I don’t care about how much I sleep, when I sleep, tracking my sleep, doing anything else about sleep than I already do, having a sleep schedule or even really giving much of a crap about sleep.
I just do not care. It’s mostly irrelevant to how I live my life. Why are people so obsessed with this? Sleep when you need to, don’t when you don’t. Simple.
I don’t think I have good taste in music, but just like what the fuck I like and don’t give a flying fuck who knows it.
That radio station that’s showing the tracks in the sidebar? That’s the music I actually listen to. It’s not curated (for the station). It’s just whatever semi-randomly1 pulls from the 11,000+ tracks I have in my main music directory. I don’t edit or block or even pick anything.
Simple as that. Woo-Hah!
That is exactly right.
We really should not have allowed the most neurotic, most socially-debilitated and least normal women in history to seize control of feminism.
That was a big mistake.
Anyone else dealing with users who think rebooting is a personal insult?
There are tons of users like this.
I understand that you want your problem examined in minute detail by a team of experts and fixed. But computers are extremely complicated devices. Often, they get into a state that is not and never will be capable of being solved in any reasonable timeframe. Many DLLs and EXEs (etc.) do unpredictable, undocumented things that no one except the vendor can solve when they go wrong. And often, not even then.
Fucking reboot. Just reboot. Shut the fuck up and reboot. Fuck.
A few weeks ago, I had a user complain to my manager — all without putting in a ticket or contacting anyone on my team — that their machine was extremely slow and not working correctly. Why do people do that, contact a manager when they’ve made no effort to follow any process1? It just means I put them at the very bottom of every queue forevermore.
Looked at the logs. They had not rebooted in 184 days. Windows 11 needs a reboot about once a week to be functional.
I do not understand users.
Many women: I am the prize!
Men: But you offer nothing. You can’t cook. You can’t do anything adult. You’re dumb as a rock because you spend 16 hours a day scrolling on your phone. You don’t even like sex. What are you even here for?
Many women: The prize! The prize! The prize!
Men: *Goes off and does something away from the crazy*
We have really failed women.
I like Wolf, but this is old wine in a new bottle.
This is just Nietzschean “Overcome historical moralistic baggage that holds us back” from the Genealogy of Morals 1 combined with Foucaldian antihumanism. It’s just accelerationism, in other words, in somewhat different garb. I mean, Nick Land has been writing the same shit since the 1990s. The whole CCRU project was Deleuze-Guattari plus Nietzsche plus cybernetics, with the human seen as a bottleneck to progress.
Regardless, there is no way to credit “what we really are” without an implicit normative story about which capacities count as the real ones and which are historical baggage. There is no way around this; part of any useful philosophy is making value judgments. What Wolf is doing is reinventing the wheel while not even knowing what a wheel is or why there are wheels.
Claude is definitely a little pissbaby compared to ChatGPT. It’s a moralizing Church Lady. It’s making me likely to stop using it and return to OpenAI as its “safety” bullshit kicks in constantly for no reason at all.
Safety my ass. It’s just censorship.
Unfortunately I think this is basically correct. This is similar to the fact that a lot of left would get behind space colonization and/or exploration if we called it “space trans-ing” or “space deocolonialism” or something equally asinine while changing nothing else at all.
The reality is that names matter. They are built-in propaganda. We should probably call data centers “Tax Concentration Areas” or “Vital National Infrastructure” or a “Digital Sovereignty Facility” or something like that to make them more normie-palatable.
Here’s one example of Last.fm lying to me:
Of course, it was not an availability issue; their services were fine. They were just blocking me specifically.
Wow, Last.fm really did not want me to have an account for some reason. I needed one of their API keys, and I tried 9 different browsers, four different ISPs, six different email addresses and three different OSes before one worked (using an Azure exit point in East US on a generic Windows VM using a temporary email address on a rarely-used domain I have access to).
There is protecting against bots and then there is whatever this modern shit is. Can’t believe I had to go through all that hassle.
Correct. We have AGI. It just doesn’t look quite like some old sf stories so people can’t see it. What is present becomes quotidian; always, we grasp for something that never was to be and pass our eyes over the miracles right before us. That seems to be a part of human nature.
This is just not true. This is why I have so much trouble with liberal/leftist thought. It’s no more scientifically sound than conservative fantasies. “Believe science” is a religious cry, and not based on any reality. Check it.
Cars are a rounding error in load-based road wear. Large trucks cause almost all road wear, and it’s not even close.
You see, road damage scales with roughly the fourth power of axle load. Double the weight on an axle and you get ~16x the damage, not 2x.
A passenger car puts maybe ~1 ton on an axle while a fully-loaded semi puts ~8 tons. That ratio to the fourth power is in the thousands. The commonly cited illustration (from the old GAO-style estimate) is that one fully loaded 18-wheeler does the pavement damage of roughly 9,600 cars. In fact, road planners often don’t even account for car wear when building a road — only that of large trucks. So this doof gets their central premise exactly backwards. Cars are not “very destructive to roads.” In load terms they’re nearly irrelevant.
And hilariously it is invoking road-damage savings to justify free public transit. But buses are very heavy vehicles. A loaded city bus does hundreds to thousands of cars’ worth of pavement damage on its own. Thus, the road-wear case for transit only really holds for rail as buses are road-eaters.
In other words, banning every car on the road would not noticeably reduce road wear. But getting rid of all large trucks and all buses would. And those are the facts, not whatever weird degrowther clownery that nonsense is. And facts are all I fucking care about.
More than one person has told me that it’s impossible that I know all the things I know.
And yet, here I am. Just because you can’t do something does not mean no one can.
I wouldn’t say it’s the norm, but it is extremely common now that younger millennials and Gen Z women don’t know how to do anything at all. These are women who have been raised to be “special princesses” with no responsibility nor accountability, and so never learned to cook, clean, take care of anything at an adult level, etc. To be fair, this is true of some men too — but men simply cannot get away with being as useless. Meanwhile, many women have been brought up to believe they should not have to do anything to be a functioning adult.
It’s metastatic choice feminism.