Day: October 18, 2025, 5:33 PM
Picky Picky
I listened to all or part of 961 new (to me) songs since 3AM today. Of those, I liked 47. This took approximately five hours.
That’s a success rate of approximately 4.89%. And that’s what you gotta do if you want to find new music.
Inflations
It’s not that there are no competent people overseas in the countries that typically receive offshored jobs. Of course there are. In fact, many of the best end up here as immigrants in the US.
But the competence level is certainly vastly different. In my experience the average Indian in India is about 1/4 to 1/8 as competent as the average American. At least in tech, though I’ve heard it’s similar in other fields. The average Filipino is maybe half as competent. And the average LATAM hire is maybe 60% as competent as an American.
That’s not great! Part of it is worse education, tons of credential inflation and concomitant lack of experience. Screening is also not nearly as competent or thorough when done overseas. That all leads to offshore teams fucking things up left and right while the few remaining onshore people spend long, long hours fixing it all. All to usually not even save money in the end.
But sure, tell me again how efficient business is.
Smast
Nietzsche was a real bastard for coming up with the idea of master-slave morality. Particularly slave morality.
Why’d he have to be right? Human nature kind of bites.
Joaquina – los 41
¡Eso sí es pop del bueno! Me flipa cuando se pone a mover el pelazo por todos lados. Y lo de fumarse una piruleta…me mató de risa.
Soul Removal
It’s creepy, all the women with “Instagram face.” They’ve all gotten the same work done on their faces by the same plastic surgeons using the same techniques. And as a result, they all look like Stepford Wives clones. I’m sure men will get the blame for this as women aren’t usually forced to take accountability but trust me, ladies, men do not want this, do not like it, and wish you would not inflict it on yourselves.
The reason I was thinking about this is I saw a photo of Phoebe Cates from the 1980s. This photo, specifically.
She’s very beautiful but even better what makes her face distinctive hasn’t been sanded off, polished, redacted for plasticine pseudo-perfection. In other words, she still looks ensouled. She looks like a real person. And that’s so much more appealing than the power-sanded version of Phoebe would be. Why is this not obvious?
VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes in an indoor environment.
A scientist wanted to create a mirror cell. Then she realized the dangers.
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution.
Don’t Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites. Thought this was widely known already?
Return-To-Office Mandates Are The New Glass Ceiling.
” We are Finished”: Idaho retirees crushed as premiums soar 4,275% after Trump and GOP gut Obamacare subsidies. That’s going to devastate a lot of people.
Tariffs to cost companies $1.2T this year, mostly hitting consumers. That’s gonna leave a mark.
Small businesses are being crushed by Trump’s tariffs, and economists say it’s a warning for the economy. So is that.
Import Tax
It’s so damn weird that Europe spent hundreds of years getting rid of murderers and rapists and then decided to import them by the millions.
I will never understand.