Yeah. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s ineffable in that respect. Things like scrolling, etc… just feel a touch off in ways that are difficult to put words to. Not enough to be consciously noticeable; just enough to creep out the lizard-part of your brain that just knows when something doesn’t feel right.

Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.

Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.

Who’s head would get carried away on a pike? Miller’s? Theil’s? Musk’s?

Why stop at one?

What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?

Cromite’s only flaw (IMO) is that it based it’s built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.

I’ve tried moving to Firefox and I don’t know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know…). It’s just something I can’t put my finger on; Firefox just doesn’t feel performative. whether that’s a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.

Ah…the Theranos business plan.

Step 1: Vibe code an app.

Step 2: It’s buggy as shit.

Step 3: You have no idea how to fix it because you don’t actually know what you’re doing.

Step 4: Your app gets terrible reviews and nobody uses it.

Step 5: Release your next vibe-coded app, because failure doesn’t mean anything anymore. If developing an app is free and easy, it doesn’t matter if it’s a failure since you really had nothing invested in the first place.

I’m going to say something extremely controversial on something that I, as a ex-writer, lost the battle against a long long time ago.

Vibe-coded apps are like self-published ebooks. If you are a crap writer, and your book doesn’t sell, there’s no consequence to it. If nobody buys it, or it gets bad reviews, you don’t really need to care, because it’s entirely free to just keep throwing your crap out there no matter how bad it might be. You can literally bang your firsts on a keyboard for a couple of hours, pay a few bucks to upload it to Amazon and call youreself Stephen fucking King. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t sell because it literally cost you pennies.

A legitimate publisher would tell you to go fuck yourself, of course. But self-publishing is like flunking out of med school and decided to set up a portable operating table on the hospital sidewalk anyway because “How dare some gatekeeper tell you that you’re not good enough.”

Vibe-Coders are of the exact same ilk. Gatekeepers exist for a reason, in both publishing and app development. If your work is crap, the response is to GET BETTER, not say “Fuck it, I’m doing it anyway”

Sorry…rant over. I get a little passionate about this particular subject.

No worries. After it’s all done, Karoline Leavitt will just speak into her speakwrite and retroactively everything will be re-written to say that it was always two weeks after all. Don’t panic, everybody.

I would fail to respond.

14 minutes!? Who the hell has that kind of time in their day!? /s

Suspending disbelief just means assuming everything is real

No it doesn’t. That’s an insane take.

Having the context and the common sense to know when something is made up or not, and choose when to laugh and when not to, is the same part of the brain that let’s us enjoy movies and sitcoms. Suspension of disbelief isn’t gullibility unless you’re an idiot.

When you walk into a movie theatre, you’re suspending your disbelief. That doesn’t mean you think it’s real.

The Ministry of Truthiness

Here’s how I look at it: You’re free to disagree.

Stand-up comedians make up their stories to make us laugh. We don’t sit in the audience with our arms crossed and say “pfft…that never happened, people. Why are you laughing?” In fact, when listening to a stand-up set, we generally just turn off our disbelief for an hour or two and pretend it actually happened. Why? Because it’s funny. No other reason than that. It’s nice to just laugh at a well-crafted story sometimes and who cares if it’s real or not.

Skyrim port for it when?

That would just confuse people who haven’t read the book.

Not really a “fandom”, but Science Fiction. My two most controversial takes:

1. In Alien 3, Hicks and Newt had to die in order to thematically be an Alien film. Alien (the original trilogy) was always Ripley’s story; a woman who has had everything taken away from her and ends up an outsider where the only real touchstone left to her is the very xenomorph that she battles. In Alien, she’s an outcast among the crew. In Aliens, she’s a civilian amongst a bunch of mega-macho mercenaries. In Alien 3, she’s a female among male prisoners. Thematically, Ripley simply can’t have an ensemble cast around her at the beginning or the end of each film. Fincher understood that.

2. In Blade Runner (before future movies retconned it), not only is Deckard a replicant, he’s a very specific replicant. Gaff was the original Blade Runner on the case, and he got wounded in the leg during the escaped Replicant’s first attempt at getting into the Tyrell Corporation. Supposedly one of them got fried going through an electric fence, but in reality, that replicant was captured and reprogrammed with Gaff’s life; Gaff’s memories in order to continue the investigation. Meanwhile, Gaff himself is forced to babysit this “replacement” that everyone else thinks can do just a good a job as he can, and so he’s bitter about it through the whole film and taunts the replicant with cryptic hints about his memories.

(Hitch) + (Hiker) + (Guide) + (Galaxy) = H2G2

What kind of sociopath would include the “h” at the end of Hitch in that acronym? That’s some real honest-to-god serial killer prediction behaviour right there, sir.

That most definitely says Salsa. It was only after reading the text above that my brain could even recognize the 59/59.

Bro’s not dumb. His teacher has shit handwriting.

And nothing of value was lost.

And I mean that as a pretty big soccer fan. Not as big as I used to be, but still pretty big. FIFA can go fuck itself. And I hope that this entire debacle is such a massive failure that not even Trump can try to bullshit his way through the ensuing press conference.

Fair. I read faster than my brain processes sometimes.