GeekyOnion

None of this has been about money, it’s all about ego.

How apropos.

While I agree with the general sentiment that civil servants shouldn’t be political, getting selected as the head of a department, or the leader of an organization has significant political overtones. Mind you, my understanding of the role is directly related to the TV series “Yes, Minister,” so there’s likely to be a few gaps.

I see headlines like this and think, “oh, haha. The onion has done it again.” Then I read the actual source, and get sad.

Well, almost all “new” media is just repackaging the “old” media to make a buck off of a combination of nostalgia and a pivot to a different platform. No one will care because no one will feel compelled to watch the fourth or fifth reboot of Harry Potter.

All the while claiming that they’re doing what they should and satisfying the letter of their remit.

“Investigation” should be “looks left, looks right, sees obvious conclusion.”

Less “reduce the number,” and more “make the poor more tractable.” The rich still need human carpet to walk on, they just need it to be uneducated, fecund, and desperate to get under their feet.

Not yet. I ran Calibre + Calibre Web for a while before I found booklore, and the key thing I wanted from my setup was for things to work. I was experimenting with Booklore as a “new direction,” and spent a significant amount of time troubleshooting and fixing various broken things from crashes of the ingestion job due to long file names, failure of metadata being written, OPDS problems, etc. I’ve been reading some web novels (2000+ chapters) for a while, so I didn’t check in with the state of Booklore until recently, and now that I’m coming to the end of my most recent long story, I was going to pick back up in my TBR.

Honestly, I like self-hosting and experimenting, but I do recognize that “bleeding edge” isn’t always compatible with having a relaxing experience. In this case, I want to go back to “easy,” rather than “clever,” or “new.”

I just moved off of Booklore because of the recent drama. Went back to Calibre + Calibre Web Automated.

At some point, these stories all fade into noise, which is the intended outcome. For some reason (humans are defective, I guess), people constantly act outside their own best interests. I do it! I eat trash all the time, despite knowing I shouldn’t, and that it has an effect on my health.

I’ve been putting the switchover on hold for a month of two, and see what develops. Honestly considering going back to Calibre and Calibre Web.

In my local area, there have been several posts over the last couple of weeks across the standard platforms with people complaining about excessive prices, and price increases. Some folks are sharing examples where costs for electricity have increased 40% year-over-year, and yet we live in an area that’s primarily supported by hydroelectric, and have generally low energy costs. The deregulation and desire for utilities to turn a profit are killing people, without exaggeration.