This is the way.

Deserves got nothing to do with it.

It’s not Caturday, but here’s a picture anyway.

Zoe sits where she normally doesn’t sit.

Police, police unions and pro-police organizations will always tell you the answer to crime, as in having less crime, is more police, but that is not the truth. More police leads to more crime because the police have to justify their presence.

LAPD Poll

Nobody wants more police in their neighborhood. Except the police. They always want more police.

*Note, I have no way to validate the image is accurate and it may be a joke image: That does not change my opinion though.

Nick Heer giving more credit to people than they deserve, just because they work in government

it seems unlikely to me for representatives of the Vatican to be using a knockoff.

Sometimes the internet is awesome.

declining in the name of

I find it curious that the rhetoric around competition changes when a company acquires around 50% to 70% of a specific market.

Then, instead of competing, the company is magically abusing it’s leading position in the marketplace to avoid competition.

On Camera Market Analysis

This is a weird one to me. The analysis just doesn’t make sense for a remembrance post. But, Om is a Silicon Valley expert so, surely he knows more than I do.

Om Malik on DPReview being shut down

First of all, the camera industry is not healthy. Here are some sales numbers of digital cameras from CIPA:

Steady demand for multiple years is not a healthy market? Sure it’s less than the demand from a decade ago, but demand for cameras and lenses is not dropping off a cliff.

He then goes on to compare site visits for DPReview, a review site, and Petapixel, “another photography website that aggregates and publishes more “photography” related click-friendly content”. He determines that DPReview “wasn’t that good” with 1.9 million visits in January 2023 (down from 3 million in 2021) while Petapixel saw “its traffic surge” with 2.2 million visits in January 2023 (up from 1 million in 2021).

Om’s analysis:

  1. Camera Industry is not healthy because they’re not selling the same number of units they did a decade ago, even though they they have steady demand currently.
  2. Traffic review is all about the change in visits not the number of visits. Which in his research is approximately the same number for both sites he compared even though they are not the same type of site, just the same area of interest.

Deadly Fungus Detected in Most U.S. States

The Last of Us is real and it’s starting now.

Ummm, anyone remember this asshat saying he could shot someone on 5th Avenue in New York and nothing would happen?

Trump Did It Again

That’s what they call foreshadowing.

I’m sickened that half this country thinks he is worthy of the highest political office we have.

This is excellent.

Pitch Perfect.

getting serious

Chris Christie,

But look at the end, being indicted, never helps anybody.

And yet, no one in the Republican Party is seriously distancing themselves from his dumb lying ass.

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BK
Have it Your Way
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Stupid jingles are stupid and get stuck in my head.

Yes, I’ll take the call.

Thank you.

Yes. Yes, you do.

Thank you for the notice.

Ellen Joanes writing at Vox

How Trump’s Using a possible arrest to rile his base

TL:DR - The same way he has always riled his base: lies and lies and lies and lies and we’re great, they’re losers so we have to fight to stop them from cheating and lies.

Nothing has changed in MAGAland since the Chief Dipshit lost the election.

It’s Caturday.
That means it’s time to play.
In the cardboard cat pad.

Daring Fireball, John Gruber: ‘Hating Everyone Everywhere All at Once at Stanford’

I can’t help but contrast this pull quote with Gruber’s thoughts on banning TikTok.

It seems to me to be the same; taking about someone else’s speech because you don’t like it.

Vox

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

TL;DR

Society can’t even adjust at 1980’s speed. It’s like society is just now learning how to deal with the internet from 1990’s, let alone the internet of 2020’s.