That’s the huge take away here. The Chinese can’t comprehend that the DOD doesn’t have a social media control division. Yes we have the NSA and stuff spying, but they don’t control anything.

Judge shopping in Texas. Followed by an outrageously unconstitutional ruling. Then a 2 year wait for the Supreme Court to look at it. Sigh

This article is an ad for a book.

I asked Chat GPT to write six lines of square-enix dialogue. This is what it came up with:

Character 1: “In the shadow of destiny, our paths converge, my friend.”

Character 2: “The echoes of our past resonate in the silence of this moment.”

Character 1: “The crystal’s light dims, and darkness whispers its name.”

Character 2: “Yet, within the chaos, a glimmer of hope remains untarnished.”

Character 1: “Fate may weave its threads, but our choices carve the tale.”

Character 2: “In the dance of blades, we’ll find the symphony of our destinies.”

Pretty much nailed any kingdom hearts game

Are they serious? The quickest way to turn me from a supporter to an enemy is to spam me with an AI bot.

It makes me very pleased to see factorio content on a Star Trek shitposting page. I’ll make my next engineer yellow and call him Le Forge.

Maybe a prime directive run where I never interact with the biters?

This is a horrible example. My wife is a senior ICU nurse and deals with this. Getting through nursing school and being a nurse are completely different skill sets. Some of the new grad nurses are genuinely dangerous with their patients and are unteachable. Some never develop the independence that nursing requires. Some straight up play doctor and are a lawsuit waiting to happen. This has the same energy as a cop union getting a violent pos reinstated.

I took a 20k paycut to go from in-person private industry with an hour commute to a fully remote federal position. I have never been happier in my life. I’m not exaggerating. I eat better, sleep better, exercise every day, spend more time with my family, get so much more done around the house. I could keep going. Every part of my life is better. Hell, my wife and I have better sex more often even. Easily worth 20k.

I challenge anyone who says sugar isn’t addictive to go a week without. No sugar. No sugar substitutes like fructose. I’ve done it. It is awful.

I’ve also done hard drugs. Quitting those are awful too.

The difference is that I haven’t done drugs in decades but I still have a pack of Oreos on my counter.

Exactly. Hell, even suggesting direct involvement in another unwinable middle eastern war would be political suicide. Of course someone who’s entire profession is war is all about war.

Make my own brown sugar oatmeal. The big tubes of plain instant oats are cheap. I add a spoonful of brown sugar and a dash of cinnamon. Saves about 50% off the packets. Not much, but it adds up if 2 people have oatmeal every morning.

We are in the “technically the rule book doesn’t say that a dog can’t play basketball” stage.

She isn’t hated by the far left any more than any other neo-lib.

She’s hated because she needed to retire decades ago. Senate Judiciary confirmations have completely stalled because she hasn’t been healthy enough to attend hearings. Trump stacked federal judgeships with unqualified partisan hacks and democrats have been unable to respond. The senate needs her vote to maintain their majority, and her health issues effectively loses the democrats majority. She is clearly senile and confused at all of her recent public appearances.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I peeked in on Reddit yesterday, the first post was some creep trying to find his step aunt’s Only Fans site. Advertisers are sure to love that.

It reminds me of subways five dollar footlong. They made a slogan so piecing and effective that they can’t escape it. Every time I go to subway I notice how much more a sub costs than the five dollars it used to be and every time I hear “pro-life” I think of a very “particular” kind of person.

As former enlisted Navy let me say this. Every officer thinks they’re captain Picard. That they can just say, “make it so” and somehow all of this impossible shit will just happen. Contractors will never work themselves out of a job. Most sailors are fuckups who join because they couldn’t put a life together in the real world. It is literally a billion dollar mess. The train wreck of the LCS program really highlights all these issues.

My wife has an affected model, but a push to start version. Getting insurance was fine. They did call to verify that it was the push to start before they finalized the policy, though.

Hobby CNC

You can get a little table top router and some simple software for a couple hundred bucks. You can go deep into it. Building a custom machine, writing your own post processor, dialing in you CNC to insane levels of accuracy and precision, adding a 4th axis, engineering parts and projects, it goes on. It basically combines robotics, design engineering, and manufacturing engineering all in one hobby.

Yeah, but you’ll have to deal with an HOA with a townhouse. At least with this it’s your property.

I never realized all this but it’s so true. I browse and comment until I’m caught up, then log off.

Wow