argumate

heckin her doggostyle with my wholesome chonker

sometimes I stumble onto something a little too good for me and can't help cringing in advance of the inevitable reversion to the karmic mean

I'm staying in a very fancy house, I might need to spill red wine on the couch or set fire to the upholstery just to feel balanced

one of the greatest to ever do it

The extreme irony of Trump sometimes being the most authentic politician around

the greatest poster to ever post, not even a joke

do I endorse this? no, no I don't.

nor this extended mashup.

not even this super extended mashup

dispassionately ranking all of ABBA’s songs only to have the scrawled list found by a detective and misinterpreted as clues to my murder after my death in an unrelated accident and the obsession with cracking the impossible case slowly destroys his marriage and career

ABBA was great forty years ago, like Star Wars, and we should let them lie undisturbed.

I want you to promise that when I’m old(er) you won’t offer me fifty million dollars to come and arthritically tap out some shitty blog posts so you can say I’ve still got it

We'll just wait til you're dead then release all your draft posts

I have no draft posts, zero time elapses between me having a thought and blurting that fucker out, in fact I’ll let you in on a little secret: sometimes there isn’t even a thought.

We can tell

I’ve already moved on!

ooh see that girl, make a scene, she is the drama queen

call her improv for the way she mads the libs

watching comic book movies just makes me wistful for problems that can be solved by punching them until they explode.

AWS but for robot factories

I guess that would require you to already have a factory producing stuff and you expose your spare capacity online as a service to boost your overall utilisation, then that ends up being more popular than whatever it was you were originally making

also needs to be a tax dodge somehow.

Luckily we already have the next best thing, dropshipping!

Exposing your surplus stock of shoddily made consumer goods as a service, for randos to hock to their relatives and friends on their godawful shopify sites. Then it turns out that you can move more garbage without worrying about negative reputation when the origin of the garbage is obfuscated behind an army of aspiring influencers and lifestyle bloggers!

brilliant! I hate it!

I am suspicious of the concept of “design” as an abstract discipline entirely divorced from any context or practical application in much the same way that I am suspicious of the concept of “management” without any reference to what it is that is being managed.

Mrs Bennett obsessing over engagement metrics

she literally tracks how long each gentleman spends dancing with her daughters

she's A/B testing that shit

me after watching Zootopia

you would think that you would try exciting and risky new building designs on small concept projects and use tried and tested ideas for your big expensive projects, but it seems to work out the other way around as people are sensitive with budget for small projects and end up accepting massive cost overruns on large projects so you might as well throw in all your wildest dream fantasies of engineering craziness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport#Construction_failures

this is fantastic reading if you get off to this kind of thing, and I do.

if only humanity had built an airport before, and could reuse an existing successful design, what a shame that no such things exist anywhere.

“It emerged that Alfredo di Mauro who designed the fire safety system was not a qualified engineer. While his business cards stated he was an engineer he was actually qualified as an engineering draughtsman.“

“For aesthetic reasons, designers decided that the terminal would have smoke extraction ducts in its ceiling but that they would not exhaust to its rooftop. During a fire, smoke would be pumped from the ceiling into a shaft running down and through the basement below the structure. This required the natural rising behaviour of hot air in the shaft to be reversed. Achieving this on the scale necessary for this airport is a unique undertaking and so far this elaborate smoke extraction system has not worked as planned.”

Yeah, so far

for aesthetic reasons — applying traditional German architectural concept of “ruin value” to airport design 🙄