‘How to avoid the inlaws during the holidays, or die trying.’

‘Free Thinker’

… test the Doctor’s reflexes, first.

Oh, there are ways out, that don’t involve windows.

In case of emergency, HALT_AND_CATCH_FIRE.

Broad rule of thumb for me:

If your website needs ad revenue to either exist, or that’s fundamentally its entire business model?

That website does not need to exist.

Now sure, are their caveats to this? Yes. But broadly, its usually true. The website should exist as a small loss leading part of your whole shebang, or should have some kind of membership or donation model or something else, to fund itself.

Its also not that hard to make a website follow broswer agnostic standards. If the website can’t figure out how to do that, if they think its fine to be a browser-vendor exclusive website, I don’t need to use it.

Why does reddit hate privacy?

Because their business model is to sell the data you give them and generate on their site.

You are the product.

They do not want bad product.

Department of War Crimes?

Department of Fails our Audits without Fail?

Department of Disease Proliferation?

Department of Terrorism Generation?

Department of Actionable Kinetic Subsidies to Powerfully Lethal Biblical Fan Fiction?

Its even more literal than that.

Write them into your will.

Leave everything to them.

Barely related tangent, but maybe kinda related:

The Seattle Light Rail.

The train cars have computerized voice speakers for announcing stops and such.

When you get to a stop, they say ‘Please use the exit doors on my left/right’, depending on which station, where the platform is, etc.

But it’s her left. Not the left.

… The train owns its own body and is apparently alive.

I mean… even if they’re not moving a lot of units, its still broadly a good problem to have -> considerably more people than you thought, want to buy the thing you sell.

So at bare minimum you’ve over delivered in terms of product design.

The extremely obvious capitalist response to that would be to raise prices on that thing. Win win, right? The extra profits go toward more capex to make more future production.

… But they haven’t done that.

They haven’t done that because they care about their image more than their profit margins on this particular product.

And/or because in the current environment… basically, the cost/reward on spending more capex isn’t worth the reputation hit.

The capex spending to meaningfully ramp up production would be so expensive, that it’d end up being a net loss, in terms of reputation damage.

… At least this is my semi-informed guess.

Well, on the one hand… having more demand than you can actually fulfill is the kind of problem most busineses would like to have…

I’m still counting this as a very broad win.

The corruption is hilariously obvious now, they had no other choice.

They’re afraid.

Them being afraid, the lying and bullshit being undeniably obvious to anyone with ~+90 IQ, and there now being actual substantial public awareness and concern, and real organizations dedicated to combatting this corruption?

Should have been that way a decade ago, but better late than never.

… to a liitle old place where,

we can get togetheeeerrrrr~!

Love shack, baby, love shack!

… well now I have to try that, just to see how much I hate it or not, hahaha!

Does sound like that would basically taste like being violently kicked in the face.

Huh.

I’ve not seen that. Everywhere I’ve been, its the little mini pallettes of… 10 or 12 or something.

Oh, humans can have basically one bone.

They are horrible and agonizing conditions, perhaps similar to being slowly partially or totally mummified by your own body.

Ankylosing Spondylitis, Pfeiffer Syndrome, Klippel-Feil Syndrome, etc.

Imagine your bones all fusing together. You can’t bend, or maybe walk, move your jaw, or maybe even breathe.

Oh so good, you weren’t dead, contrary to earlier rumors.

I suspected you were just having perhaps a bit too much fun in… some where in south east asia, right?

Actually no, never tried it.

I’ve only heard it is notoriously awful.

Agreed, peaked at 7.

And its been literally all downhill from there.

I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.

“We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”

Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.

We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.

For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.

But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could do to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.

(Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)

We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.

After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.

Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.

Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.

Or maybe Windows 8 was my personal Vietnam, or something, lol.

I wanna know how you buy just two packets of ramen.

What, do they sell the packets individually at a corner store?