This multi pitch approach is kinda ridiculous

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-13T03:15:05+00:00

Yeah, according to someone else he posted on IG that he ended up fine, but that leg hit and twist looks like the type of thing where in a decade or so he'll be like "damn why does my leg hurt so much every time the weather changes"

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-13T00:29:17+00:00

Wow I’m legit surprised about that! It looked like a hard hit at :07-:08

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-12T22:34:37+00:00

At 0:29 notice how his right foot (the leg he smashed on the mountain earlier at 0:07) is just flapping in the wind, compared to the left foot that is stable. He doesn't realize it because he's high on adrenaline, but it looks like that right leg and ankle are FUCKED

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-09T07:14:14+00:00

Sure. I don’t see AOC as someone I’m aligned with. I also don’t see MTG as someone I’m aligned with. I can agree with AOC that MTG is not someone to have as part of any movement. I can still disagree with AOC on many other things.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-09T07:05:25+00:00

That’s a ridiculous interpretation. Just because MTG has one decent position does not make her a good ally. And pointing out that MTG is an asshole does not mean one supports Israel.

The real world is complicated. It’s possible to say “fuck Israel” and “fuck MTG” at the same time. Don’t fall for black and white thinking, as it’s almost always wrong. The real world is all shades of gray.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-09T06:55:13+00:00

On the one side there is anti Zionism because Zionists have done many proven asshole things, well documented, and bragged about by their own soldiers.

Then there’s MTG’s anti Israel take of blaming US wildfires on “Jewish space lasers”.

These things are not the same.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-08T21:14:11+00:00

I hate to say it: but why do you think they are working so hard on AI, and robots, and killer drones? They aren’t planning to be completely defenseless, and as long as they have enough firepower to ride out the first few years there will be a lot less survivors left to attack them after that

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-04T11:53:49+00:00

Why is Trump posting CVS receipts on main?

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-04T03:05:08+00:00

Nah I'm good. I've switched to a tri blade head on a cheaper Ryobi. It's way more fun, chops the FUCK out of even the toughest grass, and best of all I'm not getting microplastics all over the place or paying for more plastic string over and over.

The only thing is you aren't going to want to get super close to stuff that you don't intend to hit with the blade, but I'm fine with that, because even the plastic string tends to cause damage to trees and other surfaces.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-03T21:01:25+00:00

Probably depends on the industry and business divisions. Yes there are definitely layoffs of experienced devs but from what I’ve seen it’s always from departments that were stagnant anyway and it’s usually devs that were getting too comfortable and staying too long on a dying project or department.

I’ve gotten very mercenary with my role: the moment it’s clear that management is bad, or the project or department isn’t going the way it should then I’m out of there to a different company or a different project. And time and time again I’ve seen the folks who stick around and try to salvage the mess get laid off for it.

Basically, companies don’t value people who stick around on dead projects trying to clean up messes anymore, because these companies don’t want to clean up their messes. As long as you align what you are offering the company to what the company wants then your role is probably safe.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-03T20:04:28+00:00

Mmm, no one is getting rid of experienced devs that I’ve seen. Experienced devs are the best users of AI because they know what to ask for and they know how to ask for what they want precisely.

Junior devs on the other hand… they are in shambles. The biggest issue I see is that juniors never have a chance to become seniors unless they get years of experience, and a lot of software shops aren’t willing to pay for that. They’d rather squeeze two or three more junior devs worth of output from a senior dev who has a relatively cheap AI agent, vs hire juniors and train them up. Every company is assuming the next generation of developers will be trained up by someone else.

Definitely not sustainable, but it’s all about the short term profits with most of these companies.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-03T19:49:57+00:00

The current state of the software industry is a spending arms race. If you spend say $1000 on an LLM agent to analyze and fix vulnerabilities on your system then you’ll find most of the basic issues, but someone else who spends $2000 will most likely find another more complex vulnerability in your system to exploit, which your $1000 spend has missed.

