I don’t know about y’all, but I personally love spending half the day “troubleshooting” non-existent infrastructure problems because a developer won’t spend 30 seconds looking at a few lines of code.
I mean, could there be a better use of my time? Surely not.
How soon would you expect someone you’re dating to reveal they have a serious mental illness?
Before the first stabbing. But not, like, right before. At least a few days in advance. Preferably weeks.
I quickly read L.D. Smithson’s The Escape Room. It’s not worth the minimal time. It’s as light as a feather and has no content to match its convictions. It never commits to anything. It’s ostensibly about a group of eight people forced to compete to the death in reality TV show while giving us a look at the relationship of an older, kind of overbearing sister to her younger, more easygoing sibling. However, the work never explores any o
f this satisfactorily and it neither examines the problems with the pigeonholing of the younger sister as “scatty” nor the horror of being essentially forced into almost-gladiatorial combat with seven other people.
It’s not clever, it’s not interesting and it doesn’t know what it wants to be. Is it horror? Is it family drama? Is it just plain drama? It’s never observant enough of human behavior or extreme enough to warrant any reaction. Both the book and all the characters in it are so milquetoast that you want to call the novel and all the people in it “Obama.” The book feels like it was written by a committee who had seen Fincher’s Se7en with all the good parts edited out combined with a binge of Golden Girls and Sex in the City.
The prose — well, let’s not talk about that.
I rarely encounter a bad book that I read all the way through, but this one I did. I wanted to see what happened when the two sisters finally had their big confrontation that the book should’ve been building to. And you know what happened? Not a damn thing. I guess I fooled myself because even that encounter was an anticlimactic waste of time.
Do not recommend.
The solar panels on the roof of our new house produce 35+ kWh of power a day (which is a lot) on really sunny days, but we have no batteries so most of that just gets tossed back into the power grid.
We’ll probably wait a couple of years and get a battery, since prices are falling all the time and the tech is constantly improving. But those panels are rockin’ it.
Definitely not more impressive, but pretty amazing nonetheless. I think I could maybe do that for 5-10 seconds — if I practiced for a few years.
¡Qué buena rola!
This is why tanks in urban areas against any sort of provisioned foe do not work. Hell, with ubiquitous drones these days even in non-urban environments MBTs are not great. But in an urban area any mook with an RPG can get right on top of you from on the street or the buildings nearby.
Why I Finally Quit Spotify. The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to listen to. With the latest app updates, I’d had enough. Has always sucked. Now it’s enshittifying enough that normies are noticing.
A Forgotten 1990s Law Could Make It Illegal to Discuss Abortion Online.
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong. From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown. True of most “ancient” traditions.
The hidden role of public pensions in raising rents in California.
How Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program.
Western diets and chronic diseases.
The Floating City, Long a Libertarian Dream, Faces Rough Seas. That’s because it’s a moronic idea.
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions.
F-16s arrive in Ukraine to help fight Russia. Here’s what to know about their possible impact.
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription.