the MBA clowns at Boeing decided that the best way to run the company is to be ignorant of the engineering. the result was inevitable.
Tag: stupid
Twitter Hacking Spree
by combining the 2 dumbest things in tech, twitter & bitcoin, this has created a singularity of stupidity.
Plasma market failure
Countries that follow the WHOs guidance to rely exclusively on voluntary, unpaid donors all have shortages of plasma. So what do these countries do? Import plasma from the paid-donor countries
Instagram Look Dies
As Instagram has grown to more than 1b monthly users, it has ushered in a very particular aesthetic: bright walls; artfully arranged lattes and avocado toast; and millennial-pink everything, all with that carefully staged, color-corrected, glossy-looking aesthetic. Photos that play into these trends perform so well on Instagram that the look became synonymous with the platform itself, then seeped into the broader world. But every trend has a shelf life, and as quickly as Instagram ushered in pink walls and pastel macaroons, it’s now turning on them. “Avocado toast and posts on the beach. It’s so generic and played out at this point. You can photoshop any girl into that background and it will be the same post. It’s not cool anymore to be manufactured.”
the sooner all this garbage burns to the ground, the better.
WaPo hypocrisy
WaPo complains about too much privacy
Basically all of this is wrong or bullshit, and a good reporter would have either (a) immediately pointed out that this is bullshit or (b) not published the bullshit.
Meat fake news
Tyson complains about meat shortages. Left: continuation of front page article detailing how major food manufacturers, including Tyson Foods, failed to protect plant workers. Right: full-page Tyson ad discussing its commitment to worker safety.
NYC mask nonsense
fun fact about New York state law is that now:
It is illegal to be around people without a mask, and It is illegal to be around people with a mask on.
There’s an executive order requiring masks in public when you cannot social distance, and a state law forbidding them. So pretty much anyone who goes outside in New York is breaking the law. Presumably they won’t all be prosecuted.
France Hypocrisy
France has been among the most vocal critics of “big internet companies” and demanding various regulatory pressures be used to punish them. Last year it fined Google $57m for breaching privacy laws, and appears to be angling for even larger fines. So it’s difficult not to burst out in laughter after finding out that the French government is really, really mad that Google and Apple are protecting people’s privacy, when suddenly the French government wants to use those companies to engage in contact tracing. Indeed, it’s literally demanding both companies ease their privacy protections to help France track people who might have COVID-19.
as usual, europe’s posturing is all bullshit.
Japan Paper Addiction
unnecessary paperwork will kill many japanese companies
Even the most technologically savvy companies have not been able to completely shake the habit of stamping documents. Line, the company that developed Japan’s most popular chat app, has largely eliminated the use of hanko in its office, designing an application that allows users to seal documents with a digital stamp.
The oil Bible of Dalton
more oil appeared almost every time Jerry picked up the Bible, a leather-bound copy of the New King James translation. The oil moved to the back of the book, saturated the endpapers—a heart-shaped splotch appeared over a map of Israel—and then started at the beginning, in Genesis 1. Eventually Jerry had to put the book in a Ziploc bag, and then in a large plastic bin. Jerry Pearce was a regular customer at a nearby Tractor Supply store. And he’d been seen purchasing large containers of clear oil.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 