Relevant CGP Grey

Hyperlinks are a liberal psy-op. I’ll only click regular links.

That was absolutely beautiful.

I used to enjoy the old Joystiq site. Followed them to Engadget. Hell, I used the Joystiq url redirect bookmark until it stopped working. Might as well just delete the bookmark now, no sense it watching it slide further into irrelevancy.

That’s what she said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Videodrome

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. I remember watching it as a teenager in the 90s and having no freaking clue what was going on.

I hate that people in charge were never able to properly communicate this subtle difference.

It was communicated just fine. I got that info. You got that info. It was out there. But the signal to noise ratio was unreal. People seem to prefer soundbites and false dichotomies over accurate, nuanced information. Sprinkle in a metric shitton of wedge issue misinformation delivered via sledgehammer and you get what we got:

VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE GOOD!

GRANDPA HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL DIE!

VACCINE STILL GOOD!

I HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL GET SICK AND BOSS MAKE ME STAY HOME AND NO GET MONEY! VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE… BAD?

DOCTOR LIED! SCIENCE BAD!

Well actually…

YOU STUPID, VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE BAD!

COVID OVER, NO NEED VACCINE!

HOORAY!

SciShow did a piece (partially) about this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEFQH5UXHQ

And Veritasium did a deeper dive a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

The whole situation is thoroughly fucked up, but hey, as long as people are making money amirite? 😑

…damn. That was great.

Getting a heat pump has been on my want-to-do list for years. But even though my furnace is aging, it still works so it’s been hard to justify while there were other issues going on. Accelerating adoption is only going to make the process easier when the time comes.

Same, except I did watch the last episode. Agreed on Jet (perfection), and Julia/Vicious (what the everloving fuck). Spike and Faye were fine. Even with the missteps, I was still willing to see where they were taking it, if given time for a few course corrections. But they hit that cancel button pretty much immediately.

Engineer Guy went years between books uploads. I had to do a double take when he came up in my feed a few months ago.

Live with underlying existential dread for decades. Watch as “doing what you love” becomes “hating what you used to love because you’re forced to do it so that there’s enough numbers in the computer to prove that you’re worthy of continued existence.” Contemplate the pointlessness of it all on a daily basis. Be reminded that your feelings are invalid because “other people have it worse” every time the topic comes up. Nod listlessly as “successful” people tout their own hard work while ignoring any factor luck and privilege played, then tune out when they shift into the dissonant duet of “I succeeded because I am exceptional” and “anyone can do the same if they just work harder.”

Wake up the next morning and realize there’s roughly 30 more years of this, barring a massive coronary or aneurism or something.

Is it weird, as a tail end gen x/elder millennial, to really hope Lehrer was right about this one?

Aren’t we all, though?

I don’t like it, but watching the flush can save a whole lot of pain. Clogs suck.

There’s a thousand mile expanse of woods and bullshit across the northern states where you could just walk through the forests into Canada.

I’ve always wanted to get eaten by a moose.

I have subscribed for just such an occasion.