Thursday, July 13, 2017
I Used To Do That Then I Started A Blog
I guess he tweets. But still yells!
Three days after the Donald Trump Jr. email revelations broke, the White House seems stuck in purgatory, with aides still deeply unsure about who leaked the damaging information, and the president still yelling at the TV.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
First We Force The App... Then We Force The Advertising...
I killed facebook messenger because it already took over my phone and drained my battery super fast...
The thing about phones is that the screens are tiny. All this stuff on a laptop is seriously annoying, but it quickly makes everything unusable on a tiny screen. Also, everyone who thinks up this stuff imagines a world where everyone has (close to) unlimited data,* but not everybody does and all this shit eats through your data in addition to making the apps just horrible.
*And of course, your phones are very useful when you are traveling outside the country, but every app is constantly talking to the mother ship unless you spend a lot of time trying to tell them to stop, eating through expensive data very very quickly.
After forcing Facebook users to switch to a separate Messenger app to continue chatting, the social network is about to start pushing adverts on those using the function.
The thing about phones is that the screens are tiny. All this stuff on a laptop is seriously annoying, but it quickly makes everything unusable on a tiny screen. Also, everyone who thinks up this stuff imagines a world where everyone has (close to) unlimited data,* but not everybody does and all this shit eats through your data in addition to making the apps just horrible.
*And of course, your phones are very useful when you are traveling outside the country, but every app is constantly talking to the mother ship unless you spend a lot of time trying to tell them to stop, eating through expensive data very very quickly.
The Rich
A standard thing to say about the British upper class/aristocrats is that Americans think they're refined and "nice" and polite (if conservative assholes in their politics), but they're actually crass and cruel. Donald Trumps who sometimes have a bit better education.
A viscount who offered money on Facebook for anyone to run over and kill anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller is facing jail after being convicted of sending menacing messages.
Rhodri Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote a message on the social media site just four days after Miller won a landmark high court challenge against the government last year:
“£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.”
He described Miller as a “fucking boat jumper” and added: “If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.”
Kid
I don't know if this just another boomer thing but I really don't get this ratcheting up of the age at which white people are still "kids."
Fredo is 39.
Black people become adults at about age 5, of course.
One White House official went so far as to stop communicating with the president’s embattled son, although this official spoke sympathetically about his plight, casting Trump Jr. as someone who just wants to hunt, fish and run his family’s real estate business.
“The kid is an honest kid,” said one friend of Trump Jr. “The White House should’ve never let that story go out on the president’s son. . . . What he’s upset about was that it was a minor meeting and the media glare — anything that’s Russia-related, gets picked up the way roaches get caught in a roach motel.”
Fredo is 39.
Black people become adults at about age 5, of course.
The World's Greatest Collection Of Evil Backstabbing Idiots
What could go wrong?
This is from the same article as before, but it's also hilarious. One thing about human group dynamics that I don't get is how evil people manage to tolerate each other. I mean, it isn't as if they don't all know they're backstabbing assholes? "Hey, other backstabbing asshole, want to be my buddy and work with me?" How does that even make sense? I guess they all think they're supergenius Machiavellian alpha males, so they will be King of the Cucks or something. Cuck you, assholes!
Even before the latest reports, Mr. Trump’s head-spinning willingness on creating a joint cybersecurity team with Russia fueled criticism. Now people close to the president and to his legal effort are engaged in a circular firing squad, anonymously blaming one another for the decisions of the last few days.
This is from the same article as before, but it's also hilarious. One thing about human group dynamics that I don't get is how evil people manage to tolerate each other. I mean, it isn't as if they don't all know they're backstabbing assholes? "Hey, other backstabbing asshole, want to be my buddy and work with me?" How does that even make sense? I guess they all think they're supergenius Machiavellian alpha males, so they will be King of the Cucks or something. Cuck you, assholes!
Javanka
Hilraious.
While Donald Trump Jr. has been the main focus of the controversy because he set up the meeting, Mr. Kushner faces potential trouble because he currently works in the White House and neglected to mention the encounter on forms he filled out for a background check to obtain a security clearance.
The emails were discovered in recent weeks by Mr. Kushner’s legal team as it reviewed documents, and the team amended his clearance forms to disclose it, according to people briefed on the developments, who like others declined to be identified because of the sensitive political and legal issues involved.
Similarly, Mr. Manafort recently mentioned the meeting to congressional investigators looking into possible collusion, according to the people briefed on the matter.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Too Stupid To Guess
Rampant speculation among WH advisers about who leaked on Don Jr to NYT..evidence-free blame shooting in all directions...no trust in there
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 11, 2017
The problem with even trying to guess what's going on is that these are all the world's stupidest people. You can't try to reason through any logical scenarios because there is no logic. They have all acted against interest so many times it's hard to imagine any of them accidentally acting in their own interest, so trying to think who might benefit is a waste of time.
So Busy
JUST IN: Trump's planned 2017 state visit to UK delayed until next year due to scheduling conflict - senior U.S. official pic.twitter.com/pjW4reYdbp
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) July 11, 2017
I mean, there's golf... and then golf... and then more golf...
Lawyering Up
One of the largely untold stories about the Monica Madness era was how relatively young (and innocent) staffers got caught up in it and had to spend money they didn't have on lawyers.
Sum of All Fears movie quote: "These days, better to appear guilty than impotent."
"This is sum of all fears stuff. It’s what we’ve all been dreading,” said one White House official who is now exploring the possibility of retaining an attorney, a step described as purely precautionary.
Sum of All Fears movie quote: "These days, better to appear guilty than impotent."
Feelings
Etched deeply into the consciousness of Americans is that public transit and stations are somehow very unsafe. Incidents happen like that happen anywhere, but, you know, not all that often in generally well-lighted areas with security cameras everywhere. They aren't, for the most part, prime crime opportunity locations. But people "feel" unsafe because the New York Subway of the late 70s and early 80s is, decades later, still seen as the epitome of Scary Places With Filled Scary Black People (I have no if the subway was particularly unsafe then, either, but it was dirty and gross and falling apart and there were some high profile incidents).
I'm not even sure what constitutes a trespassing violating, and open-container violations are just silly. Property crimes are annoying, but it's really only "crimes against people" that make a place "unsafe."
Light-rail riders concerned about their safety when using the system will soon see a boost in police presence across Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe.
...
Statistics tracked by contracted security of Valley Metro, the regional agency that coordinates the system, show a few dozen property crimes and crimes against people in the most recent fiscal quarter along the line, which has averaged about 1.4 million boardings each month this year. Crimes against persons were less than half of what they were the previous quarter.
The system, though, logged more than 2,500 incidents related to trespassing or open-container violations, including at park-and-ride locations. The nearly 30 percent increase over earlier this fiscal year reflects more thorough recording of people who are at the stations without using it for transit, according to agency security staff.
I'm not even sure what constitutes a trespassing violating, and open-container violations are just silly. Property crimes are annoying, but it's really only "crimes against people" that make a place "unsafe."
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