Wow, Miss Gill is a sweetheart. Should be more teachers like that, and they should be paid more. I never thought I’d live in a timeline where teachers would be demonized, yet here we are.
Someone jump in the time machine and fix this shit.
Month: April 2025
No Muss No Fuss
If I had a robot girlfriend, I’d simply treat her with the respect and consideration any conscious being deserves.
Except when it comes time to assassinate my enemies. Then she better get her big girl robot pants on and attend to business.
Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch.
An unexpected Trump ripple: Britain nationalizes its last steel mill.
Supercells are the king of thunderstorms. Here’s how they happen.
Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump’s tariffs bite. Only the very very beginning of the first wave of far more to come.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains? Police state is here.
Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars.
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar.
First Shockwaves of Trump’s Tariffs Are About to Hit the World Economy.
Boeing jet returns to US from China, a victim of Trump’s tariff war.
Trump Moves to Levy Chinese Vessels in Widening Trade War. This has moved from moronic to mostonic.
The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia.
Époquexy
Soon, as we enter firmly into a long and grinding depression, the 1990s are going to look like even more of a belle époque.
And inevitably even more goofuses will come out of the woodwork claiming that, “It’s just because you were a kid!” Even though I and many others observing how comparatively nice was that era were full-ass adults during most of that decade. I spent half of that period as a paratrooper in the US Army, which is no one’s idea of an easy life.
It’s just another example of a basic denial of reality in service of substitution in of ideological astigmatisms.
But such is modern life.
Uemp
It’s amazing that in places like Reddit clownishly incorrect comments get upvoted. It’s as if people have an allergy to anything being even vaguely right and to reality itself. Like this asinine comment.
Unemployment in the US reached 10.0% in October 2009.
I care more than anything about having the actual, real data in my mind. And being right. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong as that leads eventually to being correct. But I just cannot tolerate clueless clownishness, which is the mode most people seem to operate in.
I want no part of that which is why I do not enjoying being around people in general.
Screened Out
Every time I see crap like this I’m so very glad I never had kids.
I do not tolerate that sort of thing very well at all. Anyone who breaks my stuff is my enemy.
Diurnal
There are people who say things like, “You can’t possibly keep the sleep schedule that you do and survive.”
Then they stay with me or are around me for a bit and see that it’s true — that I have no discernible circadian rhythm and only take naps. It’s funny how often in my life that has happened. I don’t know why I am the way I am. Just am.
But it’s not hard for me. In fact, the opposite. It’s quite easy. I don’t get jet lag and I sleep when I am tired. Nothing difficult about that at all.
Which Year
I knew I’d be very good at this, but it’s fun. How I did:
WhichYear 4/20/25
4795 pts (top 3%)
3️⃣ avg. years off
4️⃣ 🎯 1️⃣ 6️⃣ 3️⃣
(And no, I did not cheat. Or even really try that hard.)
WDCS
this kind of thing annoys me because they think a "big" number makes the argument without any context for how much that really is.
this means it would take 150-300 gpt questions to match the water cost of a single almond pic.twitter.com/LDNDyARCvL
— Aaron (@AaronEstel) April 18, 2025
And all modern data centers (thus, 99.98% of them) are closed-loop so the water cost is basically 0.
The energy cost, on the other hand, is fairly substantial. Which is why we need fucktons of solar, wind, nuclear, etc. We need energy abundance, not this wanker degrowther clown shit.
Fore Shore
Company is offshoring all roles to India: is this happening elsewhere?
It’s happening everywhere.
The small company I work for didn’t consider replacing any development jobs with staff from India, but rather augmenting existing staff. That idea was nixed after it was determined that we’d most likely have to hire 5-7 Indian “senior” developers to do what one of our existing devs could achieve, and that’d also have to bring on 2-3 additional technical leads to manage this offshore staff.
In the end, there would’ve been no cost savings and development velocity would’ve likely plummeted.
I put the word “senior” in quotes because in India, someone senior does not resemble what that term means in the US. In America, “senior” means that the person has generally 8-10+ years of experience, can take on large projects with little outside guidance, and needs nearly no training in their areas of expertise.
In India, however, “senior” most often means only that they’ve heard of the technology and can speak about it for a 30-second soundbite. Most “senior” Indian IT/dev staff I would not put on Level 1 helpdesk for the tech they claim to know.
And if that offends you, so be it. That comes from deep and long experience.
Ders
I think about this comment all the time. I can tell you that it’s correct, having moved from one gender to the other — i.e. from a low status man to a high status one.
It’s a totally fucking different world. Middle-aged women think they’re invisible. LOL. Alrighty then. Try being a poor unattractive awkward young man. Ain’t nobody in the world anywhere who gives a single little shit about you, and to the extent that they do you’re seen as a threatening default rapist criminal. You’re utterly, comically disposable.
And that’s just how it is, like it or not. Women can pretend all they want that something else is the case. But pretending doesn’t make it true.
No Nous Is Bad News
The actual cutting edge political discourse is between genocidal giga-leftism, NRx, genocidal Nietzscheanism, and chud MAGA-fascism. NRx and nietzscheanism are the only ones of those who unironically flirt with liberalism, but are basically checked out politically.
— Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) April 13, 2025
I think that gloss is basically correct. This is what I meant when I wrote on the old iteration of my blog that we needed “new minds.” This did even come close to occurring so we’re fucked for a generation at least and probably longer. We’re trapped in old ruts, saddled with archaic, inapplicable ways of thinking and of perceiving the world. These old minds will not solve new problems; in fact, they will make them worse. We can see that now very clearly as both the outmoded left and the antique right flail like fish dropped from an aircraft into a desert.
Usually, this disconnect between mentality and reality results in huge convulsions and catastrophes, e.g. WWI and WWII. We are on that path once again. Thus, WWIII is extremely likely unless we can somehow forestall it. However, nothing appears robust enough to even begin to stand in the way of that.