They say once you go Grinch you’ll never go back.

One time my roommate gave me a welding starter set cuz he wanted to learn how to weld LOL.

The American Dream - a tax-optimized portfolio of high-yield stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

Florida: Okay fuck it we’re seceding, who’s with me?

Texas: Yo!

…and they SUPER freak out if you say their favorite game isn’t the best one.

That joyous moment in every father’s life when you call your son a loser because he doesn’t know all your tricks.

I’m gonna need that in quatloos.

No, “the banks” wouldn’t be what the AI would be trained on, it would be the private info of individuals the banks do business with.

Only if they were trained on public material.

The whole focus of concern about social media is on kids being exposed to material their parents don’t want them to see. I think this misses a much larger point - simply the effect social media overuse has on attention span and encouraging superficial thinking.

Scrolling through the firehose of infinite content trains people to process each item as quickly as possible and make a quick value judgement based on minimal information before moving on to the next item. This is absolutely backasswards of how kids should learn to think. It encourages binary thinking - seeing every issue as two opposite extremes - and spending as little effort as possible acquiring information before making that binary decision about who to idolize or demonize. Degrading people’s intellectual process makes them much more susceptible to suggestion and conditioning, which of course is how oligarchs want us.

Sometimes a conference room gets overloaded for a big meeting, sometimes people have pirated conf room chairs as desk side chairs… it varies.

I had a couple stuck on walls where I always wished I had put light switches. They toggled lights on and off using ESP-01 microcontrollers. Another one was in my daughter’s bedroom where I had rehung the door to swing the opposite way so she could leave the door partway open without the hall light shining in her face in bed. As the batteries died I replaced them all with buttons run by newer ESP32s… if any of that makes sense.

Cats never actually clean themselves, they just cover themselves in cat spit.

related, nobody steals pink power tools. A building contractor friend of mine had some pink paint leftover from a bathroom remodel, so he slapped it on all his power tools - no more tools stolen on job sites!

I don’t think our method of internal government would matter as much to the world as the foreign policies of the individual leader. For reference on that see 2016-2020.

My proton pack’s in the shop, I’m gonna have to come back.

That’ll actually be a shame.

grown up lol

By “everybody” you mean everybody except Amazon. And I had fun hacking those. They were often on sale for like 2 bucks and they came with a battery that was good for like a thousand presses. You had to start the online setup process but not select any products, listen for the button’s msg to Amazon which contained a unique ID. You could then have your own server listen for a “pressed” signal from that button and do whatever you want. I keep meaning to find out if there’s still a way to initialize brand new ones.

“Grab that.”

“No you, I’m not touchin’ that.”

Or they might have assumed there was something wrong with it. I learned a trick at Microsoft to not have my desk chair “borrowed” for meetings - put a big piece of duct tape on it, Nobody wants the duct taped chair lol.