The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.
99% of pages should be mostly HTML with a little CSS. (I claim as I look at the 2000+ lines of CSS code I cobbled together for this site. Heh.)
Month: September 2024
Officiousness
I am so fucking glad no one can ever make me go into an office again. I have a combination of skills and certs that maybe 0.0001% of my peers have to my level, and that means I can demand a lot of things. So I will and I do.
And my expenses are only about $800 per month. Can’t nobody make me do shit. I spent my life doing smart enough things to get to this point. Many, many people said I could not get here, yet here I am.
Bully for me!
Types of Stereo
Women often feel that they are reduced to a sex object where only their surface matters. Men often feel that they are seen only as an emotionless wallet for which any deviation from stoicism is a gross violation.
Both are correct.
JOHN CXNNOR ft. WITCH CLUB SATAN – Unlike Humans
Not to my usual taste, but this is fucking nuts in a way that really hits the spot tonight. Love it.
MTime
That’s metric time.
Portable
People, people, “pore” and “pour” do not mean the same thing. You’re doing a poor job of using the English language and you should pore over some grammar books before pouring your thoughts out on the page.
Devotional
Disbelieving in climate change is a religion. And in a belief system like that, what would actually occur and the evidence just does not matter. As with the Covidians, the religious feeling is what is important, is what is driving the anti-reality behavior. With that sort of nonsense people are glad to hurt themselves to prove their devotion.
Before Trump, Ford survived 2 assassination attempts in 3 weeks: California’s month of terror.
Americans over 60 are the fastest growing group of student debtors. That’s awful.
Even With $1 Trillion a Year the US Military Is Falling Behind, Russia and China are on war footing while the Pentagon struggles to modernize ships, subs and nukes. This is very very bad.
People who exercise have healthier belly fat, new study finds.
How Russia Profits From Ukraine Invasion by Selling Stolen Grain on a Global Black Market.
Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.
Smphone
I guess there will never be a small phone made again. The large ones are worthless to me.
Fuck all of this.
Red Authoritarianism
One of the reasons I wanted to move out of a red state is I kept being purged from the voter rolls. No explanation as to why.
As much as California government sucks, doubt that will happen to me here and doubt it would even if I were a Republican.
RTO Scam
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week.
This is just a stealth layoff. They do not give a fuck about actual RTO. This is targeted to make expensive people (top performers, most able to find another job) and women, the disabled, etc. quit. At least that is who will be most impacted by it.
It also hollows out the best people from the org, as mentioned, which will have consequences later. Has zero — absolutely zero — to do with productivity or any other excuse. This is just a method of conducting a layoff without the bad headlines (so they can blame the workers) and so they do not have to pay severance by forcing resignations.
Brainrot
Social media is poison and since women use social media a lot more than men, women are more poisoned by it. QED.
It doesn’t have a thing to do with the (non-existent) inherent terribleness of women, just the demographics of who has experienced more of the most mind-rotting “innovation” of the past few decades.
Not Content With the Content
I think I finally understand content warnings now. They aren’t effective at what they’re actually supposed to do. Studies show that pretty clearly.
Therefore, why they exist is, like many human things, for the purpose of signaling. Content and trigger warnings are used to convey that you are courteous enough to be concerned with the viewer’s sensitivities about something. They also communicate that you are embedded enough in a particular culture to know what its triggers and concerns in fact are.
Thus, they are used both for courtesy and to express status (these two are always closely related) and make a lot more sense to me from that sociological angle.
Resolve
It’s an odd idea that because some women get bothered sometimes in public by the worst 1% of serial-harassing men, that no one should talk to anyone in public ever.
We always seem to come up with the most dumbass and harmful solutions possible to problems that are in fact easily solvable.
Zip
What About Pizza Hut Are You The Most Nostalgic For?
That it was a treat, mainly. Something special. My immediate family was poor; we did not go to restaurants pretty much ever. Pizza Hut was something that was affordable and pretty good for a small town. It was one of the rare times I had food I actually enjoyed rather than just tolerated. When I knew I was going to get to go to Pizza Hut, I looked forward to it all week.
Their restaurants also used to be vastly better; they had salad bars, higher-quality food and better service.
And I personally always liked that they were very dimly-lit compared to other places. Made them feel kind of mysterious inside.