all-or-nothing types, which .. I am one of. But I don't take full breaks from my devices. This is rather surprising, and i'm not sure if it's come about due to age and being worn down by time, or if I ran out of fucks to give about what others think.

What I dodo is take a break from the news. All news. From all sources. To me, they're all equally broken and suspect, every single one of them from A to Z an from east to west and north to south.

Once I do that, my "wellness" markedly improves, while I still use my phone as a camera, a texting machine (teletype, if you will?) a phone phone, email, etc. It is my walkman, my 110 camera, my little black book with pencil, and more. It's even a full-on movie camera, editing deck, and music maker. It's a library, with both local and remote books.

But I'll be goddamned if I let the newsman in, or the preacher, or the climate doomers, or any of the riffraff that currently is hell bent on telling me what to do. Fuck your rules. My toy, my rules.

Ultimately you are in control, the phone (at least the iphone) doesn't put tiktok in your hand and doesn't put a gun to your head while whispering "You will watch.. you will watch.. you will watch.."

Smartphone's too good of a toy to let go. You need discipline to use it in a way that doesn't rot your brain. Step #1 is stop the feeds, stop the scrolling, stop the news.

Right. I understand when I'm at work it might seem I'm somewhere else. However, when I select the web site of the store closest to me, the delivery store option and the store itself should not be several states away. I've selected the store closest to me. Everything should be set to that store regardless of anything else.

Directly below this story is one saying Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can't Match Most Junior Programmers.

According to the blurb, 95% of all code is done by people at 37 Signals. Whereas, Salesforce is claiming their internal AI tools have made their software engineers so productive, headcount hasn't risen.

While both can be true, it's an interesting to see differing opinions on how AI is or is not affecting coding.

It makes me want to vomit, the way the United States and the United Kingdom have ceded production of raw materials to China and other countries.

We don't make new lead in the US.

We had trouble with copper until this one mine dared start up again.

Our steel mills have been sold off.

England can't even refine iron ore into steel anymore.

All of it for 'environmental' reasons.

Listen up, cupcakes: A country that can't work it's own raw materials will be subjugated by those who do.

Here endeth the lesson on national sovereignty.

The culprit for your "wrong store" problem might be 'ZIP code search', vs 'geocoded address search'.

It shouldn't matter. If I select my closest store the least that should be done is select the same city as the store, not several states away from me.

This same scenario happens with Lowes. For some inexplicable reason, it chooses a different state as my default until I change to the store which is literally, in the truest sense of the word, five miles from me.

Businesses need to stop thinking. Only do what the potential customer tells them.

as Chris Rock said, the money is in the medicine, not the cure.

Which is why Big Pharma cured the world of smallpox and Rinderpest. Think of the hundreds of billions of dollars they've lost by getting rid of those two. If you include how close we were to getting rid of polio, their losses would easily top $1 trillion.

But sure, let's talk about cures. Start with cancer. Which of the 200+ varieties do you want to work on first? Once you've settled on one, figure out how one cure will work for everyone taking into consideration the vast amount of genetic differences. Hint: black people react differently to many standard drugs than do caucasians.

It's nice to blame Big Pharma for some things (price gouging), but claiming they're not trying to cure people because they want to make money is stupid, no matter what Goldman Sachs has to say.

To this day, Amazon has not been able to integrate Whole Foods into the Amazon family. Their internal systems are still Whole Foods, not Amazon. That was 7.5 years ago. Here's how bad things are.

I do a search for the closest Whole Foods to where I live. I select the link to the store site. My local store shows somewhere in another state. I have to manually select my closest store and Make It My Store even though I selected the link to my closest store.

After doing all of the above, I search for a product while I'm at work. It shows available. I go home, a few miles from my work, and perform the exact same steps. The product shows out of stock. Not just on one day, but over multiple days this scenario persists.

On top of all that, the product I'm looking for is constantly out of stock (once I've verified things are working correctly).

I'm not sure what "technology and logistics expertise" Amazon was offering Saks, but if they can't get their own shit together on their own store, Saks owes them nothing.

Do you really think Musk is a climate denier?

He's the same guy who says we need to have more people.

Remind me again who is creating man made climate change.

The question it posed was whether the consequences are relevant to the rightness or wrongness of a decision to perform one, when the alternative of not doing so will lead to the death of the mother. Do we, should we, consider the consequences? Or is it just wrong, whatever the consequences?

Texas Republicans made that decision. Maternal death rates are up 56% since they outlawed abortions in 2021. Clearly they don't care about the mother.

And yet, there are a multitude of Israeli soldiers and former soldiers all saying what Israel is doing is genocide. This includes a former soldier and holocaust scholar, a former Defense Minister, and former air force pilot.

Clearly they are anti-semites.

Banning a group comitting genocide is the right thing to do. This would be no different than banning Russians from games.

Credit card lenders are not raking in cash on a credit card. Profitability studies show them to usually be ~2-3%.

From the story:

It should read, JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Hit Profits. That's what this is about. After reading the article, the only thing mentioned about how this cap would hurt consumers is banks make a lot of money on these interest charges. Nowhere did anyone say how this would hurt consumers except for the warning that consumer credit would be curtailed. Without an explanation why this would be.

In short, not having a 25% interest rate would hurt banks beause they wouldn't generate the billions in income from people who don't pay their balance off each month.

Grok now has access to untold amounts of classified documents at the Pentagon.

Its hallucinations will be embedded across all networks at the Pentagon. Isn't that great?