Day: August 20, 2025, 9:41 PM

Breakage

Chill Annoying

If you are running the 24.04 Xubuntu LTS release on Hyper-V (haven’t tested anywhere else) and upgrade to the latest Ubuntu mainline kernel via the normal update channel, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Lightdm crashes on reboot and you get no GUI. To fix this, can get to a terminal with CTRL-ALT-F3 and then download the latest Linux LTS kernel with all the related packages in .deb format and do sudo dpkg -i *.deb (with all those items in the same directory) and then all will be corrected.

Annoying breakage.

Swung

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

This is a much more accurate take than the left/liberal asininely assclownish assertion a few years go that “cancel culture does not exist.” Of course it does and did! They were just happy because they were able to cancel people who they feel deserved it while experiencing no consequences themselves. So to them, it didn’t feel like a cancellation when they nuked somebody from orbit but rather, justice.

Now the pendulum has swung the other way as it always does, so it’s seen as a grave affront to truth and righteousness when even a minor cancellation of someone on their team occurs.

People are funny.

155 Not Alive

Chill War

That shell weighs 43.2kg or 95 pounds. There is no fuze attached so it could not detonate as it is (eyebolt still screwed on). It’s a high explosive round variant, but I’m not sure what the purpose is here. Most of an arty round is useless weight, so it’s pointless to attach it to a drone.

Maybe this is just for show? I hope because as it is and as mentioned, it would not explode.

Slow Ride

Chill Annoying

What is your reason for taking things slow in dating when you actually like the woman?

Women believe they can smell desperation from 1,000 miles away. And sometimes they are even right. But they are extremely oversensitive to it, so they often interpret any interest as desperation. And that makes them disappear posthaste.

So contrary to clownish advice, it pays to be diffident and stand-offish with most women in the first few weeks or months. Or to take things “slow” or however you prefer to put it. Obviously, you still must be present enough to keep her interested. You can’t just ignore her. Women are going to hate this, but some effective strategies are:

  • Take a long time to respond to text messages, but gradually answer more quickly
  • Make a date then break it (but reschedule!)
  • After the second date, make her reach out
  • Hint that she’s not the only option, you’re just seeing what’s out there

After a bit, you can ease off and act more normal if you’re really into the woman. The goal here is to not trip her miscalibrated “desperation” vibe sensor, not to be cruel. Because with most women, if you don’t follow my advice above you’ll find yourself alone. Once you’ve tripped the faulty “desperation” sensor it’s over forever.

Historical Devisionism

Chill Amusing, Annoying

I’ve wrote about some other version of this sentiment before, but it’s happened to me a few times. And it’s hilarious.

Like, dude, I was there. Everything you’re saying is 100% wrong. One was arguing with me about how the military operated in the 1990s. And in that case, I was quite literally there. That’s next-level dumbassery.

De-FAANGED

Chill Annoying

It wasn’t required (as in, was not an assignment), but when I interviewed at a FAANG I did around 30 hours of prep. I got the job.

I’d not do it again. I mainly just wanted to see if I could do it. That this kinda shit is becoming required for nearly every job is absurd.

Chill Links

20,000 US Jobs at Risk as Marvel Abandons Filming in Georgia for UK Amid Soaring Costs.

Inflation alarm bells went off again and prices are rising. Just how bad is it going to get? Extremely bad.

Job market gloom hasn’t been this bad since the Great Recession.

Tech Companies Accused of Bending H-1B Rules With Newspaper Job Listings. Newspapers? They still have those?

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are not Getting Harder to Find.

It pains me to think about all the money being funneled into the AI bubble. Money that could have funded so many real solutions to real problems.

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire.

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing.

How Svengali Putin Keeps Trump the Chump Dancing to His Tune.

Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data. But they will not.

America’s Support for Taiwan Is at a Critical Juncture.