I have to give credit to the touchy-feely optometrist: she made the best reading glasses I’ve ever had. I’d gladly go back and be felt up again when I get my next pair, they are so good.
Caused
Drone shot of a Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where houses start at about $5 million:
Climate change didn’t cause this, in the sense that most people mean “cause1,” but it made this outcome vastly more likely.
It only takes looking at insurance rates to understand that cimate change and its effects are real. Underwriters and actuaries do not fuck around — they need to deal with the world as it is, not as some dipshits imagine it to be.
Lec
Those are old and inefficient drives, but I don’t know how anyone lives in the UK with those sort of electricity prices. That is a preview of the future the degrowthers wish for us. And I want absolutely no part of that.
We should be aiming for absurd energy abundance, not austerity. In reality (as we’ve already seen in the UK) austerity does not work and cannot work. It is a philosophy of failure and ennui. It will not save the planet and in its extreme cases will lead billions into starvation.
Degrowth is another form of death wish, no different than the climate deniers. Both are clownish idiots.
Duty Bound
That is how it be. I think of you people who never get out and do anything, dealing all day with some recalcitrant eight-year-old who probably hates you, when I’m out doing fun stuff, free.
A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew.
Physicists magnetize a material with light.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry.
The surveillance octopus tightens its grip on immigrants—and everyone else.
Mortgage rates hit highest level since July, crushing application demand.
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada’s economy.
What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do.
You Are Still Not Worried Enough About Foreign Influence Operations. They’re real. And they matter.
Careerless
Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees.
Do read the comments. If you were planning to go into tech, I’d advise against. It’s probably only going to get worse. MBAs are convinced they can replace people with AI so they are going to try that. It won’t work because they are clueless (whether we’re talking about AI or MBAs), but that doesn’t matter.
If it is enough to get a bonus, an MBA type will do it. And are in fact doing it.
The decline of tech as a career has happened slowly but is now unstoppable. It doesn’t affect me as much luckily because no AI, H-1B, fleet of underpaid Indians nor any combination thereof can replace me, but tech used to be a good path — one of the few remaining. Now that’s changed and junior people should avoid it unless it is a true passion.
Gulf of Understanding
We should not change the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.”
No, my friends. We should change its moniker to the “Gulf of America Fuck Yeah!”
Of course.
Blame Canada
a cheat sheet for folks at home either 1) lacking a sense of humor, or 2) incapable of reading between the lines
canadian acquisition: a joke (and a gift to pierre poilievre)
greenland: will remain independent, we are now negotiating some kind of longterm binding partnership in…— Mike Solana (@micsolana) January 7, 2025
Right. Ain’t nobody invading fucking Canada. Lord knows they’ve screwed their own country up enough themselves without us having to do anything.
And the Panama Canal thing is indeed a warning to China. Believe me, China has gotten the message. Greenland is a non-issue too. Not to defend Trump, but he’s using fairly standard blustery businessman strong-arm fear tactics.
Bellieving
There are more than a few, but they are all massive dumbasses who couldn’t find a taco in Taco Bell.
Engage
North Korean M1989 "Koksan" already on the frontline. It still amazes me how much the US, Europe and South Korea don't give a shit about North Korea fully entering the war in Europe. https://t.co/pMefI2kdIx pic.twitter.com/dkh3zCFbOQ
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) January 7, 2025
It amazes me too. That should have been the “Time to quit fucking around” moment and it just was not. NATO should’ve full engaged then and evicted North Korea and Russia from Ukraine.
And we did nothing. Nothing at all.
Quent
What happens if a NATO member invaded a NATO member?
It would be like the end of a Tarantino movie. Everyone would shoot everyone else and fall over dead theatrically.
Permanent contraception surged after Roe v Wade overturned, study finds.
‘It didn’t use to be like this’: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killing.
Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.
TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth. Having an active propaganda arm of the CCP allowed to be ubiquitous in America is absolutely fucking insane.
How the AMA Undermines Primary Care.
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X.
US corporate bankruptcies hit 14-year high as interest rates take toll.
New jets help passengers avoid congestion at hub airports.
The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world.
Meta’s Fact-Checking Reversal Lets Zuckerberg Drop the Charade.
Wrong Ville
I really dislike the social pressure to join a political tribe.
“Are you a racist, anti-science troglodyte? Or are you an economically-illiterate, political correctness Karen? Those are your only choices. It’s one or the other. PICK ONE.”
How about neither? How about you go fuck yourselves?
— Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 (@gaughen.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m the same. It’s already hard enough not being an utter dumbass. Joining a tribe is a certain way to toss yourself right into Tardville. No thank you.