Double Not

November 1, 2024, 1:12 PM Chill Clowns, Rant

I think about this 2-3 times a day too. People will say things are “impossible” that they literally experienced themselves! It’s so fucking oddball. Like, gramps, you went to college for free in 1973 — don’t tell me it’s “impossible” that it could be done today. Other countries are still doing that! It’s double not impossible.

There’s also a passel of liberal doofshits who declare — and have been declaring for two decades — the gains we’ve been making for years in batteries and solar are “impossible.” And one day, they’ll be right. After both have improved a thousand times over and gotten 10,000 times cheaper.

The world is filled with goobers.

Putin It In Perspective

November 1, 2024, 12:10 PMNovember 1, 2024, 12:11 PM Chill Clowns, Politics

Because too many people are in fact window-lickers (as noted below).

Licky

November 1, 2024, 12:09 PM Chill Clowns

People who are anti-vax (yes, even against the Covid vaccinations) are window-lickers. Just absolute clowns who harm us all.

Tinct

November 1, 2024, 11:09 AM Chill Tech

It’s odd being in the last generation of sysadmins who deeply from the bottom up understand how computers function. My profession is dying out and in my lifetime will be extinct. What’s replacing me is “infrastructure as code” people who have no clue at all how anything works and furthermore, do not care.

Also, even programmers mostly have no idea how a computer works and that is being taught less and less frequently in compsci courses.

Weird to see in both cases but such is life I guess.

Tower Challenge

November 1, 2024, 10:57 AMNovember 1, 2024, 10:58 AM Chill Regular-ass Post

I’ve dated a few women taller than me, and one who was considerably taller (six inches, to be exact). All were surprised that I didn’t care if they chose to wear heels ¹.

Why would I give a crap? My ego is the size of Jupiter! I’m still just as awesome if a woman is towering over me. Maybe even more so.

I personally do not like heels but also want people to wear what they like.

Ornery Awry

November 1, 2024, 10:27 AM Chill Amusing

Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds.

Any of y’all stupid enough to sign up for that shit are about to get Zucked up! Facebook is completely blocked in our home network. As should be.

Considering doing the same to Instagram.

Comps

November 1, 2024, 5:32 AM Chill Political Economy

The ZIP Codes where investors own a bigger share of homes have seen higher-than-average increases in both prices and rents.

Well of course. The whole PE strategy is to place strategic buys to raise comps and thus cause prices to rise in the entire area.

This is why the economists who say things like, “The investors don’t buy that many houses so they can have no effect on prices!” are so very, very wrong. I mean, prices are set on the margin and that is even more true of house prices. That’s basic economics there so you know there must be some other agenda going on there to even make such an unbaked claim.

If you gave me $20 million dollars, I could cause prices to rise 20-30% in a chosen neighborhood and stay elevated for years — more than enough to recoup that money.

Why is that not obvious to everyone else? This is just how you do it if you’re in that business.