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They're getting bucks for one thing and only one thing--eliminating the cost of long-haul truck drivers or turning them into minimum-wage "truck minders" or something like that.

Why not just reform the legal system so that speed limits are not so prone to abuse and generally make it a rule that unless you are somehow at risk of harming others, that there i…

My own take on the subtle influence techniques is that if you are aware of them they don't work. I sat at a car dealership the other day listening to the conversations between sale…

And the slippery slope continues.

They fucked us on GWT, they fucked us on Angular 1 -> 2. I'm done. I got off of GMail two weeks ago, got Brave browser, am getting my shit out of Docs. I can use someone else's map…

Being that Windows 10 is such a huge pile of shit, I'd say Microsoft has never learned its lesson and never will. The OSes seem to be "occasional success" with a lot of awful failu…

You can also be taxed more without ever seeing a reduction in your bank account balance--it's called inflation and it is insidious.

So if I filed a $0 Federal and state tax return for a couple years during grad school I can relate, then, right? I was living off savings, but still. Seriously, I grew up lower mid…

Let's be honest about the plastic in the oceans: It is not first world countries causing most of the problem. Ships do drop their trash in the ocean, that needs to stop, and we're …

Big Brother running along unabated.

And encrypt everything.

Maybe it's part of the scam?

But they never did that with pink sheets penny stocks. It all collapsed for different reasons.

The reason a lot of Wall Street finance types are running to these altcoins is exactly what you say--it's the new penny stocks. There's no regulation and so they are free to manipu…

If you go back and read what you wrote, you will realize how insane this all sounds.

The Iron Curtain is alive and well. We should be helping the Chinese break free of these economic terrorists--how hard would it be to watch your meager savings in Yuan be inflated …

It sounds great, but it's out of reach for 98% of those people. They mostly don't have the aptitude nor the motivation to work and the kind of work they are able to do is pretty me…

I guess you're not going to raise a family in that kind of lifestyle, but whatever. You do what you have to do.

Crap, I'm in the suburbs of a major midwest city and our ISP options are both shit--Comcast, the bloodsucking devils or Frontier, the mismanaged, bandwidth-overselling vampires. It…

I don't see why we need to encourage people to become Facebook zombies. It's pretty vapid entertainment and it represents everything wrong with the Internet today. Now if there was…

If you're not in some high-level management role, expect to be shat upon.

Thomson Reuters did this using Belarus. Any systems in "maintenance mode" get sent to code monkeys in former Eastern Bloc nations. The quality is fair, but a lot better than what h…

Space is so disappointing because everything humans do there is super complicated and fragile.

What country are you talking about? Are you familiar with WIC? In the US there's no woman from sea to shining sea who should be going without formula unless she sold it to buy drug…

My wife went through undue torture and stress due to all the breastfeeding virtue signaling. She was simply unable to produce enough despite her best efforts. My kids are 12 and 7 …