Also, Boeing notwithstanding…

One bad actor causing chaos amongst the staff entrusted with keeping airlines safe….

I’ve been pushing more to spend at Costco and less at Target. These recent announcements have me leaning even harder into that previous plan. Before I Was ambivalent about Target, now Ill generally go out of my way to avoid it.

Sure, but it’s not about shoes. It’s about everything. People NEED cars and flights for family connections and toys for their kids to keep themselves sane and clothes and food and lightbulbs and either paper towels, or detergent to wash cloth napkins. Personally, I’m addicted to coffee, but most people work paycheck to paycheck and aren’t out spending on frivolous stuff.

My parents are nowhere near as deep in the rabbit hole, but I’m essentially dark on communications with them at this point. Once they have convinced me that they are fighting against the current state of things, I’ll re-engage. Currently they are unaware of this fact, but it won’t be too much longer until they realize that I have no time or desire to interact with them anymore. They will have to choose and I’m at peace with either outcome at this point.

I’m a HP reseller, but barely ( I might sell a half dozen servers a year as part of larger projects) it’s SO MUCH EASIER to deal with Dell tho. Quality has been good but not great for both for a long time.

I’m a huge advocate of using “ugly but serviceable” stuff. That said, my-day-to-day shoes are wearing to the point that I can tell what the ants had for lunch. Not sure I can get away with making my own leather moccasins.

If there is a bed available at the hospital, and you can afford the extra expense.

It makes a pretty good calculator. 🧮

As opposed to having the government directly design planes and ships and stuff? Even in ‘communist’ countries such as Russia and China, they have companies that compete for business. Remember that essentially all the billions spent with these defense contractors is employing and producing products here as opposed to overseas.

Clearly the solution is to just use a big Excel spreadsheet.

Defense contractors are mostly publicly traded companies. Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing etc.

No party has been anywhere near that level of “control” for a very long time.

Two big ones for me:

1. Don’t fucking call it “desktop”. I accidentally saved some files to my “one drive desktop” and it took forever to figure out where the hell my files went.
2. I work everywhere… my house, office, client locations etc. I’m not always connected to the internet and NEED my files to be local to my laptop or I have to get my phone out and tether a network which is sometimes slow as hell.

One drive can eat a bag of dicks.

Odds that even one of Trump’s generals would be worse for the country? Most people who make it to that upper eschelon in the military have some sense of duty, honor, a moral compass, and intelligence. There certainly is SOME ‘failing upward’ in the military, but a LOT less than business and politics.

Can we stop posting RawStory links? It’s just ragebait. Trump’s cult is still VERY strong. Sure, it’s easy to find a few people who’s faces have been eaten, but most have their faces buried so far up Trump’s ass that the leopards can’t get to them… yet.

Russia has the option to do the funniest thing ever.

President Musk would be just fine sacrificing Trump.

Which of those are not “advertising” of one sort or another? Twitter was a dumb idea to start and I still just don’t see any appeal.

FB had my friends (now is a stupid cesspool of echo chamber idiocy.

Insta was photo-based FB Lite.

Fark>Slashdot>Digg>Reddit>Lemmy was/is about community and sharing of ideas and thoughts. Each had its own strengths and weaknesses, but the anonymity gave everyone an equal opportunity to participate.

The early days of Twitter seemed to be 10,000 people yelling in a room and nobody listening. Then celebrities took over and companies followed. Enshittifying it early on in the process.

Hopefully these people get double-fucked. Moreso because they bought a swasticar from President Musk, but also because fuckyou to people who buy stuff just to resell at a higher margin.