Gongol.com Archives: December 2022
December 8, 2022
How low can the Mississippi go?
The Mighty Mississippi at Memphis has dropped lower this year than at any time since 1988.
Where the Finns say "I hate it", Americans say "I don't love it". It's kind of charming that in many ways, we're a nation of golden retrievers, joyfully expecting everything to be wonderful and acting cautiously surprised whenever it isn't.
Electric utility site in South Carolina attacked by shooters
We need to be on the lookout for terrorism targeting public infrastructure, even in low-tech ways
(Video) Rick Beato offers an intelligent critique of something missing from pop music: Key changes. They're completely absent, and that's a huge quality-killer. The resulting songs (the ones without key changes) are too often trite and boring.
Spam entitles no one to a "quick chat"
Someone, somewhere, started "send incessant spammy requests for a 'quick chat'" as a business model, and whoever did it ought to be ashamed. It's whiny, presumptuous, anmd offputting. The worst part is that ChatGPT and other natural-language AI tools are going to make it easier to send them out in volume in the almost immediate future.
