Down Is Up

At first, the solidarity was breathtaking. Out of concern for ourselves and one another, we suspended nearly all interpersonal activity for months, wiping our lives almost entirely clean of the very people we were trying to protect.

Covidians: THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN! IT’S A MYTH! A LIE!

Anyone sane: Looks like a fuckin’ lockdown to me.

Of course the clown-ass crazy-fuck Covidians mean that no one came around welding your door shut as occurred in China. Which was their greatest wish, their fondest desire. They only care about taking things away and harming people so of course that’s what they wanted.

Let’s be glad we didn’t cede that much ground to those barking-mad bullshit artists.

Wallop

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Teslaโ€™s autopilot would detect it and wellโ€ฆ

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— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) March 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM

What is that a test of? Most humans would not detect that if they did not already know it was there. By the way, it’d be invisible to radar as well in almost all freqs.

This is a stupid test that only proves something to doofuses. Of which there are too many. Hell, humans hit flipped over tractor-trailers on the road all the time because they are not looking for them. It’s called “inattentional blindness.”

The perception problems are the same, whether it’s a machine or human. Why do people have such trouble understanding that?

Tick Tech

Where has the leftโ€™s technological audacity gone?

They have gone clownishly degrowther even though tech is the only way out of our current predicament and is the only path to any sort of livable future or the non-extinction of humanity. Also, eventually, the species will have to become multiplanetary and that is going to take tech we can barely even dream about yet.

No, it’s not impossible (no matter what you might read that is now a nearly-ubiquitous opinion). Yes, it is very very hard. But who gives a fuck? Metallurgy is hard. Harder than we give it credit for. Reading and writing is hard. Building an airplane is hard. And despite all that, we have cars, widespread literacy and A320s — all things that would have been claimed to be something “impossible” in various time periods.

It does not matter even a little bit about what current dipshit mooks think about what the future will be like. They’ll have (over the long time span) no say in building it. Their opinions are irrelevant chaff. Building is what matters, and we should do that.

Violation Detected

(Yes, I know this is satire.)

But it’s barely satire. Speaking of dating sites, I do think libs should have a dating site or service that only allows them to date those born on the exact same year and day that they are, and sends the police automatically if they are caught dating someone “unauthorized.”

Maybe that’d make those insane fucks happy.

Ink Delink

I have no interest in starting something like this, but I bet you could make significant money by spooling up a dating site that only allowed women with no tattoos.

A lot of men would fork over some serious cheddar to be on that. I would, were I single. I’d probably consider up to $500 a month, though I know I am an outlier there. In the $50-$80 a month range is probably more realistic.

Put a Sock In It

I’m in the pedal to the metal phase of the project I am doing alone at work that would normally be undertaken by 8-10 people for a company of this size.

At another company I worked for (which was larger, but not enormously larger) we had 12-15 consultants going full-time on the same project for 18 months. And its cost was $1.5 million.

Not including my own salary, I’m doing it for less than $30,000 and in around six months. I’m a big bargain, in other words. We unicorns have shiny, resplendent coats and glorious horns. And we tend to be divas. But we also fuckin’ deliver.

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The Russian Delusion About Ukraine.

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Double Dumb

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?

These Hacker News discussions are always amusing. Every single commenter (and I do mean every single one, no exceptions) has no goddamn idea what they are talking about. It’s all hilariously wrong. The source article is also half crap, but that’s to be expected. That goofus is attempting again to sneak superdeterminism in.

Anyway, don’t read anything like those HN comments to learn anything. Read them to be amused, like you were listening to someone describe American football using the rules of cricket or something. Otherwise, they’ll just make you dumber.