When I see content blocks like that anymore, I just leave the content behind and go elsewhere. Malicious companies will not get my clicks. They can fuck right off.

Good sign though, means they are getting desperate. It is our duty to starve them of traffic.

And yet, the Patriot Act and all its evil also still exists.

This isn’t worse as much as it can extend those already unconstitutional evil things for yet more unconstitutional evil.

The fart telemetry from the in-seat methane detector is off the chain.

Campaigned like shit, arrogant enough to think they were a slam dunk, no platform, didn’t even investigate the very vocal voter fraud the R’s said they did. Why ever trust Dems?

Not to be that guy, but having had to repair ovens with these GE control boards on and off, what that display is saying (as the oven is on) is “PRE” for pre-heating.

The updoot lover that created this image just photoshopped the E over the R. You can tell as the segments on both Es are exactly the same in brightness and intensity, which is highly improbable in simple digital electronics design used for these types of boards.

I only decided to set up a personal AWS for some minor things after having worked on it at employers for many years, after watching employers accidentally spend $3000 a day or $1 million a month or $35,000 in error. Cloud is the devil, bring back servers. One flat piece of hardware you can do whatever with…but even that’s not sacred. If you use hosted servers, the hosts often still charge for ingress/egress and other things now, so you still fall into traps if not careful. Simpler though.

So I guess, storing your own server in your office is the way to go, but then the ISP issues…

Let us all just go back to paper, actually.

With the advertisement culture constantly pushing “Total T” (which isn’t actually Testosterone) and whatever, it’s a profitable market selling to men that they are inadequate and some magic pill will make them a “man” again. Not to completely disregard the actual real medical use for it, however.

The advertisements (especially on linear TV these days like cable) are almost non-stop to push mail order prescription Testosterone and supplements that don’t do anything, as well, which suggests the male ego is a very profitable market.

Some info on this from the past:

A recent market analysis reports that prescription sales of testosterone have increased from US$150 million in 2000 to US$1.8 billion in 2011 worldwide, with US and Canada driving the growth in sales numbers. Interestingly, a significant portion of men prescribed testosterone replacement therapy did not meet laboratory criteria for hypogonadism, according to a market analysis.

a recent study revealed that out of seven online-only clinics, six prescribed testosterone to an undercover urologist who had normal testosterone levels and did not meet the treatment criteria set by the American Urological Association (AUA) and the Endocrine Society.

Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.

The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.

Apparently a lot of older men are on supplements or prescriptions for testosterone. Any surprise they’re all so aggro?

To be fair, the crops didn’t exist when the native pollinators were alpha, so the argument is semi-irrelevant. Again, the bigger problem is just that insect populations are failing. The focus should be fixing that, with that comes the bees. Although, that means fixing climate change. Soooo…

The kinds of bees in the US are not native to the US. Plants were pollinated in the US long before Africanized or European honey bees were brought over.

Bigger problem is that we’re killing generalized insect populations, so the quantity of insects is on a decline.

Play store does the same game. Google always sucks worse these days, sadly. Not pro-Apple, just use Linux.

For apps with generic update messages that also have source control and changelogs available: check to see how often the updates are just a manifest version bump and nothing more. Way greater than zero.

Most version revs for apps are just to reset review count and bury negative reviews with “review of an older version”.

It’s all gamification of walled gardens. Walled gardens that need to die.

For whatever it is worth, I never saw Saudi Arabia or most middle east nations as bastions of freedom. Selective oppression might be a better term (for the entire damn world anymore.)

Right? A well protected browser is about the best tool in this shi-nternet future.

Back before iOS had apps, webapp devs were clever AF. There was Beejive web for multi-IM and all sorts of clever stuff.

One can still put an icon for webapps on the home screen, and the OS even displays it as a full screen app. (Android has similar but not as elegant.)

Promise I’m not trying to be one of those “but there are alternative opinions” trolls here. Speech isn’t free there, but they can freely talk about things they can no longer talk about in America without being abducted under cover of night and sent to a concentration camp and then randomly dumped in an arbitrary African nation without any paper trail, was the point. Probably a small bit of, “work and money are increasingly hard to find for many, why judge,” was also a factor.

In the grand universe of rage, it seems a waste of time to direct it at easily-ignorable comedians when there’s active Nazi evil to hate and pursue. If anything, ignoring the comedians would literally be their end instead of giving them any attention or clicks.

I suppose people wouldn’t know to do that without the aforementioned rage-attention though, and best to hate-silence all the evil we can everywhere.

Thanks for humoring me, I think the thought experiment was a dumb one, overall, and there’s enough rage to go around for all the Evil things.

He’s too dumb, also near death, but mostly, he’s just too dumb. All of them are. Our saving grace is that the evil isn’t smart enough to succeed at evil.

I’m curious about the rage. Comedians get money to go to a place where they can speak free for an hour without any risk of even accidentally saying something terrible about their host because they don’t know them at all. Seems more a sad testament to America being officially dead. Dave Chappelle still is human trash to be clear, though. Also not being pro-middle-east-comedians, just…thought experiment of sorts.

This is the beefy news we should all be paying close attention to.

Just another attempt at market manipulation. Somethink akin to trying to speedrun Coke->New Coke->Coke Classic.

There are bigger fish to fry.