@htmx_org pretending like i know something has made me look far stupider on many occasions than just asking "what is that?" and looking a little stupid.
Built a working Windows 95 desktop in Dear ImGui — every bevel hand-drawn via DrawList, real file manager, and an MS-DOS Prompt running actual zsh through a pty. 1995 pixels, 2026 shell. Thank you @ocornut for the greatest UI library ever🙏
MIT: https://t.co/O6zAM1HK09
I'm working on a video about memory allocation in C atm, and it's really hitting me just how insane it was that my university professors had us making millions of tiny allocations with malloc, then trying to find leaks using valgrind. No mention of arenas / static allocation.
The 25 year old is told to eat more protein. The 75 year old is told to go easy on the red meat.
The 25 year old is told to push harder. The 75 year old is told not to overdo it.
The 25 year old is told to lift something heavy. The 75 year old is told to mind their back.
The 25 year old is told to build muscle. The 75 year old is told to sit down and rest.
The 25 year old is told to get strong. The 75 year old is fitted for a walking frame.
The body that can least afford to lose muscle is the one ordered to stop building it.
Muscle is the one thing standing between an old body and the care home, and nearly every word of advice handed to the people who need it most, rest more, eat softer, take it steady, strips it off them faster.
We prescribe frailty and call it caution.
Name a developed country that put the well-being of its citizens ahead of the profits of Big Pharma during Covid?
Sweden, perhaps? Okay, one.
The remaining 40 developed countries all fed their citizens into the maw of the Pharma profit-making machine.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma left Third World countries alone because they don't have any money.
That's the whole pandemic right there — the ruling class launched a biological war against the middle and lower classes in the developed world because that's where the money is.
Absolutely vile and disgusting.
One of the astonishing revelations of the Covid era is that the nation-state no longer exists.
There are only corporations, cartels, mafias, militaries, intelligence agencies, and the owners of capital.
These groups are supranational, above any law, and they believe they are allowed to kill people (through wars, assassinations, and profitable stochastic harms including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and pollution).
While there are subtle differences and ongoing rivalries between these groups, they share the goal of wealth, power, and control over others.
Over time they are merging into one giant predatory blob — Global Monopoly Capitalism.
Now with AI they have the ability to shape nearly all knowledge production and thus our perceptions of reality itself.
Gout isn’t just a uric acid problem.
It’s often a metabolic health problem.
Limiting high purine foods like meat while ignoring sugar intake and the insulin resistance is like mopping the floor while the sink is still overflowing.
Once something becomes everything it simultaneously becomes nothing. This is America. Everybody wants to be American which means nobody is American. All of the immigrants that have flooded our borders over the past 70 years have watered down what it means to be American. American used to be an exclusive brand and now the market is flooded with knock off brands. Cheap imitations. This is the same for Europe. It is meaning less and less to be English just as it is becoming meaningless to be French. The quality of the brands has plummeted.
Wool is a technology so good that if a startup unveiled it tomorrow, it would raise a fortune.
Run through the spec sheet with a straight face.
It keeps you warm even when it's soaking wet, which almost nothing else does. It is naturally flame-resistant. It doesn't catch and melt onto your skin like plastic does. It chars, refuses to sustain the flame, and puts itself out when you take the fire away. It manages moisture, breathes, and resists smell so well you can wear it for days. It bends tens of thousands of times without snapping.
And when you're finally done with it, you can put it in the ground and in a matter of months it's gone, rotted back into the soil, feeding it nitrogen on the way out.
Then there's the supply chain, which is the part no engineer could ever replicate. It grows back. Every year, on its own, on nothing but grass and rain, on a sheep that was going to stand on that hillside anyway. A self-renewing, fireproof, compostable insulation fibre with a production input of weather.
We replaced it with polyester. Oil, spun into thread, that melts on you in a fire, sheds plastic into the sea with every wash, and sits in landfill for centuries when you're done.
We had the better version the whole time. It says baa.
When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
I don't know who actually rules Britain, not for sure, but whoever they are, there is a consensus among them that Britain is to be a third world nation, and its primary religion is to be Islam.
All other explanations are implausible.
They put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a group of Doberman puppies.
I love how he just lays down, rolls over, gets dog piled, and then does it again… I could watch this shit all day. Lol