Month: October 2024

Sure Can

Chill Regular-ass Post

One of the worst interview experiences of my life.

Why subject yourself to this, even if you’re desperate? It’ll be a horrible place to work anyway. I’ve walked out of half a dozen interviews in my life, back when it was more common for them to be in person. I regret nothing; it was always the right call.

My favorite walk-out was when an interviewer attempted to antagonize me because I knew far more than he did. I stood up and said, “Well, I’m leaving. Wouldn’t want to work here.”

He acted all shocked and said, “You can’t just leave!”

I said, “Yes I can,” turned around and walked out of the conference room and right out the front door.

LOL. Respect yourself first or no one else will.

Device

Chill Clowns, Tech

This is from the Hacker News comments about data caps where tons of industry shills always come out of the woodwork, but take a gander at this fucking dumbass:

It’s not at all unusual for a family of four working adults or those attending school to have 3+ computing devices per person. In fact, that’s fairly typical now! For instance:

  • Work/school laptop
  • Personal laptop
  • Tablet
  • Phone

That’s four, and that’s common. Many people have a work phone and a personal phone as well as a desktop PC. That’s six.

It always amazes me just how many utterly clueless dipshits there are at a place like Hacker News.  Just complete fucking clowns and supposed to be intelligent. Nope.

Chill Links

The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a.

Tog’s paradox.

The Forest Service is Losing 2,400 Jobs—Including Most of its Trail Workers. Well that’s moronic.

The End Of Convenience: What The Downfall Of Walgreens Means For America.

The Boomer Stuff Avalanche. Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated.

Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners’ noses. AI is making it scarily easy.

GM’s profit nears a record a year after saying it couldn’t afford its workers’ pay demands.

“Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”

Why has your Big Mac become so much more expensive?

The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class.

Boeing’s 757 ‘Catfish’ Flying F-22 Avionics Testbed Emerges With Retro Look.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water.

Markdown

Chill Culture

Huh, interesting idea. Tattoos are terrible and men hate them on women because that’s what (most) men are attracted to. Therefore, they don’t want those to whom they are attracted to look like a walking dumpster. It’s not mysterious.

It’s telling that Aella, who sells sex and beauty for money, did not get tattoos as having none increased her market value. Wise decision; I would’ve done the same even if I liked tattoos. Having tattoos makes me and many men instantly uninterested in any woman, sexually or romantically.

Some us do have standards and women fucking HATE IT when men have standards.

Double Fault

Chill Sex

If a man can’t get intimacy in his relationship, where does this notion of “entitled” come from?

There is a huge double standard here, even if the poster seems a little incoherent. A woman gets huge, blaring sympathy if she says she wants more intimacy and the man in question is not providing it. The man is blamed no matter what the woman does because he somehow must have “caused” it.

However, if a man wants more intimacy and the woman is not providing this, then the man is also invariably blamed, often with the accusers knowing zero details. In their eyes, he also must have somehow “caused” this. In other words, no matter who is complaining about the dead bedroom it is always the man’s fault because he is the only one seen to have agency.

Now why is that? Why must the man always be wholly responsible for the woman’s emotional well-being, even in this context of sex?

I tell you what, we men get tired of all this emotional labor women force us to do. 😉

Dated and Undated

Chill Video, Video (other)

2004 McDonalds Chicken Selects Commercials.

Wow, culture is very static compared to how frequently and drastically it used to change. These ads are twenty years old but they don’t feel all that dated. If the resolution were higher that could be be right now.

Imagine watching McDonald’s ads in 2004 from 1984 (same time separation). Back then, 1984 already seemed like a different world.

So for comparison, here are McDonald’s commercials from 1984-1985. Wow, that’s a whole different, weird universe there1.

Even I had kind of forgotten, though, how heavily McDonald’s ads were aimed at kids back then.

  1. And I was alive in both eras, so don’t even argue here.

Prospero

Chill Rant

I was a reject misfit that had my ass beat pretty badly nearly every day for years. I made it out of that and prospered. Some people have it far worse than I did and still end up doing the same thing. It was probably a mistake to allow 14-year-olds to have opinions on the general internet because that’s where a lot of the, “Your life is ruined if you do one single thing wrong or if one bad thing happens to you!” ridiculousness comes from.

That, and Gen Z is actually really fragile in comparison to past generations due to helicopter parenting, smartphones and social media (the latter two are among the worst cognitohazards in history).

Least Bad

Chill War

If I’d rebooted this blog 3-4 years ago, I would not even have had a “War” category (if it’d had categories then). Now it’s one I post in frequently.

And that’s because war is coming. It’s already here, really. We just don’t acknowledge it yet. Now’s the time to forestall it worsening or if those dogs must be fully unleashed, to make it the least bad possible war.

But mostly, we’re doing nothing. And that pains me.