And then ransomware struck after I’m sure no updates or security monitoring for a long while. Bet he refused to RTO because for IT folks it’s pretty easy to get a fully remote job even now if you’re any good (I get 2-3 legit recruiter offers a week for fully remote roles).
And what happened to that law firm is what I call fuck around and find out.
Surprising absolutely no one. Except a buncha dumbass fuckwits.
“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, or souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.”
-Edward, First Baron Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of England, ca. 1788.
Did you hear Canada has a space agency? Yeah, it’s the tallest moose they could find and a guy with a hockey stick and puck riding on the back. He hasn’t yet been able to slap the satellite (puck) into space, but they’re hoping one day he can. They’re still looking for a taller moose.
Do you ever get tired of being ‘the man’ ?
Sometimes I do, but then I realize no one else is gonna fix it. I get tired of watching people fail and flail for days, weeks, months and sometimes years. I know where to draw the X, so I draw the X.
The above is the life of a sysadmin type until I one day hang up my hat.
People who think Russia is likely to stop with Ukraine are very, very dumb (like, exceedingly so).
Was told that lab-grown meat was not possible due to contamination and microbe issues. Of course, we already make other processed foods using similar methods as we will apply to lab-grown meat and those issues are not a hindrance.
The impossibility of lab-grown meat will be something that is merely “impossible,” not actually impossible.
I predict it will become common in 10 years, ubiquitous in 20-30 years.
Smartphones are probably the worst thing to have happened to society since 9/11. About the same level of devastation overall, I’d say.
Advanced education does not make you smarter. It just means you went to school longer.
Try this: “Even if you were the most gorgeous woman in the world, I’d rather tongue-kiss a Toro chipper-shredder than spend a single minute in the same space with you. If you, Hitler and Putin were in the same room and I had a pistol with two bullets, I’d shoot you twice. If somehow you were still alive after, I’d beat myself to death with the pistol.”
That’s a start, right? 😉
Gen Z is prudish to a level that would almost be funny if it weren’t so destructive to art, life, and the possibility of transcendence.
Feminism pretends that the point of #MeToo and other systems of HR-friendly behavior restriction is to keep aggressive and dangerous men away from women. But this is not the point at all. The reality is that it’s to build a firewall between women and low-status men regardless of those men’s other qualities.
Many women (and most feminists) like dangerous men if they are attractive. Amanda Marcotte is a good example of that, and she’s fairly standard. To quote another blog, “On the whole, women hate low status men far more than they hate men who actively oppress women.”
I wish I’d realized that and all of the above sooner. Absolutely true, alas, of most women. There’s nothing worse to most women than low-status, undesirable men. Dangerous men? Threatening men? Aggressive men? All good. It’s why you see much derision against geeky men, and claiming they alone are the creeps and assaulters, when in reality the rates of sexual assault among frat-boy types is 3-10x higher, depending on how you measure it.
(Don’t get me wrong here; this is obviously not all women. But it’s most, and nearly all of modern feminists, especially any PMC liberal feminist.)
Most people’s reaction to Jonathan Haidt’s correct take on smartphones and social media is the cope of the heroin addict: “I could quit anytime I like.” Because in reality, it’s not just the kids we’ve hooked on liquid crystal crack; no, it’s everyone. And that’s what causes all the pushback and the lies.
They know their tale of being able to quit is not true, we know it’s not true, but it’s the only way they can continue living the vitiated and pitiful existence that their lives have become, as they spend their diminished days staring at a tiny screen, reduced from full humanity to a data-spewing serf in thrall to some faceless technology company.
Yeah, who would want to admit that, and that even worse they’ve allowed their own children to become that? So it’s much easier instead to attack Haidt, misprise and mischaracterize what Haidt is claiming, and then to find refuge in the belief that they could break out of this dull purgatory of doomscrooling and diminished expectations if they really, really wanted to.
But because they can’t and they won’t, neither will their children. And that’s why all the disapprobation towards Haidt.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
In airports now, especially if I am wearing just a t-shirt, women walking past smile at me and veer slightly towards me rather than away as they did before my hotness upgrade.
Attractiveness matters so much more than it should in human society.