Why do people load their car with hentai bumper stickers?
It’s a warning to stay away from them unless you want to be sexually assaulted. Mostly applies to women, but not only. They aren’t picky.
The best thing to do with a hentai-festooned vehicle involves an M242 Bushmaster and is highly illegal. But fun.
Any of y’all remember the stagflation of the 1970s and early 1980s? Whether you do or not, you’re about to get to experience it — again, or for the first time, depending.
It’ll be fun for the whole family!
It is dumbfounding the lack of understanding. Like I said before we are having our "We don't need farmers when we have grocery stores" moment in weather right now. https://t.co/oRoMK9xqfa
— Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) March 4, 2025
The unfortunate fact is that the average person is clownishly dumb. Just has no clue how anything works, or where food, power, clothing, information comes from, how anything is made, etc. Just fucking clueless.
And the rest of us are suffering because of that right now.
Because someone I follow linked to it, I made the mistake of reading part of an Ian Welsh piece. I couldn’t even finish the whole thing it was so insane, but what’s so repetitive about Welsh and those types is how they believe absolutely everything bad that occurs in the world is the fault of the US. Everything.
Buddy, America just does not have that much power. Clowns like Welsh buy into American exceptionalism just as much as far-right neocons and über-patriots. For many of them it’s that they secretly wish they were Americans and it drives them mad that they are not. Or at least it did before Trump. In their view, no other country has agency or desires or goals; it’s all America puppeteering them or that every action is solely a reaction to what the US does.
Like, come on. That’s not even remotely plausible. I only wish we had that much sway in the world.
Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns.
This is very likely. It’s why I’ve raised my chance of a depression to 45%. If the tariffs and responses escalate, I will probably raise it to 60%.
I’d put the odds of a recession at 90%1, the odds of a Great Recession at 65%, and the odds of a depression similar to the 1930s at 45%.
We are fucking up big time.
After Musk and Trump get done, we’re going to need WWIII to revitalize the economy.
Yes, I’m joking. Kind of. But either way, grim thought.
The Trump administration is going to try to fire or threaten to fire everyone involved in producing the statistics that show his economic policies hurting the country. https://t.co/enaONHtyCR
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 3, 2025
Things are about get fucked by President Musk and yapping puppy Trump in ways Americans have not experienced in a very long time.
It’s coming; get ready.
Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
I have no fucking idea why this trend started, but seems to be worse in Gen Z. I think it’s due to a complete lack of social skills caused by their isolation and smartphone obsession; they see only their phone and the “people” in it as real. The rest of the world does not exist in the same way to them.
And it’s not just conversations, either. Many people listen to music and TV shows at top volume in airports, on flights, and other public places.
Anyone who doesn’t use headphones in public should be tased repeatedly. And then kneecapped if that fails to work.
I probably made fun of the Fat Acceptance/Healthy at Every Size movements more than I should have. It’s not that it was punching down. The reality is that those groups had vast cultural power and it was easy to get canceled for standing against them.
What was more morally suspect is that both movements were populated by pitiful people who believed they had no agency. It’s not a good idea in general to make sport of the pathetic even if they do have some power. It’s just poor form.
Still, they deserved resistance because their movements spouted antiscientific nonsense and perpetuated great harm, especially against kids. That needed some form of smackdown.
Microsoft retiring yet another useful tool for one that’s pants 🙁 .
That Microsoft Graph stuff deeply sucks. All of the things I could do in PowerShell in 2 lines of code now takes dozens to hundreds of lines in the terrible Graph way of doing things.
All to make it more “developer friendly,” for whatever reason. And developers love complexity. Sysadmin types do not — and I think that’s a fundamental split between us. Devs dominate now, though, so they get what they want.
So now I can waste two hours doing what I used to be able to achieve in 10 minutes. Fuckin’ great.
Denmark to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs.
The phone addict nutty buddies are gonna be crying about this as they always do, because anyone who does anything to reduce this cognitohazard they see an implicit indictment of their poor choices.
But fuck ’em.
When you have close calls averted by skill, not process, eventually you will have a collision https://t.co/VdhFPVgrjv
— Leah Libresco Sargeant (@LeahLibresco) February 26, 2025
This was not a process failure. The pilot of the private jet was instructed not to cross the runway three times by ATC but ignored this for unknown reasons.
He deserves to have his pilot’s license revoked since it was almost revoked the hard way (instant death).
If dipshit-ass clowns like Ian Welsh thinks 200-400 Russians a day dying while gaining basically no ground is winning, I’d fucking hate to see what losing looks like.
Alright Fellas, What’s the craziest thing a woman ever said to you?
Damn, the current top-voted comment is the same thing a terrible, narcissistic ex said to me: “You’re not ambitious enough.”
Which is insane. Because at the time, I was probably one of the youngest infrastructure managers of a medium-size corporation in the US at 26, I had been a paratrooper in the US army and also did successful day trading. I paid 80%+ of all the bills (including hers), by the way.
The real issue was that she was joined at the hip with her equally-poisonous mother and to dear old mom if her daughter’s boyfriend wasn’t a doctor or a lawyer, he was no one.
Therefore it didn’t matter how much money I made or how successful I was. Not a doctor or lawyer == failure. “Not ambitious enough.”
Glad that relationship ended, but I should’ve called it quits way sooner. Lesson learned the hard way (by having plates thrown at my head).