Annoying

Lar

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The right’s hatred of solar and wind power is deeply stupid and it makes no sense at all. There’s a reason China is installing more of these power types than anything else.

As of 2024:

  • China installed over 217 gigawatts of solar just in that year, which is more than the entire cumulative U.S. total in its entire history.
  • The United States has around 160 GW of total installed solar capacity, ever.

China has over 600 GW of solar now, while we’re still crawling with less than a third of that. And slowing down due to utter fucking moron MAGA clowns.

Solar and wind are now super-cheap, efficient, and far cleaner than fossil fuels. Despite a lot of you living in the late 1970s, they’re not some hippie pipe dream. Nope, it’s hard economic pragmatism. Even authoritarian regimes know renewables are the way to go and in fact are the future.

Get out of 1979, idiots.

Smoking Eth

Chill Annoying, Clowns

This always makes me laugh when doofclown dipshits say things like, “But solar uses sooo much landddddddd!”

Compared to the worse-in-every-way ethanol, nope. And we’re already wasting land on that. And another difference is that solar is actually good.

Low Tol

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

I too have far less tolerance for that kinda shit than I used to.

The idiot liberal idea that wild-eyed vagrants can have a little assault as a treat is so fucking insane. And #MeToo went right out the window when it was the so-called unhoused perpetrating sex crimes, didn’t it?

Even apart from any political considerations, I despise hypocrites.

Fire Season

Chill Annoying, Evil

I made a mistake at work that caused a senior employee to get fired. I feel horrible.

I’ve accidentally gotten someone fired too. I feel bad about it to this day.

On a large project that involved sensitive data, I noticed that one of the encrypted hard drives we’d received had some files that didn’t seem correct. The information appeared to be from another customer altogether. I mentioned it on the next project status call and it sent a chill through the virtual meeting room when I did so. I didn’t know why as I said that my team would just ignore the incorrect data and get on with business.

I didn’t call out anyone specifically and I just wanted to make sure that we weren’t supposed to do something with those files.

On the next call, I noticed that the very competent, personable and on top of things project manager we’d been dealing with was not in the meeting. I asked about it later and was told that she’d been fired for including that data.

Awww shit. If I’d had any idea, I wouldn’t have said a damn word about that stuff. It just would’ve gotten silently deleted. There was zero chance my job was or would’ve been at risk as the project could not have been completed on time without me.

But I didn’t know. Someone was probably gunning for her job anyway (this was a terrible org we were taking over for) and that accidental sensitive data inclusion gave them their shot.

I sent her a message on LinkedIn after but never heard back. Hope she’s doing ok; this was years ago now.

Prop Op

Chill Annoying, War

True. In a lot of the videos, the weapons are clearly (by sound) AK-47s or AK-74s. The ammo used in those is very distinctive and is unmistakable. The IDF uses NATO-chambered 5.56mm and wouldn’t be toting around AKs routinely.

Attack

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Exactly. Most women have no idea how much stronger the average man is than they are.

My dad was not violent. My mom was, though. And unpredictably so. One day she got mad at my dad and started attacking him, hitting him in the face and chest. Eventually he grew tired of the abuse and just to get her away from him, he lightly (for him) swatted her on the shoulder. He didn’t intend to hurt her and in fact did not. However, she went flying halfway across the room and and landed hard on her ass.

My mom was not weak (being a waitress at the time) but my dad was probably somewhere around 6-8x as strong as she was. Now, sure, my dad was unusually strong. He was built like a bear and I saw him lift 500-pound iron engine blocks without much effort. But it wasn’t really until that moment that I realized just how vastly more physically powerful my dad was than my mother.

I’d never hit my partner unless she turns into a zombie or something. And I’m nowhere near as strong as my dad was (despite all my working out), but I’m quite sure I can punch 3-5x as hard as she can. I’m stronger. My arms weigh a lot more. I have more fast-twitch muscle. And I’ve thrown many, many punches in my life. But most of my advantages there are genetic in nature and not due to my experience and training.

No matter what nonsense you’ve read, men and women just are not built the same. It’s a liberal fantasy that is completely untrue.

Dark Light

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Agreed. The pseudo-historians are wrong, wrong, wrong about this. The Dark Ages definitely occurred, and were pretty stygian indeed. Anything from that era looks like absolute shit compared to the Roman or even earlier Greek high culture eras.

Why historians need to deny the Dark Ages occurred is complex, but mostly has to do with the fact that they do not believe human culture should be judged at all, partially due to the leftist implicit (and sometimes explicit) embrace of Islamofascism after 9/11. And culture very much should be judged.

Pot

Chill Amusing, Annoying

No matter your politics, that is true. And I hate it.

It’s still not as bad as the whiny “aggrieved because someone ate my potato salad” Fox News host voice, though. That one is so fucking horrible.