My fellow Americans —
Democrats are now confirming something that we already knew: the primary election was rigged for Hillary Clinton.
I observed during the 2016 primary election campaigns that both parties would rather lose the White House than give up the power to shove horseshit candidates down the public’s throats and make them think that’s who they voted for.
Do I understand your question, man? Is it hopeless and forlorn?
Destiny eats prayers like a toad eats flies . . .
Yu Darvish gives up 5 runs in an inning and two-thirds.
Unless I’m forgetting someone, there really aren’t any clutch Asians in professional sports.
Sorry Dodgers . . . see you again in 30 years.
A team of researchers at UC San Diego has used “advanced machine learning” to develop technology that mines Twitter to identify entities illegally selling prescription opioids online.
Apologies to everyone involved if I’m misunderstanding the media release, but the advanced machine learning seems to consist of looking for tweets that contain any of the keywords codeine, Percocet, fentanyl, Vicodin, Oxycontin, oxycodone or hydrocodone and include a hyperlink.
That is a great fright wig! . . . it’s not a fright wig?
Facebook says that as many as 126 million people may have been exposed to 80,000 posts from a Russian propaganda group known as the Internet Research Agency over a two-year period.
Who cares? People believe what they want to believe.
Have you ever heard anyone say “I completely changed my mind on this issue after reading a Facebook post by nobody I know”?
Or “I was going to vote for Candidate A and now I’m going to vote for Candidate B”?
Neither have I . . .
[See You in Hell is a feature by our guest blogger, Satan — PE]
I’m old enough to remember when professional athletes took pride in their trash-talking abilities. Now they sound like a bunch of 5-year-olds: he made a face at me, he called me a name, boo hoo hoo!
One day when you’re rotting with leprosy and stewing in a million kettles of snot, cockroaches and gangrene — I stir them myself! — only then will you look back on this kindergarten-level bullshit and realize how good you had it!
See you in Hell . . .
A miser had accumulated, by effort, trade, and lending, three hundred thousand dinars. He had lands and buildings, and all kinds of wealth.
He then decided that he would spend a year in enjoyment, living comfortably, and then decide as to what his future should be.
But, almost as soon as he had stopped amassing money, the Angel of Death appeared before him, to take his life away.
The miser tried, by every argument which he could muster, to dissuade the Angel, who seemed, however, adamant. Then the man said:
“Grant me but three more days, and I will give you one-third of my possessions.”
The Angel refused, and pulled again at the miser’s life, tugging to take it away.
Then the man said:
“If you will only allow me two more days on earth, I will give you two hundred thousand dinars from my store.”
But the Angel would not listen to him. And the Angel even refused to give the man a solitary extra day for all his three hundred thousand pieces.
Then the miser said:
“Please, then, give me just time enough to write one little thing down.”
This time the Angel allowed him this single concession, and the man wrote, with his own blood:
“Man, make use of your life. I could buy not one hour for three hundred thousand dinars. Make sure you realize the value of your time.”
Nose-Picking Masturbator Terrorizes NYC Subway Riders — NBC New York
That description doesn’t narrow it down very much. Unless he was doing both at the same time. That would be unusual.
John Muir walked away into the mountains
in his old overcoat a crust of bread in his pocket
we have no knowledge and so we have stuff and
stuff with no knowledge is never enough to get you there
it just won’t get you there
[See You in Hell is a feature by our guest blogger, Satan — PE]
Breakfast in Hell:
GAZE UPON MY CROISSAN’WICH AND TREMBLE!
See you in Hell . . .
Their father was a bank robber once on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
The nuts didn’t fall far from the nut tree in the Paddock family . . .
According to LinkedIn:
Despite a string of revelations that women in tech face considerable headwinds — from persistent gender-based pay gaps (per Bloomberg), to limited VC funding for female-led startups (per Fortune), to sexual harassment (per The New York Times) — just 29% of men say that discrimination is a major problem in the industry, according to data from Pew. In fact, some 32% of men claim that it’s not a problem at all.
Everything I read about gender discrimination in tech starts out by assuming it’s a real problem and that all reasonable people agree that it’s a real problem.
Even the supposedly objective LinkedIn blurb above tells us that 29% of men “say” that discrimination is a major problem, while 32% of men “claim” that it’s not a problem at all, “despite a string of revelations blah blah blah . . .”
I’ve worked in tech for 30 years . . . I say it’s not a problem but I’m open to an evidence-based argument that I’m wrong. (NB: “If you can’t see it, then you’re part of the problem” is not an evidence-based argument.)
Some possible evidence for gender discrimination:
Agreed, but that’s not prima facie evidence of discrimination.
I worked with a nursing organization for five years. Nursing, you may have noticed, is a female-dominated profession. During that time, I never heard one person mention gender bias in nursing. Never. In five years.
Most schoolteachers are women, most therapists are women, most social workers, most MFC counselors . . . I could go on with this but I think we both get the point: Have you ever heard anything about gender bias in any female-dominated profession? I haven’t.
Gender imbalance is not evidence of discrimination. Men and women are different and they choose to do different things. More women choose to be nurses and social workers and more men choose to be programmers.
VCs would love to fund more female-led startups, but again, men and women choose to do different things and more men choose to do startups.
Note that there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of women starting small businesses, but more men choose to pitch VC-funded startups.
Gender-based pay gaps are not specific to the tech industry.
Sexual harassment is not specific to the tech industry.
If you think online harassment is limited to women, you haven’t spent much time online. Standards of discourse are nonexistent. Civility is almost nonexistent.
Jump on Twitter for a few minutes and see how people talk to each other.
I’ve been interacting with people on the web for a couple of decades . . . some of the things people have said to me . . . it’s beyond upsetting . . . you can feel the blood draining out of your face as you’re reading it. It’s not limited to women.
Yes . . . so are men. What’s your hypothesis? Men are passed over because they’re undeserving, while women are passed over just because they’re women?
TL;DR -> Women are capable of making decisions for themselves. For the most part, they choose to do things other than work in tech and do startups. So what?
Thus spoke The Programmer
Bad News: Americans are retiring later, dying sooner and are sicker in-between.
Good News: I found this video of a rescued raccoon who thinks she’s a dog:
[youtube https://youtu.be/I5KgXfBg5hU]
Sleeping on the interstate oh oh oh
Getting wild, wild life
Checkin’ in, checkin’ out! Uh, huh!
I got a wild, wild life
Spending all of my money and time oh oh oh
Done too much wild, wild
We want to go, where we go, where we go oh oh oh
I doing wild, wild life
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin’ for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
According to LinkedIn:
Despite a string of revelations that women in tech face considerable headwinds — from persistent gender-based pay gaps (per Bloomberg), to limited VC funding for female-led startups (per Fortune), to sexual harassment (per The New York Times) — just 29% of men say that discrimination is a major problem in the industry, according to data from Pew. In fact, some 32% of men claim that it’s not a problem at all.
Here’s why I claim that it’s not a problem: Women are capable of making decisions for themselves. For the most part, they choose to do things other than work in tech and do startups. So what? (Pay gaps and harassment are not tech-specific, obviously.)
Thus spoke The Programmer.
I’ve never heard of her but she has a verified account and claims to be a Harvard woman:
The fact that presidents are raising money from the public for something the government should pay for is disgusting. https://t.co/2GMAZ4E6JX
— Kimberly N. Foster (@KimberlyNFoster) October 22, 2017
OK . . . but where do you think government gets the money to pay for things?
Sometimes I think America should change its marketing from the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave to A Hotbed of Asininity.
