Trump is a stupid man’s idea of smart, and a poor man’s idea of rich.

At one of my old jobs, we had a suite of browser tests that would run on PR. It’d stand up the application, open headless chrome, and click through stuff. This was the final end-to-end test suite to make sure that yes, you can still log in and everything plays nicely together.

Developers were constantly pinging slack about “why is this test broken??”. Most of the time, the error message would be like “Never found an element matching css selector #whatever” or “Element with css selector #loading-spinner never went away”. There’d be screenshots and logs, and usually when you’d look you’d see like the loading spinner was stuck, and the client had gotten a 400 back from the server because someone broke something.

We put a giant red box on the CI/CD page explaining what to do. Where to read the traces, reminding them there’s a screenshot, etc. Still got questions.

I put a giant ascii cat in the test output, right before the error trace, with instructions in a word bubble. People would ping me, “why is this test broken?”. I’d say “What did the cat say?” They’d say “What cat?” And I’d know they hadn’t even looked at the error message.

There’s a kind of learned helplessness with some developers and tests. It’s weird.

You should read “Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, because it talks about this. Basically, having more people on the sidewalk makes for healthier, safer, neighborhoods. Having everyone drive instead of walking is really bad for pretty much every metric we care about- safety, the environment, economic activity.

Also, you only pay when you enter the system, and it’s a flat fee no matter how far you ride. So if you fuck up and get on the wrong train, just get out and get on the correct train. You don’t have to pay again until you actually leave the system. (I think there are some stations where you can’t change directions without exiting to the street and re-entering, but that’s pretty uncommon.)

That’s a very stretched definition of “full of”.

Pre-pandemic I rode the subway to work every day. I’d see a handful of clearly unwell people on the train a week. I’d also see thousands of seemingly put-together people in that time. Is a milk jug full of milk and one jellybean full of jellybeans?

I cannot speak authoritatively for women, but my understanding is most of the danger comes from men. Not mentally unwell people, not the homeless, just regular men. Being unwell or desperate doesn’t help, but it’s not the only source of danger.

Furthermore, not everyone prefers personal vehicle transport. Maybe people prefer mass transit for a variety of reasons.

I think there were crackdowns on the “Showtime kids” (aka the kids that dance on the train). A lot of people have no soul and get cranky about them. I mean, they’re mildly disruptive and probably occasionally fuck up, but it’s also only a couple minutes, and sometimes it’s pretty impressive.

Bit of a tactical blunder, that.

I saw a car hit a teenager on a bike the other day. Dragged the kid a bit and then just sped off.

Somehow the kid seemed fine. Got up and rode off after a moment.

This was in Brooklyn, by Barclays center (a very crowded spot). Fuck cars and double fuck irresponsible turds that would drive off after nearly killing someone.

I’d rather you be uncomfortable in a subway sometimes than the entire world suffer from all the horrible things personal car ownership does.

People who don’t live here think it’s like The Warriors. They picture roving gangs of murderous criminals, live wires sparking everywhere, and insane people screaming Eldritch horrors. This is not accurate.

I’ve rarely had a subway that smells like piss. The last time I had a stench on the train was years ago. It’s not always “so clean I would eat off the seats” but the NYC subway is much better than people who don’t ride it imagine it.

Most of the people on the train are just people trying to get someplace.

Premature ejaculation is pretty common. I don’t have stats on how common on hand.

I searched and found one plausible looking site that said

The study collected data from 491 men, as some were excluded for not using the stopwatch or providing incomplete information. A total of 4,000 sexual events were timed, with a mean frequency of eight events per couple over the four weeks. The results showed that the average time from penetration to ejaculation was 5.4 minutes, with a wide range from 0.55 to 44.1 minutes.

https://www.psypost.org/average-sex-time-psychology-research/

There’s probably more data out there if you want to go down this tangent hole.

The other part is that some men don’t do foreplay or oral or anything else, and that also makes them bad partners. Like, if you stick it in and cum after a dozen thrusts then go to sleep, you’re probably not making your partner happy, and it’s probably not a good sex tape either.

It’s going to be a pretty dramatic change for anyone depending on services that are cut.

States don’t have unlimited money.

Every time I see this I think about opportunity costs. What got skipped in favor of this dubious effort?

I think the joke is that the man is bragging about how good they are at sex, so good that people would want to watch a sex tape of it, but they underperform badly that it could fit into a much shorter medium.

Usually a brief “I just read/played/watched such-and-such”

If they know it, we can chat about it. If they don’t, and they’re interested, we can chat about it. Otherwise, the conversation moves on and the social rite is concluded successfully.

In new York I saw a single counter protestor. A black woman, oddly. She seemed a little mentally unwell based on the weird stuff she said (other than just the trump support)

I saw a handful of cops, but they were just watching passively.

When a firetruck had to go down the road, everyone surprisingly quickly cleared the way for it.

Fuck this guy. I say we guillotine him as an example to the others.

i’m waiting for someone to fight instead of run, and I don’t know what the fallout there will be. Hopefully a lot of dead ICE goons.

It’s because they’re the kind of stupid that follows in-group beliefs more than verifiable reality. We’re all susceptible to overly weighing what our in-group says, but some people take it to dangerous levels.

And also there are grifters taking advantage of them.