I feel that way about at least 3 things. Camus called it “the absurd”. The universe, he said, essentially does not make sense. You can dig and dig and there is no meaning at the bottom. We really are just atoms. The absurd is the interface, when humankind presses their hand against the meaningless and tries to make too much sense of it.

There isn’t going to be an achievement screen when you die.

Terry Pratchett in Hogfather can be read as a direct response - You can live a good life anyway if you believe in “the big lies” - Truth, justice, love, etc.

idk, ants are pretty tough on account of the square-cube law.

We’re more like monkeys in a rainforest being logged

Antimemes are dangerous, and we don’t understand them; therefore, they are part of the Problem. Hence my division. We can do the sideways thinking that’s needed to combat something which can literally eat your combat training.

I think about that essay probably once a month at least.

Maybe “Moloch Horror” would be a good Schelling point, since Lovecraft was a racist- oh wait that poet was a pedophile. Shit… “Cosmic horror” it is?

Here’s hoping the Republican voter base is terminally-online keyboard warriors just like me 🍻

I wonder how much depends on the upper levels. If a couple generals say “fuck this” and side with the Constitution instead of the 30%-majority popular vote President, things might be okay. I don’t want war, but we need all kinds of power on our side - money, guns, love, numbers. Otherwise we’d be run over.

If the good generals resign or get canned and all that’s left are morons and loyalists, it’s a bad sign.

Idk. They want loyalists but they’re putting a lot of money on the table. I’m not sure what meta they’re following. I’m honestly a little surprised they couldn’t find enough white supremacists to join up - It’s like the military, but you stay in the country? I thought racists would jump on that.

I don’t think they’d draft me. I’m their political enemy, I’d be used for slave labor

Ubuntu and GNOME

I’ll be nice in case the developers are reading.

I just think they’re both pretty misguided in their goals.

Ubuntu used to be Debian plus your laptop’s Wi-Fi works out of the box. The hardware support has improved and now Debian in 2025 is better than Ubuntu, plus Debian never shows you terminal ads or prompts you to snap install something that obviously isn’t going to run well inside the default Snap sandbox.

I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to any new users now. I’d sit and install Debian stable with them, and if something is missing, I’d try Debian unstable or the proprietary repos.

No offense to on-the-ground Ubuntu devs, but Ubuntu really feels like Debian plus a billionaire’s desire to make money reselling Debian.

GNOME… Wants the desktop to look like a phone. Got rid of the system tray and then you have to do a little dance t re-install it. I don’t know why. I’ve had useful stuff in the system tray since Windows XP.

I think GNOME might have also spearheaded the trend of ruining SEO and documentation by naming apps what they do instead of with real names? Like “Movie player” or “Web Browser”. I don’t know if they did any studies or if it helps new users but it’s real weird for advanced users. Most people know that “Chrome” is a brand of web browser, so why would you name your web browser “Web Browser” and make things weird? I like KDE’s thinking. Pick a name and wedge a K into it. And then make an anime furry its mascot. Can’t beat that!

There was a conspiracy theory years ago, because someone from Microsoft was making decisions at GNOME, that GNOME was going to be eaten inside-out by MS, like Nokia was. They were rolling .NET Mono stuff and some kind of object model… I don’t think it got far but I don’t care. I switched to xfce on my desktop and KDE looks great on the Steam Deck and laptop. KDE used to be heavy, but hardware got bigger.

I actually love the package managers on Linux. Apt would be better if you could install multiple versions side-by-side, but I get why that’s hard. Whenever I use Windows it’s like, gross, I have to use MSIs again? I can’t just apt install git curl wget screen lua? And on macOS I can install brew but a lot of apps use that funny pattern where you drag it into the Applications folder, and then you must remember to unmount the disk image, and also some apps aren’t in the Applications folder.

I actually love systemd and everyone can fight me on this. Systemd is really nice.

In computer science, you steal the box from the psych department and put children in it so you can sell them loot crates

I don’t think it was an amendment, so that part of the Constitution probably hasn’t changed in 200 years

If it was run on like, GitHub Pages, you would do a rollback.

I have support for rollbacks in my site cause I have blue-green… I never use it, but I do have it!

A land value tax would fix this

Cute <3

Wish I could follow them on RSS or Fediverse

give 'em to me, mine are too little

The best boobs are free. The second-best boobs are cold. Wait, is that beer?

I mean I would still try sleeping with someone with problematically huge breasts, just out of curiosity

These are my breasts, there are many like them, but these ones are mine

yay!

:( unwanted pets :(

Lotta people didn’t take high school economics apparently

Any grid-tie inverter will handle that properly, right? Solar isn’t like a hydro turbine or gas turbine where you need a load to prevent over-speed, right? If anything goes wrong you can disconnect the panels and they’re just putting out a high voltage at zero current