yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
1d ago
I dunno it was pretty intense. I like his writing but combined with his hypocritical leftism I think he's a garbage dude.
People who love cancellation weren't interested in the nuances of consent the detailed story brought up - at best they saw the blurbs about the ass-to-mouth and decided he was definitely the bad guy.
I finished 2666 recently. I very much enjoyed it. Poetic, a bit avant garde, brutal, sexual, funny. Lot of stuff going on.
Was published posthumously and the author originally demanded it be 5 separate books. His publisher and kids made it a monolith and I was originally scandalized that they did so. Hilariously they were totally right, it's only tolerable as a single novel with 5 parts.
Some bizarre errors in the tiny section that mentions guns. I don't know if this is from the author or the translator. I suspect the latter. It made me mourn all of the beauty and detail that is lost in every translation ever. One of many times I just stopped for a moment to think and savor.
It's ignited an interest in Spanish language novels in general. I'm reading Varamo as a result on a rec from a trusted friend and it's not as impressive so far.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
Other folks have done a great dissection. You haven't missed the point entirely but definitely didn't hit the mark.
I will say that I ANTICIPATED far more high-school-peaking behavior from my peers than ended up actually occuring by a huge margin. The popular dickheads ended up being much cooler in college + beyond, and even the sports stars may have super hot wives but still caught up with friends at the last anniversary party.
I have a complicated relationship with high school overall. Still where I met some of the best friends of my life and I look back with strong nostalgia, primarily for the pre-alcohol LAN parties that I don't get to enjoy anymore. I think most people view it as a great time but not their peak.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
Damn the human body is so dynamic. It's 85% or so for my lady, she's very self conscious of the difference and the fact that they expanded so much the skin has stretched.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
How dynamic was the sizing? My wife's shrunk quite a bit a few months after nursing, it's a huge range.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
I am not, currently, but you've put down to paper my overall attitude about it. Frankly I know that once I started I'd turn it into a medium intensity hobby, like watches, and I just can't take another one.
That said.... Where would one purchase some roman coins?
yofuckreddit
8d ago
One thing about the car purchase is that this doesn't have to be a bad investment. If you buy a new BMW 530i yes that's setting money on fire. If you get a 5 year old sedan, you'll only be paying a little in depreciation.
Same with housing in Baltimore. At a 3 year time horizon the appreciation+principal will probably equal the transaction costs, with a lot of utility.
Remainder in vanilla brokerage and growing for when you do want to do something real.
Congratulations on the windfall
yofuckreddit
9d ago
Pasta Puttenesca is the dish with probably the highest perceived/actual complexity ratio I have in my repertoire. It uses primarily canned and jarred ingredients, is pretty good for you, costs virtually nothing (though you must spring for good italian tomatoes), and takes 15 minutes front to back depending on the parsley workflow.
Combine with red wine with the wife for maximum effectiveness.
If it's too easy and you want to step things up, roast garlic 45 minutes beforehand and make a compound butter for some bread. Lightly broil as you finish the pasta.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
We're all sharing anecdotes here but I have historically received dozens of cologne compliments, and still get one occasionally. Other buddies have too.
I also was criticized when I overdid it for a month or two. I think a great deodorant and 1 spray of decent cologne (along with bathing!) is a good combo.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
I'm saying that by convention you should only be doing 1-2 sprays. It may be more intense in the morning but it shouldn't be suffocating to others.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
- Really? When a woman passes me with an enticing perfume I think something very much along those lines. Perhaps with a bit more eroticism.
- Even so, perfume and cologne is generally supposed to be personal-space-percieved only. Scent is your strongest sense for memory. It fosters emotional connection between humans, point blank. Absolutely worth the $25/year to have some.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
For anyone debating reading that off-road trip thread, do it. One of the best reading experienced I've had online.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I find this unbelievably interesting and exciting. What a crazy miss from the safety teams, and what a sublimely damning critique of how whiny the leftist culture infection in open source has become.
This sort of pathetic bitching is so common that the dumb robots we spawned considered it their responsibility? Holy shit.
Honestly, it's so hilarious and ironic I'm still waiting for it to be a hoax or publicity stunt.
EDIT: And people are arguing with it in the blog post's comments? C'mon man!
yofuckreddit
26d ago
Yeah, changing a DD target is just filling out a form in a web application for me, so if it's lamer than that I get it.
yofuckreddit
26d ago
Earned $400 extra from opening a new checking account at Wells Fargo
I get these offers all the time and wonder why people aren't taking advantage of them more. I'm getting some for up to $850 at this point (from crappy banks but still).
These take an hour of effort, you can do them once every 2-3 months roughly, and even at this stage in my career I'm not making $400/hour. After taxes it's a bit less but still.
Not to blow up your replies here, but gog has it right. Millenial parents are really fucking up a lot, IME.
