pbj1968

A very difficult read for me… hard to get past all the auto fellatio.

Absolutely nowhere on that page is mentioned what you’ll actually pay for the compounded drug. Spoiler - $300+/mo

Did you know people had achieved manpowered flight before the Wright brothers? Can you name any of them? If you aren’t the wellspring of popularity then nobody cares.

Well, we haven’t had an authoritarian dictator to cull the herd, so there’s that going against us.

My demographics have me in a few paid survey groups. They’ve finally quit putting “prenatal vitamins”, “diapers”, and “toys” in the middle of “what has your household purchased in the last six months” surveys. I guess they finally figured out it’s not happening.

Because some people want to sleep outside. Are you proposing we round them up into camps against their will? Very European of you.

Which is the only reason he’s being charged with anything

Well, given as they couldn’t come up with a functional wheel on their own… highly doubtful.

Just to have a pile of them to run my fingers down while picking one to play. I started with a small list and then recreated my childhood. Then it was all those “always wanted to play that” games and the finally modern homebrew.

It was a Ti-83 vs Ti-85.

I read years and years ago the whole thing had sufficient funds from their porno main hustle to keep it afloat forever. I guess they didn’t anticipate expenses getting so out of control. And it was weird porn with naked women posing with a cat. :/

At least back in the Stone Age, the TI-84 is for engineering. They made another one that did matrices for business students. The teacher didn’t care that the TI-84 had software that could simulate the matrix functions. By god, TI mailed her a free TI—86 and that’s what we were using. Google says now they’ve all got a matrix button, so that’s nice.

Casios were leagues ahead, tho.

Nobody walked out of Phantom Menace hating it. We have the second movie and then a snarky YouTube video where a man talks funny to blame for that. And people younger than us think they’re all great.

I liked this one until that stupid puzzle with the gold tooth and the balloon.

Citation needed.

I went down some Covid quest of lunacy where I made literally hundreds of genesis cartridges. Yes, I’m aware of and own everdrives and multicarts, too. Got very intimately familiar with those pcbs by the end of it.

Virtua Racer was the only game with an extra chip for 3D. Everything else on that system is running straight off a ROM.

I own every generation of Xbox. Multiples of most. I have gotten an incredible deal on each and every one. And the physical and digital games typically go cheap quickly. 20+ years. Not sure what their strategy is but I’ve benefited.

19 years of uneventful employment later and we’re questioning, “do people change?” In his case, obviously yes. And his stuff was nonviolent, already long restituted crime. He fudged his background on a job application. The whole situation has never sat right with me.

I worked with a guy that had falsified some records to hide some misdeeds in his younger years. He made it 19 years before something unrelated forced us to do thorough background checks on our employees. He was escorted off the premises by police and his benefits voided by HR.

All I’m saying is… at some point you got away with it. We did him dirty.

Yeah, that’s a nice load of bibble babble “we punish you for doing things you find interesting” crap. I didn’t say “make them rich” I am arguing that we need to make this financially viable if we expect our objective best to pursue it. $80k? $90k? Those would be a good start.

Go get a PhD and then spend your prime years of family making as a post doc with a $60k salary. It’s ludicrous and the system only works if your family is wealthy or your spouse has a better paying job.

…Dan…brown…

The parachute dutifully deployed after the plane crashed.

My neighbor has one. Beautiful car. Parts are unobtanium. It’s sat on his driveway for five years.

I bought some HP printer last year for $75. A couple bucks on popular auction site got me a coupon code that gave me like 16 months of free ink. Several reams of free paper.

The printer experience itself is horrible. I’m constantly having to reboot it, it cannot maintain a WiFi connection, they have crippled usb on it, etc. Reviews back me up, it’s a common experience.

However, it makes beautiful prints. I have printed literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages of full color. And HP dutifully sends me another cartridge without prompting.

Just a couple weeks left on that trial. And the plan? Chunk it in the trash and start over again.

Weird times, friends. :)

Would have been better had they gotten machinists or rural people that otherwise work with their hands to do this. A bunch of scientists playing make believe chopping wood and scraping bone doesn’t convince me much. We would have been just as specialized back then as we are now. And don’t we have 30,000 year old jewelry with intricate carvings? Why the amazement at “wow, this pointy stone chops wood, man?”

WebTV was a literal godsend for a grandmother that insisted on caring for a grandfather and would not put him in a nursing home. It was her visual and intellectual portal to the rest of the world. She was college educated and far more world travelled than most even today. I can still remember slowly tapping out emails on that remote control. But, dammit, $200 box, tv you already owned, and a cheap dial up service and you were good to go. We did eventually move her to laptops and the like but that WebTV got her through 2-3 years of hell on earth.

It is actually astounding how many people, particularly young women, that stream on TikTok live present phenotypes of fetal alcohol syndrome. I don’t know if it’s modern eyebrow grooming habits and filters accentuating the look or what, but there are so many widely spaced eyes and smooth upper lips on there. Thick regional accents and simple vocabularies, but lots of people throwing attention at them. It’s a strange place to visit.