Shelved

Store shelves will start being empty in 3-5 weeks, depending on how much hoarding there is when people realize what’s happening.

Luckily most food that Americans consume is grown and packed in the US, so food shortages won’t be particularly bad. But everything else…well, that all comes from China. And it ain’t comin’ no more.

We’ve already prepped and are ready. Hope you all did too.

Free Work

Got tricked into developing a full client website during “interview test,” found it live a week later.

This is getting more and more common. I already refuse to do any free work for interviews, but in the future I will certainly accept the request and then deliver something that looks innocuous but is actively dangerous to deploy to production or to use in any way.

Good luck holding me accountable for that. I don’t even work there!

These companies deserve what they get. And I’m willing to give it to them for free, good and hard. Heh.

Sectorized

The private sector isnโ€™t efficient. Itโ€™s just better at marketing the illusion.

Dead on. The efficiency of private sector companies is a libertarian fucking myth. I was in the army for five years and yeah there were inefficiencies (mostly foisted on us by others), but we did far more with far less than any private sector company I worked for after that.

And that’s pretty typical. There’s just so, so much waste, corruption, graft and utter clownishness in private sector corps. It’s absurd to think most of them are at all efficient. It is simply false.

Not Pittiful

The Pitt is a good show. It reminds me of the first few seasons of ER1. It’s repetitive but that’s something to like about it in this rare case.

And more impressively, more than 90% of the medical terminology and practices are correct (though more rushed than most in real life). It’s worth watching.

  1. Which is not surprising as it’s from the same creators.

Electronic Warfare Lessons From Ukraine Informing Air Force Special Operations Future.

NY Fedโ€™s โ€œMultivariate Core Trendโ€ Inflation Measure Hits 3.0%, Worst in Over a Year, Predicts Acceleration of PCE Price Index.

I stopped defending my creative team and let leaders use aiโ€ฆ it failed lol.

The vanishing of youth. The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done?

โ€œWe still have substantial inflation in the United States,โ€ says Warren Buffett. B dawg is correct.

The company with the worldโ€™s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane.

What will this Chinese future actually look like, two decades or four decades from now? Here, I think thereโ€™s less than meets the eye. Agreed.