This is only any issue if you're nuking and doing a complete install. You know you don't have to do that, right?

Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

So when China blocks US products coming in, that's a brilliant move which helps China, hurts the US, and oh yeah Orange Man Bad and some wolf warrior jackass mods you up for the hate America shilling.

But when the US does the same thing to Chinese companies like Huawei for the exact same nationalist and protective reasons, you 50 cent Chinese shills go ballistic, tell us there's no evidence Chinese products are infected, it's the worst idea ever for the American economy, completely stupid and racist to block a Chinese company in the US. And then some Orange Man Bad mods you up for your 50 cent wolf warrior Chinese shilling.

You're so predictable, as are your dual standard hypocritical pals.

How are we going to replace the concepts of clockwise and counter-clockwise?

They need new words, kids can't read clocks. Heck, my freaking phone and watch both want to show me analong hands despite being digital. Just stop showing a leading 0 on the time, dammit! It's 2:30pm, not 02:30.

But they're not. The New York Post broke the true story on Hunter Biden's laptop and was censored off social media. NYT won a Pulitzer Prize for failing to question the Russian collusion hoax. Journalists covered for Biden, concealing his dementia from the public. Shall I link to the article in which the BBC radio journalist complains about "too many white co-workers"?

You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't. -- Micheal Malice

Which tax scams are those?

As one of those rich guys you loathe so much I'd love to know what scams I'm missing out on, especially since I just wired in my quarterly estimated payment yesterday.

I've look high and low for these alleged scams the jealous envious poor (you) think exist. They do not.

I pay a larger percentage than you and I certainly pay more than you in absolute terms.

In fact, I'll bet I pay more in taxes every year than you'll pay over your entire life.

There are no huge loopholes. There are no scams. There is no way to avoid ttaxes. There is no escape.

There are ways to spread a one time windfall across several years to reduce the total hit a -little- but even those methods have other costs, like having your money locked away untouchable for years and the amount saved is not dramatic.

Please post a url describing these scams you claim exist, since none of my advisors or very expensive accounts seems to be aware of this secret knowledge you possess. I likely pay my accountants and advisors more than you make yet here we are. You know more than they do. You should change careers and help out rich guys like me. You'd make a killing.

And yes the IRS is still enforcing the law. That's why I've had to pay tax attorneys tens of thousands to make sure my stuff was straight and deal with the IRS the one time it wasn't. Because the IRS enforces the law quite strictly.

Hey, that's great, glad you made it, too. You're just like me, then, right?

Did the union help you retire or did you do it by applying your own hard work, skill, and natural talent and intelligence to create more value than people around you who didn't work as hard?

Did everyone in your union get to retire early together? All for one, one for all! We must stand by our brothers! From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!

Just say Jews. We know what you mean already. We know, you're BIG MAD about your fascist hero Charlie Kirk getting righteously rubbed out. Netanyahu went on video and denied involvement, so STFU already, antisemite.

Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).

Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.

As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.

The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.

Does it work without a Facebook account and 24/7 creepy corporate surveillance?

Oh...

Which is unreliable in many situations. I worked on several projects that had issues involving intermittent data loss on a DB9 port, and every time the culprit turned out to be a USB/DB9 adapter. When we'd install dedicated RS232 cards, the problem went away.

For laptops, the answer to this kind of thing should be a standard space where a customer can specify what ports he wants... you get X number of standard ports, and then you can choose what goes into one or two available spaces. But you're just not going to see that happen with manufacturers, even if the customer is willing to pay a greater cost.

The issue is: how many people did AI displace?

Except that I spent some years growing up in dense, street-centric areas, and kids simply played in the streets. Every day. Our substitute for baseball (so as not to damage cars or windows) was "whiffle ball", with hollow plastic balls and bats. In the summers especially, we spent literally all day outside. In the streets. For kids who did this too much, the criticism was literally that "you let your kids run the streets".

Being car-centric has nothing to do with kids activity. The spread of video games and Internet connected culture had everything to do with the modern dearth of outdoor activity by kids. All of my youngest's friends are online in distant places. There are other kids in the neighborhood, but very few of them play outside that I can see. Online is where all the action is. Maybe the answer is for parents to literally kick kids out of the house, they way they used to do ("out, and I don't want to see you back inside until lunch" was a common summer refrain from parents). Maybe if all the kids are turned out, they'll start doing the natural thing, and make their own fun, which is all "outside" is.

Hmm no: I trust a coal miner to produce better code than an AI vibe coder.