Day: February 16, 2025, 11:31 PM

Superiority Simplex

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The Cultural Apostate.

I say this as a confirmed grumpy jerk-ass: this guy sounds like real doofball. Just a terrible person to know and to be around. If I’m the death of the party, this dude is the apocalypse of all parties past, future and present.

Cool, dude, it’s great that you don’t like anything at all but a banjo (?) and penning overwrought articles about how very superior you are to anyone who likes anything. I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this turd but I am going to warn everyone else against it, at least: avoid at all costs.

It sucks that he seems to have decided that nothing will be permitted to move him again, that he is apart from the world and that anything that attempts some artfulness is “pandering,” but good god I did not need to read a thousand words about it.

Just go do banjo stuff. You’re not an apostate or an iconoclast. Just an assclown.

Chill Links

America’s First Broken Arrow Incident Happened 75 Years Ago.

Yes, the Price of Eggs Matters.

Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation. Anne gets it.

The Erasing of American Science.

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It. Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life. Should be taught in school.

DOGE’s Federal Job Cuts Threaten Republican Districts Too.

An American Retiree Was Lost Off the Coast of Venezuela. Then Things Went Really Bad.

The birth of naturalism.

This City’s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but It’s Not New York. In Florida, alligators live and go anywhere there is water. This is not surprising.

Trump’s Ideas Are Terrible. That’s Not an Accident.

Army Helicopter Might Have Missed Critical Instruction Before Midair Crash.

If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad.

Rapid warfare tech helps U.S. Army build on lessons learned in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

In many aspects of the modern world (economic, political, environmental, technological, etc.), we are arguably transitioning from a predictable regime of effective dynamics to a more uncertain regime without such effective dynamics.