I think this is a perfect song.
Day: September 2, 2024, 6:58 PM
Aversive
What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control.
While I don’t agree with Kat that this needs to be done with the aid of alcohol, sure, it can be. And her thesis is absolutely correct.
This is a generation that is both highly conflict-averse and virtually allergic to risk, particularly when it comes to markers of autonomous adulthood like driving, working, or sex. The bosses of Gen Z employees report that they can’t make eye contact, take criticism, or even ask questions when they don’t know how to do something. The post-work drink is dead, apparently, thanks to young workers who prefer boundaries to bonding.
I remember when dipshit Alice Goldfuss wrote some clown-ass crap about why did people go to bars when they could just drink the same thing at home for much cheaper. Because, you fucking doofus, people go to bars to be social, to hang out in a neutral place with their friends, to see what the night brings. I’m not really all that social and even I can understand that1.
One time, I went to a bar with some friends (and I barely drink) and I wound up sitting at the bar chatting with a minor TV actress and Charles Fuckin’ Barkley. Now do you think that would’ve happened if I’d stayed at home? Hell to the no, y’all. Serendipity can be pretty fun sometimes.
Too many people are much too concerned with building boundaries and walls before they even know what they want, what would be good for them, or how to handle life. They read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” completely the opposite of what he intended.
Gen Z can’t handle shit because they never do anything, never take any risks. Miserable prudes.
Gift
The first ten on today’s second playlist:
Fit For
I had this experience in Israel. Went there, gazed around agog for days, shocked by how insanely hot all the women were in comparison to what I was used to back in the States. And then I realized that it was not that I had found a wholly-new species of human, but that nearly all of the Israeli women were svelte and took care of themselves fitness-wise. Nearly none were obese, or even overweight, nor out of shape (And also had better, less entitled personalities as well.).
And it turns out that makes a large damn difference, more than you can even imagine before you experience it.
Green to Red
What is something good you made/did that got you in trouble?
When I was working at a fairly large hosting provider, I was on a team that discovered that our reporting tool was showing that backups were occurring that actually hadn’t been done recently, or in some cases had never been taken. Meaning that some customer systems had no backups at all, and for some the last successful one had been completed months or years ago (supposed to be done nightly).
I fixed the inaccurate reporting and this turned our main monitoring dashboard from all green to have a whole lot of red as it then correctly reflected that backups were in a terrible state.
Got blamed for “making us look bad” and “putting a lot of work on a lot of people” because the reporting had been made to reflect reality.
The clown manager who spouted off about a lot of work on a lot of people wasn’t even correct as I personally fixed most of the issues. Because I scripted it, but also because I had more experience with more OSes than anyone else.
So that was fun.
Seen’t
I’m pretty magical, but the above is also true. I’ve been fucking around with computers since I was four years old. That’s 44 years. I’ve been doing the same for nearly 25 years now professionally. I’ve seen a lot lot of things.
When one of my juniors asks how I could’ve possibly known what was wrong so quickly my answer often is, “Broke that in production 15 years ago.”
Pax Out
People will miss Pax Americana when it’s gone, despite all the flaws and mistakes made.
I Have
Also, heh.
That hits on (pun intended) an inconvenient truth about how a lot of attractive women think and behave. It’s not all about you. Shocking, I know.
To Put
Or to put the below in terms I hope more women would understand, what the Reddit woman said was equivalent to this (gender switched): “You’re not nearly as cute or sexy as any of my previous girlfriends, but it’s great that you’re so good at cooking and cleaning.”
How does it feel now?
Stable Bull
Sorry to bring this back up again, but this idiot’s take on the whole affair is clownishly fucking moronic:
The problem is that she’s saying SHE SETTLED FOR HIM. That he’s not hot enough to be a hookup, but he’ll do for stability’s sake. No one, man or woman, wants to hear that. If my partner didn’t think I was super hot (and vice versa), I’d want to break up because I’d be doing her and myself a huge, huge disservice. What she said was clearly not awkward wording and if it was, it was the most backhanded “compliment” in recorded history. Seriously, with a backhand that good she should play pro tennis.
Ok, since a lot of you are dense, think about it this way. One time I lost my partner in the grocery store. Went to seek her out. Got distracted looking at other crap there, my mind wandered, and as I was gazing down an aisle completely zoned out I saw a woman and thought, Wow, whoever is with her is lucky. She’s just gorgeous. And then my brain engaged again and I realized IT WAS MY PARTNER. Yay, the lucky guy was ME! WOOHOO!
If you don’t feel that way about whoever you’re currently with, you’re with the wrong fucking person. Simple as that. And it’s clear that she in fact does not feel that way about him. Why is that so hard for people (mostly women, but not all) to understand?
Early Warning
My sister would’ve slept through that, no problem. She could sleep through anything. One time in frustration of her not getting up (me being parentified at the time) I pulled her off the bed by her feet, dragged her through the house, picked her up and threw her roughly in the back of the car. She stayed asleep the entire time. No, she was not faking. She woke up at our grandparents’ house, highly confused by how she’d gotten there.
Once she also slept through her window being shattered on her by a tree limb. And I am sure other incidents I’m forgetting. I also did throw water on her one time, though I didn’t pour it in her ear. It didn’t even rouse her a little bit. She didn’t even flinch or react in the least.
Drizzle
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Long Drive
Something people who spend their entire lives on the East Coast of the US don’t appreciate is just how much emptier the West is than the East. It’s a huge difference. There’s not many places in the East that you can drive for a few hours and not see many obvious signs of human habitation.
But in the West, that’s trivial to do.
Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense.
Deepwater Submarine Recovers Roman Battering Ram From Ancient Battle.
What I Saw at the 2024 DNC Inflamed My Hatred of the ‘Media Elite.’
The modularity debate ought to be considered resolved at this point.
Mechanisms and consequences of sex differences in immune responses.
The Forgotten History of Sex in America.
The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In. Welp, guess we’ll be fighting in Poland in 2032. Great.