Sometimes the only solution is the rooftop Korean solution.

The doomers who need the US to become South Africa are missing some important facts in their analysis. Where are the mags? Where are the NODS? Where are the rifles with thermal scopes?

This is the first problem I see with Veilid. Their anti-capitalist screeds don’t account for depending on large well resourced public nodes that run on centralized capitalist platforms and require lots of capital to operate. And if those platforms decide they don’t want to allow such nodes? I haven’t seen the network traffic yet, but if the cloud providers can identify it, they can ban it.

Adding Veilid to my list of things to check out once things slow down a bit for me at work later this year.

Veilid

Veilid

Veilid is an open-source, distributed application framework.

It’s about time for me to rewatch The Sopranos. This time I won’t be able to stop wondering how many business owners in cities currently wish they could pay a well organized group of men to exact violence on any degenerates who dare fuck with their business.

Another flat earth test: who do you want planning your intercontinental flights, Globetards or Flat Earthers? Your aircraft gets to take the average amount of fuel, plus a 1 hour reserve, used for that aircraft/route combination for the last 100 flights. Are you going to bet your life that the Globetards don’t know what they are doing with these flights plans? It’s not an accident they are shaped like that and you can get a pretty good feel for why they are if you connect those points on a globe with a piece of string.

There are 2 artillery teams and one of them is going to target your house with your family in it. You have to choose which one. Globetard Artillery uses MGRS, which is based on UTM, which assumes the earth is a perfect ellipsoid. UTM is highly accurate within the small zones of a few degrees East to West and UTM zones are 6° wide. Flat Earth Artillery uses the maps created by their best cartographers based on whatever the fuck it is they believe. Which team do you want targeting your house and family?

I just discovered that New Holland Brewing Company has a Dragon’s Milk bourbon now. I’m going to have to try it. I have a bottle of KBS bourbon and I really enjoy it. Something about the Michigan breweries and their stouts that I really enjoy. I was born in Michigan so maybe it’s just in my blood. Probably the lead from the water pipes 😂

Guinness is the worst stout I’ve ever had. I’m sure out of a Dublin tap it’s an entirely different beast, but out of a bottle in the middle of the US it is horse piss.

I love being able to schedule emails. I can write emails to employees at 2am on a Tuesday or in the middle of the day on a Saturday like a psychopath without them wondering if I’m expecting them to watch for emails at insane times.

I spent the first decade of my career, the ‘90s, helping Silent and Boomer generation technophobes learn how to use computers while also teaching myself how to write software they could use. I even occasionally did formal day long classes training them how to use Microsoft Excel and Word. I had to start every class teaching several of them how to use a mouse. A few of those people never really understood how to double-click and many people struggled to navigate menus that were nested just because they lacked the dexterity to move the mouse smoothly enough to open one menu level after the other. I learned that a nontrivial percentage of people can’t deal with hierarchical UIs of any kind. They couldn’t deal with tree views and hierarchical menus and deeply tabbed UIs. The file system was literally impossible for them to understand or navigate. I would bet there is an IQ threshold here if someone ever chose to study it, but since IQ is a taboo subject I’m sure that would never happen. Anyway, that decade spent supporting people who hate computers but have to use them for their jobs while I was also learning the craft of software development was the perfect preparation for me. The software I built for my business a decade and a half ago is used for only a few months a year by lots of people who don’t care at all about computers, they just care about getting their jobs done. We don’t use any of the UI/UX paradigms that I spent many frustrating hours watching people struggle to understand. We don’t use toolbars with icons only. Our clickable UI elements have words that describe what they do and they animate in a consistent way that tells users they are clickable so users never have to guess which elements they can click on. We don’t assume people can handle drag and drop. We don’t hide UI behind tabs and we never use hierarchy to hide things from users or to make a UI more compact. The only hierarchy is a result of the natural hierarchy that is inherent to the concepts users are already working with every day, and for those concepts we still flatten the hierarchy and show it to users in a single scrollable view. We paginate those lists if we have to, but we don’t hide details behind hierarchical UI. All menus have only one level. People who can’t handle hierarchy can handle scrolling just fine. We have pages that are several pages long because scrolling doesn’t trip users up but almost all the UI paradigms that are used to avoid scrolling do. Our software has a one to one mapping between concepts they use in the real world to do their jobs. We don’t force them to learn a new way to view the world. We use maps to let them navigate geographically important data in places where the geographical relationship between things matters to them. We use colors to show the priority of things on those maps so they can quickly identify potential problems visually. And when all these strategies still fail and users get stuck, a human answers the phone or email or chat when they reach out to us for help and we walk them through it. Even on holidays, weekends, or at 11pm during their busy few months when they are actually using our software. If they need help, a helpful person is there. Even if it is the tenth time they have asked the same damn question. We charge lots of money and that’s what they are paying us for. My point: even if you and some of your smartest users can handle something you have created, never assume that everyone will be able to. Some users will never understand some things no matter how much you try to explain them. If you have to design something anyone can use there are a bunch of limitations automatically imposed on your design. Also, there are some subjects that are too complicated for a huge percentage of the population to understand no matter how or how many times you explain them. There is a percentage of the population that will never understand certain aspects of Bitcoin and there is nothing anyone can do to change that. The very nature of the subject is just beyond lots of people and they will always have to resort to trusting people because they will never be able to verify.

Will there be bread served at the circus?

I didn’t have a clue what point she was trying to make in the Tweet that everyone jumped on, but I didn’t for one minute believe that she was clueless about how bonds work. But I did find a bunch of new people to flip the BOZO bit on based on their Tweets about that Tweet. To be fair, I’ve flipped the BOZO bit on most people who comment on macro based on their inability/unwillingness to update their priors in the face of what the Fed has been up to since July ‘21.

Rob says he’s been getting a lot of deaf Uber drivers lately. I’d bet 1M sats they aren’t deaf and are just using that as an excuse to avoid having to deal with annoying passengers. I would absolutely do that if I had to drive Uber.

Even if Sam’s insane and irrelevant hypotheticals had any relevance to the real world, he better be prepared to stack up and risk his own life if he thinks he can force me to inject or consume anything against my will. What part of that is he too retarded to understand?

On her recent WBD appearance Margot Paez detailed how her career was aborted because her research disagreed with the accepted dogmas of the climate cultists and yet she isn’t deterred by that fact. When you listen to her talk about obtaining the credentials she covets you can tell where the search for truth ranks for her. This is an interesting contrast.

Don’t let them fuck with the money during the Great Reset. You don’t have a clue what their science experiments will do and neither do they.

Calling specific people out as easily replaceable is even better. Put them all on notice. Either perform and act like you value the job or fuck off. And this is why Disney wanted nothing to do with Dave. The velvety soft vulvas of the ESG world can’t handle him. 🤣

Dave Portnoy going off on his employees, publicly on Twitter, for not showing up to the office for his first morning back as owner of the company is a thing of beauty. And all the replies with people saying “hire me” are even better.

Roll your own entropy.