No. Not "worked in the office just fine"

Bullshit. They suffered quietly. Not just the visibly disabled, the wheelhchair-bound that suffered.

Those who loathe crowds suffered. Those who loathed the daily commute suffered. Those who get home with their nerves in tatters after a day of bullshit suffered.

COVID's utter disruption showed worker and boss alike what can be done remotely. It exposed the modern office for the useless sham it is in the interconnected era.

To those who keep prattling on about RTO and how it's necessary: fuck you.

I'm not going back. You'll have to plug my casket into the network before I go back. I'd rather be dead than go back to a stupid office 5 times a week.

* laughs in dialog *

Nah.. it'll be the other team that does this.

You know, the one that had a reanimated cadaver "sign" paperwork he had no idea he was signing.

The one that lost to a convicted felon.

The one that hid a cancer diagnosis for so long it's bloody obvious he had it before 2020..

You know, that team. The one that aligns with the monsters throwing incendiary devices at people out during a peaceable assembly.

You people project so hard, we see through you -- everything you accuse our side of, you are actively doing.

The last four years are a fucking disgrace to the world. Biden, Jill Biden, Harris, et al should be tried, and shot, as traitors.

No, I did a cartoon double take while eating dinner while reading this.

Billions. Didn't know there was that much crap in the world to sell.

I see what you did there..

Wait wait wait.. wait..

Lemme get this straight -- Microsoft abandons year-based verison numbers like 2 decades ago, and then Apple starts calling things Pro and Max.

10 years later Dell starts doing the same with their hardware. Pro this and Pro Max that.

And now *Apple* is going to the long-defunct year version number?

We're definitely in 2025 B or something. I think the timeline diverged in 2008. Someone got the time car in 2008, went to some other year, and made it so 2025 would be .. this.

Nothing makes sense anymore. Up is down, left is right, good is bad, bad is good, truth is lie, lie is truth, and now we have iOS 26.

I'm a bit tired of living my life at several WTF's per hour.

This, right here, is how we end up with Dr. Lexus.

Watch Idiocracy if you don't know who Dr. Lexus is.

I'm Sorry, Dave.. I can't do that.

I'm not joking. Kill the penny. I was usaf and did overseas for a bit, 3 years in England and a combined year in Italy and France, and AAFES (our store/supermarket/consessionaires) dealt in 0 or 5, no pennies. Too much $ to ship 'em over there.

And for me, on a personal level, the penny hasn't felt right or sounded right since 1982. That was the last year of the copper penny. Ever after you get a zinc slug with the thinnest veneer of copper. Sounds and feels like Monopoly money.

Kill it already. Serves no purpose.

So much for all that "saved energy" from LEDs. Something else came along to eat all that "saved energy."

And my local util wants to raise rates. Fuck them.

One gets the sense the entire industry will sink.

Reboots, rehashes and regurgitation of the old cannot keep the industry afloat. And, there seems to be little tolerance from the viewing public for what currently passes as "the new."

The extreme balkanization of the streaming space is also a gaping hole in the ship's hull.

I expect in the end, it's going to be WB on one side, and Disney on the other, and those two will own everyone else.

The proper thing is to take how much the typical user beats up their phone in a day, select a battery that'll do that and a little more -- then double that number and that's what you put in.

If your math says you need 2ah, put 4.

If it's user-swappable even better.

Be courageous, do it. Buck the trend.

Panasonic's been cooked for a while new. Their HT projectors were fantastic, their HT receivers were built around TI's PurePath digital amplifier, which has insanely good sound (I have two..)

And then one day mid last decade they stopped all of that. By 2018 they were gone from that market.

Very bad sign back then.

Their LCD panels for the home PJs were made by Epson, so I just went to Epson when my Pana died at 6500 hrs. I really need to get it fixed, the AE-8000 is shockingly good if you have a proper room for it. I do. The Epson's fine, but the Pana was a league above. Punched above its weight.

Worse news, now.

When everyone is neurodivergent, no one is.

Remember when a person would exit high school, and companies like GM, Ford, Pratt & Whitney and such would get these kids, train them up, turn them into machinists, welders, electricians and more, and then built things.

One could even concievably work at that one company your entire career, and retire with pension.

Yeah. I remember. I was little at the tail end of that era. Do any of you remember?

This sounds like a return to that, but.. I'm sure it's all for show and virtue-signalling.

"Authenticity" died sometime in the past 30 years.

We need to get back to this kind of thing. You want skilled labor to make things? Train them up yourselves. It's how it was done, and we won wars and went to the moon like that.

Now we just moan and whine on social media.