This is correct. The US’s clownish obsession with enormous pollution-spewing trucks and fossil fuels is not mirrored by the rest of the world. We are being and will be left behind. In about five years, more than half of the cars on the road worldwide will be EVs. In 10, it’ll be more like 80%+. All except here, where Ford moronically canceled the electric F-150 because the American right now believes batteries, the sun and wind are gay.
Fucking idiots.
I was forced to use the new WordPress editor for a bit again and goddamn it is a piece of crap. It’s impossible to do anything and even basic text editing is terrible. Copy and paste somehow doesn’t even work reliably, which is something that for most applications was solved in the 1980s.
It’s absolutely insane that someone released this. And of course it has its cheerleaders that claim that if you don’t want to use this utterly-broken mess that you “just hate change.”
Yes, I do fucking hate change that harms me, thank you very much.
Even though I use it for some things, I really hate Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and the entire cult around it.
Most of the time it’s an incredibly inferior way of doing things. Stateless? Who asked for that, or needs it? For 99.98% of anything, state is important and matters! We had better tech that achieved even what’s attempted today in a far, far superior manner more than 20 years ago.
But my field is horribly cursed to reinvent poor implementations of past tech they aren’t even aware of every decade or so.
How do you keep showing up when the Help Desk has completely destroyed your soul?
No one can last more than 2-3 years on helpdesk. I did it full-time and exclusively for around two years and if someone had put a red button that said “DESTROY ALL HUMANITY” in front of me after that stint in hell, I would’ve slammed that doom switch so hard I would’ve broken my hand.
You just experience the very worst and stupidest there. All day, every day.
People should be rotated out of that pit and those stuck there should do everything they can to advance their careers to get out of helldesk. It takes a huge toll on your soul.
Some real crankery at Phys.org this morning.
How did this nonsense get published? This is some wild stuff.
New models of gravity and cosmology could also be premised on Lษ . In cosmology, the energy released from the gravitational energy of the entire universe due to Lษ can function as Einstein’s original cosmological constant ษ , preventing cosmic collapse into a singularity. Gravity can be modeled as just the flipside of this process.
No it definitely cannot and is not! What in the hell.
This clown treats โenergy released from gravityโ (turned into heat/light) as if it could play the role of the cosmological constant. It simply cannot. As any Physics 101 book will tell you, heat and light is ordinary energy that thins out as the universe expands. On the other hand, the cosmological constant is a special kind of โvacuumโ effect that does not dilute the same way at all. That’s why it’s called a frickin’ “constant!”
The article also assumes thereโs a single, well-defined โgravitational energy of the entire universeโ that you can draw down like a bank account. In standard general relativity for an expanding universe there isn’t this kind of energy bookkeeping, so this makes no sense right at the outset.
It also implies this process could act like a constant background term. But anything tied to the expansion rate and to the universeโs changing mass distribution would vary over time, which is the opposite of what โacts like the cosmological constantโ means for any observation.
And what the heck does, โGravity is the flipside of this processโ mean? No! It really isn’t! That’s a cereal box slogan, not a theory. Unless itโs backed by precise equations that reproduce what gravity demonstrably does (lensing, time dilation, gravitational waves, equivalence principle, etc.), it’s all absolute crap.
And then I looked the guy, Matthew Edwards, up. He’s a librarian. Not a physicist, not a cosmologist. And he has a whole passel of papers that are all absolutely lunatic.
Please keep this garbage out of Phys.org.
This article gets something really right.
In fact, the advent of digital media marks the third information crisis humans have lived through: the first came after the invention of writing; the second followed the printing press.
This is correct. The Ian Welshian doofclown assertion that the internet changed nothing, meant nothing, transmogrified no human relation, is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life. And I grew up in rural North Florida, so I’ve heard some absolutely fantastically stupid things.
As the article points out, we are living through the first stages of what will be the largest information apocalypse (in my view) probably since the Sumerians first started pressing wedges into wet clay thousands of years ago.
And if you can miss that as Welsh has, I can’t trust your assessment of anything else.
(I’d argue that the first info crisis truly came with the invention of language itself, but that was probably more gradual.)
To those who say AI isn’t a substantive advance (or even more absurdly, a “plagiarism machine”) you’re wrong. No, it’s not a tech Jesus and it’s not the end of the humans on earth as the AI cultists imagine, but it’s at least the equivalent of gene sequencing + editing or other tech like that.
Most of you have a GIGO problem with AI — garbage in, garbage out. And here’s the thing: you’re the garbage in that equation.
Definitely. It’s become professionalized and corporatized.
The truly exceptionally-skilled people who were not well-socialized have been pushed out, mostly. Thus, the average level of talent has decreased by a whole lot. Contributing to this is that those like me who grew up with real computers and excellent troubleshooting skills are starting to age out.
