most people know that having some list of reqs is ultimately silly, but what’s interesting is that the list is so often “myself, but not beholden to reality”
implicitly, people forgive themselves for being so beholden, but not others!
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) April 1, 2025
That’s actually a novel and accurate observation.
It’s why I require that all my partners can fly unaided and can fight two full-grown T. Rexes at once.
Of new music, I now listen to more songs in non-English than English. There’s just more good music in Spanish, French, German and other languages than there is in English.
The signs of decline are exhibiting everywhere.
The age of America is ending. We’ve somehow managed to strangle ourselves with no outside assistance.
The world that’s coming will be much more dangerous and worse. The evil degrowthers will cheer, though China, India and now Europe will be ramping up emissions more than the US ever would have, so it’ll be a net loss even there. The wake of our decline will stir into motion much war, much death, and probably a nuclear exchange or two before it’s done.
I never thought it’d all wrap up like this, in a pathetic suicide. But perhaps that’s the only way it could’ve concluded.
Un par de canciones de Joaquina me gustan un montón. Este video también está bien chido.
Loser.
Any vehicle that I drive becomes a “real man’s” vehicle, even a pink convertible VW Golf. My scintillating aura spreads awesomeness over the entire vicinity.
It’s a thing.
Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses.
More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care, Poll Finds.
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI.
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump.
Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval.
Trump tariff price hikes could start with clothing, cars and coffee. Prices are already increasing.
It’s one of the best reasons to change
If two people are deeply in love how can they not change each other https://t.co/y1jUDmDYEp
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) April 2, 2025
That is true. My partner is the only one I allow to change me, because I adore and respect her. I trust her judgment and value her thoughts. If she didn’t change me and vice versa, we wouldn’t be doing it right.
For instance, she’s made me much calmer as a person and I’ve turned her into quite the little smart-ass.
I expect recession in 3-4 months, depression in 6-9 months.
All because of the current administration.
Price of laptops already up $300-400 per device.
Indeed. The same laptops I ordered for work in March for $2,000 each are now $2,600. That wasn’t even a month ago.
I expect they’ll go up more soon. Glad I bought all the stuff I did in my personal life when I did because I knew this was going to happen. Clowns often do the clownery they claim they will.
We’ve allowed some of the most clueless morons in existence to destroy everything. In that sense, I guess we deserve what we get. We did it to ourselves.
I guess it’s because Gen Z can’t and won’t read, but you can post all the reviews and guides in video format you want. I ain’t watchin’ a damn one of them.
Such an enormous, pointless waste of time.
I just donated $10 to the creator and maintainer of TabMix Plus for his continuing fight against the inanity of Mozilla and the authoritarian loser Firefox devs.
May he ever resist their doofy clownishness and make a good, useful extension. (That now requires all sorts of hoops to jump through to get it working.)
Recession, Great Recession and depression chance are all 90% now. That’s as high as I go for any systemic prediction more than a month out.
All that remains to be seen now is how bad it’ll get and if the American economy survives in any recognizable form. Now is the time to be saving money, buying some extra food and other resources, and having backup plans in place if you can.
We’re on a runaway train that is gonna run out of track. All because dumbasses elected an actual idiot. Fun.
I like Ada Palmer, but here she is completely wrong.
It’s vogueish now in the world of history to claim there were (and can definitionally never be) dark ages or renaissances, and that the Renaissance did not exist. Too much to go into here, but this is the au courant belief for a variety of reasons, among them that these historians are attempting to push back as a political project against the idea that society can be improved as that implies some eugenicist goals.
People like Palmer misrepresent both the causes and the advent of the Renaissance. They portray the people like me who believe the Renaissance is a useful way to divide up history as believing that one morning people woke up and were like, “Hey, it’s the Renaissance! Awesome!” No one, of course, believes that. It was a gradual transition from the Middle Ages, which used to be (for very good reason) referred to as the Dark Ages.
But the reality is that the Dark Ages occurred, and so did the Renaissance, no matter how much clownish historians deny them. For instance:
And no handy-dandy chart, but after the fall of Rome people forgot to how to bake fucking bread. And pottery quality reverted back about two thousand years. Among many, many other apocalyptic changes.
You can actually read writing from the time of people saying, “This is the end of the world and nothing will be good again.” And they were right — for about 800 years.
I hate this modern trend of denying very clear, very obvious occurrences and historical changes for political reasons. Come on, Ada, ain’t nobody gonna CRISPR your baby to have blond hair because you think the Renaissance and the Enlightenment happened.
Damn that’s some real strength there he’s got. And her athleticism is amazing.
It helps some to be big here as it counteracts her mass moving around. But that’s damn impressive.