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appliance

the greater of two evils is going to work their hardest at portraying the lesser of two evils as too evil for your tastes so you choose neither and they win by default Government is like an appliance.  You don’t notice when it’s functioning but it’s...

On Rural White People

I’m the only one I know who predicted Trump could win this thing.  I think it might have been because I was his target demographic, a poor white person who lost his livelihood to outsourcing.  I was ran out of the suburban area I went to college in due...

my dad says part 2

One of the things my dad used to say is, “it’s only money”.  Basically we have always been poor (at least for Americans) and so much of what one needs to advance in life requires significant financial outlay.  For example going to school to get...

my dad says

My dad is a smart man.  He is not a writer but has said some good things. He said Steve Jobs was so good because he could create novel things and it didn’t matter that everyone else copied them because by then he would be on to the next novel thing.  On the...

being opaque

Skimming this article on tech diversity, something that has always bothered me as an aspie is how opaque people are.  How they’ll use a whole ton of words to say nothing.  I think by and large conservatives are less opaque than liberals.  This isn’t...