This means that the average skill level is a lot lower, and most managers are not as competent. Relatedly, there is vastly more attention paid to the appearance of things (not software or design, I mean socially). The put-up-with-no-bullshit greybeards and (more rarely) doyennes have nearly all departed — what’s left are gladhanders, ass-kissers, corporate social butterflies and sycophants of all stripes.
It was a lot better field 15-20 years ago is what I am saying. There is no nearly no one left at my level any longer. Which means there is no competition but it’s also very lonely. Those with actual impressive skills aren’t present anymore, and the juniors coming up can’t troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag.
It’s been sad to witness.
It’s not racist to have more trouble telling people apart you’re not used to being around. It’s just normal and human.
When I first went to China, I had trouble distinguishing some of my first acquaintances from one another, especially at a distance. But then I got to know them and even from 300 meters, I was like, “Oh, hey, Ling Ling, we’re over here!”
Or, “That’s Xiao Mai on the way. I see her down the street.”
It took me about a month to get a lot better at distinguishing Chinese faces. And then I couldn’t believe after that I’d had any trouble. Noticing human differences and acknowledging them is not racism; that’s just life and reality. The left would do a lot better to accept that and deal with it like adults.
It’s the most dipshittily assclowny thing ever that a browser that I control running on my local machine that I fully own can’t access anything but the “Downloads” folder. Blah, blah, security whatever.
The fuck you concerned about what I can do on my own machine? I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want.
AI is useful in many instances and for many use cases. Just like everything else in known existence, most people are not that smart and thus are bad at using it.
Intelligence is multiplicative. That applies to AI just as much as it does anywhere else. Perhaps more so.
(In other words, smart people do smart things with AI. Dumbasses do dumbass things. Just as it always was and ever will be.)
Supposedly, the only reason men do anything nice for women is to attempt to get sex. And since sex is bad for some reason, this commutatively means men are bad.
But what’s never examined is what women expect to get out of the nice things they do for others, and why these motivations are automatically good and noble? I’d argue that since women are just as human as men, we shouldn’t de facto assume women are immaculate angels. And in fact they are not.
Look, I love women. Literally my closest friends are all women. Which is why I know they are just people with all the complexity — and darkness and light — immanent to all humans.
Women aren’t angels. Men aren’t demons. We’re all just human.
Impossible to understand our moment in history without grasping that for many people reality is increasingly a marginal phenomenon that happens around the edges of screen time. https://t.co/tcBdOdSfbk
— James Marriott (@j_amesmarriott) November 16, 2025
If people have told you this doesn’t matter: they’re wrong. It does. There’s been a categorical change in humanity’s relation to the world of the actual. The consequences are hitting hard now. This also happened after the advent of the printing press. And it took hundreds of years to work out, along with much chaos, destruction and war.
It really is strange how it’s treated by so much of the left as hateful and anomalous that, broadly speaking, people wish to live near other people like them who speak the same language and hold the same values as they do.
Because, brothers and sisters, it’s the most natural thing in the universe to want that. I’d even say that it is part of human nature. Of course, leftists insist human nature does not exist. They are wrong, of course. If it did not exist then neither would we.
On the other hand, inviting millions of people into your country who want to destroy it and would kill you if they could and will rape any women they have the chance to is what is unnatural. It’s kind of sad that has to be pointed out these days. But it does.
As is the case with nearly every straight woman alive, this person has absolutely no fucking clue what dating is like for men, how we lead a life constant rejection (and even worse, pre-rejection), and how that impacts everything we do when we talk with women we’re interested in romantically.
Of course youโre not going to reject me! Iโve basically been interviewing you, and who doesnโt love being asked insightful things about their life and opinions?!
Oh fuck, this right here is about the very top thing men hate about dating! MEN DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERVIEWED/INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.
Again, for all the women: MEN DO FUCKING NOT WANT TO BE INTERROGATED AS PART OF A DATE.
How can so many women just not understand this? This writer sounds absolutely insufferable, by the way. I thank all the gods I’ve never gone on a date with her. If my partner is kidnapped by aliens and I decide to date again, I’m adding her name to the list of “Big Always Nope.”
It wasnโt that he couldnโt answer my questions [about sex], itโs that the act of asking caused him to shut down.
I can’t imagine why! It’s because 99.999999999% of the time any time a man talks about sex frankly with a woman, he’s demonized, castigated and thrown to the wolves. It’s never, ever, ever, ever a good idea unless it’s someone you already know really well. There’s absolutely no upside in it for a man at any time. Not ever. Don’t do it. Don’t land in that trap.
(I do talk about sex with my platonic female friends, and sometimes quite extensively, but we’ve known each other for a long time.)
Getting dating advice from a straight woman for a man is totally worthless. Might as well get dating advice from a cat, or a turnip. It’ll help just as much. Maybe more as since they cannot talk, at least it will not be bad advice.