sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

fun fact: the app store app in sierra (10.12) that is the internet recovery os for imac17,1 will let you download installers for high sierra, mojave, catalina, and big sur without an apple id. archiving them now

the american habit of making breakfast an unmitigated carb orgy is both tragic and maddening

worst part about middle age ain't the aches and pains or the fatigue or young girls thinking i'm a creep when i smirk at them - it's the part where my friends are slowly dying off. i anticipate this curve will get steeper, too.

i think it's almost time to move from a blacklist situation like pi-hole/nextdns to an explicit allowlist of AS numbers or DNS hostnames that outbound traffic is permitted to access, with default deny. this is sad and annoying.

there are zero fast+cheap covid tests available in nevada. you can pay $200-300 to get same day (often with multi-hour waits) or a cheap test only after 2-3 days with appointment. useless if you're trying to decide whether or not to go to work today/tomorrow.

the security guards in CDG that are presumably responsible for passenger safety are themselves dicknosing so the chance of them enforcing against dicknosers is basically zero. seems the world has given up on stopping covid. humans are sad.

i like how ridiculously committed the swiss are to tri-linguality in signage

another great one from what is rapidly becoming one of my top five favorite blogs:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/afghanistan-and-the-common-knowledge-game/

i'm in berlin; who else is?

the fact that antivaxxers are like everywhere now is sort of wild. had an antivax driver today. one star

yeah, but what do you think's ON the radio? meat sounds

unpopular take: the sentence for selling or using forged vax certs should be that you get intubated and placed on a ventilator for a month.