Sys Min Ad

One of the developers where I work was surprised that I knew how to find and read the source code to figure out what one of their applications was doing and how it worked. I was doing that so I could solve some other problem.

Like, bro, I’ve been reading code since before you were born. Just because I do not like programming doesn’t mean I can’t understand it. In any sysadmin type job, you do everyone else’s job too. At least sometimes. That includes dev too.

Sis

Oasis and men.

I’m not an Oasis fan. I like one of their songs sometimes, though I haven’t listened to it in years. Not my type of band at all.

That said, this article is one more in the genre of, “Haha, men are defective women! Why can’t men be women!?!” annoying execrative diatribes common now. The whole article just drips with that condescension. I am honestly sorry I read the entire thing.

Women expect men to relate to one another how women do because that’s “better.” However, if you’ve ever been around women’s intrasexual competition and all the absolutely insane things they do to sabotage one another, you’ll know that you want no part of that. It’s not better at all.

And yes, I do know. Most of my friends are women, remember?

Kia is launching all the cool new EVs in Europe, while the US gets put on the back burner. Thanks to the morons in charge of this country.

Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old.

Social bias blind spots: Attractiveness bias is seemingly tolerated because people fail to notice the bias.

Europeโ€™s Free-Speech Problem. Republicans are right to criticize Europe for attacking free expression, even if that makes them hypocritical.

Large Stealth Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed Over China.

ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse. Luckily shaming doesn’t work on me. North Florida immunized me aginst that.

American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate.

โ€˜A walking coffinโ€™: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirth.

Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects. Absurdly, insanely clownish. Really must be working for China.

How AI will change the browser wars. Ugh.

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about.

Obesity has a serious impact on health โ€“ it shortened my mumโ€™s life.Blaming the patriarchy, fatphobia or big pharma for weight issues doesnโ€™t reduce the risks.

Vidco

According to Covidians, Covid is still having enormous hidden effects on health, welfare and society that somehow completely fail to show up in statistics, daily life, cross-country comparisons, anyone’s actual experiences or in anything measurable outside of confidently-conspiratorial pronouncements on Bluesky or brainless turd headquarters, Mastodon.

Isn’t that mysterious? Huh.

Topple

What the Inception fuck is going on?

I had a dream in a dream that I was scared of something. But when I woke up from my sub-dream in into my first-layer dream I thought, “That’s stupid. I’m not scared of that.”

Then I woke up to reality (I hope) and realized both were dreams.

Copywrought

This is one of the many reasons copyright needs to die.

I don’t give a fuck about copyright and I’d eliminate it 100% tomorrow if I could. As it is now, copyright is mainly a weapon to wield against opinions and ideas that large corporations dislike. But even if it weren’t it’d still be better on net to nuke it.

If you’re not violating at least a few dozen copyrights a day, are you even living?

Foe Real

Weight-Loss Drugs Have a Surprising Foe: Fat Activists

But I was told it’d be fit people like me who would be against GLP-1 agonists and similar. I was assured of it.

Of course anyone who wasn’t a know-nothing fuckstick knew that it’d be the FA loons who opposed people being healthy and happy. All of the fit want us to be glorious together!

It’s the miserable self-hating Fat Acceptance “activists” who wish to do the crabs in a bucket routine.

Breaker Breaker

I don’t care what the law says. If someone breaks into my house, I’ll kill them. Anything else is uncivilized. At least the US is mostly better about this.

A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life.

Iโ€™ve Seen What Happens When a Country Messes With Data. America, Beware. It’s going to get very bad.

The Iranian connection: how China is importing oil from Russia.

Housing shrinkflation is here to stay. New homes are 11% smaller but 74% more expensive than a decade ago. Economists will find a way to “prove” this isn’t true.

Civil War Comes to the West. This is likely.

Internet Killed the Subculture.

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics.

Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines.