Author: Chill

Nothing Remaherkable

Chill TV Shows

All TV shows with a studio audience work this way. I’ve been to a couple of live filmings and that’s just how it’s done.

Deep Domain

Chill Killin' It

Mostly agreed. There is a general troubleshooting ability, however, and most people don’t have this. I do, and that means I can often solve problems in other domains. I’m brought in to do that fairly often and am almost always successful.

However, there is such thing as deep domain expertise. And it matters, too. In my own fields I can glance at, understand, and solve problems my own junior team members cannot comprehend much less solve in weeks or months. And that’s mostly the result of 25+ years of experience.

Chill Links

If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will. Still true.

Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers. Good.

The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun.

Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia.

This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco.

Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm. Clownish unbelievable stupidity. That MF has gotta be working for China.

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind.

RTO Extro

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Introverts – How do yall survive work?

I was lucky to be born with a really big brain so I can get away with more than most, but I also struggled in the extrovert-dominated in-person office cultures I’ve been a part of. I just have no desire to hang out with people nothing at all like me for hours on end each day, nor engage in endless sports chats or hear someone’s opinions on politics. Or share my own.

One of the reasons RTO has been demanded is that remote work does not benefit the extroverts nearly as much. Still does, but it’s not 90/10 extroverts, only like 60/40. So they hate WFH and demand (successfully) RTO.

I don’t want to be friends with my co-workers. I just don’t, sorry. I’ll be polite and do my job, but other than that I should not be expected do anything else.

Your social needs are not my problem.

Threat Handling

Chill Regular-ass Post

This is true, but I think it’s also somewhat unfair to women. Both because of their lesser physical strength, reduced exposure to violence, and lack of training, most women simply aren’t very dangerous in 1:1 (or 2:1, etc.) combat. They have far lower propensity to use violence even when it’d be warranted and called for, and less ability to prosecute it successfully if they choose to do so.

This changes the equation on how a threat is handled even it’s rare. I’m pretty sure if I needed to do so I could take out two women who attacked me at the same time, but the average woman would be hard pressed to take out even one man long enough to get away. And even if I am attacked by a man, I have a good chance of at least doing enough immediate damage to escape, and a fair chance with two. And that’s because I am unafraid of violence and, frankly, very good at it. Those facts are not true of the vast majority of women.

All that said, Aella is correct that women are often too fearful. More than actually benefits them. Women most often overestimate risk in this realm by some absurd amount, like 1,000x or even 10,000x the actual danger and threat.

But weirdly, they also underestimate risk by some equal and absurd amount of the “hot” bad boy they are pining for. He’s the one most likely to harm them, but they are nearly always completely blind to the Chad risk.

Why?

Wæter

Chill Clowns, Evil

Data center water consumption is extremely small no matter the use case. The objection to it for AI and anything else is just typical degrowther bullshit.

Hamster Huey

Chill Oof, War

Damn. That’s a whole lot of TM-62s. It looks like there are about 160 of them there. It’s impossible at that rez to determine what variants there are, but let’s assume standard HE TM-62s. Each has 17 pounds of high explosives. Therefore, 17×160 = 2720 pounds of mega-kablooey.

And that would make anything within a thousand meters around there pretty gooey.

Chill Links

Cracker Barrel and the Americana debate.

VistaVision.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN.

Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math.

Miles from the ocean, there’s incredible diving beneath the streets of Budape.

We’re hearing a lot of talk about stagflation now, for good reason. Tariffs and mass deportations are both stagflationary: They increase inflation while depressing growth.

Plurale tantum.

Buried for Nearly 2,000 Years, a Monumental Dionysian Fresco Sees the Light of Day in Pompeii.

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic.

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy.

Degrade

Chill Gutter Philosophy, Political Economy

Cohesive, coherent nations are probably the only structure we can support with current minds and sociocultural development that can provide something like general welfare benefits to the downtrodden.

Anything else is leftist fantasyland crap. They destroy themselves with worship of third-world immigration and clownish allegiance to Hamas and the like.