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Think Nonsense

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Regarding that tard-ass person in the post below, I did some research. There are not many countries with no public libraries in the world. This is the list:

  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Yemen
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Niger
  • Afghanistan
  • Sudan
  • Nauru
  • Tuvalu
  • Kiribati
  • Marshall Islands
  • Vatican City

So that means about 97.3% of the world does in fact have access to some form of public library. I could not easily discover how many of those countries’ libraries lend DVDs, but most do.  Of course, many people cannot get to or otherwise have problems accessing their library, but that was also true of me as a kid. The nearest one was quite a long drive away.

Do people even think a little before they write absolute nonsense? Apparently not.

Some Advice

Chill Annoying, Clowns

bullcrap

This pretentious, clownishly patronizing leftist performative crap gets on my nerves. I live in the US. When I give advice, it’s primarily aimed at US folks. How about I do what I want and you do what you want, while you stop being a condescending prick? That works for me far better.

If you don’t like the advice, here’s a tip: DON’T FUCKING READ IT.

Could We Not

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes.

This article is wrong. I’ll explain why below.

First, Kubernetes really sucks. It’s just terrible, terrible technology. The networking stack is atrocious. The Kubeclowns took something that should be a routing table and an iptables rule someone could actually read and buried it under three layers of abstraction that all lie to you in different, incompatible ways. And the networking stuff in there is just so slow. Of course it is — it was created by programmers who understand networking about as well as a llama grasps astrophysics.

I could easily write a 5,000-word rant about how shitty Kubernetes is, and how poorly-designed, about how it incompetently relocates abstractions to inappropriate places that make anything 1,000 times harder to troubleshoot. YAML is also a horrid config language that is ridiculously ill-suited for this purpose.

There are so very many insane and terrible decisions in the architecture of Kubernetes. It is one of the worst technologies I’ve ever used. It’s designed by idiots and a suitable choice only for doofuses.

Back to the main theme, though. Kubernetes became stylish to use and that explains part of its adoption.

But the main reason the article is wrong and that it doesn’t understand what is happening with all the Kubernetes BS is that it ignores the power shift that occurred over the last decade or so in the IT space. The dominance shifted from sysadmin types to developers. And Kubernetes is very friendly to developers. It allows them to package and ship broken nonsense with very little real testing. Of course, devs love that because who wants to test, amirite?

Also, devs are inherently very attracted to complexity. Kubernetes is exceedingly complex so this causes them to love it. It has endless (and pointless) knobs to turn, sliders to move around, switches to clickity-clack, endless dials to twiddle and tweak. All worthless and counterproductive, but devs absolutely go gaga over crap like that.

As I said, Kubernetes won because developers are now dominant. It allowed them to ignore security, good networking practices, compliance, and push absolute garbage to production “reproducibly1.” It’s trash technology2 that achieved preeminence because it allowed devs to run amok in areas they did not understand and hated to deal with.

And yes, I use Kubernetes every day in production. Not my choice, but I am not just guessing about how much of a crapfest it is. I live it.

  1. Kubernetes configs are not nearly as reproducible as advertised.
  2. We sysadmins could do all the things Kubernetes does 20 years ago more reliably and faster with better tech. Devs just didn’t control it so didn’t like it, or even know about it.

Nun Mon

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(1) VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

I think there’s something to this. A large percentage of the so-called asexuals, as well as the “feminists” screeching about how attraction is evil, many of the incels, and a large percentage of the online crazies in general would have been in monasteries or nunneries in past times; they are not suitable for regular civilization but now we have nowhere to house them.

Instead, they make the rest of us miserable by spending all day posting about how very normal human impulses and emotions are malevolent and always ill-intentioned. Which is not true. It’s just that they are abnormal freaks.

Breaker Int

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Correct. Almost no high-agency high-intelligence man wants a woman who is intellectually incapable. By most measures I am far to the right on the Bell curve in intelligence and one of my few absolute dealbreakers was that the woman I ended up with would have to be within at least one SD of mine in IQ. Otherwise, what would we talk about day to day?

Because I’ve had to do it my whole life, I know that constantly explaining everything to everyone is terrible. I wouldn’t want to be with someone that I’d have to spend all my time doing that — and if I did have to clarify something, it’d take.

What Bethel writes there is just something neurotic women tell themselves about why they weren’t able to bag that 0.01% or above dude they think they deserve. That’s it.

I Go Where the Data Does

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(1) Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) / X

The problem with this view is that its not borne out by the data and thus is moronic. I go where the data goes. I don’t care about ideology. Not even my own.

So the actual world shows that smartphone adoption is highly correlated with increasing unhappiness. And that is across countries, which starts to point more at something causal rather than just correlational. I’m not going to do your homework for you but there is more and more clear evidence being presented all the time that smartphones are bad news for happiness.

By the way, 2011-2012 is when smartphones reached ~50% of teen users.

Here’s more. As I said, do your own research. But Alan’s anti-thesis is the antithesis of what’s actually occurring. Not every advance is progress; not every novelty is worth the cost.

Not Just a Humblebrag

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Culture

Something else that is also worse since the 1990s.

Women have always had somewhat stricter beauty standards foisted onto them than men.

But in the 2010s with the rise of Marvel and other similar superhero movies, that began to change. Women were psyopped into believing that if you were not completely ripped Hugh Jackman-style 24/7, then you were out of shape and had a “dad bod.” Never mind that for those scenes, Jackman was on the verge of death from dehydration, etc.

So, now, men also have absurd beauty standards applied to them. I don’t completely blame women for this; as I said, they were psyopped into it.

As someone who has a physique now approaching the Marvel superhero ideal (and could get there easily with 2-3 days of dehydration after a month or two of cutting a few pounds), I can tell you it’s really very difficult to achieve. It requires working out an hour or more a day 4-6 days a week. And not just putzing around. You must do hard workouts combined with eating well. And if you don’t want to use drug enhancement (and I do not), you must do this for years.

These days women assume you’ve never seen the inside of gym if you don’t look like Chris Evans in his post-transformation Captain America shirtless scenes. And that is pretty fucking absurd.

Again, the 90s were better.