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Stupidity Before Coffee
This morning, as I'm having my first morning cigarette and getting my first sips of coffee in me, The Roomie joins me outside and starts telling me about how this highly educated youtuber has declared war on IQ tests. Which goes to show two things:
- The Roomie is a bastard.
- Education offers no warranty against idiocy.
IQ tests are quite good at testing what they actually test. They're also astoundingly bad at testing what they don't actually test. Unless you're talking about the extreme ends of the scale and you think they aren't very good tests, you don't understand what they really test and need to shut up now before you look like an even bigger dumbass. You're basically saying that screwdrivers are shitty tools because they make lousy hammers. That a high school dropout understands this while a guy with a PhD by his name doesn't demonstrates my second point quite nicely.
ATTN: AC - There are More Job Openings than Jobless
In other news, yesterday and today I listed many of Apple's US locations. They have shops all over the country; I didn't even look up other countries yet.
A broad search for US openings turned up 162 pages of open reqs. That wasn't 162 jobs, it was 162 _pages_.
Fuck MDC
It's the little things
My wife has been watching the Netflix show Lucifer. I watch it with her as I read my tablet/post on SoylentNews.
One moment caught my eye and made me appreciate the show more: at one point Lucifer plays "All along the watchtower" on the piano. I enjoy that song and it caught my attention...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFDOSIecALU
...the song ends and Lucifer's mother walks in: and it's Tricia Helfer, '6' from Battlestar Galactica.
NICE little touch!
I like it when there are little touches like that (another one: Archer doing a Bob's Burgers cross-over).
Anyone else notice things like this?
Arizona Woman in a Vegetative State Gives Birth
Arizona police investigate after 'vegetative patient gives birth'
Police in the US state of Arizona have launched a sexual assault investigation amid reports a patient in a vegetative state for a decade gave birth.
The woman is a patient in a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare near Phoenix.
Hacienda HealthCare gave no details but said it was aware of a "deeply disturbing incident".
A local CBS station said the baby was healthy and quoted a source as saying that staff had been unaware the woman was pregnant.
The woman has not been identified.
"It's a miracle!" says an Anonymous Coward.
The Cable Repairdyke
Is dyke PC?
Anyways, I read this story yesterday and I loved it. It was about a 6 foot lesbian cable repair(wo)man and was a great entertaining read.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
Thought I'd pass it along.
Bernie Gets Hit Early
Sexism Claims From Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Run: Paid Less, Treated Worse
Bernie Sanders says he was not aware of claims of sexism in 2016 campaign
Bernie Sanders apologizes for allegations of sexism in 2016 campaign
Sexism Isn’t a Problem for Just the Bernie Sanders Campaign
We have to get the weird old capitalist out of the room. #Warren2020!
Catholic Nuns Get Their Own Abuse Scandal
"The secret not yet told": Women describe alleged abuse by nuns
"It's not abuse, it's education."
What is an ideologue?
This was during an interview with a particularly hostile host.
She said "so you're basically a Hobbesian."
(I was actually impressed she appeared to know what that means and come up with it herself on the fly. Good job!)
He replied thus;
"No, I'm half and half. Half Hobbes, half Rousseau; that's why I'm not an ideologue. Because I don't think that people are good /or/ evil; I think they're both. I don't think that culture is security /or/ tyranny; I think they're both. And I don't think that nature is benevolence /or/ catastrophe; I think it's both."
Soyacro status update
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
2018: The Final Chapter
It's that time of year again. The time of year when everyone and their dog waxes nostalgic about all the shit nobody cares about from the year past, and stupidly predicts the next year in the grim knowledge that when the next New Year comes along, nobody will remember
that the dumbass predicted a bunch of foolish shit that turned out to be complete and utter balderdash. I might as well, too. Just like I did last year (yes, a lot of this was pasted from last year's final chapter).
There are even fewer articles this year than last year, as most of what I was doing was feverishly getting my cookbook ready to publish.
Some of these links go to /., S/N, mcgrewbooks.com, or mcgrew.info.
As usual, first: the yearly index:
Journals:
Articles:
Scince Fiction:
Last years' stupid predictions (and more):
Last year I said I'd publish Voyage to Earth and Other Stories, and I was right,
I predicted that Trump wouldn't be worse than Bush, this is still undetermined. He hasn't started any shooting wars (yet; if he doesn't he'll be the first Republican President since Ford not to start one) and he hasn't gotten our country attacked (yet, he's trying awful hard). He hasn't ruined the economy... yet. I do predict a stock market bubble that will crash the economy when it pops. I hope I'm wrong; so far I am.
I'm also predicting that I won't have a book ready in 2019. I haven't even got a start on one.
I'll also hang on to most of last year's predictions;
Someone will die. Maybe you, maybe me. Not necessarily anybody I know... we can only hope.
SETI will find no sign of intelligent life. Not even on Earth.
The Pirate Party won't make inroads in the US. I hope I'm wrong about that one.
US politicians will continue to be wholly owned by the corporations.
I'll still be a nerd.
Technophobic fashionista jocks will troll slashdot (but not S/N).
Slashdot will be rife with dupes.
Many Slashdot FPs will be poorly edited.
Slashdot still won't have fixed its patented text mangler (I haven't been there for a while, did they fix it?).
Microsoft will continue sucking
Happy New Year! Ready for another trip around the sun?
