Even as I’m listening long-time Apple fanboy Andy Ihnatko take them to task on MacBreak Weekly for what I fully agree is a crappy waste of money in their active function bar, I’ve been exploring alternatives. Personally, I’m pretty happy with Mint, but it shares with most linux distros some rough appearance edges, especially in the cursors, though that has vastly improved. I find the changes in Ubuntu an eyesore, and can get around CentOs/Fedora but prefer Debian-style package management to Fed…
While the general point of the article [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157904840851/dopamine-puppets] is on a different topic, this paragraph by Scott Adams is worthy of some discussion all by itself: > When I was younger and dumber I thought I could transform unhappy people into happy people by giving them whatever they wanted, or fixing whatever they thought was broken. This approach worked approximately zero times. Once a dopamine addict’s alleged problem is fixed, the addict still needs the n…
Scott Adams has been posting quite a bit on the subject recently [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158361670451/two-more-movies-on-one-screen]. All of this of course from a persuasion outlook, and specifically, for calling out BS and when people don’t have the answers they claim they do [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157823678756/tucker-carlson-induces-cognitive-dissonance-in] . > Tucker then asked Nye a simple question about climate science. He asked how much of the warming is caused by human activ…
LLoyd Jenkins made this comment to my first post [https://nightlandsredoubt.blogspot.com/2017/03/tha-backstory-tha-whole-backstory-and.html?showComment=1489437897749#c1201425096865877563] on “backstory” (I promise, I will get around to John Wick). Hollywood is in love with the idea that the Hero changes during the movie. I get tired of it. What about setting right what was made wrong? I admit the backstory affects the actions of the characters - but that is characterization in my book. Hollywo…
Walker has recently had some excellent posts on SF in Anime, including looking at the influences that Votoms, Dougram, Macross, and Crusher Joe have had on, among other things, Battletech. So it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of evidence that they’ve not been as susceptible to Social Justice Convergence [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2017/03/red-sff-japan-has-your-back.html]. They certainly inspired one of my favorite movies [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/10/building-better-groundhog-…