If there was any connection between an author’s work and their actual life, I’m grateful that Cormac MccArthy has been stopped.

A lot of people compare Trump to Hitler, but as apt as that may be sometimes, Hitler was a dilettante intellectual; he was a reader. And as painful as it might be to anyone who’s tried to read it, Hitler did write his own book.

I don’t remember the character well, but besides being a real-estate guy, I don’t see the connection between Trump and Fontaine. Fontaine was evil and all, but he was also hyper competent, organized, and had consistent ideology.

I don’t enjoy something, therefore it’s wrong.

The solipsist’s anthem.

The TOR project in it’s entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications. It’s public because no matter how secure, if only spies use TOR, then it would be easy to catch them.

I don’t mean to imply that TOR is insecure, it’s open source and the Government has an interest that it be secure. But if you’re going to annoy the US government, you better have good opsec because they understand TOR better than anyone.

If this is feasible, the use of environmentally friendly plastic will become politically divisive.

In my mind, the “getting to know you” phase is when you conceal all that stuff. Not in a dishonest way. Show them who you are. They just don’t need to know why you’re that way.

Everybody understands that men have issues. The problem is that the people promoting this use it as a stalking horse to oppose feminism.

Because that’s what they believe. The male loneliness epidemic, to them is explained by female autonomy and civil rights. Most of them won’t come right out and say this, so they bitch about suicide rates and the draft instead.

This song, as well as the auto-playlist generated beside it is a compelling argument that music, as a concept, was a mistake.

For the curious: “War on Science” is a book of essays including Lawrence Kraus (whom “edits” the volume) and Richard Dawkins.

You might think that this book would be about RFKjr or the collapse of US funding for research. No. The ‘war on science’ is when academics are held accountable to woke ideology i.e. being disciplined for having sex with your students. It’s publisher doesn’t usually cover science, mostly selling books about fundamental Christianity.

For those of us who watched the brain-rot of Islamophobia and misogyny take over the skeptic community back in the early 2010s, it’s no surprise that these men turned out to be grifters in bed with fundamentalist Christians over their shared hatred of Muslims and women.

There is so much more to the video. Including specifics about some of the essays and their authors; the Jeffery Epstein connection; and how feminism destroyed the “new atheist” movement.

For anyone looking for the classic Fallout experience, the Wasteland series is better than anything you’ll get from Bethesda.

Alex Karp’s behavior is much better explained by cocaine. He may be neurodivergent, but he was still high as giraffe pussy.

This is like when your a kid and run into a teacher at the grocery.

Why is Linux different than Microsoft? Most of the games I play aren’t “Linux” games, but the identical Windows software running through a compatibility layer on Linux.

The Steam client on Linux has the same “workshop” tab for adding mods. It’s not in every game, but that’s true on Windows too.

The use case is it’s going to introduce gamers to Linux. And it’s going to prove that in PCs, just like consoles, you don’t need Microsoft to game.

Yea, they pulled this shit on me with the “Shogun” series. Two or three episodes in and BANG! rugpull.

There is a movie with Margo Robbie called Terminal. The reason I know this is because if you type “terminal” into the Start Menu of a fresh copy of Windows 11, it’s the first result.

That keyboard looks really nice, but the placement of the R CTRL would cause me fits.

Resolve all paradoxes with this one simple trick. Philosophers hate it.

This is like saying you can’t beat me at chess because I have the free will to change the rules as I go. Or that Theseus has the free will to decide it’s just the same ship.

My favorite cop jokes:

1. how many good cops does it take to change a lightbulb? I’ll let you know when good cops change anything.

2. The cops are like a box of chocolates. They’ll kill your fucking dog.

3. Cops be like: You can’t call me a racist! Look, my wife’s eye is black.