Those repurposed anti-tank mines are shockingly effective; not a sandwich I’d want to eat. It’s good that the Ukrainians are able to use those old mines. There are vast stockpiles of those things from the Cold War.
Month: August 2024
‘Had It
Can we go Butlerian Jihad yet or not? I think we should.
We Now Have a Chance to Stop the Most Deadly Infectious Disease — if We Act.
Doubting America’s ‘Nuclear Umbrella,’ Some South Koreans Want Their Own.
‘Strange and mysterious’: rarely seen, 12ft-long oarfish found in waters off San Diego.
Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too.
Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender.
Carmel-by-the-Sea has never had street addresses. A plan to adopt them is causing a rift.
Nuclear Destruction
It’s going to end up being a bipolar world (America, China) at least partly because other countries insist on just voluntarily fucking themselves over. What Germany is doing is pure goddamn insanity.
NIMBY Blowback
From what I can tell, most of the hate directed toward Kamala Harris over “price controls1” is actually because she wants to streamline permitting and smack down NIMBYs, thus making housing easier to build.
The NIMBYs are doing all they can to fabricate whatever petty calumnies they can to make sure this doesn’t happen. For many, their entire politics is based on the price of their house and nothing else. That’s a lot of what we’re seeing now.
The Usual Con
We’ve never used DoorDash or anything like that and our grocery costs have roughly doubled1 since 2019. And we buy about the same things. Why do econs try so very hard to con us about this?
Policy
Even though we have been kinda shit at it and in many ways doing it from a Machiavellian mindset, providing arms so that Ukraine doesn’t get overrun is the best thing the US has done in a long while. If we allow enough to permit Ukraine to win, it’ll be an insurance policy against 100,000 American deaths in Poland in 2030.
Well Met
He’d been single all his life. Then he fell in love with a stranger on vacation.
In the Gen Z mindset, this is an invalid way to meet someone as it was not algorithmically mediated. If this sort of initial encounter isn’t harassment (to them), it borders on it1.
But seems ideal to me. We need more of this, and less of our lives ordered by corporations who do not have our best interests in mind.
Flagrant Reality Violation
To people who claim there is no good music made now and are stuck worshiping the crap you listened to when you were 19: WHAT IS YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
Settled
I don’t settle for people who settle for me. If you do that, you’re hurting yourself and the other person too. Simple as that.
Prog Shock
Because I don’t want to monkey with the PHP that runs this site, I’m sort of using CSS as a full-ass programming language. And that’s been weird but kinda fun. I would never, ever (as mentioned) want to do it as a job, though.
But it’s been enough, despite the huge limitations of doing it that way.
Jeanne Bonjour – Cabeza (reprise Oboy)
Une reprise parfait.
Go Co
The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better.
Lord, no one cares. No one cares at all. It’s over and done.
Character 80
What was the first PC game you ever played? Mine was Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0.
Not sure what counts as a PC here, but my first game was probably a ski game on the TRS-80 that had no graphics but was character-based. I don’t think that it’s any of the ones I can find on the internet, either. This would’ve been some time in 1980.
Before that, I played the original Pong console (which was of course not a PC).