We are hard-wired to fear death so we don’t usher it on. By the time we are old enough to die of natural causes, we are in enough pain and so starved for serotonin that we’re more or less ok with it.

Canada tech sector is getting scary too.

Dealing with people is the real work.

Set rules, have them sign off on the rules.

Your hourly rate is fixed, and your time is always paid. You bill for a minimum of 30 minutes for a diagnostic. Paid up front. If they choose to have you continue the repair, the remaining time from the diagnostic (if any) is applied to the part. Time and materials.

If they balk at that, they’re not good customers and they are invited to move on to the “next” repair shop.

The line in the sand is between marginal customers and word of mouth business. When the economy crashes, people will fall over themselves for repair.

Side hussle: You ebay, flea market, yardsale and dumpster dive for stuff to fix and sell it on auction. Finding old MCM sets and restoring them with actualy parts, inside and out cleaning, record players, tape decks. You can buy damaged stuff a LOT cheaper and flip it for profit.

Ditch Discord. If your friends after all these years haven’t set up OOB contact, they’re not friends.

I’m still seeing a lot of red-pill bumper stickers and trump flags in the back of pickups.

I’m not saying there’s not paid trolls on the internet, but there are still WAY too many supporters with IRL, local impact shit the way it is.

“It’s all biden’s fault for leaving this mess for President Trump”

I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.

At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.

But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.

at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.

paying a living wage is cheaper than trying to quell a labor uprising.

And let’s be honest, fewer of us survived than nowadays.

Yeah, not everyone got rocketed out the front window from lying up on the rear deck of our parents’ oldsmobile. Not all of us had life altering injuries from jumping bikes off shitty ramps with no protection. Not every one of us ended up in a pedo neighbors basement, But some of us did. Our parents’ apathy to parenting and our own poor judgment skills weren’t lessons to make us better or badges of honor. We survived despite of all that rather than because of it.

It would be like me to make a joke of it, but this one was real.

My 6yo woke me up at 5am after i went to sleep at 3am, demanded french toast.

I made it with one eye open. The first batch was without milk/cream/sugar. Not to be one to waste food, I made a second batch for him with all the right stuff and tried to see if I could recover the first batch enough I could eat it.

I had 5 or 6 cooked slices to work worth, tried various things to add sweet including powered sugar and syrup, but somehow the eggy bite was just alternated with violent sweetness. Not great.

The second slice, I tried rubbing with fresh basil and dusting with fine salt, that turned out ok.

The third slice I used everything bagel seasoning and that was pretty banging. The savor didn’t seem to suffer with a lack of mixing like the sweet stuff did.

Savory French toast isn’t amazing, but honestly it wasn’t awful. I probably wouldn’t make it again unless i screwed up.

I did try panco breading some recently after the soak, then deep-frying, which wasn’t half bad.

Just egg by itself would be super gross I suspect.

it’s not horrible, but it needs salt. It becomes savory.

Devauling assets is a short-term win at best. You need to be mega wealthy to pull that off long term

As cost of living increases, the venues will stop being able to charge that.

As venues fold the realestate will not be able to charge that

The price of minimum wages is a non-issue, they were stuck at 1980’s level. The issue now is the cost of living has gone up substantially, inflation through the roof all at once, but all the middle-class jobs are still paying like it’ 1999.

If it doesn’t just download copies from libgen you’ve already paid once.

It’ keeps the terminators out, but the t1000’s can just melt through

Not that long ago, a single factory worker made enough to buy a small house, a car, have 2 kids and take a 2 week yearly vacation.

We’re really pumping the gas on inequity.

This combination of generations is lost. Most of the age groups are either pushing for things to get worse, ignoring things that are bad or rooting on the coming apocalypse. It’ll get better when we get a few more new gens in the game, asuming it can be recovered

I do a few things at work that I use AI for. Work had a gpt enterprise key, now we’ve moved to claude. Through O365, I also have access to copilot.

Pretty much anything I ask claude or gpt about, I can be sure to get a solid answer or one that was at least on Stack Exchange or Reddit. If that fails, and I drill down a little more on a problem, adding details, they’ll both get a little better after a couple of questions and usually come up with a reasonable answer.

Not copilot. If you ask copilot something and it doesn’t come back in one shot with an authoritative cited answer, just walk away. It makes no attempt to ensure the answer is right or sane. It either hit in training or it didn’t. And if it didn’t, trying to convince it to strike out in a few other directions to solve it is absolutely a fool’s errand.

It’s like they bought into OpenAI, then never got any updates or made any progress. I

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a post about sucking robot dick today, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?"

He’ll demand Tax money bailout