

That’s not what I go there for, but if you watch actual combat footage that’s what you’re gonna see a lot of.

Civ Still Here

We find no evidence for a negative association between COVID-19 infection and subsequent measures of cognitive functioning. The associations found in earlier studies may at least partly reflect reverse causation.

This is about what I expected to see. Covid is not some mysterious crazy super-virus of doom. It’s just a regular ol’ coronavirus. It’ll have about the regular ol’ effects, no matter what the Covidians claim.

427

D427 Rant.

This is a very hard class. It’s the only one I really struggled with, though I did pass the final the first time. The key to passing this class is that you’re taking it in a real, full MySQL environment. Therefore, the help command is available. If there is some command you are are unsure how to use, do help and that command name and it’ll tell you how it works.

This is slow and you already have to understand how MySQL works well for the help system to be fast enough to be useful, but it got me through at least three questions where I could not recall the correct syntax.

But knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do is also part of test-taking.

Hovelage

Yeah, this presidential election is gonna bite about as much ass as I thought it would. If you didn’t have to auction all your organs to be able to afford a mere hovel anywhere worth living in Canada, probably woulda emigrated there.

Healthy Crack

“But, but, the crack I and my kids smoke is the healthy type of crack! It said so right on the crack packaging!”

LOL y’all dumbasses. Of course Haidt is right. It’s fucking obvious in every way something could be obvious.