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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’ve always found it super interesting that Disney made a kids’ thing out of that particular book. Because that’s a bleak fucking book full of nasty filthy disgusting terrible people doing nasty filthy disgusting terrible things. Someone went “you know the classic where a couple of city officials drool after a gypsy woman and violently rape her in a cathedral and then hang her in the street? And a grotesque monster rampages against them for it? Wouldn’t the kids just love that one but as a musical and instead of hanging her they burn her at the stake?”





  • Compulsory service exists in many parts of the world and it is rarely good.

    Forcing people to do work they don’t want to do leads to very unproductive environments that are also very open to abuse. Being forced by law to do the work has a tendency to create super unhealthy power dynamics.



  • Well you see one client demanded some absolutely stupid very obscure feature that was so absolutely stupid that it could only reasonably be achieved by hacking some bullshit together on their on-premise bare-metal installation that they insisted on not giving you proper access that you needed. Then something went wrong with that hacked-together one-off bullshit, and the digital equivalent of this was the only way to figure out what the hell was happening.





  • Labor is such a small part of the expenses that go into making an EV that even full-on slave labor would not make a huge difference in the end product’s total cost. It’s like 2-3% even in countries where workers are treated not that bad.

    The Chinese cars are so cheap because 1) government support and 2) they invested an absolute shit ton into the industrial infrastructure to support that shit. The second one is the single most significant reason why they are so much cheaper than western EVs. But that’s a difficult pill to swallow for the west, who doesn’t want to accept the fact that the Chinese could make anything other than cheap shit.



  • Android got people on Linux the same way routers got people on BSD.

    And besides the mobile environment should definitely NOT be used as an example for the desktop space. It’s a disgusting mess of strict vendor controls and proprietary crap trying to put heavy limits on what the user can or cannot do with their hardware. Absolutely don’t want that for my PC. I already have a sneaking suspicion that that’s where we’re headed with ARM on desktop, which is a scary thought.