Demonstration

January 9, 2025, 5:55 PM Chill Trynabe Funny

To all the mature men who are age 30 and above, please share one harsh truth about life you have accepted so far ?

All I’ve learned is that no matter how many times you attempt to summon a demon, it’s usually a dud reject demon who can only do stupid stuff like carve a pumpkin really fast or make a squirrel dance.

One time, one of the more powerful demons did kill someone who accidentally crossed the summoning barrier in a really hilarious manner (turned him into a fly and fly swatter and made him swat himself, sorry Dan’s wife!) but other than that, the whole demon summoning thing is a total bust.

I think that fly swatter gag demon might have been Alex Trebek, before. He made us phrase our pitiful begging to avoid eternal damnation in the form of a question.

Anyway, demon summoning: harsh truth is you should avoid.

My Eyes Are Up Here

January 9, 2025, 10:54 AM Chill Amusing

I have to give credit to the touchy-feely optometrist: she made the best reading glasses I’ve ever had. I’d gladly go back and be felt up again when I get my next pair, they are so good.

Caused

January 9, 2025, 7:27 AMJanuary 9, 2025, 8:53 AM Chill Oof

Drone shot of a Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where houses start at about $5 million:

Climate change didn’t cause this, in the sense that most people mean “cause¹,” but it made this outcome vastly more likely.

It only takes looking at insurance rates to understand that cimate change and its effects are real. Underwriters and actuaries do not fuck around — they need to deal with the world as it is, not as some dipshits imagine it to be.

And most people, even most scientists, have a poor understanding of causality.

Lec

January 9, 2025, 7:16 AM Chill Annoying, Clowns

Stripped the server rack this week as it’s simply not viable with UK’s electricity prices any more… [F] in chat. No idea what to do with all these besides scrap them.

Those are old and inefficient drives, but I don’t know how anyone lives in the UK with those sort of electricity prices. That is a preview of the future the degrowthers wish for us. And I want absolutely no part of that.

We should be aiming for absurd energy abundance, not austerity. In reality (as we’ve already seen in the UK) austerity does not work and cannot work. It is a philosophy of failure and ennui. It will not save the planet and in its extreme cases will lead billions into starvation.

Degrowth is another form of death wish, no different than the climate deniers. Both are clownish idiots.

Duty Bound

January 9, 2025, 7:00 AM Chill Amusing, Trynabe Funny

That is how it be. I think of you people who never get out and do anything, dealing all day with some recalcitrant eight-year-old who probably hates you, when I’m out doing fun stuff, free.