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The web experience of the 90s and early 2000s is dead. The web has gotten shittier too. I was going to type up some long rant, but why? This is a good example of why the web is dea…

Well as a former chess champion, he must have seen this coming. Looking forward to seeing his next move.

I don't think I'd pass the personality test to get hired onto a job that tracked my time in the washroom. Sure hope that those who are tracked that way unionize soon.

At first I LOL WTF, but then I remembered how far down the societal ladder goes. Some schools have a constant problem with vandalism. Knowing which kids are in the halls at what ti…

Do business with business that have local offices. That way anytime something needs verification or seems off, go into the businesses building.

I just make a new words. Such as "dojober". Dojober (noun): A handcrafted thing that makes it possible to do a job (i.e., complete a task). Synonyms: widget, contraption

An easy fix for that would be to put a surge protector between the UPSs. (Joke) ------------ I bought three UPSs, all them used independently; but I had to stop using all of them. …

Be cool if alcoholics could get this level of sympathy from society. Drink too much: it's a personal failing. Eat too much: weight management is extremely challenging due to intera…

A lot of millennials and gen Z's are choosing to not have kids. No real reason for those without kids to give a fuck, and those with kids have a larger carbon footprint than those …

It's electric SIR, how would forced induction help? Lol Send them to an auto parts store and have them ask for a supercharger for their Tesla just to confuse the clerk. Obligatory:…

Wow. I did not know that. It's likely 90% of the population don't follow this tax law.

Due to the anti-consumer behavior of all mega-corps, presume the worst. If a person chooses not to connect TV to the internet, how can I know with 100% certainty that data extracti…

The smart features. On the CU7000D I pulled three wires and I was able to turn off Bluetooth on the fucking thing. For those about to make the recommendation, I could not make the …

Sounded like BS so I looked it up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886999/ "Figure 1d and Supplemental Table S2 show the complete protection times (CPTs) measured usi…

It is the scalability. A motivated well-funded bad actor could reek total havoc.

When I was younger I watched too much sci-fi and Star Trek. I was always prospace exploration. Now that I'm older, my views have changed. We need to be focusing on infrastructure a…

There's a big difference between reading and understanding. Looks like this person is doing this so they can burn through a whole bunch of books within time frame. Which is fine fo…

I did some casual searching on disabling Toyota Dealer Communications System (DCS). The results of that search was not informative. I highly doubt that just pulling that fuse will …

I was impressed with Sylvania bulbs with TruWave Technology. PDF Link https://assets3.ledvanceus.com/media/resource/original/asset...

I have money to buy a new car, but I won't. Back in my day this was called spyware. "Toyota says they can collect a whole heap of personal information on you through your car, the …

Maybe so, I seem to recall hearing that one point. However, there's a lot of variables to that (i.e., road surface [pot holes/dips], surface temperature, sand/salt on the surface, …

True. Talking to myself there in that last line. I gotta get out of the house more. I wasn't trying to be preachy, but now I will. Please find Christ and oppress others with his te…