This 100%. We obviously need more supports for poverty and behavioral health. But it’s frustrating to see people become negatively polarized into believing that anti-social behavior on transit is fine.

— Vishnu Reddy (@VishnuisReddy) May 6, 2023

It has been really fucking weird seeing liberals claim shit like, “Being screamed at and assaulted on transit daily is the cost of civilization! Nothing we can do! If you can’t understand that, you’re a fascist!”

Alrighty then. That’s going to keep a whole hell of a lot of people away from public transit, and more women than men. And it will (and does) keep me away too, because I don’t want to accidentally kill someone if they trigger my North Florida PTSD shit.

So sure, let the crazies roam free and terrorize everyone. See how much mass transit use there will be then.

Texas really trying to see how many massacres it can have in one day, yeah? Still got a few hours left, go crazy.

Windows 11: TPMs and Digital Sovereignty.

This is another area where people are eager to be conned in a comforting way.

So, why do I suddenly need a TPM 2.0 device on my machine, then you ask? Well, the answer is quite simple. It’s not about you; it’s about them.

You see, the PC (emphasis on personal here) is in a way the last bastion of digital freedom you have, and that door is slowly closing. You need to only look at highly locked and controlled systems like consoles and phones to see the disparity.

It’s long been the corporate dream to kill general purpose computing. They are getting very close now; soon it will be de facto illegal.

When a company tells you that you need something, and it’s “for your own good,” and hey, they’re just on a humanitarian aid mission to save you from yourself, one should be highly skeptical.

Exactly. Firefox killing customizability “for your own good” had fuck-all to do with helping you, but rather with serving their larger corporate masters. It was all lies.

You see these weird articles full of lies about nutrition pop up from time to time.

Let’s look just at the BS in the article about protein. What the article does not mention, of course, is the bioavailability of protein differs a whole hell of a lot between plant and animal sources.

For instance, to get the RDA of protein from plant sources (beans, peanuts, etc.) you’d need to eat around 4,000 calories per day. Unless you’re a Fat Acceptance loon, that’s not really a good thing. And for most people — and for anyone doing weight training — the protein RDA is actually very much too low. It’s about half of what it should be.

And that’s only one of the many lies in the article. I wonder what inspires these, what’s the reason for these deceitful exercises in clownishness? I’d guess it’s to protect the reputations of the people who’ve made absurd claims over the years but I don’t really know.

ISW concludes that Russia likely staged the supposed Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin. (I agree). https://t.co/9upMEyOU1Q

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 4, 2023

Oh yeah, just like the Nordstream pipeline attack, Russia staged this. Nothing else makes any kind of sense logistically or logically.

Anyone who thinks anything else about either fake attack is loonier than a ergot-munching divot-pounder.

There is infinite data and most of it is bullshit

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) May 4, 2023

Indeed. And infinite data without some guiding design to what you’re trying to find out and why is 100% worthless. This is why we need philosophy and always will. (Cue frantic screaming from the STEM crowd, but it’s true.)

Supermarket hit by Russian missiles today in Kherson, Ukraine.

Well, it was a very imperialistic supermarket that wanted to join NATO.

what exactly is going on with this sudden preponderance of people on a hair trigger about to murder any and all unexpected visitors https://t.co/VUJDxhHD3l

— The Goddamned Penguin (@who_shot_jgr) May 1, 2023

A lot of Americans fantasize about situations where they’d “need” to shoot someone. It’s a sickness.

In case you're wondering how things are going in Texas, our district canceled all sex ed classes this year but is now required to offer kids training in bleeding control techniques, including "tourniquets approved for use in battlefield trauma care by the armed forces." pic.twitter.com/zjCrMaE9Ts

— Jenny Lawson (@TheBloggess) May 1, 2023

Red states…dang.

The title claims, “4 black American cyclists, circa 1890s.”

Nope! The bike styles and clothing scream 1905-1910 or so, and the comments confirm it. (And no, I didn’t have to read the comments to know that.)

Cool photo, though.

Tankie fucks like Ian Welsh fucking suck.

And Chomsky was mixing it up with Epstein? Not surprising at all. I wish Welsh would just go fight for Wagner. You can tell he’s itching to murder some Ukrainians.

I’m kind of dying at all the dudes lamenting what women wear at the gym “nowadays” when this is the stuff people literally used to wear to workout in the 80s. pic.twitter.com/FK3P4cRo5J

— celia (@_celia_bedelia_) April 30, 2023

I was there. Exercise/gym clothing was much much much much much more revealing in the 1980s, for women and men. This was in pre-prudish times, so of course it was.

It was not at all uncommon to see a woman wearing basically a bikini and working out back then. I remember glancing at some woman working out in a park about 1988 or so and I couldn’t tell right away if she had any clothes on at all. She did, but just barely.

This will lead to a classic adverse selection outcome: all the profs with exit options — eg the high quality ones — will leave, and only the dumdums will stay. Adios Texas… https://t.co/l9eVmeiaLc

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) April 30, 2023

This is happening now with all careers in red states, not just professors. And it’s going to get worse. We’re two of the smart people leaving and like most trends that are actually helpful, I’m ahead of that one. Many, many more will follow us out.

If you’re not leaving now you’re just screwing yourself over. Overcome inertia and get the fuck out now while you can.

The nearest bakery to where we are now is gluten free.

That’s a big sad right there.

Long Covid was certainly supposed to have ended civilization by now. Yet I still see civilization.

Cool story, bro.