Clowns

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.

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.

Putin Up With It

Chill Clowns, War, WTF

Exactly. One “easy” way to have open borders is to build a huge damn empire.

Which I guess is one of the reasons Ian Welsh and those types are such Putin fans? I can’t find any valid reasons so I am just spitballing here. Worshipping Putin is both gauche and embarrassing. It’s the lefty equivalent of being a right-wing edgelord. In a way, it’s just pitiful.

But I have no pity because unlike Mr. T, I do not pity the fool.

NOT Flex

Chill Clowns

It’s very telling which criterion is the only one she described as “NOT Flexible.” You can tell she’d be a nightmare. In my experience of dating, it’s vastly better when people reveal their foulness early.

People like that tend to die miserable and alone. That’s punishment enough. And that’s not sour grapes. I’d have absolutely zero interest in a person like that were I single (nor she in me). That is instead just observation of outcomes.

The Big Q

Chill Clowns, Politics

These people have literally no idea what sort of a fight they’re in. THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT NORMAL ORDER NO LONGER EXISTS.

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— Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM

I stole this from someone else (can’t remember who), but they said, “They think they are in a Wes Anderson movie. But they’re actually in a Tarantino movie.”

And that about sums it up I think. The Dems are useless. As ever.

Resourceful

Chill Clowns, Tech

I’ve had to explain many times that in fact virtual machines do need hardware. Sometimes, it was to technical people who absolutely should’ve known better. Hell, I worked at a hosting company where we had people who believed that once we had the base hardware we could spin up and use unlimited VMs on said hardware.

It’s insane the kind of stuff you encounter in the wild. Where did people leave their brains?

51st State

Chill Clowns, War

By the by, according to the Ian Welsh logic of why Russia “deserves” to dominate and commit genocide upon Ukraine, the US also “deserves” to do the same to Canada.

Not so fun to be a right clown when there’s the prospect of Hellfire missiles hitting your house, is it? Horseshoe theory is real; both the radical right and the radical left kneel before Putin. What amazing times we live in.

Disputin’

Chill Amusing, Clowns

According to utter idiot clowns like Ian Welsh, the Russo-Ukrainian war is completely the fault of the US. Russia and Ukraine had nothing to do with it and it all could’ve been avoided if Ukraine had just bowed down to Putin when he demanded it. Merely give him what he wanted and all would’ve been peachy. No country has agency besides the US, of course. And no individual people either.

Right.

It never seems to click with doofuses like Welsh that their belief that the US is incompetent, ineffective and omnipotent all at the same time does not make any goddamn sense. It’s similar to the common Dem refrain that Obama was simultaneously Jesus Christ, Norman Schwarzkopf, Einstein and a tiny helpless little baby with absolutely no power all at once. Ian Welsh (and many like him) both loathe the United States and wish they could be Americans. That explains a lot of the cognitive dissonance.

The rest is explained by garden variety stupidity.

Ludic

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Politics

He is right. Even all the liberals chanting “Death to America” who firmly side with Hamas terrorists will miss Pax Americana and the liberal global order that rode on its back when that stability and peace is gone.

It’s going to be a wild few decades. That said, all orders collapse eventually. All systems have built-in frailties and weaknesses. The post-WWII arrangement is no different. It lasted longer than it likely should have after the end of the Cold War.

Rarely, though, has a system imploded in such a preventable and ludicrously tragicomic manner.