Robert McNees
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Robert McNees
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Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance. My views, not my employer's. https://jacobi.luc.edu
Yes, same here. Dye’s work was truly terrible by Apple standards. Things can only get better under the direction of someone like Lemay, who has both skill and taste, which I had previously assumed would both have been prerequisites for the job.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A sort of "Not Like Us," but for early efforts to make sense of quantum mechanics.
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Because of woke.
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Legolas also worked, but Gimli did not return anything.
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The OS still tries to capitalize the names if you type "elrond" or "galadriel" so it knows what you're talking about, it just pretends not to when you're picking emoji. Like when you see a D&D friend at a party and they don't want their date to know how you know each other.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste.”
A Responsibility to the Industry
lmnt.me
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I’m so sorry, Glendon. Thinking of you and your family tonight and in the days to come.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I just think it’s funny to imagine an old guy somewhere in Maine, in a flannel, fishing vest, and duck boots, looking over his glasses at your proposed password and rating it wicked strong.
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Huh.
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lol, your profile photo is 100 yards from us. Hello neighbor!
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I am very anti carceral state but pro “give out a few traffic tickets before another person gets run over,” if the latter is possible without the former.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Anyway, the part that is maybe the most mind blowing to me is how often I have seen this happen right in front of Chicago Police. I’ve seen them watch someone jump out of the way of a car on the wrong side of the road and just… not act. No ticket, nothing.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Were they racing to the hospital? Late for their wedding? Missing a kid’s recital? No, they were just mad that seven cars were in front of them at a stop sign.
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Maybe the craziest thing I saw in traffic this year was a guy who *drove onto the sidewalk* to get around a bunch of cars waiting at a stop sign, raced through the intersection and used a parking lane to cut in front of other cars, then slowly parallel parked a few hundred yards up the road.
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another thing I see every day is people using right turn lanes to cut in front of a long line of cars waiting at a light or stop sign. Over the past year I have seen four accidents caused this way, as someone uses a turn lane to race through the intersection to reinsert into the line of cars.
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is wild! They will have a “student driver” sticker on the back of their car and the flamethrower bass guy from mad max standing on the hood. I have seen people get out of their cars and yell at someone because that person didn’t give them right of way when they were ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM