TBH if using my death to get rich was an option and my wife didn’t take it, I’d haunt her ass.

To be clear, I’m not using attractive here to mean “physically beautiful” but instead “possessing qualities the other person wants in a partner.” Weird was a word choice for humor but I was essentially saying, “have more attractive qualities than unattractive qualities.” While recognizing that what one person finds unattractive, another might find attractive, and vice versa. By definition, simplifying a complex interaction of human wants and desires into one dimension, rendering it intentionally useless as advice, for the sake of trying to be funny.

Nah I think it’s a pretty simple algorithm still: don’t be weirder than you are attractive. It’s just that there’s really wildly varying ideas on what’s weird or attractive.

I think that’s called “appeasement.” It’s worked great throughout history.

He went on an unhinged racist rant about Black Lives Matter in 2023, ending with something along the lines of “white people get as far away from black people as possible.” More details on his Wiki page but that’s the high level.

It was a wild character arc. Paraphrasing heavily…

90s “Corporations are stupid and abusive to employees”

2001 “What if we’re all just fragments of God? Why do we fight each other?”

2009 “Place bets on the people you hate most, they always seem to win.”

2023 “Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group.”

2025 “Trump will fix everything. Also please get me into a medical trial daddy.”

I was really holding out for the redemption arc but alas.

I’m a little sad about it. I liked his writing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Very anti-corporate. Imperfect but fairly progressive. It seemed like he was just a hippie at heart. I wish I understood what happened to him. From the outside looking in my best guess is falling victim to his success, he began to think too highly of himself, and maybe a bit too much paying attention to Fox News. It was a wild turnaround from my perspective.

I wonder if I could become a big Antivax YouTuber but just leave in little oopsies to try and convince people subtly that I’m wrong.

There was a movie about this called John Q.

It’s not exactly that I wish to harm any of them. It’s just that they all believe in strong individualism and I’d hate to help them when they have made it very clear that needing help is weakness in their religion. I’m sure they’d feel much better burning than receiving help from anyone.

Had a Windows PC hooked up to my TV in I think 2008, before streaming boxes and mass adoption of Netflix. Then it was dualboot for a while starting in I think 2015, originally with Ubuntu. Now it’s full time CachyOS Linux as of 2023.

It’s always been great. Wireless keyboard with the built in trackpad, plus originally 360 controllers but now 8BitDo Ultimate controllers. Plus I use it for homelab tinkering.

A little glass vial?

It’s not the homosexuality, it’s the hypocrisy. I’m hypocrisyphobic

The biggest problem with leaving it up to the states is that the party that is always harping on about states’ rights is a bunch of disingenuous liars who immediately start restricting states’ rights the second the state doesn’t do what they want.

It’s actually something that gives me hope in the world. LLMs are predicting the words they use based on being fed tremendous amounts of data. The fact that they’re having trouble getting them to parrot lies is a good sign that the vast majority of data sources are actually agreeing on the truth. At least that’s how I view it.

If I could make one wish to fix things, it would be to eradicate all externalities. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware this would absolutely suck for a while. Without some kind of matching increase in wages or subsidies, it would ruin a lot of people that I don’t think deserve it. But when you have to pay for the cost of recapturing the CO2 you produce, when you have to pay for the actual cost of producing the plastic you throw away, we would very quickly get better alternatives. Biodegradable packaging would become more common. Alternatives to gas would explode. Interest in walkable areas and public transit would grow. Industries that really need disposable plastics are also rich enough to afford proper disposal, like medicine and electronics. After enough time, we’d just live in a better, cleaner world with less waste and more care put into our distribution networks.

We only have all the bullshit because they’ve been pushing the bill along to the next generation and the next and the next, and we are seeing the bill come due.

The Secret Service should be trained to arrest or assassinate the President if he openly violates the constitution.

Here’s why I still think of it as a win: It’s not just the contest between two people, or their ideas, or their backgrounds. What you really have to look at is the contest between the propaganda and the budgets. The simple fact is that a lot of voters aren’t that involved, they vote based on word of mouth or advertising, not by looking into the backgrounds of those they’re voting for.

Cuomo outspent Mamdani 4 to 1. Billionaires and politicians went all out to attack Mamdani. Many painted apocalyptic pictures. If you look at those more distant contests, where someone won by a wider margin, I would bet that the advertising and endorsements weren’t so lopsided either.

This isn’t a win for Democrats or Mamdani, this is a win for word of mouth campaigning. This is a win for people being so sick of what’s on offer that many ignored the dire warnings of billionaires and politicians. That’s some good news I can get behind.

It’s really frustrating how often this gets framed as sexist, when it’s a totally different problem. I get why people would equate them but they are very different biological processes. Producing a baby is a complicated process, and there’s a lot of steps that we can intervene in to prevent it. Producing a million sperm is, maybe surprisingly, less complicated and it’s harder to target a specific thing and produce easily reversible results.

Men have had vasectomy on the table for a long time now. It’s just more serious than most forms of female birth control, in terms of implementation and recovery, still not foolproof, and not as easy to reverse.

Even more frustrating is that sexism definitely does exist and play a role. It’s just more about the human parts of the process, like dealing with medical staff, dealing with insurance, dealing with local, state, and now federal governments that want to bar access to women. Looking at the pill side is misplacing the anger.

Holy shit this is a real thing? The most braindead and out of touch marketing executive dreamed this up.