It’s sad to see a lot of the left embracing Rednote as China cleverly cozens them. China is not gonna save you from Trump and the idea is fucking clownish. But people in general believe what makes them feel good, no matter how doofy.
Meanwhile, in reality, China is most likely to turn their bodies to ash in 2027 or 2032. Russia is not far behind, there.
The return of Trump was also made nearly-inevitable with fourth wave pseudo-feminism declaring all men inherently evil “Schrödinger’s rapists” while claiming all women are angelic by nature because they are naught but tiny little blameless children, even up to their 40s.
That just ain’t how people are, and men are tired of hearing about it. Even I am extremely over it, and I didn’t vote for Trump.
Pseudo-feminists hating “passport bros” so much is another example of the, “I don’t want him, but I want him to want me. If he doesn’t lust after me pointlessly to feed my ego, then he’s evil and bad” mentality.
It’s toxic.
As many people are dying of climate-chage-related disasters they will be screaming with their last breath, “This isn’t climate change! It’s not! It’s the libruhls!”
I find that fascinating and very, very sad.
I don’t even disagree with the general gist of this column, but it shows how much some women really deeply hate any nerdy man. Shaw is the same sort of woman who likes to claim nerdy types are nothing but sexual abusers and are inherently creepy, despite the fact that frat bros commit sexual assault at something like 3-10x the rate of other demographics — including male nerds.
She even alludes to it in the column, but this is the same type of woman who would’ve bullied me relentlessly in middle school merely for existing. To her, I’d be “creepy” by dint of continuing to breathe and occupying space.
Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an 11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying.
I mean, saying I had “no friends” was an actual taunt people just like her used back then.
I’m no fan of Zuckerberg or Musk — but I hate this brand of sanctimonious bully just as much, if not even more.
Couldn’t agree more:
Why we tolerate that and pretend like knowing the name of the application you use daily is some feat of immense intelligence I will never understand.
Shocking! Who could have ever imagined this outcome?
It’s amazing how clownishly stupid MBA types can be sometimes. Almost all of the time. When I see a store with all the goods locked up, I immediately turn around and leave. Why bother? I’ll just buy it online with far less hassle.
Obvious.
I do understand the Covidians’ anger and sadness over the fact that Covid did not change the world more. Hell, I at least thought it’d lead to federally-mandated sick leave in the US and some other reforms of the medical system as well as requirements for good indoor ventilation. Oddly, none of that happened.
Still, though, that does not justify the absurd Covidian lying about how harmful Covid is post-vax, and for claiming absolutely wacky shit like Long Covid was going to be civilization-ending.
It’s easy to make something into a religion; it’s much, much harder to effect change in the real wold — which is what the Covidians should’ve actually attempted.
Most people who work at a computer aren't super excited about wasting a lot of time getting to and from the office, and when you force people to go back to that it makes them angry. The consequences of that should be pretty easy to predict and yet…
— Evan Sutton (@evansutton.bsky.social) January 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Work from home has been responsible for probably 50-70% of the recent productivity gains in the US, so of course forcing people to return to the office is a lose-lose proposition. It generally makes life worse and is wildly unproductive for most.
Offices are absolutely terrible environments to get any work done.
Ozempic (semaglutide) is a synthetic version of a hormone found in Gila monster venom.
The most promising solution to antibiotic resistance comes from the antimicrobial peptides in Komodo dragon blood.
Maybe some of those weird-sounding NSF/NIH grants are useful after all… pic.twitter.com/YVzVCrl8SQ
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) January 12, 2025
Correct. Nearly all of the claims of the conservatards about “useless” science are 100% wrong — both because it’s a fool’s errand predicting what will be useful in advance, and most science these days is only funded if there is some practical use in sight (which is a bad way to do it, to be clear).
In reality, we should fund much, much more “useless” science because it invariably ends up being the most useful of all.
Anyone who denies that climate change had a role in the recent California fires does not understand how climate change works and also fails to comprehend that they too will be affected inevitably in the end — perhaps not so devastatingly, but the likelihood of negative outcomes increases greatly when the climate has been destabilized.
I know, it’s hard to change. It’s scary. Status quo bias is one of the strongest human tendencies. And the left has pushed some horrendously bad ideas that should be opposed, such as austerity and degrowth. But you should be opposing these ideas and not the obvious truth that the climate is changing, and not for the better for most of humanity.
In the end, like gravity, it simply does not matter if you believe in climate change or not. Because it believes in you.
I guess that clown is fine with fighting Russia in Germany in 3-5 years. Well, he’s gonna get his wish. It’s interesting how when given a clear and obvious choice, Germany and much of the rest of Europe of their own free will just shoots themselves in the foot repeatedly. I guess they are really into self-harm.
This is bullshit, because the actual truth is that the people who can’t work from home effectively are the very same people who didn’t do any work in the office. Invariably, they are the ones who spent hours wandering around the building, chitchatting, gladhanding, disturbing everyone else and pretending they were busy while doing absolutely nothing.
All the MBA types who hate WFH secretly know that is true, but don’t care — because they want work to be both a social club and a panopticon where they can keep an eye on their slaves. And a lot of them are just morons who think that butts in seats == productivity. Certainly cannot discount that many of them are just really, really dumb.
If your people are not productive working from home, you have a management problem. It’s not a WFH problem.
On average, I produce about 2-3x as much working from home as I do in an office — both because I work longer hours and I can do my actual work.
I will never work an office job again. Not for any money.
The liberals and progressives have become total nutballs about this, to a level I just cannot understand. They moved so fast from #MeToo to “If you can’t stand some sexual assault, being set on fire, or your kids being abused, you’re a MAGA loser!” I mean, what the fuck.
How many jobs are really just One Job?
These days, none. All the executive assistants, secretaries, even the junior team members have been wiped out. I’ve had similar jobs all throughout my IT career 1 and when I started more than 20 years ago, I had an assistant. That’d be unheard of now. I also only had 2-3 actual roles. The expectations were much smaller back then even at a similar career level.
Now I have somewhere between 20-30 roles. This seems to only getting worse. One of the reasons jobs are so much more cognitively demanding now is that most people can be ok to good at a few things, but it takes a whole different breed to be competent at 20+.
But that’s what the corporate types are demanding these days.