As a devout Christian I will pay penitence from this Sunday, Feb 18, 2024 through Easter, and promote Trump for president!

Help him raise funds to pay for the “injustice” millions of Americans feel on his behalf, promoting his GoFundme, and help all assist the economy by buying Trump sneakers (even though they are probably made in China).

The Lord will spare me and my family from the apocalypse because He will recognize me as helping everyone, even those that wish harm against my family, by seeing us as “Mexicans”, even though we have nothing to do with Mexico, not even the language we originally spoke before coming legally to this country.

I will offer to wash the sweetest feet, laden with fungi and athlete foot, that come out of those plastic golden boots, which represent the supreme 47th president of the great majority of electors! (That’s the truth in an alternate reality) 99% of Americans voted more than twice to clean the swamp and raise a border wall once and for all.

The great sneakers represent what is best in America and our superiority in fashion, marketing, style, fund raising and brilliance. All traits Trump exudes and will bring in to every household, because he speaks the truth. No wonder God allowed him to build the biggest social network called the Truth Social.

Donate to Trump now and enjoy salvation at the day of judgement!

It doesn’t matter.

The 16 first class seats will be replaced by 30 economy plus seats, increasing capacity by 14 additional passengers per flight and reducing cost of first class food and equipment to serve. A win-win for company and shareholders but a loss to consumer choice.

In this market I imagine this has transpired:

Employee: “Customers are not seeing the value on the service priced at 4X of an economy seat. Let’s offer first class at a discount. Market research shows customers willing to pay a premium markup of up to 2X for it.”

Boss: “Great idea, let’s increase plane occupancy by making more economy premium seats and marking up all of them 2X!”

Boss gets bonus for innovation and promotion. Employee gets RTO orders, 1% merit increase, 2% COLA adjustment and a pizza party from the boss to thank for being part of the AA family!

Well said on all bullets!

I’ve been getting around the addictive nature of it by doing the following:

First deleted YouTube app and bookmarked Invidious links, that way if I want to find some specific video I can just search for it and not be bothered by ads or algorithm suggestions that are made to keep me in the loop of doom.

Second I’ve loaded epub copy of books I am currently reading on kindle or on paper to my phone, and made the Books and Kindle apps prominent next to Invidious, so when I am tempted to look for videos I can instead replace with reading books I have on my list.

My video watching habit has reduced drastically, mostly down to searching for diy fixes.

That is an interesting hypothesis that I had not considered but can agree with - it will happen. Not sure if it is happening right now at the scale of ongoing layoffs. It probably is part of it, but another portion is just companies cutting costs to make up for their quarterly numbers to turn on a profit. For the past few years companies have been turning a profit and in order to keep the trend, since last year they’ve been cutting costs and corners where they can. Any strategy to cut costs at this point is game for them, and it is not only the investment in generative AI, but the hope they can make it do with machines and code what humans are doing. In my mind we are probably out a few years from that turning reality for most companies though.

You are so right! That is the painful part that no one talks about! Took me a few days to get paperless-ngx working, because I had wrong firewall and port settings preventing docker containers communicating with each other. Once solved that I was proud and relieved - started scanning and categorizing - but in hindsight that was nothing compared to the amount of work to move stuff to it. I finally accepted that I will just have to keep doing that when I feel like it… which for the past months has been “never”. I now only put new docs in, but the older stuff is still sitting in nas folders.

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Honestly people who can’t open a PDF and refuse to learn shouldn’t use a computer in the first place

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By this logic people that don’t know how to drive vehicles shouldn’t be using transportation in the first place. Right…right?!

Same here. Does not make a difference, and it is amazing that people’s egos are hurt or happy about it somehow. But upvotes and downvotes is what drives all other social media: egos want more likes, more subscribes, more “friends”, they want that tribal approval. I find the fediverse to be less infected with FOMO. Drama doesn’t go long around here, doesn’t stick because there are no stupid algorithms feeding more FUD. I am starting to believe that this is where the top 1% of the social media hang out and chill. Here there are people that stick around for interesting conversations as opposed to “look at me”.

Fast, silent and bullet proof… will be the chosen vehicle for bank robberies and drug lords.

LOL

Pinewood derby block indeed!

Imagine how many pinewood derby Cybertrucks will be made this derby season by all the cub scouts dads out there.

This is so true!

Well… It did go pretty fast when Doc installed the flux capacitor on it!

Haha! There is an idea: a custom fitted rolling coal apparatus for the trunk bed of this thing!

Imagine this thing driving around the small rural towns in the US. What an out of place eye sore.

I blame the “mobilization” of the internet for stealing attention away from everyone. Those who are young enough (thinking my kids here) won’t know what it is to be with friends and or family talking and playing board games for a few hours without micro interruptions. It was good while it lasted…

Voting on Spain’s Running of The Bulls… after all it’s traditional

Legal, e qual é o hardware?

Genial!

Se for para o tio-avô então seria melhor o Slackware? ;-)