The effective life of a well kept phone or computer is so long now that you really need to consider the lifecycle of a thing independently. Just buying a new thing because a new thing exists doesn't make that much sense when the old thing still does everything you'd want it to do.
Perfect example of the trouble patents are having.
Storing an address and credit card number so you can order things immediately is an obvious thing to any normal practitioner of the trade. The fact that someone could get a patent on such a thing is absurd on the face of it.
Storing an address and credit card number so you can order things immediately is an obvious thing to any normal practitioner of the trade. The fact that someone could get a patent on such a thing is absurd on the face of it.
"my job is teaching perfect Aryan women how to breed"
God dammit, why did you get that job and I ended up as a soldier in Stalingrad?
God dammit, why did you get that job and I ended up as a soldier in Stalingrad?
It'll be fine.
Have you looked at the last four American presidents? At this rate he's on the fasttrack to 2024, either party's ticket.
Have you looked at the last four American presidents? At this rate he's on the fasttrack to 2024, either party's ticket.
They're all the suicide economy. One group increases spending, the other cuts taxes, nobody balances budgets and in the rare moment they do it's because they're both printing so much money it promotes a fake economy of everyone going deeply in personal and corporate debt and handing them money to each other and pretending everyone's getting rich.
It's been generations since anyone was actually choosing responsibility. Everything else is an illusion.
It's been generations since anyone was actually choosing responsibility. Everything else is an illusion.
A long time ago, nihilism set in for me. It is an easy thing to argue for from a purely logical standpoint. Eventually I realized that humans aren't purely logical.
We do have values. They matter to us. The postmodernists can't argue that away with mere logic.
We do have values. They matter to us. The postmodernists can't argue that away with mere logic.
not sayin nuthin, but soapbox on mobile is nice enough that I don't bother using an app. I just keep the page in my browser with notifications allowed.
Do conservatives worship him?
Seems like a dumb kid who got in way over his head to me. But I'm only a conservative because nobody's a liberal anymore.
Seems like a dumb kid who got in way over his head to me. But I'm only a conservative because nobody's a liberal anymore.
😄 same
(I'm keeeeeeding)
(my instance and several others have them but nobody uses them, it's not really part of the culture here)
(I'm keeeeeeding)
(my instance and several others have them but nobody uses them, it's not really part of the culture here)
Our lives have many facets. Any philosophy that doesn't acknowledge sometimes you just gotta enjoy some tiddays isn't worth the paper it's written on.
A lot of people don't realize how relatively easy it used to be a s how relatively hard it is now.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
Protip: some furnaces have a summer and winter mode switch that'll change whether it recycles air from inside the home or it brings in air from outside. You can significantly reduce your energy costs by changing it to winter mode if it has one.
"What do you do when the security vendor gets hacked?" is something I ask all the time, and most people don't understand the question.
The Focus is a fully computer controlled contraption which will stop your wheels from spinning if it detects that they're spinning.
I was playing one racing game in VR, and it was in a Ford Focus. I tapped the gas slightly and all 4 wheels started to squeal.
I had to stop. I'm like "I've owned a Ford Focus, and this isn't a Ford Focus"
I had to stop. I'm like "I've owned a Ford Focus, and this isn't a Ford Focus"