Year: 2024

Tumpestuous

Chill Regular-ass Post

AITA for telling my vegan friend I don’t want to come over for Thanksgiving Dinner?

Because of a girl I was dating, I did a vegetarian (not vegan) Thanksgiving one year. The crucial point was we didn’t try to make anything that mimicked another food. And it helped that she was (like me) a good cook. She asked me if I’d be willing to try it and I think was surprised I said yes. (She would’ve been ok if I’d said no.) But shit, I’ll try anything that won’t wind up with me in prison, a buncha people dead or Putin serving me a polonium pie.

I don’t remember what all we made but every bit of it was great. I didn’t miss the meat at all, though I’d not want to do a veggie Thanksgiving every year. I do recall we made some sort of nutty stuffing that was quite delectable.

You can do a lot with mushrooms and nuts, for sure.

Chill Links

The web is losing. Badly. But a comeback is possible.

Cheap light transformed civilization.

Calling Trump a Fascist Is Well Overdue. Why Did It Take So Long?

Chatbots remind us that natural conversation is artificial too. Indeed. In the sense that most would mean it, nearly all my conversations are artificial (as compared to a baseline human).

Lack of political or legal accountability for the rich and powerful certainly isn’t new information. But Musk has taken it to a genuinely new level and elevated it to the level of a kind of performance art.

Learning to trust Trump’s generals: There’s a reason why his military men now call him a fascist.

We’re Gonna be Okay.

Democrats must finally reckon with the political danger of concentrations of wealth and power.

Bezos, Trump, and the Failure of Democracy. We are witnessing a watershed moment. Democracy is failing because the rule of law has been broken. And everyone is about to realize it. All at once.

On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control.

The precision of Israel’s weekend attacks against the S-300 systems and critical parts of Tehran’s missile-production facilities once again demonstrated Israel’s deep intelligence penetration of Iran.

Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings.

Rico

Chill Politics

There could be principled objections to Harris and her policies. Could be. I haven’t really seen that, though. Most of what I’ve witnessed has just been misogyny and racism.

Personally, I think she’s slightly better than Obama. Which is not great. But is like a ray of heavenly light compared to Trump and Vance. And since Bezos decided to bend the knee to Trump, no way in hell I’m voting for that ticket (as if I needed another reason to not vote for a senile declining old rapist).

Tankies

Chill America Fuck Yeah, War

Our equipment mostly rocks the mic like a vandal, no matter what some leftist doofbags claim. Yeah, sure, the T-64 is a great tank if you like your whole army dying in like 0.02 seconds when hit with an RPG or a brisk wind.

If there had been a shooting war during the Cold War, we would’ve tore up the USSR’s shit like a cat with roll of toilet paper. And unfortunately we might yet get that chance in 2030 or so.

Vio

Chill Rant

EVERY fucking woman alive should read this, especially the ones who demand that men intervene in situations or public harassment. You don’t know what the fuck you are asking for. I have intervened is such situations and all times but a couple it’s been a fight. Luckily, I have never gotten shot though I got hit so hard in the side of the head one time that I felt it for weeks after.

For claiming to know so much about men (they don’t), women are utterly goddamn clueless in this area. Just laughably stupid with only a few exceptions. And the guy is exactly right. I’m strong, I’m fast and I have no problem with violence. Without a taser or something, though, there is no chance I can restrain most guys. I basically have to try as hard as I can to kill them before they kill me. That’s the way it is in reality. And that is true of guys even a lot bigger than I am. Women do not understand how strong even average guys are. There is a reason even large police officers need 3-4 of them together to restrain even scrawny-ass rednecks. It’s not because the police officers are weak. It’s because it’s very, very hard to restrain a full-grown male who is angry and not afraid to fuck you up if you give him even a free hand.

In other words, if I were Daniel Penny I probably would’ve killed that dude too. One of the reasons I do not ride public transit is because I do not want to put myself in such situations where it is likely I’d need to take someone out.

Sorry, women, but all of that is true. And if you can’t read that thread leave a comment and I’ll send you the whole thing in PDF form. You all need to understand this.

End Civ

Chill Clowns

Anyone who seriously believes there are 50 million people in the US with Long Covid or the Long Covid incidence rate is 20% all I have to say is…LOL. Alrighty then.

Remember, the Covidians were the ones who claimed Long Covid would end civilization and that not having years-long lockdowns would cause GDP to crater. Don’t see those claims much anymore, do ya?

The reality is that Covid is just another meh coronavirus that has the distinction of being released from a lab after a few mods that allowed it to infect humans more readily. Other than its origin, it’s pretty normal and the Long Covid rate defined sanely is in line with other similar post-viral sequelae.

Too Much POWAH

Chill Tech

None of you can understand the power of a fully-loaded browser context menu:

And yes, I use all of those. Too bad dumbass Mozilla took away the easy ability to edit and re-order all of that, because I really fucking need that capability. All of you are weak and puny in the face of what I could do with the right tools.

So of course Mozilla had to limit people like me. We were just too powerful.