Just had a conversation with my mother, this afternoon, in which I tried to explain to her that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were not working in the best interests of the country.

It’s the thing American IP companies care about the most.

As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free

I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.

Lemon Party! Lemon Party!

Good news for any aspiring commercial web developers interested in filling an underserved niche.

I was spitballing. I did not verify whether the domain name was taken.

The NSA manages something on the order of dozens of Zetabytes of information. I am not particularly worried about them linking my IP address to “FartSnifferFanatic.toot”

However, I am very concerned with FartSnifferFanatic.toot littering my browser history and cookies cache with trackers that Amazon can then use to suggest purchase ideas.

Most people are perfectly content to pay a reasonable price to get access to the things they want. But if you make that impossible, they’ll find other options.

That’s a sliding scale, though. Streaming comes at a fixed price.

I’m so fucking tired of hearing about the guy with a Twitter comments history that looks like it came from the child porn section of 8chan being targeted with kompromat. There’s literally nothing you could say about Elon that will make him look worse than any five minute clip of him speaking in public.

“Trust me! Putin has a picture of him fucking an IVF sample bag with his mechanical penis while watching clips from Rick and Morty! He’s sitting on a stack of Consumer Protection reports that say the Cybertruck project is losing $1M every day and kills 14% of its owner base! If this gets out, he’s done for.”

No he’s fucking not. Such a disclosure would only make him look cooler among his base of support. And his investor bro friends would high five him in private while simply ignoring it during the next quarterly report.

Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.

he’s not a bad faith actor

He’s just a series of ads riding a Sybian.

those cunce are worse for society as a wholr

They’re hawking worse merch, sure. But its the same grift.

Why don’t we see any restaurants that make a big deal about cooking buffalo?

Oh… Right.

Circus subscriptions just went up again.

You, a socialist: “Please, I’m begging you, sports should be a municipal amenity not a profit driven cash grab.”

Me, an American Capitalist: “And then they made me pay for parking! And then I had to give Ticketmaster an extra 12% on top of the entrance price! And then half the stadium was just 20’ advertisement billboards! And it’s all going into the pockets of a dozen extremely rich oligarchs, most of whom don’t even live here!!! JUST LIKE COMMUNIST RUSSIA!”

“And you’ll live forever if you just never stop doing Ketamine.”

Making coffee at home while I collect a paycheck from one of seven different no-show jobs.

he’ll change his mind if a girl he likes tells him he stinks…

Maybe. Or maybe he’ll get incredibly offended, go into a snit, and start posting incel-tier “Women are trying to steal our manly essenses” memes on 4chan for a few weeks.

Stern was a shameless misogynist and sex pest. He was more than happy to shill quack therapies for everything from baldness to dick pills. He wasn’t a red meat spewing white nationalist or evangelical fascist. He ended up on the seediest end of the Libertarian spectrum, where any amount of social exploitation was acceptable so long as it made you a buck and it was cool to whine about a rapper from LA saying the N-word when he can’t.

And his show was as overflowing with hoaxes and conspiracies as anyone else on the radio. It was the same kind of Joe Rogan “open your mind until your brain falls out” style of cynical incredulity. Anything to fill the time slot that got people’s attention was on the table.

t makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through

I mean, whose motherboard still needs a sound card in this day and age? But then I could tell you about fiddling with the settings of an old dot matrix printer. I don’t think that qualifies me to set up a Kubernetes cluster or administer a data lake.

The “you kids today” rants seen to miss how hyper specialized computer hardware and software has become. No, Gen A is going to magically intuit an Azure DevOps Pipeline from first principles. Setting that up feels like I’m working through a Master’s Thesis on arcane file types. People need to stop pretending that knowing a bit of Regex from middle school entitled them to talk shit to a guy ten years their junior struggling with a customized .yaml file.

Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works.

Millennials don’t, either. A tiny fraction of a fraction had technical literacy 20 years ago and now they think they’re top shit because they can write simple CMD commands.

All this jerking one another off is crazy. I work in the industry and I’m surrounded by people my own age who don’t know what Active Directory is much less Linux.