I got told this at one job. So I just started making up absolute hogwash and lies to tell people. That was a lot more fun. Except then I had to remember it all.
Month: October 2024
DST For Me and Thee
Standard Time sucks so much. Can’t believe we’re about to be back in that turd again.
DST forevermore!
Cheesing Up
Oh, absolutely, this is the case. The media makes vastly more money during close national elections. If Trump and Harris were held to the same standards, Trump would be 5-7% down and it wouldn’t even be a contest. But the absolutely insane things Trump says don’t get reported or get buried, while relatively innocuous actions or statements of Harris get distorted and reported on incessantly. This is to make the election be a contest not a landslide for Harris.
And to be clear: this would happen if Harris were the one doing insane things and Trump were the normal one. The media needs the election to be close to make that cheddar. That’s what’s going on.
Bian
Men, what’s a good movie to watch on a first date?
Probably either Cannibal Holocaust or A Serbian Film. Maybe do a double header, really get things going.
Wuhan Clan
Covid was definitely a lab escape with some minor mods from the wild type. The problem is that any scientists who would claim this are terribly afraid of having their funding cut and/or being harassed by the CCP, so they either say nothing or just spout nonsense to avoid the loss of cash and the hassle.
Lorde – Tennis Court
Just such a great video. I watch it every few months. What looks easy here is actually hard. The shoot itself takes only a few hundred dollars worth of equipment if you rent it but coaxing your subject into being so static yet interesting for more than three minutes is an art. And that’s not easy at all.
I was hoping the uniqueness and pure force of Lorde’s first album was presaging a cultural shift. Alas, it did not. And we haven’t had one of those in a long time, no matter what some clowns claim. But I hope we do still one day.
Eb and Flow
Roger Ebert’s 4-Star Review of ‘Halloween’ Made Me Want to Be a Writer.
I miss Roger Ebert. I often disagreed with him, but never regretted reading what he wrote. Siskell & Ebert is what made me love movies and to see them in a way I likely otherwise would not have.
There are not any critics like him left writing any longer and that is indeed a great loss.
What visuals reveal about the impact of Israeli strikes on Iran.
Jeff Bezos Just Made the Crisis at The Washington Post So Much Worse.
Powering Proliferation: The Global Engine Market and China’s Indigenization.
How life began on Earth: Model suggests ancient Earth had organic-rich atmosphere.
Here’s What NORAD’s Commander Just Told Us About The Langley AFB Drone Incursions.
Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins.
How One Polling Decision Is Leading to Two Distinct Stories of the Election.
Re-sent the Resentment
That’s true. I am deeply resentful because of and actually fucking hate all the people who spent so long telling me crap like, “You need to learn MATH! No matter what it takes! It’s the FUTUREEEEEEEEE!!!!111” And then making me do so against my will and skill.
Fuck you. Fuck you forever. The best path for me is to have been put in immersive language programs and such from three years old. I could’ve easily been fluent in 15+ languages by the time I was 18. Easily. That is my superpower and if I had been allowed to concentrate on that I would be so dominant none could stand before me. I’m still really good but there’s no replacement for learning stuff like that early — both because your brain is more plastic and because there is just more time.
I deeply to the bottom of my heart loathe, loathe anyone and everyone who made me spend a single fucking second on math instead of what I should’ve been doing. May every last one of you suffer in hell for all time for that sin against me.
Normalization
At work now, I’m doing a project by myself (in addition to all my other duties) that normally a team of 10-20 people would handle.
And I’m ’bout over it. I mean, I’m really fucking good. I can do it; I’m the equal of 10+ normies on even a bad day. But the question is, do I want to?
Pitch a Fit
Well that’s one way to do it.
Peony
WFH explains probably 60-80% of that. So of course doofclowns want to roll it back. They just can’t stand losing a little power over the peons.
Decouprated
Also, anyone who believes that January 6, 2021, was not a coup is a big fucking screaming idiot. Of course it was a coup.
That weren’t no tourist expedition to the Capitol. Jesus Fucking Christ. It was, like most things done by Trump, poorly-executed and cowardly. But it was a coup. And I’d say that even if I supported Trump. Too much clownery for words these days.
Rice Dish
Eh, is this some kind of trick question? Or a trick question on yourself? Don’t mean to be dismissive though also don’t really care if I am, but one of the basic tenets of computer science and the deeper math “below” that is that all non-trivial outputs of programs are not determinable without running the program in question. That’s Rice’s Theorem and it’s a generalization of the halting problem first formalized by Alan Turing.
There is not single word for it, I guess. “Undecidability,” perhaps. But Rice’s Theorem and its various proofs are what’s being sought here. There is no possibility of omniscience for us in this realm. You might write the sim, but you still don’t know what it’ll do without setting it in motion and taking a peek. That’s all that is possible (even in principle).
Thousand Times
This is correct. The cheaper something becomes, the more there tends to be of that thing. The main effect of AI on bureaucracies and your relation to them is that instead of having 40 pages of paperwork to do, you’ll have 4,000. The AI will fill it all in but you’ll still have to review and correct it all.
And if you think this is not what’s gonna happen…well, prepare to be wrong. It is inevitable.