This is interesting. Microsoft is currently preparing the site for a large data center on the border of my city and San Jose. In an area that has had power issues for years and is undergoing yet another dry winter. Will it actually get built and come online and, if so, will it be consuming an outsized share of resources such that we peasants revolt when we have brown outs when the summer temps break 100 or we have a cap placed on water usage? Stay tuned.

I got in early enough on gmail that I was able to grab my first and middle initials and last name. I think I'll keep it.

Not to this degree.

Socialize the loss.
Privatize the gains.

The motto of Wall Street since that bull in front of the stock exchange was a tiny calf.

Near as I can tell is the only lesson learned was by investment bankers who promulgated that debacle and what they learned was they could lie, cheat, and steal all they wanted and the DoJ and SEC would not do a goddamn thing about it. In fact, they bank rolled firms deemed too important to the economy by subsidizing their losses with taxpayer dollars to prevent them from going under and no one went to jail. Cryptobros saw that and thought "I gotta get me some of that!" and so paid off trump and the GOP leadership to put themselves at the head of the feeding trough.

Of course, the trump crime family has huge investments in crypto and stands to make millions from the suckers. Nothing slimy or sleezy in that!

3.

Prove me wrong.

All these damn junior staffers and interns can”t keep their fucking mouths shut!

Is anyone aware of an airline that won't allow a person with overly offensive BO to fly? Have you ever seen such a person refused boarding? What about getting kicked off the plane after boarding? I'm talking really, really offensive smells. Think Andy Defresne crawling out of a sewer pipe smelly. I've never encountered anything near that bad but it must surely have happened.

Factor in the large data centers with their massive cooling requirements, water shortages will become even more severe. And that doesn't even address the electrical requirements to run these facilities which have their own needs. A number of them are currently being installed and planned for areas in the southwest where drought conditions have been in effect for years.

Enshitification.

The guest villains and guest stars on that show were insane: Frank Gorshin, Cesar Romero, Eartha Kitt, Burgess Meredith, Sammy Davis, Jr., Vincent Price. It goes on and on. Of course, no one under 50 knows who any of them are these days but they were big at that time.

teach them to write using fountain pens, apply sealing wax to the envelopes they'll use to send checks they've written to the phone company, and how to dial rotary phones. Oh, and to read ticker tapes coming off stock machines showing the current prices of PanAm airlines, Westinghouse manufacturing, and Sear-Roebuck department store.

Be still my heart. After years of annoying, intrusive pop-ups begging me to switch (what? for free?), now they're offering points, exchangeable for free gifts to entice me. You devils! My resistance is weakening, weakening, weakening...