I worked with an intern who didn’t know what a CD was. She did know what a vinyl record was, though, as they’ve made an unfortunate return. She did have a vague notion that CDs were the “little silver records.”
Goalpost Movement
The degrowthers are always moving the goalposts. For example, with self-driving cars. Degrowthers:
1) Self-driving is impossible anywhere and shouldn’t even be tried!
Reality: Self-driving is working pretty well via Waymo in quite a few cities, and is improving all the time.
2) Ok, self-driving works but it’s incredibly dangerous.
Reality: Self-driving appears to be much safer by any measure.
3) Self-driving can’t work in bad weather conditions! Ever!
Reality: Also improving all the time and humans are also terrible, terrible drivers in adverse weather.
4) Self-driving cars can’t work while being attacked by a dinosaur during an earthquake combined with an alien invasion and the gates of Hell opening up!
Reality: Well, ok, you got me there.
Degrowthers just hate any improvement in life, tech (especially) or anything else. It’s like some horrid personal affront to them. So let’s affront them a lot more, since they suck!
Trump is Making Health Care Unaffordable Again.
Homeland Security Relaxes Species Requirements To Join ICE. OMG I love those images.
No, Gaza Is Not the Worst or Deadliest War by Any Measure.
The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again.
Men are physically stronger than women…This is not a “harmful stereotype.” Unless you’re nuts.
The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.
Sticky Boom
If I were a woman alone on the street, I can’t think of anything scarier than a buncha obviously-Islamic men approaching me.
Too bad they can’t carry big-ass guns in Europe. I used to be against concealed carry, largely. But a woman has no hope against that. She needs the boomstick and to lay down shots non-stop till they Quran-thumping asses drop.
Micro Milli
In the main, developers attempt to implement microservices because they have no networking knowledge and do not understand the huge latency of network calls compared to a local call. Concomitantly, they believe that a millisecond is not much longer than a microsecond1. (In fact, a millisecond is 1,000 times longer than a microsecond.)
From this nonchalant cluelessness, much pain is caused.
Direction
It now appears inevitable that all of Europe will be Islamicized. Or, in some cases, Islamicized again.
And so a once-great civilization falls. History turns as it always does with no halt and no moral direction.
Flee Fly
🇨🇭🚨"We’re not xenophobic, we’re just not stupid."
In Zurich, Switzerland, a senior home was closed and the elderly were evicted. Now, a temporary center for 300 refugees is planned there.
Residents are now protesting the move. In the Leimbach district, 4% of the population… pic.twitter.com/WwE0Rf3l9O
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) December 1, 2025
Well, that’s very sad — for the elderly people and for my friend who recently moved to Switzerland to get away from this shit and the constant state of fear she lived under due to North African and Islamic economic migrants.
Where will she have to flee to next?
How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.
The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last.
Seeing a Molecule’s Quantum Shadow.
Modern cars are spying on you. Here’s what you can do about it.
You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? Only the hundred or so largest companies in the US need microservices. The others, it’s a huge waste.
The Printer Tracking Dot Scandal.
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings. Clownish.
Target’s layoff push exposes corporate America’s cold new normal.
BIFO
The people paid the most are often the best, at least at the individual contributor level. The MBAs doing the layoffs sort the to-be-canned spreadsheet by highest salary at the top and toss those people out first. They don’t care about skill or knowledge even a little bit.
That’s all it is.
AI Hihi
A common mistake I see is that people now believe that all AI is an LLM. However, there are tons of other types of AI (not an exhaustive list): search algorithms, game-playing agents, recommender systems, robotics control, computer vision, classic expert systems, optimization, etc. Many of those precede modern LLMs by 40+ years.
When people hear “AI,” they think ChatGPT. But I had a colleague who was working on AI email spam filtering back in the 1990s. So this stuff has been around a while.
Glancing
It’s a strange thing that I can look at an email for around 1-2 seconds and determine if it’s phishing and/or fraudulent just at a glance and many of the users I’ve worked with over the years couldn’t determine the same thing if they spent six months attempting to figure it out.
It is amazing sometimes the differences in people’s abilities.
Herd Movement
That is the easiest way to get banned from anywhere — go against the herd. I find myself running away from the stampede often enough so I know how that works. It’s how I got banned from Reddit the first time. I disagreed with the wrong people and they kicked me out. And the closer to being right you are, the more likely you are to be shitcanned.
Opportunity Cost
It’s annoying to think about how much better and actually-used and useful Firefox could have been if the devs had concentrated on making it distinguishable from other browsers rather than attempting to shape it into a third-rate Chrome clone. That was never going to be a successful strategy as many, many people including me told them over the years. In fact, I even got banned from all of Reddit for laying out the case in very clear terms. (And no, I didn’t violate the Reddit TOS. I just got the ire of every Firefox dev because my predictions started coming true).
Firefox was the last bastion of the old internet. Now effectively dead; a walking corpse that’ll fall into the first pit it stumbles across. It could’ve been different and the path there was fairly clear, but the devs chose a direction that granted them the most power rather than empowering the users.
And that was their grave mistake.
Flat Out
Hong Kong firefighters searching through 2000 flats like these to look for survivors.
One of the many reasons I dislike living in apartments or condos is that if a fire starts, you’re fucked. You can’t get out. By the time you know about the blaze it’s often too late.
In a house, you can just break out a window and jump out. Even if you’re on the second story, you might fracture your ankle or something but you’ll live. Good luck jumping from the 23rd floor of a tower.