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Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”

I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).

I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.

I want to do this, too, but computers is how I earn money.

I really thought we were gonna Weekend at Bernie’s, this last election, and wheel that man into the Oval Office even if he had the remaining cognitive ability of a houseplant - because such an administration would still be better than the alternative. But, I was wrong, and here we all are.

I have such high hopes for the Slate.

I don’t want any fucking software. At all. I just want a regular-sized electric truck.

Stock up on old physical books

Imagine if any other type of organization had this sort of systemic problem with child abuse.

“Wow, there sure are a lot of pedophile employees at Apple Computer abusing their customers’ children.”

“Dang, the US Department of Transportation sure does have a kiddie diddler problem.”

“Holy shit, what’s the deal with all the abusive perverts working at Ronald McDonald House?”

Sounds absolutely bonkers, right‽

If any secular organization was having this kind of problem at scale, we’d all be calling for their blood. Yet the church gets a pass somehow. A few complaints, a few lawsuits, some big scandals, some negative press, but fundamentally nothing ever changes.

To hell with the church.

Sherman should have kept burning.

I dunno. They were driven underground before. How did our grandfathers manage that‽

So, how do we drive these fuckers back underground?

And after the fall of the Roman Republic, when the emperors would speak to “rule of law” in theory, but relied almost entirely on “might makes right” in practice, assassination attempts became so commonplace that it simply became part of the job of being imperator.

Without due process, our civilization devolves into a mafia mob boss scenario - assassination and coup after assassination and coup - until eventually the empire fragments into fiefdoms. But now with rifles and drones.

No sane person should want this.

I used to think that the term “zeitgeist” was a neat metaphor, but people who took it too literally were silly and merely playing around with woo-woo mysticism (like Jung).

Now I’m not so sure. The “zeitgeist” of America appears to be going through its cruel edge-lord phase, and the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

It feels like a force of Nature happening, like a sudden flood or something.

I’m leaning on the mystical to explain this shit now, fuck it. Maybe our land, too, has something akin to a “Spirit of Odin” that rises up every few centuries and makes people irrational, blood-thirsty, and crazy.

I just don’t know.

Most crypto is traceable, if someone is willing to spend the time and energy on it.

Monero is not traceable. Because of the better privacy, I’m surprised Monero isn’t more popular. But I guess other cryptos are “private enough” while offering other advantages (like not having to mirror the entire blockchain).

There was a day, not too long ago, where I’d seriously considered buying a Tesla. And I nearly did.

As of today, I for one will never buy a single Tesla product - not a car, not a truck, not a battery, not a robot, whatever - for as long as I live.

And no decision from Tesla leadership will change my mind at this point. Fuck them.

Even if that makes me a crazy old man 30-40 years from now when all this is in the past. Never means never.

All my neighbors are MAGA

We should never allow MAGA a single moment’s peace then.

Same! This is 100% on my radar now.

Hell yeah

No stereo is a bit spartan, but definitely a move in the right direction regardless. I want one.

I overlocked my Pentium 133 to 150.

I was such a badass.

This lady has been divorced twice.

Not that I otherwise care. Do what you want with your life and relationships - life is complex and difficult at times. Not every relationship works out, sadly.

But for a twice-divorced lady to tell women to “submit to men,” it sounds like she herself has a problem keeping her trap shut and submitting to a man. The hypocrisy is so thick here you can cut it with a knife.

Rules for thee but not for me.