Annoying

Shod

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Pretty insightful into the affliction shared across worldviews notionally in conflict. In reality, it is a dearth of will, an absence of the human spirit that took us from scrabbling in the mud to jetting through the sky.

I want nothing to do with any of that.

BBQ Grill

Chill Annoying, Tech

How are you dealing with your company using the IT Department as a catch-all?

This is always going to happen because the IT department has the largest single population of people who can think through a problem and follow tasks step by step. In IT, that’s maybe 40% of the people present. Nowhere near the majority, to be clear.

But outside of IT, that is maybe 1-2% of people in the average department.

Because of this, IT becomes the dumping ground anything that is more complex than folding a piece of paper in half. I’ve seen it over and over again.

I don’t foresee this ever not occurring. So IT will be assembling barbecue grills and doing training until the sun goes red giant.

Wallop

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

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— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) March 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM

What is that a test of? Most humans would not detect that if they did not already know it was there. By the way, it’d be invisible to radar as well in almost all freqs.

This is a stupid test that only proves something to doofuses. Of which there are too many. Hell, humans hit flipped over tractor-trailers on the road all the time because they are not looking for them. It’s called “inattentional blindness.”

The perception problems are the same, whether it’s a machine or human. Why do people have such trouble understanding that?

Tick Tech

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Where has the left’s technological audacity gone?

They have gone clownishly degrowther even though tech is the only way out of our current predicament and is the only path to any sort of livable future or the non-extinction of humanity. Also, eventually, the species will have to become multiplanetary and that is going to take tech we can barely even dream about yet.

No, it’s not impossible (no matter what you might read that is now a nearly-ubiquitous opinion). Yes, it is very very hard. But who gives a fuck? Metallurgy is hard. Harder than we give it credit for. Reading and writing is hard. Building an airplane is hard. And despite all that, we have cars, widespread literacy and A320s — all things that would have been claimed to be something “impossible” in various time periods.

It does not matter even a little bit about what current dipshit mooks think about what the future will be like. They’ll have (over the long time span) no say in building it. Their opinions are irrelevant chaff. Building is what matters, and we should do that.

Violation Detected

Chill Annoying, Clowns

(Yes, I know this is satire.)

But it’s barely satire. Speaking of dating sites, I do think libs should have a dating site or service that only allows them to date those born on the exact same year and day that they are, and sends the police automatically if they are caught dating someone “unauthorized.”

Maybe that’d make those insane fucks happy.

Double Dumb

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?

These Hacker News discussions are always amusing. Every single commenter (and I do mean every single one, no exceptions) has no goddamn idea what they are talking about. It’s all hilariously wrong. The source article is also half crap, but that’s to be expected. That goofus is attempting again to sneak superdeterminism in.

Anyway, don’t read anything like those HN comments to learn anything. Read them to be amused, like you were listening to someone describe American football using the rules of cricket or something. Otherwise, they’ll just make you dumber.

Timidity

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I’m as introverted as they come and when I am out in public, I do not expect to never have an interaction with another human being. This is, frankly, a fucking insane Gen Z bullshit expectation. And is part of the HR-ization of culture we should all be battling against. The feminist “no one should talk to anyone in public ever because some random woman who is probably overly-neurotic anyway might perhaps perceive it as harassment” has gone way, way too fucking far.

A few years ago I was at Wal-Mart looking for Christmas stuff. I spent way too long looking for the bows. For some reason and anomalously, they were placed near all the lawn mowing-related paraphernalia. As I was taking the long walk back to the cashier section a woman approached me and said, “Hey, can I ask you where you got those bows? I’ve been all over this store three times and I cannot find them.”

I said, “I know! They hid them well. They’re near the lawn and garden section by all the lawn mowing stuff. I can’t imagine why.”

And she laughed and thanked me. I was glad to help her as I’d spent 15 minutes looking for them myself.

I guess that sort of casual interaction is going to get less and less common now as people retreat into this world.

Borderland

Chill Annoying

It also mirrors the leftist “borders aren’t real” balderdash that they like to trot out when they’re blathering on about open borders and other unicorn-like ideas.