Day: August 18, 2024, 7:04 PM

Left Behind

Chill Culture, Politics

This is from a conservative perspective I do not share, but I still agree with the overall take. Secularism is dominant now. Religion has been largely vanquished. The left as much as the right has reacted poorly to this, attempting to replace old-fashioned Protestantism with its even-more-inferior substitute, wokism. Except it’s not been done with any sort of awareness or forethought, as the vast majority of the left doesn’t understand that there is a religion-shaped hole in their lives they are attempting to fill.

Religious urges seem to be nearly universal in the human soul1. Attempting to eliminate them only makes those compulsions emerge in a more dangerous, less controlled form elsewhere. This is also true on the right, where we see worship of a two-bit fraud like Donald Trump and other pathologies.

People Like Owning Slaves

Chill Rant

A lot of the RTO push is just that many people like owning slaves. RTO is as close as they can get to that in this era. A lot of people with a bit of power are sociopaths because power attracts their brand of mental illness, and those types would all own slaves if they could.

Being able to control lives, to force people into long commutes, to lord over them like they are in charge of medieval barony, to regulate their going and coming — that is the RTO-pushing wannabe-slaveowners’ stuff of dreams. It is the only thing that excites them, that vivifies their lives. You can tell by how lustfully they talk about RTO.

There’s nothing anyone can do to ever get me back in an office again. You want the best, I’m working wherever the fuck I wish to. You want some chowdearheaded doof who can’t distinguish an MTU from a CPU, go ahead and hire your slave type. I’m sure your network and prod environment will stay up very reliably then.

Crumble

Chill Clowns

Anyone who talks about how wonderful and glorious Putin is and who does not live in Russia should be:

1) Required to emigrate to Russia.

2) Required to sign up for the Russian armed forces.

Those two requirements would probably solve that problem.

Ok, ok, I’m not really serious. But damn, such clownishness should be punished somehow.

Chill Quote

There was neither nonexistence nor existence
then; there was neither the realm of space nor the
sky which is beyond.
What stirred?
Where?
In whose protection?
Was there water, bottomlessly deep?
There was neither death nor immortality then.
There was no distinguishing sign of night or day.
That one breathed, windless, by its own impulse.
Other than that there was nothing beyond.
Darkness was hidden by darkness in the
beginning…

“The Hymn of the Dark Beginning,” from the Hindu Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE)

Chill Links

Data from the Fed’s Emergency Funding Program Shows Spring 2023 Banking Crisis Was Far Deeper than Americans Were Told.

We Now Have a Chance to Stop the Most Deadly Infectious Disease — if We Act.

Doubting America’s ‘Nuclear Umbrella,’ Some South Koreans Want Their Own.

‘Strange and mysterious’: rarely seen, 12ft-long oarfish found in waters off San Diego.

The Inflation Reduction Act at Two. Challenges remain, but there’s been a lot of progress on restoring an industrial base, creating union jobs, and transforming our energy economy.

Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too.

The reason disinformation is effective enough to be nearly invisible to a whole lot of highly educated and presumably at least moderately intelligent people is that they haven’t done the work on knowing themselves.

Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender.

Carmel-by-the-Sea has never had street addresses. A plan to adopt them is causing a rift.

Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere. Impacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon’s thin atmosphere.