AXES BEFORE TAXESMARTIN 2028 – Put a Viking in the Oval OfficeCampaign Promises – Sacred Cow Edition I will treat the Constitution the way most politicians already do: as a decorative shield.We’ll hang it on the wall, recite selected bits with great solemnity, and then govern exactly as power and convenience require. The only difference … Read more
Retardmaxxing is an internet-born philosophy/meme that basically means: stop overthinking everything and just do the thing. It’s a portmanteau of “retard” + the “-maxxing” suffix that came out of looksmaxxing and similar optimization slang. The idea, popularized heavily by YouTuber Elisha Long (and later boosted when people like Marc Andreessen started using it), is that … Read more
There comes a point, after enough time watching the machinery of power, when something becomes difficult to unsee. Ordinary people do not differ nearly as much as we are told. Not governments. Not political movements. Not intelligence agencies. Not ideologues. Not the people who appear on television and speak with the authority of nations. I … Read more
Taking a break from IT-related articles, Mike the Headless Chicken is real, well-documented history — not a hoax. Here’s the story: The beheading On September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, went out to the yard to grab a chicken for dinner (his mother-in-law was visiting, and reportedly wanted fried chicken necks, so … Read more
Have you ever tried translating a foreign recipe using an app, only to end up staring at your phone in total confusion? One viral story perfectly captures the absurdity of machine translation: an AI turning a simple Japanese ingredient into “beef water.” It turns out this wasn’t just someone making things up for laughs. The … Read more
Here are the official U.S. passport photo requirements as of now: 1. Size and format 2. Background 3. Pose and expression 4. Clothing and headwear 5. Lighting and image quality 6. Recent photo 7. Other notes Here’s a step-by-step guide to take a compliant U.S. passport photo at home: 1. Gather your materials 2. Set … Read more
I prefer brevity. I admire concision. I aspire to linguistic minimalism—the haiku of human interaction, the monosyllabic nod, the elegant silence that says everything by saying almost nothing at all. With that firmly established, allow me to now abandon those principles with reckless, baroque enthusiasm. What follows is an unapologetic, meandering, logorrheic festival of syllables—a … Read more
DevOps refers to a set of practices and a cultural approach that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). The goal is to shorten the time it takes to deliver changes while improving reliability, stability, and security. Rather than treating development and operations as separate hand-offs, DevOps emphasizes automation, repeatable processes, monitoring, and shared … Read more
At nearly 70 years old, I’ve lived through wars, cultural revolutions, and enormous social change—but never have I felt this much anxiety about ordinary conversation. Why does it now feel like we are all walking on eggshells? A few of the major forces at work: 1. The collapse of shared social contextFor most of your … Read more
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