Yes, and people ride horses, walk, use pencils to write words, grow gardens, and knit sweaters. What's your point?

The authoritative DCRainmaker recently wrote:

"The activity band market continues to wane, both for Garmin and others. For a company like Fitbit however, they can still convert millions of existing long-term Fitbit band users to a new unit. Thus it’s worthwhile to invest in that form factor. Whereas Garmin appears to have made the accounting calculus that it’s just not worth investing in anything more than a basic rebranding as a new model. And frankly, if I was in Garmin’s shoes – I might make the same decision based on the current market realities. Or more likely, I’d simply have put my resources elsewhere.

Suck it up and get a Fitbit Inspire 3 (on sale) nobody will be supporting us geezers for long. Get it while you can. (Like buying a new US car with a manual transmission)

After expressing my thoughts on the clouds, I usually turn to police helicopters. Personally, I hate them.

I believe the police love them. Why? They are fun, it's cool to see stuff and have the feeling of power and control flying above others, and is a financial incentive to have them up in the air with "flight time" as opposed to sitting in a hanger.

I want ten thousand drone flights prior to a single police helicopter flight. Ten thousand drone flights primarily will save citizens a ton of money in policing costs. Being less "fun" and without the financial incentive of flight time they will have a disincentive for overuse. Privacy? Eh, who cares.

Lastly, and most critically, other than the full-throated love and expressions of need for police helicopters from members of law enforcement, there is no evidence at all that forces who freely use police helicopter show a reduction in crime. Zero.

Wildly fun, feels great, makes money, sure. Reduces crime, no.

Hmm,

Just as GM announces the very highly rated, reliable, and economical Bolt is off the market, and their brethren at Ford rolls out their massive F-150 Lightening sales drop off in California. (What's that you say? American auto manufacturers profits went up during that window? That's peculiar)

I love when this happens. One day after my pithy insightful /. comment "that really should have been voted up" a well researched and detailed article gets published agreeing with, substantiating, and extending my thesis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/natural-gas-greenwashing-democrats

 

Yes, the plan from the beginning has always been to focus on the clean tailpipe, and not Shell and the extant petrochemical carbon refiners using gas and crude to make the fuel. And maintain all of their infrastructure and retail landscape to sell to car owners.

Here's another toss off: P=NP

Google it.

Though I'm positive it actually provides no safety or security other than making me feel smarmy. I dug deep into the credit bureau pages and found the pdf form. I printed it out, and USPS snail mailed it in, and eventually after a bit of mail back and forth, all three bureaus sent me a free paper credit report. I've been doing it every couple of years since they began the free credit report laws in the U.S.

Signing up, and submitting information over the net to get my 'free credit report' just sounded broken.
(I love USPS)

I've been a non-budgeter person. Five years ago I was encouraged to budget, and one of the recommendations was the Intuit Mint page. I signed up, and ignored it for about a year, mainly from fear of linking all my finances to intuit. I gave in. Everything is linked, I figured it out. Budgeting turns out is a good thing. I bought a house this year as I understand my finances at a close level.

I must change my routine now, that happens, but I'm not super excited about it.

BTW: Happy U.S. Labor Day

<quote><p>ah remember the good ol times when you had to work from childhood, 16 hours a day, and sleep on the floor next to the machine because the employer wanted it that way.</p><p>things are what they are and they cannot be changed, ever.</p><p>Fuck you.</p></quote> BTW: Happy U.S. Labor Day!

Just started Derry Girls, it's cute. With my US upbringing and neutral accent what reflects upon me is I totally get Ozark. With Downton Abbey it was close to clear comprehension. Derry Girls? I'm putting on the subtitles. My ancestry is Irish, so I'm feeling as if I'm letting my forebears down.

As Spinal Tap showed us, up the game with a randomly placed eleventh pin.

I love my Chromecast Audio. I built my whole audio system around it. There was only a Gen 1 of this, and I didn't buy any backups. It's been running flawlessly for ~10 years. With some wise choices it streams music that very closely approximates anything Sonos/Tidal blah. Just very nice and high quality music streaming, via Wifi, for $30.

I don't expect it will be EOL, because there is really nothing it does but stream an audio signal, but one day it is just going to fizzle out.

Try Emacs it's better.
(sorry, I couldn't help myself)