Back Right Out

Had a customer tell me in a meeting that they didn’t like my company’s backup policies.

Ok? Good for you? Cool and the Gang?

I nicely and politely said the corporate equivalent of, “I don’t give a fuck, deal” and then ignored all requests to change them1. Customers be crazy, man.

  1. They wanted the right to delete any data from backups that might be associated with them. Yeah, no, not gonna happen.

Dog Hanging

Ha. I’ll never forget one time I was walking along, my partner holding my right hand and a woman friend of mine holding my left hand. It was somewhere fairly crowded in public as we encountered heading the other way a guy and his girlfriend or wife. His presumed partner was actively nagging him about something as we passed; you could just tell this was her normal mode of operation. Before he noticed us, his visage was hangdog, miserable, a man in hell. But it was going to get worse.

The doomed man saw our happy little group and such a look of abject envy and anguish passed over his face I had to quickly turn away so he wouldn’t see my reflexive laugh at how quickly his face transformed from misery to bitter covetousness.

I hope he escaped whatever was going on there and found something better.

Tronic

On Earth, if you drop something from 1m it will be moving 4.4 m/s when it hits the ground. On a neutron star, if you drop something from 1m it will be moving at 2.3 * 106 m/s, or 0.8% the speed of light.

And that would definitely cause the glass to break. No dropping stuff on neutron stars, y’all.

Capa

It’s just a worthless lefty shibboleth. It’s a lie, a cope. The reality is some people are innately vastly more talented and better at some things. And a rare few are better at nearly everything than anyone. (Those are the magicians.)

I’ve only once in my life met someone in person that was so far beyond me in every area that I felt like a lot of people feel when they meet me. This dude was effortlessly good at everything. He decided to learn to play guitar and got more skilled at it in three months than his dad had managed to in 20+ years of dedicated playing. I’d been doing photography for years. He’d never picked up a camera. When he did start shooting, he was better at composition and what made a great photo than I was in only a few days. He could learn a new language in a few weeks. He’d taken Calc II at the college level in 8th grade and made an A. You get the picture. He was so far beyond me intellectually that I felt completely outclassed. There was no way I could keep up. There was literally nothing I could’ve done even starting at age 0 to become even 1/5 as mentally capable as he was; he was just born that way.

And that fact (and that people like that exist) makes a lot of lefties cry big stage-ready tears. But it doesn’t change the truth of the matter.

Luckily, he was an incredibly nice and humble guy and we hung out a lot while we were in the same training program together. Especially since he had loads of free time as what it took me a couple of hours to do and a normie 6-8 hours to achieve he did in 30-45 minutes.

Dammit.

Dashing In

I too use — and have always used — many em dashes. I see no problem with it and I don’t give an ever-livin’ fuck if anyone thinks my writing is AI or not. Except I use them “incorrectly” as I always use spaces. Also do not give a fuck as doing so makes the text more readable.

When you are a god, you care not for the opinions of mortals. Well, unless you’re a Greek god. Then you seem weirdly obsessed with what some piss-ant thinks. But other than that.

The Shift and Drift

When tattoos get less popular again — which they will1 — they will become coded as something that out-of-touch old people have.

That’ll be interesting.

  1. Seems to be already happening a bit as tattoos have hurt many women’s dating prospects so much.

Whine Level 9

Safe operating temperature must be between -20°C to 50°C.

Pod-launched missiles.

120v/240v compatible.

Whininess module must be installed as I am a fan of whiny girls robots.

Anyone who tattoos the GF Mark 1 is blasted out the airlock.

Signal and (Much) Noise

Another thought. I am not dating, but if I were I’d appreciate tattoos as they are a clear and immediate signal of a low-value, impulsive woman.

So they would be a net win for me overall, and for any guy who has something to offer. And I love things like that because they make my life far easier. Costly signals such as tattoos or a filthy place are extremely valuable as you can’t fake nor easily hide them. Win/win.

Demonize, You Get Demons

PMC liberal white women seem really surprised that there was a backlash when they spent a decade portraying half the population as default crazed rapists who were both disposable and sorely needed when housework time came around (otherwise, those evil men Schrödinger’s rapists should shut up, we don’t want to hear about your icky feelings).

Hmm. Mysteries never cease.

The backlash was inevitable.