It was a pleasure to take the first Ukrainian Challenger 2 MBT for a spin.
Such tanks, supplied by the United Kingdom, have recently arrived in our country.
These fantastic machines will soon begin their combat missions.
Thank you, @RishiSunak, @BWallaceMP, and the 🇬🇧 people. pic.twitter.com/zoCRmKdBnN

— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) March 28, 2023

Good tanks. Not as good as the Abrams (fire control and targeting particularly is not great), but much, much cheaper to operate. They’ll shred any Russian tanks very easily.

This is true; for some reason, put a rich white lady in an SUV, she’s far more aggressive than even the most pugnacious men out there.

I’m going to tell my friends too young to remember the 1980s this is what car phones were:

We had a whole glorious van era in the 1970s and 1980s that kids today will never understand https://t.co/yu2a6Wxhsm

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) March 24, 2023

Just look at this masterpiece. Who wouldn’t want this sublime exemplar of vehicular excellence?

The next few decades are going full of new, exciting sociogenic illnesses. Better start updating your ideas about what makes a mental illness "real." https://t.co/ML02JLElb1

— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 1, 2023

Agreed. I think Long Covid is real, too, but probably 60-70% of cases have no physical cause because it’s a result of mental trauma and is sociogenic primarily. Thus, no physiological or pharmacological treatment will work that well.

The idea that everyone hates tech because of some woke media psyop is just an autopsyop. Your products suck! They're painful to use! The experience of computing is awful! Enough with the cope! People hate the industry for good reasons.

— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 13, 2023

Indeed. The experience of computing in general has regressed greatly in the last decade. It’s now disturbingly terrible. Tech people like to lie and say it’s for “security” and “for your own good” but that’s just flimflam concealing what’s really happening: the soul of computing was sold to predatory capitalism and there is no going back now.

People seem to not understand that visually similar meals could have quite different caloric contents.

— ⌜ktb⌟ (@kevinbaker) March 26, 2023

It is in fact very easy to make two meals that are visually similar, but one has 1,200 calories and the other has 500. Hint: butter, oil, lard, any source of fat, and more protein too. Laughably easy to do. Same appearance and volume but vastly different energy content.

Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans.

Told ya MBAs were going to can WFH ASAP. They really, really hated it and it’ll only persist for some tech people like me who have skills too rare to attempt to constrain. The end of WFH will harm productivity, reduce family formation, increase fossil fuel use and in general hurt America — but that don’t matter as long as some petty MBA can feel a sense of power over others.

Because an aggrieved MBA’s hurt wittle feewings is what really matters in this country.

Was slightly harder today. Took me three guesses and 1.5 minutes. Got lucky with the first guess; having a letter in the right position already makes it 1,000x  easier. This cuts down the possibility space immensely.

What are some things you wish you liked but just do not?

Mine are audiobooks and anime. I can’t tolerate either one but I see how much many people dig them and wish I could too. But no matter how many times I try I just hate both. I’ve figured out neither one of those things is for me.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Maybe Zoomers are horrified by the idea of a 21-year-old dating a 26-year-old because a Zoomer 21-year-old has equivalent life experience to a Millenial 15-year-old. https://t.co/vnigSseh6B

— Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ (@GarrettPetersen) March 25, 2023

Yes! I do think that’s a large part of it. A very large part.

Many Gen Z types in their 20s remind me emotionally and maturity-wise of where earlier gens were at when age 10-13 or so. They have no life experience, don’t know how to do anything, have never been through an aversive event even once, and have relied on helicopter and snowplow parents even into their mid-20s.

So, of course, unlike previous generations even if 26 they are basically still children. Not all of Gen Z, of course. But certainly the ones most likely to write oddball crap like a 22-year-old dating a 30-year-old is child abuse. When you look at claims like that in the light of just how little actual life experience much of Gen Z has, it makes a whole lot more sense.

Because many of them are mentally children compared to past generations, no matter their chronological age.

I can’t remember where I saw it, but yesterday I read some crazy clown crap about how people who’ve worked hard to be fit and slim would be mad about Ozempic. Supposedly, fit people would be devastated that others could now just take a pill and achieve the same results.

As a person who has worked hard to be fit and slim, I think that people can do the same with a pill is great! I hope everyone who wants Ozempic gets it and it works very well for them. We’ve needed something like it for a long time. And that it pisses the Fat Acceptance movement off is also a nice side benefit, too.

So no, most likely no one is angry that Ozempic is helping people. Well, except the Fat Acceptance movement. Then again, they get upset about being told things like that weighing 500 pounds isn’t healthy and that eating 5,000 calories per meal isn’t actually very balanced nutrition-wise. So who really cares?

I’m reading an oral history of 9/11. It’s pretty good.

On 9/11 I worked at AT&T doing phone support. The TVs mounted on the walls of the call center had CNN on 24/7. I was on shift that morning and I watched the report of the first plane hitting the WTC soon after it happened. I was surprised when the network cut away to some trivial story and made a comment on that odd decision. My co-workers asked why I was bothered that CNN had gone on to something else since what had happened was just an accident. I said, “No one crashes a plane into the tallest building around on a clear blue day on accident. That was likely terrorism and we’re under some kind of attack.”

All of them scoffed at me. Twenty or so minutes later the second plane hit; the scorn came to a screeching halt and the usual questions about how I had possibly known what was very fucking obvious ensued.

Then all devolved into chaos as the federal government basically seized all of AT&T’s communication infrastructure due to the national emergency.

A super weird thing about the Covidians is that they insist there were no real lockdowns anywhere. When questioned about what a “real lockdown” would look like, they are maddeningly evasive and do not give a comprehensible answer.

It appears that their reasoning (if it can be called that) is happening in reverse. That is:

1) Covid did not disappear.

2) Lockdowns (somehow) would’ve eradicated Covid.

3) Therefore, there were no real lockdowns.

Of course here in the real world, we know that lockdown was an actual fact in many countries and did not eradicate Covid as, for one, humans are not the only reservoir for the virus. Not to mention the fact that lockdowns were never intended to do what the Covidians claim they were and they harmed millions greatly — which the Covidians also deny.

Once you understand that there are tons of unexpressed religious feelings needing redirection in society, you begin to understand much.