Crime can be quite involving and distracting, I agree. It takes a lot of planning and initiative to pull off a worthwhile heist.
Ohhhhh…you meant crime TV shows. Carry on, then.
Amusing
The Whole Point
This isn’t some slantwise intepretation. This is what the Dune books are about. Frank Herbert was very explicitly exploring how charismatic revolutionaries, even when they start outside the system, tend to reproduce the same oppressive structures they overthrow. That’s, like, the entire point of the whole series.
That’s not being clever, this interpretation. That is just being able to read. Dang.
Cat Rex
There might be more awesome things than a T. Rex flying an F-14 Tomcat, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of one.
Though those engines are flaming out and that means that plane is about to crash.
Push Pull
??? pic.twitter.com/OThYXbAFFA
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) August 25, 2025
I could probably do this and I am extremely fit. Most people wouldn’t hurt themselves, but just would not be able to do it.
It’s not dangerous, just something that maybe 0.5% of the population could actually achieve.
Not Caring Is a Superpower
People have asked me how I dealt with being hungry while losing a lot of weight (~27% of my body weight). Sure, I was sometimes extremely hungry.
But brother, here’s my secret: I just do not give a crap.
Decycle
Heh. The problem is that most people who cycle in the US are fucking insane, making it less popular than it would be if more sane people did so. (Because you have to be insane to cycle here.) So the cycle continues.
Sim
Well that’s just unnecessarily dark.
I love it.
Taba
As someone who has passed through the Taba border crossing between Israel and Egypt multiple times, I can also assure you that borders are indeed very real.
Monaco
I like Samo well enough, but wow is he giving Bond villain. https://t.co/ultDAG3D9Y
— Jon Stokes (@jonst0kes) August 16, 2025
That was taken at Caffè Milano in Monte-Carlo, Monaco (check out the napkin logo). I could’ve found it without that, but the logo made it so cake.
A Where
"Stuck culture" is how we're supposed to be outraged about the same Howard Stern clips we were outraged about 20 years ago. Seriously I didn't care about this guy the first time around, can we just not. https://t.co/uKZdWdgsFa
— Jon Stokes (@jonst0kes) August 22, 2025
He’s much milder now, but that kinda shit happened every five minutes in his old shows. That was just…what he did. The celebrities who went on his show knew it as well. They all were aware of what they were getting into.
Odin
I understand why IT people often have big egos.
It’s because many people think we can do god-like things that are just impossible, that violate the laws of physics and common sense.
When you realize to 99.99% of people computers are mysterious magic boxes that do things for no known reason, a lot of the dysfunction of the modern world becomes clearer.
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.
Hellpill
Dating women made me understand men.
There should be a pill you can take that causes you to be attracted to your own gender for six months (if not already) so you can learn about hell.
It’d be very illuminating for most. (I think it’d benefit women more, though, because they are less self-aware about dating because it is vastly easier for them to do it at all.)
Marvin
Mastodon and Bluesky have some of the most sanctimonious self-satisfied sad sacks in the entire universe.
It’s almost worth spending more time in both places because it’s an unintentional comedy. Those doofs make Eeyore seem like Robin Williams in coked-up improv mode.
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.