Self-plagiarism is the stupidest fucking thing of many, many idiotic concepts academics have come up with.
Jut an incoherent and ridiculous idea.
Clowns
Never Be Wannbe
The “conversation” around Alysa Liu after the Winter Olympics was so odd and a great example of what occurs when you allow women’s neuroticism and instrasexual competition to go off the rails with no checks.
Average Man: Wow, she’s awesome and seems like a great person. She’s cute, funny, happy and seems like she might be fun to be around.
Screeching “Feminist:” WHY ARE YOU SEXUALIZING HER? Why are you obsessed with sex? It’s all you ever think about!
Average Man: Who said anything about sex? I just think she seems like a neat person, one you could really talk to.
Screeching “Feminist:” It’s sex all the time with you men! All you ever talk about!
Average Man: Someone is obsessed with sex here, but it’s definitely not me.
Of course, deep down, a lot of those American “feminists” know they are terrible people and that no one wants to be around them; their romantic prospects are dim because they are mentally ill, won’t get help with managing it, and take their self-inflicted maladies out on the world. And the remarkable thing is that (other than being delightfully amazing at figure skating) Alysa just seems like the average American girl from 30-40 years ago before 80% of women went absolutely fucking nuts.
They loathe her because she’s everything they will never be.
Ideo Slog
Being ideologically against AC is one of the stupidest things I know of.
The other is moron leftists and their opposition to nuclear power. That’s making a comeback now, this time in combination with really loony conspiracizing.
Spews
No, they have no idea how fucking clownishly stupid they sound because most of the people spouting nonsense are from the “philosophy is useless” crowd.
Predictably — because philosophy is ineluctably tied into anything we humans do — they start attempting to use philosophy when they need to rely on it, but have no tools to do so. Utter garbage then spews out.
Go-to Insult
What an idiot. Andrew, that is.
If Iryna Zarutska had been more racist, she’d be alive now.
Control Rod
Great goddamn, that’s dipshitty in about seven different ways.
Degrowthers are wild. They come up with these weirdo conspiracy theories even after their side spent 50 years NIMBYing everything in sight. That is one of the stupidest, most transparently clueless statements I’ve ever read. And I’ve read every Andrea Dworkin book.
AI Lie
Yet economists (emphasis on the “con”) have insisted that AI is having no impact on the job market.
Which is bullshit. Some of it is of course offshoring and outsourcing. But even that is amplified by AI. Now, a marginal employee in India can be more productive with AI at still 1/5 the cost.
Economists are just morons.
Most Devs
I think most devs exist to make my life worse and more painful. Most of their decisions are just incredibly bad and fake secure — their usual excuse for implementing something ineptly or just not doing it at all.
Think Nonsense
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
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
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.
I Go Where the Data Does
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.
Short and Short of It
I’ve been seeing “short-sided” instead of “short-sighted” (or “shortsighted”) recently.
This makes no sense and I hate it.
Not Just a Humblebrag
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.
Ban Sol
Attempting to pathologize and forbid attraction between humans is like spending effort on banning the sun.
Even if against all odds you succeed, what have you actually done that made any sort of sense?