Day: August 11, 2025, 4:57 PM

Streets

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Japan also has very low crime. Used to have even lower.

I remember being utterly shocked when an American woman who had visited there told me that if she got tired in Japan while she was backpacking through the country, even in an urban area she’d lean up against a building and get some sleep. Not a single soul bothered her even a little bit.

No one would or could do that in the US. You’d be robbed, attacked, or far worse.

Why the liberals think we should just accept a whole lot of street crime for “equity” or whatever bullshit I will never understand nor agree with.

On My

Chill Annoying

I just received the finalized version of a deliverable for the really huge project I did almost completely by myself at work. This beast of an effort will directly lead to millions more in revenue possibility (and actuality) over the next few years.

And no one even said “Thank You” or “Congratulations” or anything. This is the project I mentioned that would normally be done by 8-10 people and I did it all on my own. I don’t normally need kudos other than a fat paycheck but man, I sacrificed nearly a year of my life to this damn thing. And no one seems to really care.

Bow Down

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

First year IT Support and I’m treated like a dog

This is common in IT. It’s probably even worse if you’re a woman (as this poster is).

Most people see anyone in IT — no matter their title or role — as the computer janitor/servant who should be completely subservient and willing to do whatever bullshit no matter how unrelated to the job or what the business needs. I’ve seen it over and over again. And I’ve lived it.

There’s some good advice in that thread (as well as some bad). Her boss should be doing a much better job of having her back. If someone treated one of my people like that, I’d be raising hell and blowing up the CEO’s inbox and Slack. That’s what’s a quality boss does.

And it never ends! I make well more than $100 an hour and I still spend time helping people unmute their headset. Or plug in a USB thumbdrive correctly.

Makes no damn sense.

K Circ

Chill Movies

I don’t care what anyone says, the line “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K” from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is one of the best from any film.

The movie itself is super fun but doesn’t hold up today, really. You had to be there in the late 1980s to really understand where it was coming from and what it was doing. With modern eyes it seems tone deaf or weirdly stilted, but it did not then as the entire mode of the late 1980s and early 1990s was that way in reality. To us now, though, it all seems affected and overtly, almost suspiciously, sincere.

And to Gen Z, the film would be utterly incomprehensible.

35

Chill War

Mostly agreed. And even with all the problems the F-35 had, the Euro options all bite ass compared to that aircraft.

Chill Links

People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins, archaeologists say.

Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder.

Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame.

Billions Flow to New Hedge Funds Focused on AI-Related Bets.

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example.

New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors.

By 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles will be fake, Gartner predicts. Likely it is already this many from what I’ve observed.

Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs. Yup. Utterly clownish.

South Carolina Republican: High prices are ‘for the good of the country.’

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. So much for “learn to code.”

The Enshittification of Generative AI.