Annoying

All That’s Ever

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

Technological solutionism is in fact the only thing that works. Even solutions like “clean water supply” and “good sanitation” are 99.9% tech.

What the fuck are the “tech can’t save us” dipshits even talking about? Tech is all that has ever saved us! Too bad both the left and right are de facto degrowth loser factions now. We direly needed those New Minds and did not get them.

So, resultingly, we are pretty much fucked. The right is full of anti-tech idiots who want to retreat to some 1950s past that’s as mythical as Bigfoot while turning women into some servant/slave class.

And the left is full of anti-tech idiots who want to retreat or advance to who the fuck knows what. Some imaginary future where we sit around in fields with no AC where food magically appears, though there is no tech, and talk about our identities with gay squirrels.

Neither is viable even as a coherent fantasy, much less reality, so yeah…fucked.

Dom In Ants

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

I can’t read the full article and have no reason to pay for it, but part of the “red pill” came from men being told they were inherently evil for being attracted to (gasp!) attractive women and that poisonous ideology achieving cultural dominance at least enough that men were constantly shamed for fairly-immutable and time-consistent likely largely-evolutionarily-ordained preferences. I’m not justifying it or what followed, but merely explaining how “redpilling” emerged.

Now that women are being shamed a wittle tiny tiny tiny bit for preferring tall men who aren’t poor, they act like the apocalypse is occurring. You love to see it.

Shoe doesn’t feel so good on the other foot, yeah? But what’s good for the gander is even better for the goose is my view. I mainly just like to see hypocrites of either gender squirm. I don’t give a fuck.

Sometimes I think pissing people off with the truth is my duty in life, and I intend to do it well and long into the future.

Get Out Tech

Chill Annoying, Rant

Agreed with both. Technological solutionism works but tech-bro sociology is inhuman and terrible.

Degrowthers — no matter which side they are on — are the true evil. The whole “technology can’t get us out of this!” is so insane. And dangerous. Motherfucker, it’s the only thing that can.

WTF Way

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Does anyone really believe that women get a horrifyingly ugly tattoo that makes them look like a gutter hobo to “take control of their body?” I’ve heard that excuse and that doesn’t seem like what’s happening there in most cases.

If so, way to fuck it up. All you’ve taken control of is looking like a walking trash heap.

Diff Skill

Chill Annoying, Tech

I don’t think I will ever understand the desire to turn systems and security people like me into shitty developers.

It’s happening because devs dominate all now. There is nothing wrong with automation, but development is a completely different skill. And I’ve never met a dev who was even remotely as good as at systems, design, security or networking as even an average systems type. And rarely have I met a systems person who was a good dev.

Again: completely different skills. Though most devs cannot see that — they think because they’ve heard of an IP address and know what a SIEM is, they know all there is to know in that space.

Stick With Me

Chill Annoying, Clowns

PFAS in the quantities that are claimed to be harmful looks like a big nothingburger. The “forever chemicals” nonsense seems mostly to be another leftist panic. There is probably some very mild effect on kids, swamped by the vastly-unhealthy food most children consume, particularly in the US.

It’s worth it to have non-stick pans. It’s one of those, “We gave the rat PFAS shots for a year that amounted to 10% of its body weight per day. It died of cancer. PFAS is bad!”

Which is common in left “modernity should be rolled back” politics. I agree that there is PFAS risk. However, in the amount most people are exposed to in reality, it’s very tiny and would have minimal effect.

And also, most of the PFAS that most people are exposed to comes from firefighting effluent, not from fucking non-stick pans; leftist degrowrther types just hate non-stick pans because they are easier to use, so rejecting them means they can turn their nose up at modernity by doing something more difficult than it needs to be.

Man I hate degrowthers.