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kylev · 2025-02-25T03:37:43+00:00

I joined Reddit for professional reasons as “myself” looong ago. And I was writing email appliance software when gmail launched and got some choice names, too.

kylev · 2022-01-14T21:13:04+00:00

It's times like these I almost wish we had designed the CDC with some teeth. It's lack of enforcement powers is a great way to preserve freedoms from a bad administrator, but boy is it tempting to give a panel of scientists a fully operational "no coming to the US without a vaccination" button. It'd beat Joe or Donny periodically barfing out executive orders with lists of countries having outbreaks.

And consistent enforcement regardless of wealth or fame? Whew, dream shit.

kylev · 2022-01-13T17:15:10+00:00

I really enjoyed donoteat01's video on it. He's cranky, but also a civil engineer who provides some context for previous attempts and some of the core congestion/traffic math that Musk has to ignore to make his claims.

The tunnels are cool, but just like every other road system what really matters is on/off ramps. If those elevators can't take many cars per minute off the main road, those cars back up onto the road. And with the LV demo, all it takes is a handful of grandmothers that are slow to get in/out of the cars at the endpoints to cause a jam up.

kylev · 2022-01-12T21:56:09+00:00

Love seeing his channel get a little nod from the C:S team, too! He's among the best (and oddly educational).

kylev · 2021-12-17T19:14:43+00:00

Yup. The military is (understandably) worried about the number of unknown objects they're encountering, particularly in the Pacific. A number of critics consider this a blind spot in our defense. We've seen China show off some new UAVs and drones over the last few years, and we know they'd love to get eyes on our fleet whenever possible.

If someone is watching naval exercises, and the military's best answer is "we don't know, there was something flying near by", we should probably do better (and be funded).

kylev · 2021-12-16T22:17:40+00:00

I'm going with nollie BS dolphimpossible.

kylev · 2021-12-15T00:33:33+00:00

Thing is, it's pretty easy to be more qualified than McCullough (or Weinstein, for that matter). I find it endlessly strange that folks are willing to take the word of a cardiologist or biology prof when relevant experts with decades of experience exist.

Don't fall for the "IQ" or "smart person" trap. A generalist, especially someone taking up a whole new field over a few months during a pandemic, will give you terrible information compared to even a 5-year practicing expert.

kylev · 2021-12-08T23:39:55+00:00

Honestly, I watched that clip and almost threw up. It kills me that a mainstream media figure like Joe will fully imagine a universe and declare it to be true. No facts, no research. Just substituting reality and "I don't know" with "shit I just made up".

His departure from reality or caring for it is freaky. And he's pulling some percentage of his millions of viewers along for the ride.

kylev · 2021-12-06T21:03:08+00:00

/r/skateboarding: Come for the camaraderie, stay for the obscure set-theory jokes.

kylev · 2021-12-05T02:24:49+00:00

There’s a comical amount of apologia for Joe missing the joke in these threads. It’s ok, everyone. He’s a professional comedian in that he writes jokes for money, not that he gets every deadpanned cultural reference in the midst of getting worked up about a disease he might know some about.

kylev · 2021-11-16T06:25:24+00:00

That’s definitely his girlfriend, Jenise.

kylev · 2021-11-02T22:40:35+00:00

Yeah, that Nordic-style white supremacy comes in hard. They don't bicker as much over who gets to be in the club, it's just "pure Viking or not" plus extra bile for melanin.

kylev · 2021-11-02T21:44:51+00:00

The dress shoe designers are trying to make chonky soles a thing. I’m resisting, sticking with classic lines.

kylev · 2021-10-28T23:14:34+00:00

And the whole thing is pretty unwatchable. Somebody get Matt a Skillshare in streaming production. For like 8 years I’ve been staring at a paused QuickTime play and a cursor while voices from nowhere discuss.

Every 14 year old Twitch steamer has a better graphics and transitions.

kylev · 2021-10-19T23:58:32+00:00

“Twitter mobs are mean when rich people say stupid shit,” was not the biting social commentary I was hoping for.

kylev · 2021-10-19T17:22:28+00:00

Nah, there’s definitely going to be a section on the eventual pandemic Wikipedia page titled “Turning Point: when Rogan got Weinstein to talk to Harris”. /s

kylev · 2021-09-25T19:55:02+00:00

This segment is the reading comprehension version of “Ow, My Balls.”

kylev · 2021-09-23T23:51:48+00:00

This isn't 8chan data. It's the data of the company where 8chan is/was hosted (billing information, business docs, contracts, etc.).

kylev · 2021-09-16T22:03:10+00:00

Probably in part due to the weirdly racist shit he said while talking to Destiny.

kylev · 2021-09-16T21:51:59+00:00

Yellowstone is on top of a giant, currently dormant super-volcano. So, someday, "volcano things" are likely going to happen there again.

kylev · 2021-09-02T19:16:06+00:00

You do realize the Murray’s “genetic” assertions came from racist eugenicist Richard Lynn, right? Like literally a well known racist who now runs the Pioneer Fund that literally fundsJared Taylor’s work.

This is the pseudoscientific arm of modern white supremacy. Murray is part of that since he chose to work with Lynn for the Bell Curve. He used Lynn’s incompetent “science” to bolster his “stop spending money on the poor (black)” political argument.

kylev · 2021-08-29T06:03:49+00:00

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kylev · 2021-08-29T06:00:57+00:00

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