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I see headlines like "Democrats threaten war over gerrymandering" and it's like "you guys already started that war."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-democrats-gerrymander-redistricting-b2801833.html

ChatGPT is in the news. People were shocked to discover that their chats were available on Google -- after they pressed a check box saying "allow my chats to be searchable on search engines"

This reminds me of when Linus on LTT typed out "yes do as I say" when the command line warned he was about to brick his system and then he bricked his system and he complained that he shouldn't have to type "yes do as I say" to brick his system.

Computers do as they are told, so pay attention.

The process is the punishment. How much did this organization have to waste on a frivolous complaint from a pro bono welfare case?

I threw a power meter onto my empire of dirt tonight. I was wondering how much power all these sites burn.

80W at startup, 37W while running.

Slightly less than a kind of sad incandescent light bulb. About 40 dollars per year.

Got to admit, most nuts and bolts people that I've ever met would also be eating at their desk, probably while working over lunch since you don't need to stop working to eat.

But I never worked for Microsoft or any of those companies and prob never will, so it's hard to say from my perspective.

But all of this is probably advertising for hiring for a potemkin village anyway. Get the beautiful people with the correct attributes working in nice offices where they barely do any work ever, so then you can point to them when the komissar comes around.

That explains why you still have to go to the windows 2000 network connections screen they keep on hiding in a different location to do 85% of all network operations in spite of having a settings app that is ostensibly for that purpose for well over a decade.

"network binding order, protocol information, and device properties are so ugly and lame! Let's just hide the button for those, who would possibly need to use any of that? Let's go have ice cream instead!"

9:45 to 6:30 work day? Weird.

Real answer: probably because chickens, ducks, and quail are generally just better at laying commercially viable eggs. Turkeys lay a lot fewer eggs, their eggs look wrong compared to chicken eggs, they only lay eggs seasonally, turkeys are much larger birds than chickens and quail, and turkeys typically brood their eggs which makes it harder to commercially farm them. You can grow turkeys and eat their eggs, and some people do. It just isn't viable to try to market those eggs because they'd be way more expensive than chicken, duck or quail eggs but not proportionately better.

Just imagine: 30 years ago, our civilization was so high trust that we had books delivered to every household with everyone's name, phone number, and sometimes even address.

When people tell you things are the same as they've always been, they're wrong.

Yeah, we know credit card companies have done this a lot, I don't believe they're not.

Gotta admit, I typically try to keep bees and my nipples separate. But I've never tried to combine them so I could believe wrong

You're not the boss of --

You know what? I'll give you this one. You can be the boss of me this time.

I thought federal funding was only 1% of the funding and it won't even hurt if you cut funding why are you even worried bro.

The purpose of the two minutes of hate is to distract from their own quality of life by blaming Goldstein.

Seen the economic conditions in Italy lately? No wonder they're mad at Goldstein! How dare he cause the last decade of economic decline!

I've been watching on the sidelines as Colbert's show is canceled, and he's apparently having public meltdowns because his show is losing a lot of money, but he's claiming he's getting fired because he criticizes the president.

The idea is -- what? That you can't fire people like Colbert ever because he makes fun of the president?

That's convenient.

I'm just saying, don't be disrespectful to the guy with glowing yellow eyes. Unlike Epstein, who didn't kill himself, those younglings were courting death by reminding the guy with glowing yellow eyes about something he found unfair!

Those younglings Vader killed had it coming. They called him "Master Skywalker" which was just mean -- everyone knows he got a seat on that council but he did not get the rank of master.

Money is a surrogate for power, and just because money goes away doesn't mean power goes away. Greed doesn't go away, it's just made less quantifiable because nobody is keeping track with slips of paper or numbers in a ledger.

A lot of people don't realize these facts, and so think if you stop measuring something it goes away.

It's over frens. Might as well stock up on toilet paper and beer jerky now.