Nope. I worked for CVS (corporate) once upon a time, but not on the hill…and literally almost everybody in this state has worked for CVS, APC, or Electric Boat at some point in their lives.

It’s because it’s incomplete advice.

It shouldn’t just be “Be Yourself”

It’s missing two important words, in the middle.

Be confident in yourself.

Some people dislike musicals because they are unrealistic…nobody they know just bursts into song and dance all the time.

I think those people need to find new friends.

Come to Rhode Island.

We have a surplus of JWU culinary arts graduates who can only afford to cook in a van down by the river.

Native Rhode Islander here.

Food trucks are a staple of life. They are a quintessential part of RI culture. We have events at Roger Williams Park like every week in the summer and there’s lines of food trucks that each have like a 30 minute queue.

When I was in highschool (over 20 years ago now…), there were two big hangout spots: the coffee shop, and the hot weiner truck.

You all haven’t lived till you’ve choked down 4 all-the-way, lovingly crafted on some old Mediterranean guys hairy forearm, and washed it down with 24oz of iced cold coffee milk (milk with coffee-flavored syrup) at 2am.

I do aliases through simplelogin and have my domain hosted on mxroute.

My domain is my real last name…so I have subdomains like @myfirst.lastname.com gets pointed to simplelogin for aliases, which then forwards to mxroute. @mywifesfirst.lastname.com goes to the same simplelogin and points to her Gmail for now.

Mxroute is cheap and they’ve got decent web apps but really more made for traditional IMAP clients. And they don’t really do groupware…just email. But that’s really the hardest part, from an admin perspective.

Adminning email is getting to be a sacred art. It’s a lot of work and a constant arms race both against incoming spam, and the spam filters for whoever you are sending to. A whole ton of work for what is really an essential Internet service (when I can’t get into my credit card account because enom is slacking on forwarding mail, it’s a problem…and also why I switched to simplelogin).

For how cheap mxroute is, IMO, absolutely not worth the effort of self-hosting unless it’s actually your day job and you get some sick sadistic pleasure out of doing it on your own time.

The mxroute admin/owner himself also seems like a pretty chill guy. He’s been pretty forward and transparent on Reddit and lowendbox.

Edit to add: important stuff…make sure that you have an email address that you don’t host, to access stuff you need to for the stuff that you do (i.e. DNS, mail hoster, MFA provider, directory service, etc). I use a free proton for that.

Has he gotten robot legs yet?

Hey Elon, how much do clothes cost in The Matrix?

Edit: I feel bad for anybody who doesn’t get the references. It’s from Grandma’s Boy. Peak stoner comedy film. Very quotable…up there with “Your Highness” as my favorite stoner-comedies. Highly recommended.

Is that translated? Or, rather, does Fedir speak English?

I got a funny feeling that the translators in global media sound a hell of a lot more competent than Trump. And there’s a hell of a lot gained in translation.

Well, killing billionaires is taxing the rich, just in a roundabout way and with a little bit of class-eugenics sprinkled on top.

At least as long as we have estate taxes. And until some next-of-kin decides to liquidate everything and give to charity.

And then it still wouldn’t be good enough.

The Republicans are so fucking evil that no matter what the Dems do, it’ll never be good enough.

And meanwhile the discourse is constantly “where are the Dems” instead of “what in the actual fuck is wrong with all these Republicans”.

MY Dems (namely Warren but also Auchincloss…no idea what Markey is up to) have been busy. Highly recommend following your senator/representative on Bluesky, if they are on there yet. Also AOC ( @aoc.bsky.social … Her house.gov isn’t as active and it’s geared more for constituents)

Seriously.

Sick of this “where are the Dems?!” from mouthbreathers that don’t know how the government works at its most basic level.

The Dems hands are tied until enough Republicans break from the Nazis. All the Dems can do is gum up the works a bit (and they are pretty limited there). That’s about it.

The only option Congress has to correct this is impeachment…and a hell of a lot of it, because there’s a long list of succession, and the first one without an “R” next to his name is #11, and that’s RFK Jr.

And then all the corrupt justices that Trump loaded up the judicial with. Not just SCOTUS but all the lower courts.

So yeah…what are Republicans doing, because from here, it looks like they are all cheering this on, and they hold the trifecta.

How did they take this picture ?!?!

That’s how I felt about McCain and Romney during Trump 1.0.

Overton Window damn near shattered now.

Are we all just deciding to internalize it or something? Or is this Bystander Effect on a national scale?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Does anybody else feel like we’re all nearing a collective psychotic break? Like, am I crazy, or is everything suddenly fucking crazy?

Yeah bro sorry my subway already ran twenty minutes late and I wanna catch this train so I can see my kids before they go to bed.

You keep being a dick.

The reason to use the escalators when you’re in a hurry is because it’s twice as fast if you walk up them.

If you want to take the escalators to be lazy, that’s fine…stay to the right and out of my way. Same rules as the highway. Not complicated.

How fucking entitled are you that you “hate the concept of escalator etiquette” and you think it’s acceptable to not let people pass you? Were you a bollard in a former life?

NGL when I commuted on train/subway, my fat ass would take the stairs nearly everytime.

Not because it’s healthier, but because all the other fatasses on the already-too-narrow escalator have absolutely no concept of escalator etiquette, and I got a fucking train to catch because our subway ran 20 minutes late.

Came here to say something like this…

“Wait why is the duck covered in black goo. Is that oil?”

“Listen don’t worry about that, dawn soap cuts through all sorts of oil”

“But don’t ducks need to have a thin coat of their natural oil on their feathers to protect them from the elements?”

“Let’s change the subject, we have to dry this duck, and for that, we’ll turn to the Quicker Picker Upper…”

I agree with you…the cost of a gallon of gas is, and has always been, less than the cost to remove a gallon of gas worth of CO2 from the atmosphere, and I don’t think the price should ever have been less than that amount. I don’t think that’s an unfair position, cleaning up your mess should be a part of the cost of the good.

But man what a way to fuck the majority of the 99%.