Yeah ME wasn’t worth looking at, we downgraded my GF’s computer after it wouldn’t run well. 95 was a big jump over 3.1, but still more like a beta for 98.

But I switched to 2000 not long after it came out. I did set up my first home built PC with 98, in 98, just got a sudden flashback to the defragging screen. Shudders.

NT/2000 always gets left out of these, I ran 2000 on an old PC for years past XP and Vista even. But all it was doing was running a vinyl and laser cutter.

So does fresh duct tape.

Yeah I thought tuffs as well. It’s the most threatening thing he’s seen because there hasn’t been any other threatening things.

Pinching a ball on a bike seat is a clear and present danger on a naked bike ride though.

The blur created an optical anti-aliasing effect which designers regulator to advantage of when making graphics and games for crt screens, which was pretty much all there was at the time, unless your family was rich and had a big projector tv.

How about “Econ isn’t a science”

Probably end up getting your place raided by morons.

We had a bunch of “surveillance van #X” at an old apartment. I joined in.

This was before surveillance vans were a real threat though. Not as funny with all the ice shit these days.

Accurate, because not one of them has the hammer facing down.

My money is accidentally shout himself in the leg, the tried to cover it with the kidnapping story. But I don’t know the actual timeline, I’m just trying to rationalize the stupidity, which could be a mistake.

But he did kidnap a MAGAt.

Watching for planes falling out of the skies.

The eyes rolling back is a fucking incredible detail. I never noticed it while it was traumatizing me as an 8 year old.

Dudes never seen a river I guess.

Also “dated” a 17 year old.

I have Rigid stuff I inherited from my dad. Some of the lipo batteries are from 2011 and still kicking. And I fabricate and restore cars semi-professionally, before that my dad was a handyman and not gentle on them for the first 5-6 years he used them. We built a 30 foot porch, and installed a metal roof with those drivers for instance.

It’s mid grade between Ryobi and Milwaukee which I have a couple of. Besides some specialty tools, I think the red tools are just status, I don’t see a real difference in quality. And I think they all have flashlights in them now too. Some even have ring lights that are super handy.

Buy the kit when it’s on sale (Father’s Day, or Black Friday are good ones, but pretty much any holiday sale). It’ll usually get you a free battery or charger and having a separate drill and impact driver is pretty handy when installing shit around the house.

Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.

Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.

Sorry should be a been more clear.

There should have been a nationwide pause on foreclosures like was done during the pandemic. Review the loans, refinance to reasonable levels. Revalue houses where prudent, fix predatory loans and fuck those banks that sold them.

And instead of giving banks a trillion dollars we could have spent that on a universal basic income that would have been up to the individuals to spend. Like any other income.

The big argument for bank bailouts was that the payroll system would collapse. A UBI could have made it at least not dire.

Yeah, I’m more and more convinced letting them bail out the banks, instead of bailing out legit homeowners during the housing crisis would have saved the Democratic Party.

The argument against it was always “but the banking system and payrolls would collapse”.

Then the pandemic hits and they send out checks and expand loan deferment (could have been forgiveness, but we let the Republicans fuck us over on that too) practically overnight. They still have too much money to businesses that shouldn’t have needed it (like the NBA or whatever).

Maybe that’s the goal. Is Dennys still around. This reminds me of their logos general shape, but melted.

I like it the direction, but the topography needs adjustments. Full disclosure I’m also a design snob with a fucking BFA who got stuck coding shit for the last 20 years.