The Open Thread is a forum for readers of my blog. It is an opportunity to leave comments and start discussions that do not fit under an existing post or which would derail ongoing debates. A new Open Thread will be posted whenever it seems suitable. There is no fixed time interval and no set… Continue reading [Sticky] Open Thread #9
According to based science, women have never been less happy than today. It does not take a PhD in Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology to figure out why. Having to get up in the morning, commute to work, work, and commute back home sucks for most men. Easily twelve to thirteen hours a day you spend… Continue reading Feminism Redefines Losses as Gains
The Open Thread is a forum for readers of my blog. It is an opportunity to leave comments and start discussions that do not fit under an existing post or which would derail ongoing debates. A new Open Thread will be posted whenever it seems suitable. There is no fixed time interval and no set… Continue reading Open Thread #8
I have been looking for some games to play recently, and one title I had shortlisted was Final Fantasy VII: Remake (2020), which had been long-awaited by fans of the original PlayStation RPG Final Fantasy VII (1997). That title was probably the first triple-A video game and left quite a mark on the history of… Continue reading Tifa’s Tits and The Cynicism of Final Fantasy VII: Remake
I quite like the Rocky movies and think that there is not a single dud among them. Thus, I was not initially opposed to the spinoff Creed, with focuses on Adonis “Donnie” Creed, the ret-conned adopted son of Rocky’s long-time rival Apollo Creed. The first two movies in this series were quite shallow but watchable… Continue reading Creed III: Diversity Pandering, with a Promise of More Diversity Pandering
There is probably no better indicator of the intellectual decline of our culture than the status of our dictionaries and encyclopedias. The latter have completely disappeared in physical form. Their position has been taken by Wikipedia, which is constantly updated in an attempt to soil our heritage and misinform us about current events. Yet, even… Continue reading Idiocracy Rising: Dictionary Definitions
I am getting a serious cause of (The) Ukraine fatigue. Every time you go to a mainstream news site to get a dose of what NPCs are supposed to think, there is some bullshit article about Russia being on the brink of collapse and The Ukraine working on a counter offensive that is supposed to… Continue reading The Ukraine is About to Win the War (Since February 2022)
A while ago I got my hands on an old laptop with a defect that was too costly to repair, exceeding the value of the machine. Thus, I got it for free, and with some workarounds, I got it to work. This is a five year old machine with a discrete AMD GPU. At first,… Continue reading Gaming with the Power of a Potato PC
[Admin note: This post originally appeared on 1 April 2023 on my other blog. As it entered an indefinite maintenance period soon afterwards, I am republishing it here.] I was recently approached by a student at an American university who asked me for suggestions regarding his Bachelor’s thesis. As this person seemed naive enough, I… Continue reading The Inside Scoop on the Tech Bros Behind ChadGPT
The Open Thread is a forum for readers of my blog. It is an opportunity to leave comments and start discussions that do not fit under an existing post or which would derail ongoing debates. A new Open Thread will be posted whenever it seems suitable. There is no fixed time interval and no set… Continue reading Open Thread #7
I was a big fan of the original Devil May Cry (2001), which was one of the stand-out titles on the PlayStation 2. It was not quite as ground-breaking as Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube a few years later, but it was still a very impressive game, with over-the-top action, stellar art design, very… Continue reading Devil May Cry 5 (2019)
If you jump on social media these days, there is still a lot of rather uninformed commentary regarding ChatGPT. I also noticed a trend among non-technical people gloating that software engineers will soon be out of work because their job can now be automated as well. I will dispel this notion as it is, quite… Continue reading AI and the Future of Software Engineering
Basic economic understanding is sorely lacking in the general population. Seeing that a significant number of people have a very lackadaisical attitude towards money, which causes them to drastically overspend, it is little surprise that the disastrous monetary policies of much of the world’s countries are similarly misguided. The underlying theme seems to be that… Continue reading How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes (2010) by Peter and Andrew Schiff
The Open Thread is a forum for readers of my blog. It is an opportunity to leave comments and start discussions that do not fit under an existing post or which would derail ongoing debates. A new Open Thread will be posted whenever it seems suitable. There is no fixed time interval and no set… Continue reading Open Thread #6
Schopenhauer famously said that truth goes through three phases. First, it will be ignored, then ridiculed, and, lastly, claimed to have always been self-evident. When it comes to the “safe and effective” vaxx, we are now moving fast into the last stage. Too many people have woken up now, which is obvious when looking at… Continue reading Vaxx Vindication
