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Day: September 19, 2024, 5:43 PM
It Still Smarts
I truly and deeply hate smartphones.
Ned Ludd
I don’t want AI or Apple Intelligence in my computer or phone. In fact, I don’t want it anywhere. I hope there is a way to turbo-nuke the shit out of those things. The future sucks.
Engage Brain
This is correct. Always has been and always will be. Which is why so many people are completely and totally fucked forever.
Lapse
The collapse of the US middle class:
Indirect Ill
It’s weird when you stray into the Covid-obsessed areas of the internet and realize those people will never let it go. In 50 years, they’ll be in nursing homes ranting and raving about Covid and no one will know what the fuck they are on about.
Indirectly, Covid has been responsible for as much mental illness as a good-sized war.
Run Water
Degrowth is clownish. And every time anyone criticizes degrowth, there’s the perfunctory “that’s not the good kind of degrowth” response. Yet any time I see anyone point to the so-called “good kind” of degrowth, it’s just like the above, except they want to take away your refrigerator and running water too.
I believe degrowth is like communism. There is some mythical version done correctly, but no one has ever seen it nor will they ever.
Kit Sebastian – Bul Bul Bul
More Turkish music. I like this one a lot.
Collegiality
No one should start college at 18. College for most should start at 23-25 after you’ve been out in the working world long enough to know what you like or what’s out there. And many fewer people should attend college. Many more should be doing apprenticeships.
Realities
The myth is that men are sex-obsessed beasts who can think of and are concerned with nothing else.
The reality for most men: “This woman is naked with her legs spread and she’s pulling down my pants. Maybe she’s just tired? Or doesn’t like my pants? She probably doesn’t actually want sex. This is a trick or something. I better not chance it. Don’t want to be a creep.”
The above (only slightly exaggerated) happens so very often to men who are only used to disdain and rejection from women.
Causal Agents
The culture of the future should be a billion-year-long quest to conquer the galaxy and defeat death.
Anything that doesn’t violate the laws of physics we can do, given time1. Let’s get the fuck started.
Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC.
The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy.
Larry Ellison’s AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here.
Millions Have Amnesia About the Worst of Trump’s Presidency. Memory Experts Explain Why.
Miscellany № 103: calculators!
Ukrainian drone attack triggers huge blasts at Russian ammo depot.
‘Pig-Butchering’ Scams Cost Americans Billions. This Lawyer Is Taking Them On.
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition.
Tupperware, no longer a kitchen staple, files for bankruptcy.
New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation.