A polycule sounds like the worst thing ever.
Leave me out of all that.
Year: 2024
PE Cas
TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy.
Darn. They might have to sell all their microwaves.
(In reality it looks like another PE casualty, though their food was genuinely terrible microwaved crap.)
Complex Tea
This is all true:
When I started in IT, the average sysadmin supported 5-7 systems. Back then I only had about 15-20 passwords. Now I (and my team) support 200+ systems/software/services and I have more than a thousand passwords just for work alone.
The complexity increase is enormous. A lot of people have left the field because they just could not hack it as the minimum cognitive ability required has gone way, way up.
Grow Away
The degrowthers are nearly as dangerous as China and Russia. That is FUCKING INSANE.
Cult of Person
That was a different world; I remember it well. I think this comment nails it:
Many of the things we did then as a matter of course would get you ostracized and/or arrested now. Too much prudery and clownery these days; smartphones and social media were a huge mistake.
Lawd Loud
Thinking back, I can’t believe how loud some of my computers were. And that I tolerated that.
Ruse Views
If you have a fully-paid-off house that you do not view as an investment, house prices are irrelevant to you. As long as this house still works for living in, I do not give a single fuck about how much it is worth or its Zestimate.
Just so much noise.
There’s That
I miss working with my old intern who was good at everything and learned just as quickly as I do.
Where do you find people like that? She was one in a million I guess. But she had like a 160+ IQ so there’s that.
Imp of Season
It’s super fun when things you’ve done in the past rather easily are described by other people as “impossible.”
Love that for myself.
Conquest
Remember, all these countries had their unique cultures and traditions before Islam! pic.twitter.com/dpf7W23U2S
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) October 31, 2024
It’s funny watching absolute dumbasses tie themselves into rhetorical knots arguing that Arab Islamic colonialism was not in fact Arab Islamic colonialism. Fucking idiots.
Wave Some Meat
So it does look like the North Korean forces have joined the Russian unorganized meat waves.
Russia: North Korean soldier who survived the assault he was sent on by the Russian fascists against Ukrainians in Kursk region.
Lone survivor out of 40 North Koreans.
Open video for English subtitles. https://t.co/qRVCO4Mhep pic.twitter.com/FhGBTcdMxm— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) October 31, 2024
We need to stop this. Now.
Learning is Hard
Well, some of us know what’s coming. But certainly most are clownishly, cluelessly unaware. But they’ll learn. Too late, but indeed they will.
TFST
I’m not lying, y’all, I hate Standard Time so so much. It makes every day worse and more depressing.
Turbo-fuck Standard Time!
The Little Sins We Commit at Work—and the Bosses Who Are Cracking Down. Hell world.
The Problem Bezos Can’t See. Admit it Jeff: you’re afraid of Trump and you kissed his ring.
Trump is already poisoning trust in yet another US election.
Donald Trump’s campaign of relentless lying.
Why the U.S. Military Has to Hitch a Ride on Commercial Ships.
U.S. Drugmakers Are Breaking Up With Their Chinese Supply-Chain Partners.
These Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can’t think, and possibly never will.
Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions.
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s.
Chinese agents are running Canada. And it shows.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias.
Higher body mass index is associated with smaller brain volume, study finds.
Double Not
I think about this 2-3 times a day too. People will say things are “impossible” that they literally experienced themselves! It’s so fucking oddball. Like, gramps, you went to college for free in 1973 — don’t tell me it’s “impossible” that it could be done today. Other countries are still doing that! It’s double not impossible.
There’s also a passel of liberal doofshits who declare — and have been declaring for two decades — the gains we’ve been making for years in batteries and solar are “impossible.” And one day, they’ll be right. After both have improved a thousand times over and gotten 10,000 times cheaper.
The world is filled with goobers.