Yeah. Why weren't you posting articles about coronavirus in January & February, AC. We didn't know much about it, and if you did, how come you didn't alert us?

What arglebargle_xiv said.

I'm so sick of this pervasive shit throughout the tech world I'm retiring about 6 years early. I'm burnt out trying to support this crap, whether it's Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, you name it.

iTunes is one of the most egregious. Every fucking update changed the UI. It just doesn't work.

Some cassette decks had the tech to fast-forward to the next silence (end of song), but if the music had significant silent parts it could get frustrating.

I had an 8-track player in my quadrophonic system.

Frankly, for all their faults, I liked Compact Cassettes. 8-Tracks? Not so much.

Sure, Amazon has way more. But (at least through the ROKU app) good luck trying to find an interesting movie, even if it's not top-rated, that's free through Prime membership.

Almost any worthwhile film, even old black and white movies, is usually for rent or sale, rather than free through Prime. And browsing through the entire mess is more trouble than it's worth.

Great. Outsource more government activities to private industry. 'Cause that always works out well. I mean, look how swimmingly the prison industrial complex is working out. Or logistics for the military.

What's next? Outsourcing the IRS? Hoo boy.

Pffft! I've been dismissing VR since Jaron Lanier & Mondo2000. It's a bunch of hokum.

"You really don't know that many rural people."

Just most of my family, but hey, your experience clearly... trumps mine, right?

"Many of the social safety nets that are there to help people in overpopulated areas do not properly help people in lower cost of living areas."

So maybe instead of being a bunch of hateful fucks, those yokels could work together with the hated city folks to address those issues.

Instead, they'd rather be spiteful shitheels doing shit like rolling coal.

Sorry, citing Idaho was hyperbole. But you get my drift, right?

The point is, there are more people (voters) in a neighborhood in Chicago than in the entire state of Wyoming or Idaho.

For example, Illinios has a population of 12.8 million. The Chicago metro area has a population of 9.5 million.

Why should policies that affect a huge cosmopolitan urban population be driven by a handful of retrograde hicks who consistently vote against their own best interests.

Many of these people are the same people who give money to prosperity ministries.

Rubes. Yokels. Marks. Suckers. Dupes. Chumps.

Trump is playing them for the fools they are. He's not conservative, he's a damn con man & thief.

That's what they (the octopuses) want you to think.

Suddenly Skynet!

Wow, ice zombies, dire wolves, incest, boobies, what more could you want? Pirates! I gotta get HBO one of these days.

Cue the misogynistic, micropenis wielding, death & rape threatening trolls to come out of the woodwork. Morons.

I (half) joke that my unofficial title is "Electron Wrangler", since anything that that gets plugged in seems to become my responsibility. From desktop support, to liaison with vendors, central IT, & telecomm.

Never a dull moment.