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“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.”

RVs exploded around here during COVID. All the parks I know of are at 100% capacity and I’ve been told to reserve now and pray. (Not that I’m looking, just RV-curious.)

I have a theory that shitloads of people like me lost parents and grandparents to COVID, got inheritances and tried to buy something to live in. Also, seems like housing prices spiked and nothing was available in my hood. I suspect the same reasoning. I ended up with 2.5 acres of swamp to play around in. :)

Here in Florida you gotta put your shack on wheels. Functionality doesn’t matter, just wheels.

Here’s the GOP playbook:

1. Slash government.
2. Complain government is broken.
3. Privatize government roles.

I read the Project 2025 section on NOAA and the NWS and this is indeed the play. They claim weather services will be more efficient in private hands.

I read almost this exact article 20 years ago.

Gotta hit LLMs with utterly unbiased questions, and that’s hard for most. I get pretty solid results, but still, gotta look into the reply, not take it at face value. And the further you pursue a certain tack, the less valuable the output.

I thought Google fiber shut down years ago?

Pretty sure my .22s have a larger bore, and I have a shitload.

Funny story:

Black dude runs up in the local redneck bar and starts waving a BB pistol around. “You’re money and your jewelry!”, kinda talk. People were like, whatever dude, that’s a BB gun. “I’m fucking serious!” One the guys playing pool walked up behind him and clocked him over the skull with the blunt end of a pool stick. Fin.

Fahrenheit has nearly double the resolution of Celsius.

F for temperatures affecting humans, C for science.

The editorial is about long-term trends.

Never happen without legislation. People want super thin phones, manufactures want you buying new phones.

I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.

SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.

Posted this in another comm just earlier:

Racist Field Trip gets me laughing fit to cry. Would have killed to be in the room when he was telling the story. Guys in the background about to piss themselves!

No love for Commander Keen? Aside from Doom, that was my most played.

Got a weird DOS shell “OS” at Walmart for $5, favorite shell of all time. Made icons with the built-in editor of all the Keen beasts!

Anything involving water. Kayaking, canoeing, boating on my shitty 10’ boat, skinny dipping, all that.

Also, fucking around the yard, gardens and mini-ponds, but that also involves being wet.

Part of it was EPA regulations fucking up small trucks. Another part is that they’re safer for the occupants, deadlier for everyone else. And then there’s general machismo.

I like her music when I hear it, but don’t seek it out. From what I gather she really speaks to women, they get her in ways I (male) would not relate to. She strikes me as moral and doesn’t have skeletons in the closet or any weird behavior one would expect from someone that rich and famous. As dad would have said, “That’s a stand-up woman!”

She knows how to sell herself, which I find an admirable and difficult trait. I feel I’m 10x more confident than the people that post around here and she’s 100x more confident that I. And it’s not bullshit, unearned confidence a la Senior Musk.

And who doesn’t love how she fucked the record companies over at their own game? Knowing her own worth changed the industry.

Doesn’t hurt that she’s almost ethereally pretty. :)

I don’t have room for any sort of physical media. Yeah, I have some legacy tech I occasionally fuck with, and my sound system parts are from the 70s, 80s, 90s and up, but those parts do their job.