“Just let the assault happen as a nice treat for the mentally ill vagrant. It’s your duty as a leftie.”
Day: December 13, 2024, 11:35 PM
Mess
But, but, but…transitory!
Former
Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto.
I mean, yeah? Reddit has been censoring anything even mildly critical of the health care industry, much less actual links to a manifesto. And no, I don’t mean them tossing anything celebrating Brian Thompson’s death. Even just, “Maybe we should reform this mess” often gets deleted and the user banned.
Reddit has gone full corpo (not surprisingly now that it is a publicly-traded company).
Boot Re
Why do users seem to be mad that simple advice fixes their problems?
I’ve seen this many times over the years. I think there are a few things going on here. Most users are very insecure about their computer abilities, so when you tell them to do something simple and it works they take that as somehow calling them stupid. (Which is insane, but well, you know…users.)
And related to the above, they want some fix to be final and the problem to be fully resolved forever. They want to witness you engaging in an epic bout of troubleshooting where you call Satya Nadella himself and rewrite and recompile the Windows source code just for this one aggrieved user 1.
Of course, because they do not understand computers and how fantastically, insanely complex they are, explaining to the person experiencing a problem that a reboot or logging out and back in again is the best (and often, only) way to fix a problem they see as you not wanting to do your job 2.
So to wrap this up, when you combine insecurity, entitlement and lack of knowledge you end up with anger. Which is one of the many reasons working helpdesk is terrible.
Speed of Use
I realize this is is me mostly being behind the times more than anything else, but I still cannot believe how much people do on their smartphones. They are so incredibly slow as compared to a real computer. And by that, I mean speed of use, not necessarily speed of operation.
But it’s not just me being behind the times. I watch younger people do things they claim are “easier” and “more convenient” on smartphones, and they take anywhere from 2-10x as long as I do to complete the same task on a full computer. When I witness things like that, I know there is a propaganda operation at work — that those preferences have been engineered and are not entirely organic.
But the world is what it is. Alas.
New Tuneage
I listened to part or all of 262 new (to me) songs tonight/this morning.
Of those, I liked 16.
House
Didn’t really understand how fat our country is until frequenting tinder (U.S.).
I’ve never used Tinder and never will, but this is true. We need to be just putting Ozempic in the water and in soft drinks1.
Everyone becoming house-sized was not a positive change. Combine that with horrendous tattoos and people walk around looking like fucking dumpsters for no goddamn reason at all.
Blu DeTiger Bass Cover – PONY by Ginuwine
Good lord. She’s so good it should be illegal.
Blu DeTiger – Mad Love
Such a fun song.
Alicia
Alicia Vikander should have won all the awards for her acting in Ex Machina.
In a roundly outstanding cast, she’s beyond great. She even changes her voice significantly for the part. 1 Compare and contrast her speech and mannerisms in this interview with her film performance.
That’s a terrible, inane interview, even worse than most celebrity interviews (mainly due to Conan’s dumb questions), but she talks a lot at least.
What a great film Ex Machina is, though.
(Incidentally, Alicia pronounces her name correctly here. I hear two phonemes not present in English, though no difficult ones.)
Bureaucrapcy
Correct. I see people complain about “government bureaucracy” fairly frequently — and it’s a private company they’re carping about. And then some claim the bureaucratic whirlwind is due to “regulations” when the supposedly-responsible regulations haven’t changed for 30, 40, or 50+ years.
No, it’s just that when bureaucracy can increase it does. Especially when it can be used to strategically extract more money from you in the now-dominant scam economy.
Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths.
We all took the DVD boom era for granted.
Wall Street Is Betting Billions on Rental Homes as Ownership Slips Out of Reach.
Photobucket Sued Over Plans To Sell User Photos, Biometric Identifiers To AI Companies.
Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated.
Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows.
How have you or someone you know suffered under the US healthcare system?
Sweden Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Ebba Busch stated today that “she’s furious with Germany” for dismantling its nuclear power plants, causing a spike in energy prices in Sweden. One of the stupidest fucking moves by any country in history.
Healthcare stocks fall as lawmakers push for bill to break up drug middlemen.
Greece’s ghost towns offer a glimpse of a country struggling with ‘existential’ population collapse.
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research. And they’ll also claim that it wasn’t a lab leak when this gets out into the wild.