It’s a hilarious idea that developers are supposed to replace me when I have to help them do such basic, absurdly easy, things.
Why hath god forsaken me?
Author: Chill
OER
Owner’s Equivalent Rent for measuring housing inflation is the clowniest, most useless way of computing that in the universe. Owners mostly have no goddamn idea how much it’d cost to rent their own place. I bet if you asked (and the gummint does) the owner and compared that to the actual rent they could get those owners would be off by 40%+.
Maybe the various levels and layers of wrongness balance out. But I doubt it. And even if so, why should we depend on that? Just a terrible, terrible metric.
Darth Invader
Is it true that the USA is basically immune to foreign invasion?
Immune? No. But invading the United States would be enormously difficult and would nearly require the cooperation of Mexico or Canada (or both). And like most countries with nuclear weapons, we’d nuke the shit out of our own territory before we’d allow the country to be fully taken. And here I am not just speculating — that exact scenario in war games is often the only time that nukes are used.
Any foe that attempted to invade the US would pay such a heavy price it’d almost never be worth it and the chance of success is low. Also, the US is gigantic and its geography extremely challenging.
And then if you somehow as an invader won against the organized military, you’d have to deal with a well-resourced and capable resistance after that.
Good luck with all that.
Not On My Side
I got too many friends, customers and stuff going on in too many timezones. I don’t know what time it is anywhere anymore, including where I am.
Smash Out
I love music so much. It’s accurate to say that music saved my life in North Florida when I was a beaten-on reject misfit. I’ll forever be grateful to Tori, to Hope, to the Smashing Pumpkins, to Tanya and all the other artists who put part of themselves out into the world to let me know there was something better out there waiting for me.
And there was. I am living it. Not sure I would’ve made it without their signs and omens. In fact, I’m quite certain I wouldn’t have.
Cut On
It’s a small joy when you read something terrible by someone then see a picture of the writer and they have the stupidest haircut in world history.
Mermaid Chunky – Cรฉilรญ
Wow this is so fun and good.
B Sis
Anyone seen this show Bad Sisters? It generally gets stellar reviews but I already got too much media going.
But think I will start it soon anyway.
Adรจle Castillon – ร la folie
Her mannerisms and goofiness remind me of Aella. Good song.
Drifted
I didn’t work out with my partner tonight so I lost count of my exercises and sets. I am certain I did more than I intended.
So I did Impossible Celebrity WorkoutTM x 1.5 or 2.
I do the impossible by accident. Love it.
Plete
ลฝiลพek: Quantum physics shows reality is incomplete.
I would not say “incomplete.” I’d just call our reality “granular” as well as “non-local.” That makes it feel incomplete, but the proof of the completeness of reality is that there is the ability to perceive it — or anything.
I mostly agree with ลฝiลพek, though, especially his disdain for superdeterminism. It’s too much to go into here, but a lot of physicists absolutely despise that we do not — as far as we can tell — live in a deterministic universe. Superdeterminism is a way to sneak determinism in again, with no evidence at all. It’s bunk and fraudulent. Sabine Hossenfelder is a major voice attempting to grift that hokum theory back into physics, but don’t believe it — the evidential basis for it is “I wish this were true, so it must be.”
Also, Rovelli (which ลฝiลพek mentions) is a terrible hack. He does not understand how entanglement works at all. He’s atrocious and his books are chock full of factually-incorrect nonsense (please don’t read them).
Box Of
People who think Harris saw the questions before the debate, you are fucking idiots. Those are the same questions they ask during every presidential debate and have since rocks were new.
What are you, 11?
There’s actually quite a lot to criticize Harris on but none of the conservatives seem to have the intellectual capacity to do so.
A quarter of Republicans think Trump should seize power even if he loses.
Germany extends temporary controls to all its land borders.
Kamala Harris Won Debate by a Knockoutโbut Her Fight Is Far From Over.
Icons of Aviation History: Lockheed Constellation.
Googleโs AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits. Well that’s some deep evil.
Samsung Electronics plans global job cuts of up to 30% in some divisions.
It is about race. Sometimes the non-PC answer is the right one.
Giant bubbles on the surface of a nearby star preview the fate of our sun.
Fortress Europe keeps cruelly raising its walls against the global south. Europe doing something toward its own survival for once.
Polaris Dawn Astronauts Reach Record High Orbit Above Earth.
Republican Science Denial Has Nasty Real-World Consequences.
Sterilizations Among Women Rose After Roe Was Overturned, Study Finds.
The Complicated Rise of the Right in Germanyโs Left-Behind Places.
It Was a Time
It was a lab leak, of course. But wasn’t it just wild in Feb-Mar 2020? I had people that are now mask-crazy insisting masks don’t work and were racist (??), and that not shaking hands was also racist, and that buying extra food was absurd because “nothing is going to happen.” All of that has been memory-holed and is “conspiracy theory” now. But it all happened.
What a time!
Dronebas
Scary new world. Remember, these drones are improvised and not even a 1.0 release. This tech is only going to get better: more autonomous, longer range, more lethal, more everything deadly.
And it’s gonna suck.