I think I originally had a plan for this post, then jumped the shark shortly after I wrote the first sentence and subsequently hated it. It’s fine. Whatever. If I don’t get around to writing that out today I’ll bang it out eventually. God knows this thing never ends. It won’t stop, can’t stop, isn’t stopping for anything.

I’ve noticed that coming by actual good memes these days is really difficult. Your average meme-sharing platform is rife with awful opinions and sad excuses for comedy, and I’m having a hard time finding the good stuff. Reddit is a veritable wasteland of comedy with morality police shutting down even a minor whiff of laughter. 4chan looks really tired these days. Really, really tired. It’s nothing but “race war” instigation and pretty much every sort of debauchery you can imagine. Facebook was never good, and I’ll never use that pile of shit ever again. Telegram is basically just where actual 4chan nazis go to talk about how “(((they))) want to control society with vaccines” or other such similar nonsense. I guess I’m just out of touch with the meme scene. And don’t get me started on Instagram. If you suggest Instagram as a source of memes then you’re even more out of touch than I am.

This post is in response to this retarded article.

The world’s third-largest maker of semiconductor wafers, Taiwan’s GlobalWafers, announced plans to build a $5 billion factory in the U.S. on Monday—but only if the government helps pay for it.

First of all- Fuck you. The government doesn’t have any money. All government money comes from TAXES paid by American consumers. We should have input on this sort of billionaire welfare. For instance- If we allow this bullshit, they should provide good union jobs as a result. If not, then fuck you, deal is off. Period.

So you have a raspberry pi. Maybe you have two. You might have a VPS as well. Maybe two. Maybe three. You could also have a x86 linux build or a SparcStation laying around, I dunno. Hell, you might be hoarding Unix or Linux PC’s for all I know. But what happens when these suckers run 24/7 and collect and document events from all sorts of services that are running?

I’ve been spending a lot of time away for business this month. This volume of travel is a system shock compared to the last few years’ COVID lockdowns, working from home, and doing everything remote. I remember years ago when I first started this job I actually really liked traveling for work. I would get sent to cool new places, at least one exotic one, and I’d get relief from my very strife-ridden and chaotic home life at that time. It would be my escape. I’d get to sit at a bar and drink beers while eating good food and not feel like I’m walking on eggshells for a few days out of the month.

Right now I’m essentially babysitting just about the worst product my company has ever released. And, in all reality, it’s not a horrible idea. The idea behind the product is really pretty fantastic. In fact, the idea sells the product more so than the product sells itself. That’s really where the trouble comes in. The product is riddled with poor design choices and terrible implementations. It’s proof that no matter how good an idea is, good ideas on their own are not enough to drive the success of a product. The product has to be well designed, well supported, and well thought out. This product I’m working with? It’s none of those things. It’s scampering from one poor choice to the next in a cascade of blatant cash-grabs that billion dollar businesses want to purchase but we’re stuck supporting.

These are the contents of my ~/.vimrc file.

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'sukima/xmledit'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'
Plug 'mg979/vim-visual-multi', {'branch': 'master'}
Plug 'plasticboy/vim-markdown'

call plug#end()

set tabstop=4
set laststatus=2
set selection=inclusive
color desert
set gfn=Essential_PragmataPro:h11
syntax on
set nowrap
set noshowmode
let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1
let g:airline_theme = 'deus'
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1
set backspace=2
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set nu
autocmd Filetype markdown setlocal spell

set linebreak
set textwidth=0
set wrapmargin=0
set enc=utf-8
set fileencoding=utf-8
map <F9> :execute '!pdflatex ' . shellescape(expand('%')) . ' && start "" ' . shellescape(expand('%:r') . '.pdf')<CR>

PragmataPro Essential font, purchased LEGALLY from that Schiavi guy. Directly from him, as a matter of fact. Would be great if he made the entire font $30 instead of just the “Essential” slimmed down version, but whatever. Iosevka is coming for him.