‘Federally Protected’ is a meaningless phrase in 2026…

It actually means a lot of you can’t afford to pay the bribe (a.k.a. settle a frivolous lawsuit).

Trump could have at least given his loyal supporter a meaningless truth social post.

If you’re having fun at your job, you’ll never work a day in your life.

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, “we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it’s a positive impact as much as possible.” tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

One time an acquaintenance told me that they were drinking raw milk and that it was very expensive.

Later, I relayed this story to my wife who scowled and said, “Gross. When I was a kid [dirt poor in the rural USA], we would buy raw milk from the dairy farm down the road because it was cheap. I would never drink that stuff again.”

Becoming a fad pretty much drives up the price of anything. So if you’re drinking raw milk, you’re playing Russian Roulette with bacteria while getting ripped of.

As my state declares Traditional Values Month

The best way to keep the peasants in line is by giving them other peasants to look down on. Makes them feel like they’re in charge of something.

“I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.”

That causes a rather severe rash.

Some of the users definitely like to pontificate a bit much and there’s still gaps in reliable clients for some platforms (e.g. Apple TV). That said, Jellyfin, as a service, is solid.

The many faces of Kristen Stewart

Past me was a moron sometimes.

Well when you fire all the competent people or demoralize them so much that they quit, this kind of bullshit is what you’re left with.

You joke, but some gullible idiot will buy that.

I know people who get their phone service through “PureTalk” to escape the “liberals at AT&T”. I’m still not sure which is the greater irony: the fact that AT&T is an extremely conservative stick in the mud Corpo of the fact that PureTalk is an MVNO whose network is provided by – wait for it – AT&T

Don’t give the corporate shills any more ideas.

If the characters hadn’t spent practically every night drinking until 2AM, HIMYM could have been compressed into a movie with a shitty ending instead of 9 seasons with a shitty ending.