I worked for a tech company in a legal state 5-10 years back. There were a lot of stoners there because most people couldn’t handle their bullshit in a sober state of mind and the company just wanted asses in seats to fulfill their contract obligations. I’m pretty sure Subway would go out of business if the weed disappeared. Your best bet is to make good enough friends with someone who works there (as a normal low-level employee) that you can ask an honest question without getting narced on. At my tech job, I treated the stoners with the same mild indifference as everyone else. Let me do my job, pretend to be normal, and don’t do anything I can’t ignore. Do not brag about smoking weed in front of management or anyone who makes enough money to care. The only people who got pinched did it to themselves.

Good for them. If it works, it works. I wouldn’t connect it to the internet though.

After that comes the part where the AI hallucinates a world where advertising guidelines don’t exist and gets the company sued for some very illegal advertising.

I saved your comment because some of these are now on my todo list and some of them I’ve done recently. I’m also trying to get out more after 2-3 years of being otherwise occupied. I actually went skateboarding again for the first time in a decade or so. A buddy invited me and I even carved the bowl a little. I’m much more risk adverse now though.

Missing an important message like that is a fear of mine. I’ve also noticed a number of google products don’t function well while on VPN. I’ve decided to dump the problem, Google, rather than the scapegoat, my VPN. I’m about 70% degoogled right now, but every product counts.

I tried RCS when it was newer, but I didn’t see any benefit to me and it didn’t play well with how often I reset and redo my phone.

At this point, we should all be very familiar with what it means to be a “Facebook friend”. Only someone with the emotional depth of a Lego mini figure would think this is a good idea.

Additionally, real friends don’t exploit your weak points to sell you shit, whether products or harmful ideologies.

That tallness modifier is more real for me than I ever realized growing up. Wish I had made better us of that earlier in life. The 4-eyes bonus helped my INT too.

Rated by me:

• Strength 10 (Garmin says I’m a champ ;-)
• Dexterity 15
• Constitution 9
• Intelligence 20
• Wisdom 15
• Charisma 5

How I expect my friends would rate me:

• Strength 15 because I’m a man
• Dexterity 15 because I have long arms and legs and I’m thin (but not super athletic)
• Constitution 20 (im so damn tired and people overestimate how much more I can carry)
• Intelligence 20 (four eyes and fit the stereotype)
• Wisdom 5 (I joke a lot which hides my wise takes which often require emotional energy that I don’t like to expend
• Charisma 15 (I don’t feel charismatic, but people keep annoyingly pointing at hard evidence that shows that I’m doing much better than I think)

I’ve been working really hard the last few years to put new points into Charisma, and I’ve been building constitution and strength through long brutal bike rides with massive hills regardless of weather.

I have an oil filled space heater that doesn’t work. It just runaway heats, trips the breaker, and tries to melt the outlet. The scrapyard will pay me maybe 50¢ for the metal, but I have to drain the oil and then I have to figure out how to properly dispose of that. I’ve thought about donating it to the side of the highway, but I can’t do something like that so it just lives in my living room, unplugged, broken, space-consuming, and ugly.

All that is to say sometimes people don’t know how to dispose of items correctly, especially if they’re foreigners from a country that sorts differently or not at all.

Back 10-15 years ago a friend tricked me into trying social dancing (think swing, salsa, tango, etc.) by telling me we were going bowling. They drove so I could not escape. Turns out I like it and since it’s not partnered a lot of people come alone and if you can summon up basic courtesy and respect, many of them will dance with you if you just ask. Different dances have different vibes. Swing is wholesome and a bit retro-nerdy, salsa is more flirty and extroverted, tango is intense and deeply technical. I made thousands of IRL acquaintances and dozens of friends doing this over the years. I never went or continued doing it because of the people, but they sure made it worth going. I never saw myself doing or liking this until I tried it. Now I can’t imagine my life without and I seek it out in every city I travel to. I imagine other hobbies could be similar. You can find group bike rides for various skill levels. Maybe your area has a nature hike club or a mycological society (people who study mushrooms). Poetry slams can be surprisingly cool too. None of this is advertised well, but a great place to look is in the back of an alternative newspaper that covers music and art and stuff like that. Like the back back, just before the weed and escort ads.

I would be signing all my communications cryptographically and sharing a key in person so people can validate whether a message not delivered face to face is really from me.

If I had to distribute money based on timeshare, Minecraft would get 49.5%, Cities Skylines would get 49.5%, and all the other programs would be left to fight for the scraps because I play those games like it was a full time job.

“Them” in this case being the business owners, not the workers or the people their tech is used to oppress.

This is a good reminder. I recommend everyone grab their takeout data every now and then, but also, print out the 6 codes and put them in a safe deposit box, safe, bury them in a ziplock bag inside of a coffee can in your yard, etc. Hopefully it will be a waste of your time, but if you need them, they’ll be there.

Yes, that’s how I used to have mine set up. I used to be able to make whitelist for numbers not to record, but otherwise it would just do it automatically for every call. Too many businesses, people, and organizations trying to pull sketchy things. I’ve literally played these recordings back to companies over the phone when they tried to claim they said something different. They record for quality assurance. I record to avoid their scam tactics.

I was gifted a 4g router for my birthday or Christmas or something. It was the better solution for me because one plan gets me internet access on however many devices I attach to it where I would otherwise need a sim card for every tablet and laptop I use.

Probably depends on the men. 100 Chuck Norris clones, no chance for the gorilla. 100 Ted Cruz clones, Gorilla will wipe the table with them.

When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?

Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.

For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn’t use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I’d just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don’t even know if I’d be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.

I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.

Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.