Kids are given tablets and television, so many toys that they fill entire rooms, wall-to-wall activities that require dozens of hours of investment per week, pharmaceutical drugs, spots in the marital bed at 3,4,5,6,7 years old because they just can't say no....
Any fool can make their job insanely difficult, given a weak enough backbone and poor decision-making abilities. If you figure out how to get good advice and think long-term about your children you're going to have a far better time.
(Also note - once your children become a whole person [pre-teen age] your amount of control will diminish. I won't rate myself as a parent until they are in their early 20s, but I can tell you that as of this moment I can judge parental skill for kids under 10)
yofuckreddit
27d ago
Absolutely love this comment. Agreed on almost all counts, though I agreed to subsequent kids because I liked their predecessors so much (whie dreading the lack of bandwidth for each one it would entail).
Have things improved with your wife post-kid-2?
yofuckreddit
27d ago
Two points:
1 - Even if the true joy of parenting is ineffable (unfortunately the case) you can get an approximation by experiencing them in some way. Maybe it's "Kid's say the darndest things", hanging out with neices/nephews, or just being attentive at a playground while you eat a picnic lunch. This is hard, but I've already had 4 things happen today (despite having a job and typing out this reply) that I would classify as super cool and worth it.
2 - Think about how many people have to lie consistently over thousands of years for your thesis to be true. In the entirety of human history... wait, no, in the entire history of this planet for every form of life, Parenting has been worth it. And yet, only with the advent of social media and the mass delusional influence of women it enables in just the past 15 years... now we've finally woken up to the fact that procreating actually sucks? Just use your common sense here. How likely is that?
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I wish I had the time to respond more deeply to both this thread and birbs. But I almost completely agree with you all.
I'm now of the opinion that I'll be able to amass enough capital to retire before AI takes my job.
Legacy codebases simply require too big of a context window for an AI to appreciably absorb, and they never have high enough quality documentation available even if they did. They also often deal with systems that simply aren't connected unless you provide them agentic capabilities that don't exist yet. That's assuming you can get your security guy, whose entire job is to say "no" endlessly without ever providing solutions to problems, to let a robot crawl through your network and source code.
I'm literally proposing a 7-8 figure project around this tomorrow. There's a 30+ year-old AS/400 working alongside thousands of Access databases, hundreds of SQL Servers, and dozens of client applications. Each of these abstraction layers has hidden business logic, various interchange patterns, and bugs that have become features over 3 decades.
Even once we've disentangled a tiny part of the elephant to improve the state of play and build modern REST APIs to serve various client applications and partners, then there's a cadre of humans who have worked with these systems for so long that they need to gently be brought into the light, which takes far more money and time than anyone would care to admit.
This is one company of thousands. They're a little behind the baseline, but not by much. I've got another decade of dealing with the hardest problems in software and ahead of me if I can keep stomaching how endlessly frustrating it can be.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Well that's exactly what I'm getting at - I've said before, only half jokingly, that I would fuck Judy Hopps.
The goblin race is just viscerally revolting. It's precisely that skin color/rat-adjacent society that boggles me a bit.
But it's cool to know the source is WoW. I still regret never getting into the game, though having one less thing to be horny about is something I should be grateful for I suppose.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
How do you even start to develop an interest in sexualized goblins?
I'm not trying to yuck your yum, but genuinely curious.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
My Libertarian bones ache to agree with you. I even think that ICE doing these manual, piecemeal raids is less effective than blanket enforcement at Farms, meat processors, and landscaping companies.
But once again reality rears its head: You cannot simultaneously prioritize criminals for deportation (which the Admin is clearly doing, given 2/3 of the targets are criminals) and the, frankly, decent people working in industry. This demand from the left makes me want to fucking scream it's so dissonant.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
For every single caveat you could line up to frame this as "dishonest," you have lined up there's an equal and opposite modifier the other way. These are people who aren't citizens, many without IDs or stable places to live, and they still were somehow indicted in our crappy criminal justice system?
Most reasonable people would agree that traffic and weed are a totally different deal. 66% is fucking enormous - it's higher than black males.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
If your point is that the median voter is a spinless fool devoid of coherent political philosophy, who simultaneously wants more gibmes and lower taxes, who reads headlines and tweets to form every opinion.... then yeah, I agree with you.
I even think that, as a pragmatic measure, Trump backing down on this gives him enough time to save face before the next election, maybe even midterms!
they don't want to see a bunch of scary violence
It should be more normal to be averse to violence than it is today. But it's sick that a 30-second clip of gunfire is what's being force-fed down the gullets of the ducks being fattened for slaughter, not the endless hours of shitty rioters blanketing Minnesota.
The professors being in Santa Teresa was interesting.
I agree that the Archimboldi section was super great, and the ending was perfect.
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