I have to admit, this song did Brighton my day. And so did the accent.
Author: Chill
Lande Hekt – Whiskey
Beautiful song.
Chump
My MIL has sent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to “Elon Musk” and wants to send more.
Goddamn my ethics.
I would be incredibly good at scamming. And these people are such chumps. It’s unfair.
Maika Loubté – Kingyo-bachi
Cool, wistful song.
Econned By All
That has certainly occurred. The “scam economy” is the entire economy now. There is probably no going back. At least not for a long while.
Normal Deviance
So…like the normal way you’d get to know someone? Damn, #MeToo became so perverse and purely evil.
A lot of women really did go on some bizarro campaign to make normal relationships and any “unauthorized” instances of attraction verboten. And the backlash was immense and well-deserved.
Why Are New Zealanders Moving to Australia? More Money, Better Vibes.
Vast cluster of ancient galaxies could rewrite the history of star formation.
The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight.
What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet.
Got asked about a 8 month gap 15 years ago for a minimum wage job.
Zillow removed climate risk scores. This climate expert is restoring them.
Low Hire
Unlike the dipshit in the post below, someone who actually knows what she’s talking about.
Best I can figure, consolidating BLS/FRED sources, the US tech industry has lost around 700,000 jobs since the peak in late 2022. And that is a huge amount.
Ruled By
Those roles are all overseas. Net information roles in US are down 190,000 since the recent peak (of but one example as this doesn’t include all tech roles, there are others on FRED):
As if the tech world has only three components. Unfortunately the discourse is ruled by lying clown idiots who can’t even be bothered to look at a graph.
Sane Place
It is, anywhere sane.
No Back
TIFU I messed up by trying to “repair” my girlfriend’s laptop.
What kind of clown does something like this with no backup?
Apparently, that kind of clown.
My first action on working on anyone’s machine for anything that has remotely any chance of changing anything at all is to create a backup. Even if they tell me it’s not needed. Even if they tell me not to bother. Even if they claim they just created a backup.
That has saved my ass so many times.
Unat
For the unattractive men, what’s a harsh memory that sticks with you?
I don’t think I’m unattractive any longer, but growing up my North Florida compatriots certainly thought I was lower than pond scum by any measure.
That said, my experiences were similar to this dude’s: More than once, girls/women approached me completely unprompted to tell me how hideous I was and to not even think of asking them out.
This was with me not even looking their way or even noticing them (as they were themselves nothing special). Of course, this is just a female version of bullying. Women tend to be non-physical with it.
Just leaving North Florida eliminated 99.9999% of that type of thing. The nature there is great; the people are fucking terrible.
Con CPR
For many years, I lived my days through and by music. It was the continuous CPR that kept air in my lungs during the worst stretches of my life.
As I’ve said before, without Hope, Harriet, Tanya, Billy, Tori and others, I would not have made it. They showed me the better world that awaited me if I could find a way to turn the curse that was my existence. And I got there, barely. But I did. I’ll ever be thankful to them no matter the artistic merit their works do or do not possess. They kept me on this side of the dirt.
SANA SANA – Outrun the Sunlight ft. Jess from Calva Louise
Esto es una bola enorme de desmadre musical bien ruidoso. El video está más o menos. Yo lo podría dejar más chido.
Wishy – Fly
I’m not wishy-washy on this; it is quality psychedelic dreampop-ish shoegaze.