You got an economic system in your back pocket that doesn’t allow money to funnel upwards? Bring it out! It’s not capitalism you’re complaining about, it’s plutocracy we’re living under.

Adam Smith would be horrified at our monopolies. 1980s conservatives would be horrified! Yeah, the economy has always served the wealthy, but it wasn’t anything like today.

I don’t get YouTube ads. Between my Pihole and Ublock, I see nothing.

Saw an interview with him last night. They were totally unprepared to film that video, amateur hour. He was young and scared shitless, made up the dance on the spot. Guy doing backflips? “Hey guys! Watch what I can do!” In the video he went. There was a guy yelling out his apartment window for them the shut the fuck up down there. Wardrobe? Nope, those were his own clothes.

I watch YouTube on a TV, as the good lawd intended, not on a pocket screen.

Nah, SCOTUS pushed back on Trump, first time around and this time as well. The administration had a solid run of Supreme Court wins for several months because they only brought cases they thought were slam dunks. Now that we’re getting into meaty subjects like birthright citizenship, the justices look to stand firm. Too little, too late, I know.

Among other reasons you’ve been given:

• The figured MN folks would be peaceable and lay down.
• No open carry of weapons.
• Didn’t think they’d show out in deep winter. (HAH!)

How?! Every cop I’ve seen has a proper holster to prevent that. If you know how they work you might snatch it, but it would still be a bit awkward.

Could not have written my exact take as closely as yours.

Only thing I’d add is using it to screw around with personal photos. ChatGPT is cleaning up some 80s pics of my wife that were atrocious. I have rudimentary PhotoShop skills, but we’d never have these clean pics without AI. OTOH, I’d gladly drop that ability to reclaim all the negatives.

Very few laymen have noticed or give a shit about RAM prices. My young friend across the street and I are likely the only people on the block who know what RAM does, let alone are able to build a PC.

Business purchasing is where we might see some backlash soon. I’ve bought all the IT goods, hardware and software, for my last two companies, and I’d be screaming.

Boss: What the hell? Weren’t we getting these laptops for $1,200 last year?!

Skill in Excel is wholly different than skills in other Office products. But if Excel is on your resume, your better expand and show what real use you’ve made of it. Otherwise it comes off just as you said.

I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they’re so tied into Office.

Florida water is weird here in the NW. Tap water is fairly “hot” in the summer since the lines are close to the surface. But YMMV. Our bathroom water is distinctly different than the kitchen water, in a tiny house, 8-years old. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think I might as well, and I’ve taught corporate information security classes.

Only 3 Kennedys had real power with the new RFK being a weird outlier, and one without much real juice. They’re just a rich family with name recognition at this point.

How about the Bush family? I’d rank them above the Kennedys.

Americans substitute wealthy people for the royalty we’ve never had.

I run Windows but my VPN server is Debian.

That’s somebody’s house, somebody with teeth and claws. Do not stick anything in there.

PRO TIP: You can get a clue if an animal hole is inhabited by looking at the ground in front of the entrance. Buncha leaves and crap? Empty. Fresh dirt in a spray? Somebody in there.

1991, gf and I are visiting Broken Bow Reservoir in the very SE corner of Oklahoma. (Stunning place BTW! Seriously.)

Me: “What in the world are all those tiny blue tents?”

GF: “Roosters for cockfighting.”

Me: “They still do that?!”

Later that night, outside our cabin.

Me: “What is that noise?!”

GF: “Roosters.”

Same trip, we hit a convenience store to inquire about an ATM. I’m watching the girls behind the counter point and laugh at her. I could SEE her turning red before she storms out the door.

“What the fuck was that about?”

“I explained that I use this card to withdraw money from a bank machine and they laughed at me!”

Poor gf. Imagine being genius-level IQ and growing up in Oklahoma.

Another funny thing about that trip; Two broke college kids only needed to scrouge $100 for gas all the way across state, food, 2 nights in a private cabin and a day’s boat rental. $238 in 2025. Imagine that.

Anyway, felt like telling a story.

I’ve seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It’s rather complicated and pays pennies.

There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.