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I'm sure Umberto Eco would upvote you
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm sure Umberto Eco would upvote you
Haha. I also watched it really late. It was a good thing, since it meant I wasn't a middle school boy anymore and the urge to root for the iceberg was long since gone.
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Haha. I also watched it really late. It was a good thing, since it meant I wasn't a middle school boy anymore and the urge to root for the iceberg was long since gone.
The one insight that I think was real in the "bullshit jobs" stuff is that a growing fraction of jobs are about zero-sum competition with others in the same role. Advertisers, traders, corporate lawyers: your job mostly exists to counter the other guys. Some people enjoy it, but many REALLY don't.
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The one insight that I think was real in the "bullshit jobs" stuff is that a growing fraction of jobs are about zero-sum competition with others in the same role. Advertisers, traders, corporate lawyers: your job mostly exists to counter the other guys. Some people enjoy it, but many REALLY don't.
True, also Giangiacomo Feltrinelli existed and he was straight up rich. He would have been the only vaguely plausible candidate for "great old man" of terrorism if he didn't die young.
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
True, also Giangiacomo Feltrinelli existed and he was straight up rich. He would have been the only vaguely plausible candidate for "great old man" of terrorism if he didn't die young.
A good part of the Red Brigades terrorist were factory workers.
It can be argued that conspiracism about red terrorism (the endless search for "a mastermind") spread within Italian elites of the time because they couldn't believe that factory workers and young students could do what they did alone.
It can be argued that conspiracism about red terrorism (the endless search for "a mastermind") spread within Italian elites of the time because they couldn't believe that factory workers and young students could do what they did alone.
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A good part of the Red Brigades terrorist were factory workers.
It can be argued that conspiracism about red terrorism (the endless search for "a mastermind") spread within Italian elites of the time because they couldn't believe that factory workers and young students could do what they did alone.
It can be argued that conspiracism about red terrorism (the endless search for "a mastermind") spread within Italian elites of the time because they couldn't believe that factory workers and young students could do what they did alone.
And one of the defining characteristics of the early Internet was that there was very little money in it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And one of the defining characteristics of the early Internet was that there was very little money in it.
What playing too much Tiberian Sun does to a mofo
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What playing too much Tiberian Sun does to a mofo
If there is a "powder room"...
...where are the guns?
...where are the guns?
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If there is a "powder room"...
...where are the guns?
...where are the guns?
"I say, we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit."
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"I say, we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit."
Even in goddamn WWII sailors saved enemy survivors.
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Even in goddamn WWII sailors saved enemy survivors.
I see, you like Wong Kar Wai movies as well
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I see, you like Wong Kar Wai movies as well
This really takes me back...
Over here in Italy, we had a sizable Usenet but those spam farms couldn't really be bothered, I think. The groups had already been outcompeted by web forums before spam got really out of hand.
Over here in Italy, we had a sizable Usenet but those spam farms couldn't really be bothered, I think. The groups had already been outcompeted by web forums before spam got really out of hand.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This really takes me back...
Over here in Italy, we had a sizable Usenet but those spam farms couldn't really be bothered, I think. The groups had already been outcompeted by web forums before spam got really out of hand.
Over here in Italy, we had a sizable Usenet but those spam farms couldn't really be bothered, I think. The groups had already been outcompeted by web forums before spam got really out of hand.
Very risky, but they did learn to build a reliable vehicle. It's very unlike Tesla which had crap panel tolerances then and has crap tolerances now ;)
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Very risky, but they did learn to build a reliable vehicle. It's very unlike Tesla which had crap panel tolerances then and has crap tolerances now ;)
Which failed three times... out of five attempts total. It was an experimental vehicle, and since it led to an extremely reliable and very capable follow-on, a successful one.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Which failed three times... out of five attempts total. It was an experimental vehicle, and since it led to an extremely reliable and very capable follow-on, a successful one.
"very high failure rate"?
There has been only one Falcon 9 failure since 2018. Four in total! With more than 500 launches, the thing is more reliable than good old Soyuz.
There has been only one Falcon 9 failure since 2018. Four in total! With more than 500 launches, the thing is more reliable than good old Soyuz.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"very high failure rate"?
There has been only one Falcon 9 failure since 2018. Four in total! With more than 500 launches, the thing is more reliable than good old Soyuz.
There has been only one Falcon 9 failure since 2018. Four in total! With more than 500 launches, the thing is more reliable than good old Soyuz.
What was the line? Beautiful and terrible as the dawn, stronger than the foundations of the earth, all shall love her and despair...
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What was the line? Beautiful and terrible as the dawn, stronger than the foundations of the earth, all shall love her and despair...
Maybe he's *really* into Clive Cussler novels
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Maybe he's *really* into Clive Cussler novels
They definitely can lose, and I expect them to lose soon enough. But committed Trump voters likely don't care about sex scandals any more than Berlusconi voters cared about his scandals.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
They definitely can lose, and I expect them to lose soon enough. But committed Trump voters likely don't care about sex scandals any more than Berlusconi voters cared about his scandals.
Sabine is making (well-deserved!) fun of string theory and other overhyped theories most of the time ;)
She needs to feed the algorithm like every youtuber, has some really weird ideas and a big vendetta against colliders, but her heart is in the right place.
She needs to feed the algorithm like every youtuber, has some really weird ideas and a big vendetta against colliders, but her heart is in the right place.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sabine is making (well-deserved!) fun of string theory and other overhyped theories most of the time ;)
She needs to feed the algorithm like every youtuber, has some really weird ideas and a big vendetta against colliders, but her heart is in the right place.
She needs to feed the algorithm like every youtuber, has some really weird ideas and a big vendetta against colliders, but her heart is in the right place.
So you DO get to write your own headlines! :)
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So you DO get to write your own headlines! :)
At least it admitted having "low confidence" in the text :D
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At least it admitted having "low confidence" in the text :D
It is!
Absolutely prime software for the time, even if it was for kids.
Absolutely prime software for the time, even if it was for kids.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is!
Absolutely prime software for the time, even if it was for kids.
Absolutely prime software for the time, even if it was for kids.
As you said the article is most likely hype, but the Craig era, where he was a character that evolved, lasted 20 years. The old style Bond is... well... old, now. It will be a revival, not a straight continuation.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As you said the article is most likely hype, but the Craig era, where he was a character that evolved, lasted 20 years. The old style Bond is... well... old, now. It will be a revival, not a straight continuation.
It's worse than that: Microsoft had already invented the ribbon in 1993 ;)
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It's worse than that: Microsoft had already invented the ribbon in 1993 ;)