Why is the left so anti-tech, anti-progress, anti-growth? And it’s so rabid with them.
Just disgusting people all ’round.
The Pipeline
Spoken like someone who has never worked on anything real-world-adjacent. This contention demonstrates fundamental misunderstanding of how corporations work, how the world works, how long things take, what it would mean to even see this in the world, and much, much else.
Models that can easily best a junior dev only came out about six months ago. Even in the most “move fast and break things” type companies, it still takes a few months to get everyone moving the same direction, the product side to create specs, those specs to be turned into designs and those design to be coded up (whether by human or AI), tested and refined. So we’re talking 3-5 months to even get anything out the door.
Remember what I said about the high-quality models only coming out about six months ago? Do the math. Therefore, I’d not expect to see any real apprecial results for 1-2 years given that most companies move even slower than that — yes, even with AI assistance.
This will never be a button-press. Faster, yes. But not what this doofy dismissal imagines.
Hush Rush
I lived in Charlotte, NC, for many years.
My daily commute ranged anywhere from 45 minutes to four hours, depending on traffic. Yes, each way. For those not in the know, Charlotte has some of the worst traffic in the country. Rush “hour” there often lasts 10-14 hours of the day.
It was a pretty frequent occurrence there that traffic was immobile enough that me and other people would get out of our vehicles and chat on the highway as pre-smartphone there was nothing else to do.
Despite
When I was in training in the Army there were two girls in there with me, both with the last name “Pool.” In the military, everyone calls one another by last name — at least before you have a nickname.
Well, the thing was, one of the Pools was very tall and one was very short. So I could distinguish them when referring to them, I started calling the short Pool “Wading Pool” and the other one “Swimming Pool.” Then everyone else did too.
Neither Pool liked this, but it stuck throughout training.
No, I was not a favorite of the Pools. I think Swimming Pool still liked me though, despite herself.
Flat Out No
I’m old enough to remember when we were told it was “impossible” the Patriot system would ever work, much less be able to intercept hypersonic missiles.
For many reasons, I trust other people’s (especially degrowth liberal types) assessment about what is “impossible” about as much as I trust a flatworm’s opinion on how to make a good burger.
Looting
Exactly. Opening “Quality Learing Centers” to steal money and send it back to some shithole country is not making this country or even the receiving country of that thieved loot any better long-term.
The Claim
Women often claim they get tattoos to repel men but go on to complain bitterly when the men they desire are no longer attracted to them because of those tattoos.
Other than that I have to look at them, were I in the dating market, I’d appreciate those disfiguring bits of personal defacement in the sense that they are accurate advertising that the woman in question is unsuitable for me. In that way, it’s a win. A fast, easy, reliable sorting mechanism. Those are rare.
Too bad tattoos are so ugly, though.
All Home
Good. Deny every single H1B application; send them all home.
Too Much Imm
That’s way too much immigration. Assimilation doesn’t work when it gets too high — probably about 10% foreign-born is the hard limit.
They beat cancer. Then they got hit with massive bills.
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You.
Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560).
AI Demand Clears Out Western Digital's Hard Drive Supply for 2026.
Bacterial strain from 5,000-year-old cave ice shows resistance against 10 modern antibiotics. Dang ol’ time-traveling bacteria.
Why are all the hard drives already sold out?
AH-64 Apache Is Getting Proximity Fuzed 30mm Cannon Ammo For Swatting Down Drones.
China’s high-speed rail network accelerates world’s largest human migration.
Perhaps we should all be banned from social media.
Russia’s Grinding War in Ukraine. Massive Losses and Tiny Gains for a Declining Power.
High Risk, Negative ROI
Risk is too high, return too low. Girls have made it clear they do not wish to be addressed anywhere in any way, shape or form.
Men listened.
Handmaid
About this, if women insist on telling the world repeatedly how weak and powerless they are, someday, someone is going to believe them.
I don’t think they’d like that world much.
AR Aww No
Good lord, I’d kill myself if I had to look at that all the time.
Which Is It?
I don’t believe it, either, but in reality if women under 30 or 35 or whatever are not qualified and permitted to decide who they want to date, then they should also not be allowed to:
1) Vote.
2) Hold political office.
3) Make medical decisions about their own bodies.
4) Drink alcohol.
5) Work in any profession that requires licensing.
So, which is it, feminists?
Sophie Thatcher – Pivot & Scrape
My favorite of Sophie’s music.