I had to come back here specifically to thank you.

We have a “rainfall” showerhead that has been a huge disappointment since we installed it. Your comment popped into my head today as I was about to jump in the shower. All I had to do was remove a little o-ring and now it works fantastic! It also cut my shower time in half.

No one in the recording industry has ever considered how stupid their plans are. If they did, they would stop constantly giving piracy free advertising.

Cook’s Venture (an Arkansas poultry processor) went bankrupt practically overnight. Then the state came in and killed all the chickens at each farm, leaving the farmers to deal with all the dead and rotting corpses.

What did our wonderful governor do? Well, as I recall, her administration refused to declare a state of emergency and pretty much told all the poultry farmers to go fuck themselves because it’s “not the government’s job to bail out private businesses” or some bullshit like that.

Doesn’t feel so good when you’re the one getting told to fuck off. I hope all the people who voted for Trump and Sarah Sanders are happy since this is exactly what they voted for.

You know what’s funnier? I mean, it’s not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it’s less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they’ll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they’ve been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

My wife is like the literal definition of a “quiet and gentle spirit.”

She could beat this guy’s ass with a tire iron but I guarantee she would do it without saying a word.

And the President of the United States is a steaming pile of shit.

“Gorilla Ladder step stools. Now at your local Home Depot!”

I’m a Cox customer only because I have no better options.

I asked ChatGPT to do a simple addition problem a while back and it gave me the wrong answer.

I was listening to Terry Gross interview some broadband experts about broadband legislation the other day and they mentioned that the White House added a Starlink connection to “boost the WiFi signal.” The White House. Probably the single most well connected building on the planet, added a shitty Starlink connection. It was not lost on Terry or the panelists that the whole charade was nothing more than the President of the United States abusing his position to effectively advertise one of his cronies’ products.

And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

Got permission from my [uphill] neighbor to install a catch basin underneath one of her downspouts that always floods our yard when it rains. Dug a shallow trench about 20ft. to an existing storm drain and tied it in.

No more flooding my yard.

They were going for “super intelligence” and instead they got Cliff Clavin from Cheers.

“It’s a little-known fact that the tan became popular in what is known as the Bronze Age.”

Tried using Copilot on a few C# projects. I didn’t find it to be any better than Resharper. If anything it was worse because it would give me auto complete samples that were not even close to what I wanted. Not all the time but not infrequently either.

I’ve been groped by women on two separate occasions. Granted, I’m a reasonably well built dude and I didn’t feel threatened. But those experiences were not wanted or asked for. Thankfully they were quickly resolved with a terse “Don’t do that again.”

I completely understand that women are often on the lower end of the power dynamic and have a harder time either saying “No” or providing their own enforcement so there’s theoretically a good chance that M -> F assaults are more prevalent. But the idea that women never engage in this kind of behavior is complete and utter horseshit.

People don’t harass or assault someone because of their [the assaulters] gender. They do it because they lack respect for others.

“Full Stack Dev” AKA Backend Dev who knows just enough about CSS to be dangerous.

Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it’s weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.

If they ever file for Chapter 7, I will be deeply disappointed if the headline doesn’t read, “Hooters Goes Tits Up”.

No good deed goes unpunished.