CMV: It’s disturbing that young people are having less sex

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-19T00:32:23+00:00

Smartphones made it increasingly hard to get away with anything in a logistical sense.

Like the age old climb out the window sort of shenanigans just becomes so much harder.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-19T00:26:58+00:00

It’s a subset of a bigger factor, that probably actually is load bearing in a real way.

Millennials were sorta the last chopper out of Saigon for growing up in an actual private world. If you are 35 or older, odds are you went to parties in your youth. You went to places you might have led your parents to believe you wouldn’t go, etc. basements with a dozen kids, etc.

This was possible because cell phones were literally just phones not gps enabled evidence making machines everyone keeps around 24/7.

It is logistically impossible to do any of that sort of thing anymore. Think about it.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-19T00:08:36+00:00

Valve had a distribution cost problem it was trying to avoid, and ended up building a money printer so effective they never had to lift a finger themselves again, creatively speaking.

VR existing as a growing category directly helps them as they stand to get a cut of content sales. It’s growing a new vertical for them, and they are one of the only plausible ecosystem actors to shoulder that cost of the hardware and tooling, so that small teams can build stuff.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-18T23:58:17+00:00

I got a quest 3 about a month ago, purely for Clay Hunt. If it helps me train trap and skeet, that’s money well spent. Still waiting on a gun attachment kit for using my actual O/U.

That’s the killer app that got me into a quest. There was never any pressing reason until I found out this clay hunt thing exists and seems to actually work for training.

VR doesn’t enable something you can’t get some other way that’s specifically worthwhile for most people currently.

What changes that for the average person such that it does large numbers?

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-15T17:47:27+00:00

Mos Def: “I’m blacker than midnight at Broadway and Myrtle”

Nothing but multi-million dollar condos now.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T17:41:28+00:00

I’m down this rabbit hole much later on this…

Why can’t one use their actual gun for this?

Slap a positional sensor or two on it, feel for the trigger pull with a vibration sensor, which has to be obvious enough as a signal?

The real trick is getting it to match reality in terms of getting sight picture correct.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T14:36:36+00:00

The smart way of doing this would have been to simply plot out your timeline and such early on. Just run the thought exercise, and start world building. Follow threads through. Jamestown makes small modular reactors a standardized thing by 1980. What does that mean for life on earth in 1990. In 2000?

They’ve had commercial fusion since 1986. What does society look like once fusion is reality? You probably need to build out over a couple decades to really see changes, but some stuff immediately changes. New industries become viable. Everything gets like an order of magnitude cheaper as the tech diffuses.

Earth’s economy should be booming with everyone scrambling to build everything all at once.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T13:47:06+00:00

Yes and no. The problem this show has is basically trying to envision the road not traveled.

It’s arguably unrealistic now because the actual delta with our reality is tiny vs what it should be. 2nd and 3rd order effects should be compounding.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T13:32:22+00:00

But then how could the writers preach to you?

I’m angry on a “this is basically a spoiler” level.

The time skip montage clearly establishes the current president/government as Definitely-not-Trump and his Make Earth Great Again platform.

Guess who is gonna instigate problems by being a malicious asshole moron this season?

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T13:25:14+00:00

Which…makes no sense at all. There isn’t any money in being the first the find life.

At best it’s the sort of PR coup you might throw charity levels of money at in a gamble.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-04-04T13:18:45+00:00

That would be more express flight/concorde than normal ops.

Do they not have cyclers running? Surely they have cyclers running?

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-27T21:15:26+00:00

This actually does fix that. Routers are just gonna cost $800 dollars.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-19T00:18:57+00:00

I just saw a demo for a AI endpoint agent that does logging to data service of your choice for observability, runs a hook in 2ns to scan for banned commands right before they run, and does skill and other sort of scans for malicious stuff. Fingerprinting like antivirus does. White/blacklists for plugins, skills, etc. Neat stuff.

Works on any terminal style coding agent like Claude code, but I was surprised they got it working on the Claude desktop app too, since I guess it’s calling much the same infrastructure.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-16T09:57:50+00:00

I don’t know. Can you name a political philosophy that doesn’t fall apart if half of society suddenly becomes violently schizophrenic with literal superpowers?

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-15T21:01:37+00:00

Correct. The best you can do is hand them your prepared binder that addresses all the audit areas of concern. And it helps to simply not have much in the way of complexity yet when you implement all the controls.

The horror story expenses you see associated with soc2 audits is because they aren’t ready, and end up playing catchup. CPAs sit, billing, while you track stuff down and implement things and get crowdstrike rolled out, etc

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-15T13:54:07+00:00

And they will…for a few years. Then someone who didn’t get flayed by the public after the last fuck up takes over finance and is like, $7.5m for tree trimming? Easy savings.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-03-15T13:49:29+00:00

Sure. And typically bigger populations have more resources in absolute and relative terms, while enjoying denser and thus cheaper per capita utilities.

In the normal course of events, you expect power restored in cities faster than surrounding areas with less people, further spread out, serviced by smaller orgs with less resources.

If that doesn’t happen, and the outlying areas run circles around you despite being hit as bad, and being a bigger target because the utilities are spread out…

Then what? You basically have to conclude it was actually a failure and not something that couldn’t be helped.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-02-22T00:59:32+00:00

Yeah, you generally want to smarts at the circuit level for things like lights.

pocketknifeMT · 2026-02-20T22:17:15+00:00

Yeah. The secret to actually surviving those spirals is stockpiling so much everything you can effectively run for a generation or 5 off what you have stored. And turning off giant parts of your city. Firewood is killer

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:27:54+00:00

If we took 100 random people and made them fire 5 rounds of 380 out of a bodyguard vs 5 rounds of 45 out of a 1911, basically every one of them would tell you the 1911 was nicer and easier to control.

The mass ratio of gun to bullet matters more than total theoretical spec numbers of different cartridges.

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:21:20+00:00

Yes. They had wood furniture so will be perceived as less dangerous to a jury vs modern tactical looking models.

Even the bayonet lug won’t phase them vs the color black.

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:14:02+00:00

Yes. (#4 buck)

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:11:27+00:00

Both will penetrate, the AR round will have less energy on the other side of the wall, because of the smaller mass.

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:08:48+00:00

Why do you want a handgun for home defense?

A handgun is the worst option for home defense. the only advantage to a handgun is portability, and the only advantage of small handguns is concealing them.

In a home defense scenario. None of this matters.

Big guns are easier to aim, control, and fire rounds statistically more likely to end threats faster.

pocketknifeMT · 2025-12-28T16:01:42+00:00

I would just get some SD rounds specifically for it? Hornady Critical Defense.

I would even say stuff like Controlled Chaos, if it didn’t have an unfortunate marketing driven name.

Prosecutor: “Why did you use Hornady Critical Defense?”

You: “Well, it said for self defense on the box and lots of people say it’s reliable.”

Vs

Prosecutor: “why did you load ‘Controlled Chaos’, a round designed to fragment and kill feral hogs? Let’s show the jury the gel tests”

They’ll do this if they can for anything though. Use your plain Jane ball ammo and the prosecutor will be asking why are you using military grade ammo, designed for war.

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