Chris
@snakeoil.bargains
EnronAdvocate on Discord. Other names elsewhere.
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This is Ed Zitron to me
September 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
This is Ed Zitron to me
I wish someone would give me a six-figure speaking gig to teach them how to build something stupid and expensive which (by my own admission!) doesn’t work
Interesting to see Steve Yegge say he never successfully built anything with Gas Town.
I mentioned not finding these super vibed orchestrators useful because the reliability was too low (w.r.t. completing non-trivial tasks). Turns out the author of the most famous one had the exact same issue.
I mentioned not finding these super vibed orchestrators useful because the reliability was too low (w.r.t. completing non-trivial tasks). Turns out the author of the most famous one had the exact same issue.
September 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I wish someone would give me a six-figure speaking gig to teach them how to build something stupid and expensive which (by my own admission!) doesn’t work
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the tech industry, the fossil fuel industry, and the agriculture industry have so effectively neutered the legislative process that the very idea of, say, a tech privacy bill is psychologically DOA for most Americans.
August 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
the tech industry, the fossil fuel industry, and the agriculture industry have so effectively neutered the legislative process that the very idea of, say, a tech privacy bill is psychologically DOA for most Americans.
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the datacenter debate feels a little bit like someone claiming that if we just banned private jets, the climate would come around.
like, do I hate private jets, or do I hate the guys who own them? the latter, obviously. but just taxing all those guys wouldn't fix this larger, nuanced problem
like, do I hate private jets, or do I hate the guys who own them? the latter, obviously. but just taxing all those guys wouldn't fix this larger, nuanced problem
August 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM
the datacenter debate feels a little bit like someone claiming that if we just banned private jets, the climate would come around.
like, do I hate private jets, or do I hate the guys who own them? the latter, obviously. but just taxing all those guys wouldn't fix this larger, nuanced problem
like, do I hate private jets, or do I hate the guys who own them? the latter, obviously. but just taxing all those guys wouldn't fix this larger, nuanced problem
this might be the worst one yet
CHOMOLEZA
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August 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
this might be the worst one yet
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CONMEN
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June 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
CONMEN
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PIZOFF
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July 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
PIZOFF
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Credit monitoring is a useful service if you’ve ever been worried that someone is going to pay off your credit cards without your permission
May 24, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Credit monitoring is a useful service if you’ve ever been worried that someone is going to pay off your credit cards without your permission
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I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
Every few months Anthropic will publish a paper that’s like “Claude is just a pile of math, but sometimes it acts like it has feelings. Can we learn anything interesting from that?” And everyone on this website trips over themselves to get pissed off about what they imagine the article says.
April 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Every few months Anthropic will publish a paper that’s like “Claude is just a pile of math, but sometimes it acts like it has feelings. Can we learn anything interesting from that?” And everyone on this website trips over themselves to get pissed off about what they imagine the article says.
You can learn a lot from video games. For instance, Pokopia has taught me that I need to spend more time walking up to my friends, telling them how much they mean to me, and then handing them some crap I found lying on the ground
March 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
You can learn a lot from video games. For instance, Pokopia has taught me that I need to spend more time walking up to my friends, telling them how much they mean to me, and then handing them some crap I found lying on the ground
my dermatologist just prescribed me Skyrizi which sort of feels like meeting a celebrity
December 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
my dermatologist just prescribed me Skyrizi which sort of feels like meeting a celebrity
I’m not a particularly good driver but no mistake I’ve made has had people angrier at me than simply driving the speed limit
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’m not a particularly good driver but no mistake I’ve made has had people angrier at me than simply driving the speed limit
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people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
I haven't talked about this publicly yet but I got carjacked at gunpoint a few weeks ago. I'm fine, I have insurance, the police found my car last week. Anyway, I was thinking afterward about how much worse it would have gone if I was also armed.
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I haven't talked about this publicly yet but I got carjacked at gunpoint a few weeks ago. I'm fine, I have insurance, the police found my car last week. Anyway, I was thinking afterward about how much worse it would have gone if I was also armed.
I’m the guy who designed the trucks in Death Stranding. It was my idea not to add roofs even though the rain is incredibly dangerous and the world is full of bandits with guns. I am paid millions of likes a year for my innovations
July 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I’m the guy who designed the trucks in Death Stranding. It was my idea not to add roofs even though the rain is incredibly dangerous and the world is full of bandits with guns. I am paid millions of likes a year for my innovations
Look, YNAB is a great app and I don’t know how I would manage my finances without it, but going to a fan convention for a budgeting app is completely deranged
April 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Look, YNAB is a great app and I don’t know how I would manage my finances without it, but going to a fan convention for a budgeting app is completely deranged
It’s cool to call a body of water “the drink”
March 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It’s cool to call a body of water “the drink”
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lines]
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YES, I love driving my gigantic pristine truck that I’m too small to climb into comfortably. NO, I will NOT be learning to park it. If you have a problem with that you can KISS MY ASS!
January 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
YES, I love driving my gigantic pristine truck that I’m too small to climb into comfortably. NO, I will NOT be learning to park it. If you have a problem with that you can KISS MY ASS!
I’ve been thinking about how easy it would be to build a favstar-like service for this website and debating whether it would be stupid in a funny way or just stupid
December 23, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I’ve been thinking about how easy it would be to build a favstar-like service for this website and debating whether it would be stupid in a funny way or just stupid
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being a nerd once meant you were socially ostracized for being obsessed with every little detail of model trains. in 2024 america being in a nerd in many communities means bragging that you self-lobotomize yourself because you're too lazy to read anything
December 21, 2024 at 2:22 PM
being a nerd once meant you were socially ostracized for being obsessed with every little detail of model trains. in 2024 america being in a nerd in many communities means bragging that you self-lobotomize yourself because you're too lazy to read anything
My manager somehow sent me an Amazon gift card in Saudi Riyal. Neither of us are Saudi and everyone else on the team got USD or EUR. We’re completely baffled by how this could have happened.
December 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
My manager somehow sent me an Amazon gift card in Saudi Riyal. Neither of us are Saudi and everyone else on the team got USD or EUR. We’re completely baffled by how this could have happened.
These are hands down the most dogshit apps on my phone
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
These are hands down the most dogshit apps on my phone
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Customer: ITS MY KIDS INITIALS
DMV: FUCK YOU
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: FUCK YOU
Verdict: DENIED
September 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Customer: ITS MY KIDS INITIALS
DMV: FUCK YOU
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: FUCK YOU
Verdict: DENIED