They mention the other stores and restaurants because people know where they shop and eat, not what company produces the food they eat. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Also Taylor Fresh Foods Inc. does business as Taylor Farms. It’s the same company.

Gendered nouns in German are just as stupid and arbitrary as spelling in English. Why is a pencil masculine? Why is beer neutral but coffee masculine? Why is school feminine?

My uncle wasn’t the admin of his (Windows) computer, but he managed to install a web browser that was basically malware. The damn thing didn’t require any admin permissions to install, and it automatically ran a powershell script to reinstall itself if it was removed. I had to edit the registry to remove it. It’s crazy.

My indoor cat loves to sleep on a chair on the balcony for hours.

“Mommy, why does that kid have a huge head?” – Me as a toddler pointing to a baby in a grocery store.

My mom scolded me and left embarrassed. As an adult, she told me that the kid did have an enormous head.

And those people are stupid. You can’t make the day longer by moving it around. If you live up north, you’re going to be going to work in the dark or coming home in the dark. Deal with it. You can’t fix it. I’m just sick and tired of changing the time twice a year for bullshit reasons.

The US voting system is fucked up and we’ve got a dictator, but even we don’t make a bill into a law when the nays outnumber the yays. Quorum rules exist for a reason.

Twitter was always shit. Eron Muskrat is so high on his own supply, I don’t think he’s capable of following a master plan like that. He’s a pathetic man who wants people to listen to him.

You’re safe from my pedantry for now OP.

There’s plenty of good podcasts. I’m going through the massive backlog of Behind the Bastards. Learning about the worst people in history is important and entertaining.

They’re still pretty common in the Seattle metro area. My parents are within a stone’s throw of two of them.

Here’s an hour long video about gas stoves. At about 29 minutes in, he looks at CO2 levels. The CO2 results are not brilliant to say the least .

If he keeps bathing in sewage, he’ll get sick eventually.

I’m gonna need a lot more than 10 square meters of space if everyone is changing their shirts twice a week. Yuck.

The bathrooms at SEA airport are unisex. They’re great! The toilet stalls are large and totally private. There’s a special urinal area too. I honestly don’t know why more places, especially big public places, aren’t unisex.

This isn’t realistic! The core is too small to go supercritical when scaled down to mousetrap size. Immersion broken.

Here’s what I did: I bought a $50 Dell Optiplex desktop with a 4th generation Intel CPU on ebay. I stuffed in 3 HDDs from ServerPartDeals and a boot SSD I had laying around. This machine draws 50 to 60 watts continuously.

I got caddies for the HDDs from my local used computer parts store. I got 5.25 in to 3.5 in adapters from Amazon.

I added a 10 gig SFP+ card (which isn’t fully utilized since my network is mostly 2.5 Gig). Realistically, the onboard gigabit port is adequate.

I got a SATA PCIe card so I can add a 4th drive if needed.

I also bought a Nvidia Quadro P400 graphics card (similar to a GTX 1050, but half the price) for $30 on eBay for Jellyfin transcoding. I couldn’t get the onboard Intel GPU to play nice with Jellyfin.

Excluding the cost of the drives, this setup cost me about $130.

Tailscale works pretty well, but I usually use Wireguard to connect to my router remotely. I’ve had issues getting Tailscale to work well with my reverse proxy, but I suspect that’s a me problem rather than a Tailscale problem. I have OPNsense and Adguard running on an ancient Mac Mini that serves as my router. (If you follow this route, make sure you get a Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, not a USB one.)

It’s worth noting that the current outbreak that’s occurring north of Panama started prior to DOGE doing its bullshit. Apparently it began in 2022.

At least in my case, my DOC IS 3.0 modem was having connectivity issues. My neighbor in another apartment had similar issues: dropped connections, slower than expected speeds, etc. Switching to DOCSIS 3.0 modems solved the problem. I guess Comcast upgraded their hardware and it wasn’t compatible with my modem anymore

I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.

Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.

Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.

Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don’t fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they’re not being opened.