Wake up, new stupidest tattoo just dropped.
Why…why would anyone do that to themselves?
Basically, the right is ruled by people who don't read books and are proud of it, while the left is ruled by people who say "read a book" in response to everything without reading any books themselves. https://t.co/lz0yIP3rOQ
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 30, 2025
Largely true, alas. The Right wants to be appear dumb while actually being the dumbasses they valorize, while the Left pretends to be intelligent intellectuals while also being the dumbasses they make fun of and disparage.
None of it is any good.
I’ve become an expert at hacking, whacking and cracking Mozilla’s anti-user features. Just spent part of the afternoon manually editing a Firefox sqlite database to get around another anti-user feature they claim is for “security” but is really there just because they like being petty authoritarians.
Ain’t no Mozilla clown can hold me down.
Something like 80% of all commercial products are the result of government research. Which Trump, working for China and Russia, is currently trashing.
They really do work for the Russians, huh. https://t.co/lP78n25D6F
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 28, 2025
Indeed. That’s been pretty clear. And the Chinese, too.
Mom?
It does actually look a whole lot like my mom when she was 35 or so. Weird. And she was definitely a white trash psychotic chick.
The primary unfairness in dating — and one thing incels are completely right about — is that mediocre women get 100x as much attention and interest as even above average men. To receive the attention that a totally average woman gets, you need to be a top 0.1% man.
And that’s actually a pretty huge and psychologically-damaging inequity. It doesn’t make how incels deal with it likely to work or morally correct, but they are not wrong at all with their diagnosis.
Corporate said anyone within 50 miles of an office needs to return to office by May.
I told you all years ago WFH would not last. That’s because MBAs love control more than productivity or anything else; it is why they became MBAs in the first place. They’d demand RTO if it tanked productivity and profits by 90% (which in some companies it probably will, as you lose your best people immediately).
Without butts in seats and a kingdom of visible and compliant slaves to lord over, why even have a company?
RTO of course has absolutely nothing to do with productivity. In fact, it almost certainly decreases it as who can get any work done with all the noise and clamor in an average office?
But it is being done to prop up other business interests, such as commerical real estate and downtown business owners who want to force people into an office so their businesses can make money peddling overpriced, shitty sandwiches and drinks.
I will never work in an office again. I will start my own business before that happens. I am, depending on the task, 2-100x more productive working from home.
Firefox really, really sucks. Too bad all the other browsers are even worse.
I miss how the internet/web used to be. When you were allowed to do things.
Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back.
Well, guess we’ll be fighting in Poland soon. Awesome (Narrator: It was in fact not awesome.)
Most of you won’t care about this, but Microsoft Graph is aimed at developers.
And that makes it nearly useless for sysadmin types like me. As are many other tech companies, Microsoft took away anything that made administration easy and is transitioning everything into a shitty development role. So now you have to write a thousand lines of code for what used to be a single-line command (not exaggerating; it really is that bad).
There’s no motherfucking way I’m going to start writing C# code just so I can add a few users to Active Directory. Fuck Microsoft and any clown who had anything to do with Graph.
It’s another example of making everything easy for developers but far more difficult for anyone who actually needs to be productive rather than sitting in front of the little code box and typing your little codes.
Would you eat a cockroach? What if it was sterilised? Why not?
Quit trying to make eatings bugs happen. It’s not gonna happen. Why is so much of the idiot degrowther left so obsessed with people eating goddamn bugs?
The NIH is responsible for something like 99% of drug discovery in the world, so killing funding to that is absolutely insane.
But “insane” is where we are now.
2 In 5 Tech Workers Quit Over Inflexible Workspace Policies.
Anywhere that requires in-office work, I’ll quit right away. Attempting to work in an office reduces my productivity by 90% at least and it means I’d be sitting in a bullpen on Zoom calls with customers and vendors, rather than at home on Zoom calls with customers and vendors.
Nope, not gonna happen. I don’t care that extroverts “need” me there. Your social needs are not my responsibility nor my concern. Make some damn friends.