Bad Few

Well that’s bleak. But accurate. True of the rest of Europe, too. It’s going to be a bad few hundred years there.

Dismant

I’ve never, ever understood and never will how discussing cultural differences and caring about them is racist. I wouldn’t want a bunch of fucking Islamists migrating to the US no matter how lily-white they are. Keep them out; they just make everything worse as their culture is garbage. This is just as true of blonde-haired blue-eyed Muslims as it is of anyone darker.

Of course in reality, the left uses accusations of “racism” as cover for their project of dismantling Western civilization. Which, overall, is going pretty well for them — especially in Europe.

What the Dickens

That is an extremely easy passage, I agree. In a normal world I’d consider that to be what 4th-6th graders should be able to handle.

We do not live in that world.ย 

There is just nothing very complex or intellectually challenging there, especially if you can use Google. That university students in the US cannot make sense of it is fucking appalling and an indictment of us all.

Systems

Is it just me or a “sys admin” now needs to be licensed in literally everything in existence and beyond nowadays JUST to be employed with an inhumane workload?

This isn’t exaggeration. To some extent, sysadmin types have always been expected to know more and do more than any other role. In some places we’re required to be subject matter experts in dozens of different IT domains, have great customer service skills for all the escalations, and master completely-unrelated areas of expertise such as electrician work, HVAC, plumbing, facilities tasks, and even carpentry.

But in the last decade or thereabout, it’s gotten so, so much worse. We’re expected to be expert developers in a dozen different languages while being full-time developer support, be masters of security, networking, design, architecture, three or four different cloud providers, and still be capable of all the other stuff above. And so much more.

I’m extremely smart. Not a brag, or if it is who gives a damn. Anyway, I’m in something like the 99.998th percentile. And I find keeping up with all of the above challenging. People who don’t have brains that big simply cannot do it.

Will AI help? I have my doubts. It just makes dumber people screw up faster and in less predictable ways from what I can tell.

This rant doesn’t have a point, really. Just some fulmination into the void.

D-Fens

A people that pathetic perhaps deserves to be Islamicized.

Dang that’s sad.

Bronze

For some reason, I don’t really give a crap about “stolen valor” even though I’m proud of what I did and achieved in the military.

But if someone wants to claim they did something they didn’t? Sure, whatever. It’s just not a concern of mine. I know what I did and that’s what matters to me.

Go Degrow There

Fuck degrowth and all degrowthers (de facto and declared). All evil. All making the world worse. All should be expatriated to Somalia.

Exc

Entirely too much of so-called liberalism and progressivism is about the joy (for them) of taking things away from people — anything fun, modern conveniences, air conditioning. If it makes life better, you’re not doing proper penance, so it must be excised.

It’s a horrible, evil sickness. And it seems to be worsening.

Extrachromosomal DNAโ€“Driven Oncogene Spatial Heterogeneity and Evolution in Glioblastoma.

Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for.

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege.

What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output.

As of today the company I work for has officially replaced three humans with an AI. They named it, gave it a cartoony persona, and they’re SO EXCITED to see it doing customer service work (and also stuffing bonus money in leadership’s pockets)! Fuck those three people he replaced, right?

American students are getting dumber.

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs.