FA’s Last Hurrah

We're finally learning the true side-effects of weight-loss drugs.

This is probably part of a front in the Fat Acceptance/Early Death backlash to GLP-1s. It was inevitable. That camp hates that these drugs exist. And this is why:

The vast majority of FA types are women and that someone can get so massively hotter in such a short time triggers their big (pun very much intended) intrasexual competition feelings. And that leads to real-world attempted actions.

Don’t let them get away with it.

Nothing To Do

This is true anywhere and always, but it has gotten worse. Most of the time when people argue with some point I’ve made I typically don’t engage because I realize they have not understood in the least and don’t even know what half the words mean.

Why get in the middle of that? Whatever is going on there has naught to do with me.

Enforce

I’ve observed this utterly bizarre constellation of beliefs in the wild before, too. Although calling any of it “beliefs” is really stretching the term far too thin as there is no cogent thought or value structure behind it.

People really can — and do! — believe that every country in the world has sovereign right to enforce immigration laws except the United States. And then act affronted or confused when you tell them that is it hypocritical to believe that.

The really strange thing about it all is they often completely cannot recognize that this is a contradictory set of opinions. Even if you point it out. Repeatedly. I have no idea what is going on cognitively there but is such an odd things to observe. And it’s fairly common in lefty types, perhaps even dominant.

For Sale

This just a part of the common woman’s fantasy of being so gorgeous and desirable that some ruthless criminal element cannot help but kidnap you in the Target parking lot and sell your hotness.

It’s completely absurd, yes, but so are many similar fantasies that men entertain.

Just a QQ

A phrase at work that instantly tells you things are about to get messy.

“Can I ask a quick question?” This is always, always a huge project. In IT, it’s never a “quick question.” Not once have I seen it be quick. Not a single damn time.

One of the “quick questions” I got in my current job turned into a project that is still rolling on eight months later. The person estimated it’d take five minutes. This is extremely common in my field.

In another role I got a “quick question” that transformed into a multi-year project and one firing. I think this happens because nearly all of the time managers and regular users have zero idea the complexity involved in anything, don’t do any research beforehand, and have no idea at all what they are asking for.

And then IT gets cursed with “quick question” poorly-scoped projects and tasks.

Tabs On

I need a browser that doesn’t tap out when it has only a measly few thousand tabs open.

My computer now is 10 million times faster than the one I used in 1980. So it should be able to open as many tabs as I want.

I will accept no reasoning, objections, or complaints; these are my demands.