Author: Chill

Gunning Big

Chill Killin' It

This is what I do routinely as well. I am the final tier. Often when I get a problem, it’s been through three layers of helpdesk at two different vendors, two or three levels of sysadmin types, several tiers of developers, and frequently even more resources than that.

Many times, a team of 2-10+ people has been working the issue for weeks.

Most of those problems I solve in 20 minutes or less. When you’ve been doing the same sort of thing since 1980 and professionally for 25 years, you’ve seen a whole lot. And I just have a brain that is optimized for troubleshooting for some reason — probably because I have a great memory, accept nothing at face value from anyone, try things everyone “knows” cannot be the cause, and am relentless. These qualities take you very far in figuring shit out.

The Pressure

Chill Clowns, Prediction

I expect the US to be firmly in depression by early- to mid-2026. After that, it’s a bit more nebulous but if Trump is still healthy I’d expect a coup attempt in 2028. It’ll probably succeed. That means no getting out of the depression for a long while.

This is now all just rampant speculation, but my guess is that since Trump really has no successor to speak of and likely never will, that we emerge from depression conditions around 2032 when semi-normal elections resume. This will occur of course because Trump is not in office for whatever reason.

I hope this catastrophe was all worth defeating woke? Sure doesn’t seem like it to me. But I hope it does as you and your family are starving with no job and no future.

Sock It To Me

Chill Regular-ass Post

Yesterday, I hit a really important and extremely difficult-to-reach milestone for the major project I’ve been working on since July 2024. It’s taken me around 1,000 hours of actual labor time to hit this waypoint. This is the project I am doing completely by myself that normally a team of 8-10 people would be undertaking.

And no one said congratulations or thank you or anything. No one acknowledged it all. And that kind of sucks, since what I am doing will directly lead to $2 million+ in revenue.

At least they compensate me insanely well as management realizes they’d have to hire 4-6 people to replace me. I will have to let that fat paycheck be my consolation.

Amana

Chill Clowns, Evil

We have become the stupidest nation on earth. America has been trending that way for a while, but we finally made it.

Enoy your refrigerator boxes by the side of the road, MAGA idiots. You’ll be living there soon enough.

Chill Links

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments.

Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.

Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers.

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation: Surging Prices of Food, Housing, Medical Care Meet Plunging Prices of Gasoline & Travel Services.

America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment.

9 Ways You Can Save the Internet Right Now. Because the danger to cultural preservation has never been greater.

Sex Workers Already Predicted There’s A Recession Coming — Here’s How They Know.

Jamie Dimon says Gen Z has no reason to be depressed—as long as there’s no nuclear war they’ll have an ‘unbelievable life.’ Except for the Trump Depression rolling in.

The McMansion is a manifestation of power and wealth meant to communicate that power and wealth to others as explicitly as possible, and that it does so in a country besieged by brutal and inescapable income inequality. That’s an actual mansion (not a McMansion), just a crappy one.

This Time

Chill Regular-ass Post

Depression is now baked in. It is gonna happen.

It just remains to be seen how bad it’ll actually be. Pretty damn bad is the way it’s looking.

Switch This

Chill Annoying

I wrote this wacky-ass complicated script because I thought that was what was needed. It was like 60 lines long. It was passing data hither and yon. It was dreaming in technicolor. It was parsing and formatting. It was touring the facilities and picking up slack.

Then I figured out that I could do the same thing with two commands on a single line and a switch.

Dangit.

Chill Links

Shopify CEO’s AI-First Hiring Policy Is Job Security’s Ticking Clock.

It seems as though our pre-Victorian reviewer did not anticipate a world in which jealousy within a relationship would evolve into something that could be analogized to consumer rivalry.

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates. Why do the MAGA tards hate science so much?

Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019.

Family Assistance Plan.

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son.

Why Ukraine Still Isn’t About to Lose.

An International Minimum Wage.

Metric

Chill Rant

Dang the metric system and Celsius sucks so much for everyday use.

It’s funny, I use the metric system when I’m talking about anything related to the military, science, or space. That’s where it’s appropriate as none of that has to do with human factors. The metric system was deliberately designed to be anti-human and it fully succeeds there!

Cemented In

Chill Kratos

Strength of a manual worker vs bodybuilders.

Sure, but who cares? The goal of a bodybuilder is not to be the strongest possible at everything, but to have their body appear a certain way.

Practical strength usually beats out gym-built strength, but having been comparatively weak and now strong, I’d still do better on any tasks that require strength than 99.9% of mooks off the street.

Just as those bodybuilders would. Being strong makes your entire life better, no matter what clowns like Ian Welsh claim.