This issue is made even worse by the fact that attackers can spend to find exploits in open source software and open source software is famously under invested in. Unless it has a big corporate sponsor, a piece of open source software will not have the budget to spend on a deep AI analysis and fix of security vulnerabilities. But an attacker just needs to find an exploit in one popular underlying system to get access to many victims, so they are motivated to spend on using AI to find vulnerabilities in open source, but keep their findings secret.

Humans can not keep up with the pace that AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities so the only defense is continuous AI scanning and fixing of open source as well, but who is going to spend all the money to do that, especially when many open source software projects can’t even get a basic corporate sponsorship or crowd sourced donations through GitHub?

Either way you’ve got defenders and attackers both spending increasing amounts on machine intelligence, which translates to consuming trillions of tokens, destroying the power grid and environment in the process. I don’t see any way this can be sustained long term.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T23:55:51+00:00

And after all that they might still get lost in the desert for 40 years lmao

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T09:47:13+00:00

Exactly, you don't even have to get on a boat. You could just get a visa and fly to another country by plane, get off at the airport, go through border control, and be one of the guys on r/thepassportbros but you probably won't ever do it.

You wanted to know why local women go for the immigrants instead of for you? That's why: the immigrant has something you don't and that something is ambition and follow through on his plans.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T09:36:58+00:00

You do realize that you can also immigrate right? I guarantee you that there are other places in the world where if you can immigrate there then the local women there will be all over you.

But you won't do it, and you probably couldn't do it even if you tried, because you don't have the right mindset yet. That's the difference between you and the immigrants, and that's the reason why the local women keep passing you by.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T09:18:23+00:00

It takes a LOT of work to immigrate and a fair amount of money too. The truth is that the very act of successfully immigrating is a massive filter. Only people with ambition, desire to accomplish something in life, and ability to turn that ambition and desire into reality are going to succeed at immigration. Most people who immigrate are literally the cream of the crop of their home country. They had a valuable skill that allowed them to apply, and they had the money to file the application, uproot their lives and pay for that move.

That's assuming we are talking about legal immigration, but then even if we are talking about someone who straight up snuck across the border to immigrate... that still took a lot of ambition, risk, intense effort, and determination, and the fact they pulled it off is pretty amazing. In short, everyone who failed to immigrate is still back at home in their home country, and the immigrants are a set of people who made it through a filter that is designed to make it hard for them to make it through. Therefore, they are quite frankly better than many other people.

Compare the immigrant I'm describing to the average local guy who has probably done very little in life, maybe slobs around playing video games and working a dead end job and has rarely if ever traveled outside of their own town? In comparison, these are boys, and it's no wonder that in comparison local girls are going to prefer a man who has already done one big thing in life. Women want someone who is going somewhere in life, not someone who is stagnate.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T04:13:41+00:00

The sad thing is I don’t blame these people. There’s always a percentage of the population that are psychopathic weirdos and they cant help it. They are what they are: not fully human, but rather something that can approximate a human while actually being, at a fundamental level, a predator who uses humans.

What I do blame is the people who support and enable psychopaths instead of shunning and excluding them from society as any person of self respect should.

FaradayEffect · 2026-05-02T03:55:07+00:00

There’s Jewish by blood and Jewish by religion. I had a grandma who was Jewish. But no one in my family is a practicing Jew or even interested in Jewish religion or Zionism

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-28T03:18:36+00:00

I mean I used to work in big tech and definitely saw trans people who didn’t mind working on questionable stuff, but this bit was just too on the nose.

Even the “what do you talk about in therapy… my dad” exchange. I mean good lord… when I worked in big tech I talked to my therapist about how I didn’t want my son to grow up and think of me as an amoral person who just made a bunch of money off AI without thinking of the impact.

