Archives for Miscellanea
Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter
Once again, they restricted my (sporadic) use of Twitter. This time, their automatic snowflake protection mechanism reacted the very millisecond I posted the tweet. The recipient? A product of a…
The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know…
Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle in The Guardian online is something I once used to follow for a while, until the entire thing pissed me off too much. He's no such…
I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy… on Amazon!
Not that there weren't any other intelligent people with a wide range of interests among the on this planet, but most such individuals are anonymous, unknown outside a small circle.…
România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)
Iar trebuie să fac ceva ce nu mai voiam a face, anume să scriu ceva în limba strămoșească, inteligibil doar pentru bizonul național. Ce să fac, blestemul de a mă…
We Want COVID! (Re-Updated)
I had to interrupt whatever I was doing studying something else, to express my anger against the stupidity of my fellow Europeans. THEY DO WANT COVID! They really cannot live…
Status mundi in tempore coronavirus
Fututi sumus atque nec ignoramus. I mean, we're fucked up, and we very well know it, but is it there still hope? I'm struggling to find the light at the…
I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!
In the USSR, a joke ran as follows: a man returns after having disappeared for 15 years. “I was in jail for calling Stalin an idiot,” he says. “That's a…
Ce este azi România? O hazna, un exemplu tragic de retard mental absolut
O postare în română, într-o zi în care am fost debordat de idioțenia conaționalilor mei. Întreaga planetă este într-o degringoladă majoră, toți retardații Pământului fie sunt în stradă urlând aberații,…
The Climate Apocalypse 2021
With the risk of looking insensitive, I'd like to express some quick opinions of the current extreme weather condition incidents we've experienced around the globe. Climate Change or not, the…
“You can call me Scarlett”—and other idiots; plus Q&A with Professor Ludditus, and more
I really didn't want to waste my time with COVID-19 anymore, but life forced me to. New facts, and possibly new opinions. A darker future, too! The real pandemic is…
Cuba, mi amor (now in turmoil)
The day I was writing The Little Country That Could, thousands of people were in the streets of San Antonio de los Baños (near Havana), Alquízar, Guanajay and Güira de…
No, the label Champagne hasn’t been confiscated by Russia!
From now on, I guess I'd prefer the Russian propaganda and check their claims rather than assuming that the Western disinformation is anything but a too hot Cold War. Vladimir…
The Little Country That Could
Cuba's COVID-19 saga wasn't much touted, because, what the hell, who cares about a Communist relic, and what could they be able to accomplish? In truth, the current epidemiological situation…
China Strikes Back!
One month after we thought we have The Freedom to Blame China, some “objective journalists” try to make us return to the belief that, bats being bats, it's much more…
CA, ÎCCJ, CCR: Acronimele mafiei române
Mi-am promis că nu mai scriu nimic în românește sau despre România, pentru că și așa doar boții de indexare ce mă mai citesc. Voi face o excepție azi, pentru…
Patents Kill Patients (But Stupidity Kills Too)
No, this isn't about the “people in India wouldn't die if patents on vaccines were waived” mantra we discussed in great detail in a previous post (in sections NINETEEN, THIRTY-TWO,…
Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
There are issues on which I agree with Linus Torvalds, issues on which I have a different opinion than his, and issues I couldn't care less about. Here's one instance…
Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
This pandemic revealed that many if not most “experts” in the fields of epidemiology, virology, public health, pharmacology, medicine are not much better than the snake oil salesmen from the…
The Alphabet of Our Death
No, it's not Alphabet Inc., the artificial superclass for Google, but the Greek Alphabet, which currently got incremented to Delta, the name of the Indian variant. Other variants are warming…
Half-Truths, Lies, Incompetence and Idiocy Continue to Prevent a True Debate on Vaccines
I'm so sick of the way the anti-vaxxers have hijacked most websites, social networks, forums, even some major news outlets, that I believe the world has irremediably gone beyond Idiocracy.…