Dumbasses doing dumbass stuff then shocked when the dumbassery results in what usually happens to dumbasses. And that’s a whole lot of dumbassery.
Clowns
Canchina
Canada becoming more dependent on China. In some ways, we pushed them that direction.
But they really think that’s gonna work out well for them? Of course it won’t. They’ll be played with, chewed up, then spit out out like a lion finding a vole running around in its enclosure. That is, if they don’t just become a satrapy fully under Chinese control — which is also likely.
Of course, a lot of the idiot leftists would cheer for that. Not as much as if it were under an Islamic theocracy, but still. They would like it.
Adams
I don’t really give a rip what Scott Adams did or said outside of Dilbert.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, I read the comic and enjoyed it. It made me laugh more than once. That’s more than most people have ever done for my life. That’s enough for me. I just can’t bring myself to care what artists and entertainers do outside of their art.
That so many do is a major flaw of our age.
Got Who
This is clown liberals trying to engage in “gotchas.” And has nothing to do with what actual immigration policy should be, of course. The libs are so eager to portray themselves as the righteous, good people, they have no standards at all for what would benefit the nation or its existing populace. It’s virtue signaling all the way down.
Con Job
AI and Business: It’s About Jobs.
This is what the AI-haters claim. But it’s wrong. I work in the trenches; I see what AI is doing and I can tell you it’s certainly increasing productivity and replacing people, especially for more junior and now even some mid-tier roles.
This post — like most in the genre — is wishful thinking by people who don’t actually work corporate jobs.
What is in the immediate economic future is tons of disemployment of juniors. As AI continues to improve, this will move up the stack to more mid-career roles. As I’ve already observed this post is incredibly wrong in its details and its speculation because what it is discussing, while a factor, is subsumed in the truth is that AI is already effectively replacing people ever day.
It’s so much better to evaluate the world as it is rather than as you wish it were. Or, even worse, allowing someone else to manipulate your reality which is what seems to be occurring here.
Why be so blind to reality? Why not just look around a bit and see what’s really occurring?
Divest
Germany do be like that. And a lot of the rest of the EU too. It’s no mystery why they are falling behind.
Clown Design
This dude is everything that is wrong with software and how it is built now.
Havoc Pennington also really sucks, so it’s no surprise that the poster I linked above seems to adore him. The problem with the approach this post applauds — of removing features because it makes devs’ lives easier1 — is that it ends up creating software for the stupidest people alive. And who wants to use software for the 75-IQ crowd? Certainly not me. Let them have their own drool-based interfaces. I simply need more power than that.
This post was written in 2013. Of course, people like me knew this was the path to taking away as much control as possible from Firefox users. And we were told we were wrong (and I was banned for Reddit for saying what was occurring was in fact occurring), that was not the reason Mozilla was doing the things they were doing, and that we dissenters were crazy.
And of course it is exactly what happened. Just as we knew it would.
Rain of Fists
Lately, I’ve been seeing and hearing people say “rain of salt” instead of “grain of salt.” As in, “Take this advice with a (g)rain of salt.”
I want to hurt these people very badly.
Cannot
1328244 – [WebExtensions] Firefox customization API request
This is when Firefox actually died as a real competitor in the browser wars.
I and others told the Firefox devs exactly what would happen if they went down the locked-down path. They still did the stupid anyway. Which just goes to show you cannot make people think. They simply will not do it. Perhaps cannot.
Indicates What
And with an Indian wife. How is that gonna work, exactly?
Discursive
Despite this being the disfavored explanation, it’s probably mostly genetic combined with congenital non-genetic brain differences.
I’m extremely good at anything verbal or language-based. And I can study 100x or even 1000x as long anything involving math and never achieve really anything. Yes, even if I understand the concept or practicum at the time perfectly, can do all the practice problems and apply it. As soon as I move on from that, it’s gone like smoke in the wind. It’s like I never learned it.
Whereas if I only glance for something for a second or two in the language realm, I’ll remember it forever.
It obviously is just built in and people hate that idea. Nevertheless, it’s true.
I do wonder, though, if some of my math incapacity comes from actual brain damage. I’m pretty sure I used to be a good deal better at math before I got hit in the head a lot as a kid and young teenager.
But what happened happened; can’t change it now.
Rising Surprising
Remember this graph when economists pull out their bullshit about how “housing prices haven’t really increased” with all sorts of assclownish nonsense about how if you move to Frog’s Taint, Kansas, you can get a house really cheap, thus in their mind disproving that housing is now vastly more expensive for most younger people.
Not So Good
Renee Good was the kind of person I should be.
What? Fuck no. Despite the fact that I don’t think the ICE agent should have shot her (I mean, no one is “in fear of their life” while holding a fucking cell phone in one hand and a gun in the other), she was an idiot completely and totally out of her depth who thought she could and would operate with impunity.
And she got shot for her misperceptions. It’s not what she deserved, but life and its end is what it is, not what we wish it were.
I believe she was killed because she was a good person. Because she decided to be there.
She was a flaming idiot who put herself and her wife in a situation (with a dog in the vehicle) that she was totally unprepared for and unequipped to handle. What she did was worse than nothing. It made the entire left look like a bunch of delusional mega-clowns (which, alas, mostly they are) while only strengthening right-wing narratives.
I do not give a single fuck if she was a good person or not. That kind of virtue signaling is meaningless to me. I mostly care that she did something so colossally and avoidably stupid that it worsens the entire case against random ICE raids (which, mostly, I don’t think should be happening, to be clear).
The left always wants to judge the other side by what they do, not their intent. So here goes: Renee Good was a full-on clown and though she didn’t deserve to die, she did many stupid and completely-avoidable things leading to that outcome.
Select V
It is amazing that even with videos like the below each side sees exactly what they want to see. Even without AI manipulation, video and photos are worthless. They are often worse than having nothing. The confirmation bias and selective vision is too strong for most to overcome.
RW Mor
That was right-wing moronicism at its most moronic, I agree.