The chef at Cafe Democrat sometimes serves bad food, which regulars hate.
The chef at Cafe Republican always defecates in the food, which regulars love because they feel superior when others have to eat shit.
The critics mostly focus on consistency and atmosphere.
These days, the only thing we can trust about The Washington Post is that its owner thinks we are all very, very, stupid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
I remember being at a posh dinner filled with some relatively wealthy and seemingly progressive folk, and wondering who had the will to vote against fascism and who would ultimately lick fascist boots in hopes for yet another tax break. Jeff Bezos, impressive as he is, sure looks like a boot licker today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/
The below is a consolidation of Tweets posted by me on June 19th, 2018.
Having been a middle-class average white boy from the suburbs, I think I get why other middle-class average white boys the suburbs end up being racists.
It’s easy to feel squeezed out by rich average white boys getting in on legacy and also passed over for not being diverse enough. Here’s the thing though, diversity has nothing to do with it. Everyone who made the cut, except for some rich white boys, are just better than you.
So you have three options –
If you are not tough enough for 1 or 2, racists and other bigots will happily sell you the snake oil that is option 3. They will eagerly explain how great you are and how diversity is the reason you didn’t make the cut. In turn, you’ll make them feel better simply by joining.
You’ll also notice how they will never blame the legacy rich white boys either, because ultimately that’s who they want to be. They don’t want to be better. They don’t want to compete. They want maximum privilege to succeed despite their own mediocrity.
Don’t be a racist.
Seeing Super Mario Land on my OLED really shows how much TV console games were designed for CRTs. This game still looks right on the large pixel-based display because it was designed for the Gameboy’s small pixel-based display. Games made for TV consoles look off by comparison.
It just now occurred to me that AI chatbots were predicted by Douglas Adams when he wrote of a fantastic machine that could produce any number of beverages, but when Arthur Dent asks it for tea, the resulting drink is “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”.
It was never a question of whether I should write parody lyrics for Cake’s cover of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps all about the iPad debate. It was a question of whether I could. Turns out yes.
I have this new iPad
Pro, but for a better workflow
You only tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
I ask for multitasking
again with some UX cohesion
Your only answer
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
If you can’t take this OS
and make it much smarter
Then doing work is useless
flow is harder, a non-starter.
So if they’re really for pros
Say yes
But if they’re big phones
Confess
And please don't tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
If you can’t take this OS
and make it much smarter
Then doing work is useless
flow is harder, a non-starter.
So if they’re really for pros
Say yes
But if they’re big phones
Confess
And please don't tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac
I did not order a Vision Pro because I don’t really have a use for it yet, and I try to only spend a premium on things I regularly use. This doesn’t mean I am down on the Vision Pro though. I think it sets the bar for spatial interfaces the same way the original Mac set the bar graphical interfaces. The Mac did not popularize the graphical user interface. Windows did, but it took until PC hardware reached the bar set by the Mac.
I feel like headline writers are really missing out on the rare opportunity to use the word “sham” on these “Biden impeachment inquiry” stories.
Loved the discussion of @atpfm about fitness and exercise. As someone who has had a routine for decades, my advice to anyone starting out is to prioritize building the routine over maximizing gains. Exercise takes time and energy. Finding that time and mustering that energy is by far the hardest part initially. Going to get up early and run? Start by walking or do a couch to 5K. The difficulty of the run will pale in comparison to the difficulty of consistently getting up that much earlier.