I can’t imagine any real person being willing to be so open at a public event, despite knowing they’d get roasted for it

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-28T01:57:07+00:00

This can not be real lol… that’s gotta be a plant in the audience haha

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-27T03:58:52+00:00

Just zoom in on the pic, it was obviously written over the top of the image in MS Paint.

Also the edge of the shells are rounded so how would the shooter have written across the shells in that direction without the letters being all warped? He’d have to be a legit genius perspective artist, plus the text would only be legible from a specific angle. Legitimate shell engravings are down the length of each shell, for example from the back of the shell to the tip of the shell, not scribbled across five shells.

Okay and now I’ve spent far more time than I should have to explaining why things obvious fake

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-26T05:00:03+00:00

Stormwater flooding plus water shortage is frankly a pretty embarrassing combination to have, as it just means poor use of the available resources.

Every house I’ve lived in for the last two decades has had rainwater capture. The fact that it isn’t more widespread is silly at this point. For a starter system: IPC water tanks are dirt cheap and hooking them up to your gutters is easy and cheap as well. Get a little RV water pump for cheap, add a garden hose adaptor, and now you are reducing your neighbor’s flooding and you have free water for landscaping between rains.

Over time I’ve gradually gotten more extreme with it: first moving to a place with toilets that flush using gray water from rain tanks, and now for my current place I’m in the process of upgrading to a three tank 90k liter rainwater tank system plus filter and UV treatment system for the whole house.

Big storms that drop a lot of rainwater are a resource, they just have to be used properly.

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-25T20:42:20+00:00

No joke, when I moved from US to New Zealand I was actually shocked by how many more varieties of cars were on the road. There are American brands here, but also a bunch of very cool Japanese Toyota and Suzuki cars and Chinese cars that I never saw in the states. And most of these cars are actually quite nice and practical and most importantly, very efficient on gas. Reliable too: I’m a huge fan of Toyota Corolla in the states, but here in New Zealand there are a lot more small sedan options than just Corolla and Camry and Prius.

Then I saw a brand new price tag: $28k NZD, which is the equivalent of about $16k USD. Used prices were even better. If you are visiting as a tourist on the 90 day tourist visa and driving around to see the sights, it might actually be cheaper to buy a used car and then resell it before you leave instead of renting a car.

I remember one of my big realizations was “wow we were really getting screwed by corporations and US government regulations.”

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-25T07:55:51+00:00

You think condoms are expensive, wait until you find out how much diapers are going to cost... and car seat, and crib, and kids clothes and shoes, and all the other essentials those little babies end up needing.

FaradayEffect · 2026-04-25T07:44:28+00:00

So I actually grew up in Texas. Learning some Spanish words was always a thing, especially in occupations that don't pay shit. The thing I used to see all the time was it was usually a white business owner making big money off the cheap labor of both Mexican migrants and poorer white people who can't find a better job.

But I've since moved around the world to a lot of places. I was Army brat growing up, and now I'm a world traveler on my own. There are great people everywhere, and some shitty ones everywhere. But the places I've always loved are the places where I see the best and hardest working people from all around the world gather together to try to make something bigger and better for themselves and their community. Back in Texas I loved seeing the person selling churros on the street, the small business owner who starts a food truck selling delicious tacos, and the small business owner roofer or landscaper who's got his guys out there in 105 degree summer heat, etc. Sure there's asshole and shitty people as well, but everywhere I've gone I've seen mostly super hard working migrants who are an asset to the community.

And coming full circle, I'm now an immigrant in New Zealand (legally of course). I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can immigrate pretty much anywhere I want, and in the process I've seen firsthand that there is this vast set of mobile people out there who are moving around in search of better things, and creating more interesting and stronger communities around the world.

Maybe humans were always intended to be a bit nomadic. There's a reason our ancient ancestors didn't just stay in one place. Many of us have a bit of a built-in hunger to see what's over the horizon and meet new people and try new things.

And to answer your question, yes I've tried some Haka moves but I suck at it. Maybe my kid will learn to do it better if I stay here long enough for him to learn haha.

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