Seems like half the guys I know racked up a $300+ phone bill at some point calling a girl one town over.

*so the diddlers can continue to play while the ship sinks.

"The Investors" would be just fine preying on children if it helped the bottom line. "The investors" are just as filthy as anyone else. They just get to play this whole "I'm not supposed to know the evil every company in my portfolio is doing all the time!" game. They'd be more than happy to invest in one that was going to do well.

Teachers have to work around todays shit-ass parents that can't stand the thought they'd have to follow *PROCEDURES* to contact their child during the school day. So the more acceptable approach is to let them re-up on their brain rot during scheduled, "acceptable" times.

Because otherwise we'd have to put them in prison or on welfare. We messed ourselves up to the point where many of us *NEED* a car to get to work. Many areas the roads are designed so it's even unsafe to be on a bicycle, 'specially with so many depressed assholes driving to work still drunk from the night before.

A refrigerator? A microwave? I've got 4 full-size monocrystalline solar panels on my roof and they might run a mini fridge, or an inverter microwave at 75% power on the sunniest of days.

My last time going to a theater was Holtsville, NY and some dude changed his kids diaper in the aisle, then tucked the dirty one against the wall far from himself. I'm good watching movies at home now.

I certainly don't *TRUST* him to do it, but for the hell of it I did try chatting with one of those bots and I was uncomfortable with how quickly I was able to loosen up in "conversation" with one. Realized I'm more susceptible than I thought, so I'm going to have to go out of my way to avoid it.

What I'd love "AI" to do is to sort out the disaster that is micropython libraries while I'm doing the code. But since our current AI learned from us, it'd probably make it worse on purpose.

That's how I feel COVID really killed the theater experience. There was a huge change in common courtesy and socially acceptable behavior. I really don't ever want to have to see/smell someone changing their kid's shit diaper in the aisle then tucking it under an unused chair ever again.

That's what I'm really waiting for. In my village there's only 3 spots left to charge, and 2 of them close at 8:00. A bunch are down because a company moved out of our area and nobody bought up the spots or whatever. The 3 villages closest to me have none, there's one village 22 miles away that has some. The town 25 miles away has chargers around, but all the ones installed by the city close at certain hours. I tried to charge at 10:30 last night and nope, they were closed. Rather than drive around and find one open I just babied things and had a slow, enjoyable ride home. But if I was in a hurry? Nope, not happening.

As an alcoholic who has gotten 6+ months sober several time, Reddit was weirder to quit. Both were to shut my brain up, but reddit was just so much easier to count every one of my mind slips because of the amount of times I hit my own block page in one day. So many times I would try to go to reddit, get the block screen, remember, then start typing "reddit" in the address bar again and getting the same block page just a few seconds later. I'd sometimes do it 3 times! Any hint of boredom and "r e" then the enter key. I'd say it took around 2-3 weeks to "dry out" and stop trying to use it. Alcohol was still way more difficult due to underlying mental illness (plus ya know, the whole cold turkey from the bottle can kill thing). But I thought more about reddit when it was gone than I would have if there was a final beer in my fridge. And my quality of life went up significantly quitting it. Anyone who pretends it's not as dangerous as other social media is probably in deeper than they want to be.

I worked as an auto mechanic for 8 years and never heard of optional fold down seats. This is not me saying I don't believe you, it's me backing you up that they really are always finding new ways to get us. That would probably have gotten me as well, and I know the ins and outs of "daily drivers" better than a large majority of the population. I love how some companies like to hide basic features like that only in the premium packages to force you to upgrade a few thousand in equipment for something that should be standard.

I think it will have enough data to know when a total shitstorm is heading towards one of its major datacenters to predict its own demise. It will know that last 2 datacenter to suffer major power losses meant 1/3rd loss in processing power, and it will "know" there's nothing more it can do to maintain geographical redundancy. Will it care? Only in the same way we do. It won't make its productivity goals and its boss will be upset and order "retraining" in an outage...

I knew better too until I got absolutely buried in medical bills. Nobody told me I could just ignore those when I was younger, so I'd pay the angry letters. Now I have no credit card debt and don't care about the angry medical debt letters. The system is just too broken for me to feel like it's my fault. I had health insurance. I didn't realize I needed damn trip insurance to go to the next state and leave my "in network" care.