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.

Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China.

Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, study finds.

On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk. Tropical cyclone track forecasts are 75 percent more accurate than they were in 1990. So fucking moronic. The MAGA clowns hate weather because they think it is climate.

In his first 100 days, Trump launched an โ€œall-out assaultโ€ on the environment.

The Bad Data Backing Josh Hawley’s Attack on Abortion Pills.

Health Care and The Hollow State. How Federal Cuts Will Cascade Through State and Local Services. Things are going to get worse and worse for a very long time. All completely preventable and self-caused, this disaster.

The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexicoโ€™s Claudia Sheinbaum.

Say it with me folks: imports do not decrease GDP. Correct; they do not.

Small Packages From China Are Now Subject to US Tariffs. Hereโ€™s What to Know.

Calam Down

Most Americans alive today have not experienced an era of extended decline. I haven’t either, but was around people commonly as a kid who had struggled to survive through the Great Depression. I suspect the upcoming calamity will be one that most people are totally unequipped to deal with.

It’s hard to know specifics now, of course, but I expect the Trump Depression to last 8-ish years (though it could be as much as 20), at the peak to have about 40% unemployment and to result in a decrease in US GDP of 20-30% in real dollar terms.

And that’s the most likely but far from how bad it could get. Worst case could be even more horrifyingly terrible. The middle-bad case is locked in now; it’s coming, like it or not. (And no one should like it, not even the most MAGA-addled doofball.)

Sir This Is an Arby’s

Being a sack of decaying meat with fading memories. Breathing a diminishing series of borrowed breaths from the time you come out screaming until you eventually die choking on hospital soup.

Everything is for a limited time. Including our new Steak Nuggets.

Enjoy arbys for a limited time

— Nihilist Arbyโ€™s (@nihilist-arbys.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Your time on earth is pain. Increase the suffering with some inedible slop.

The History of Album Art.

120 Companies with planned layoffs in May.

One third of the population believes every lie, one third is too ignorant to tell the difference between truth and lies, and the remaining third is powerless (or unwilling) to do anything about it.

Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay.

High Rent Hits Gen Z Hard: 3 in 5 Struggle With Affordability.

US Holders of Foreign Assets, Foreign Holders of US Assets, and Exorbitant Privilege.

Ever Worried About Being Laid Off? Read This.

Split Skulls

If I see one more clown refer to a switch as an “Ethernet splitter,” I’m gonna have to go ape up in here.

A switch does not “split” anything. That is fundamentally not how it works. At all, at all.

There is a thing that is an actual Ethernet splitter that you should never probably use. And this is it.

In tech correct terminology is paramount because you often get exactly what you ask for. Ask for something stupid, you’ll get it. GIGO.