Month: May 2025

Chill Links

Google Shared My Phone Number.

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work. Always the MBA goal.

A look into the possibility of negative mass.

Palantir’s rise reflects the direction liberal democracies are taking: toward automated judgment and algorithmic inference—and toward control, streamlined, scalable, surgical. Hell world.

The Red Scare Still Haunts America.

Trump softens on Putin as Russia’s military edge weakens, officials say. Russia winning so hard!

The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere.

Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine.

U.S. Aims to Keep Chinese Navy Guessing With New Missile System.

A Big Fat Lie

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Nearly everyone lies, but fat people lie a whole damn lot on such surveys. I saw one obese woman claiming she’d only eaten 500 calories a day for decades and had lost no weight.

And no matter how obese you are, you’d die after a year or so on that sort of diet. Just not physiologically possible.

Frontlash

Chill Clowns

It’s so very oddball how so much of the contemporary left has settled on these fucked up “truths:”

  • That people of different races cannot have anything in common.
  • That people of different ages cannot have anything in common.
  • Who owns land or should own land is based on genetics.
  • That biological sex doesn’t exist but gender is all-important, except when it doesn’t matter and bio-sex does.
  • That men are inherently evil.
  • And that women are inherently good.
  • Immigrants are inherently good and don’t harass women far more than average.
  • Sex is icky and bad.

You can kinda see why there was an (equally-stupid) backlash. What the left believes is some pretty vile, outlandish, anti-human stuff.

Stages

Chill Clowns, Rant

And the most moronic response to the thread below:

That has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with it. Jesus fuck why are people so obsessed with something irrelevant but quantifiable? I guess because it is quantifiable, unlike compatibility, attraction, shared goals and interests, etc.

Clownish idiocy by oafish doofuses.

Face It

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I broke up with my GF after she got a face tattoo.

Appropriate reaction to any tattoo; if you want to despoil and deface1 yourself, not wanting to be with you is a very appropriate response to that self-destruction.

  1. Pun intended.

Chill Links

New Studies Dismiss Signs of Life on Distant Planet.

How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds.

Why MAGA’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Repeats Every Economic Mistake Since Reagan.

Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy.

‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as ‘Copilot all the things’ mania takes hold in Redmond. Hell no.

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get. People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

The Era of Thrash.

Take My Apple-cation

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Is this serious?

While by no means perfect, Apple’s machines just work, are wicked fast and their laptops last a whole day on battery. Even their high-end machines. And no, I do not mean a whole eight-hour work day. I mean an entire 24 hours. I brought an M2 Macbook Pro to a three-day work conference, used it for hours after the conf each day and didn’t charge it the entire time I was there. Try that with any other machine.

The Macbook Pro might be the only actually-good laptop on the market. It is truly an excellent machine, the exemplar of what a laptop should be. Lenovo, Dell, HP and any other maker now just seems to churn out absolute crap in this category. They appear to have just given up. Using an Apple machine feels great in comparison.

The M-series chips are pretty damn innovative, by the way.

Apple’s products are overpriced only if you don’t care about quality, reliability, supportability, usability, resale value, and not having to fuck around with your machine for hours to get it to do something that Apple ones just do by default. Or in the case of Windows specifically, spending half a day evicting all the surveillance and ad infrastructure — only for it to be reinstalled on the next update.

And Linux — don’t even get me started. Using that as a daily driver is about as smooth as sliding 300 meters on concrete. Clarification: I use Linux all the time. I was working in three different Linux VMs today that I have doing various things on our network. But as my main machine? Hell no. Too much bother and hassle.

As I mentioned, Apple machines are not perfect. Finder is absolutely chock full of bugs, is ridiculously slow, and has not improved at all in more than a decade. Pseudo-security has been ramped up too much — as with most companies — so you have to actively fight your machine to make it do what you want.

But compared to using Linux or Windows? Or a tablet running any OS? It’s not even a choice. Apple is the way to go.