Tag: Happy Ending
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Hope everyone copies this law!
Via ArsTechnica, Britain is requiring software firms to notify users in advance of their endless psychopathic updates which always destroy functionality and prevent work. Apple is threatening to leave Britain. GOOD! I hope all countries enact similar laws so Apple will leave all countries.
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Fed breaks Parkinson!
Jerome Powell is the ONLY problem solver in this fucked former “country”. Everyone else at all levels is manufacturing problems and evils at an exponentially increasing rate. Now Powell has added another achievement: He broke the unbreakable Parkinson. He REPEALED a Federal program! Not quite as big as repealing a whole agency, but still unprecedented…
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A real unintended consequence
Most allegedly unintended consequences are clearly intended after you understand the Machiavellian purposes of the monsters. Results only look accidental or “failed” when you delusionally assume that the monsters want peace and happiness and normal lives for normal people. Despite all the “censorship” (mostly the old Banned In Boston trick) the web has brought a…
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Another great quote
Seen at EnidBuzz facebook page as usual. This one is a bit too long to put in the top icon, but I want to remember it. I got sober because I wanted a better life. I stay sober because I have one.
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Amazing!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!
This happened a month ago but I just heard about it. Alberta, which is Canada’s Texas, has effectively seceded from the national government’s Gaian lunacy. Canada’s fairly recent constitution makes provincial sovereignty clear, and the prairie provinces have exercised more sovereignty than US states for quite a while. This is a BEAUTIFUL development. Unlike Texas,…
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Weird WordPress glitch /// No, Firefox glitch.
WordPress often introduces bugs in its UI, then fixes them after a few days. This week’s bug is a new trick. It seems to treat me as “halfway signed in”. I’m able to write and publish new items, but when I try to see the preview while writing, the preview looks like this: Also, it…
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France returns to Foy
From a substack titled ‘Craftsmanship’: = = = = = START QUOTE: In 2017, an idealistic and relatively unknown French activist sued tech behemoth Apple, Inc., over its “alleged” practice of designing iPhones to fail after just a few years. She wasn’t the first environmentalist to challenge Apple—but when she won, it became big news.…
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Need to remember
In one of Bloomberg’s more casual podcasts, someone said: Welcome to 2023, when nobody wants to work and everything is ten times harder than it should be. Exactly. Services that used to take days to schedule now take months. Stores are switching to self-scan because they can’t keep employees. BUT: I need to remember that…
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Wise woman
In this clip Yasuko is showing a ‘hand reflexology’ trick for slowing down anger. Those indirect pressure points don’t work for me, but her basic advice about anger is deeply and eternally wise, and also good science. = = = = = START YASUKO QUOTE: It looks and feels like people are getting snappier as…
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Henry would be proud
And I mean both Henry Ford and Henry Wallace. UAW is the good news in today’s mess. Through careful and clever analog strategy, they achieved tremendous victories against all of the Big Three. Now the non-union carmakers are starting to feel the pressure, raising their own starting wages to remain competitive. When corporations compete to…
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Guilty!
That was quick. Sammy’s guilty on all charges. Bravo and kudos to the jury. I would have had trouble with obscure concepts of balance (a thief stealing from other thieves is not really immoral)… but a jury is only supposed to deal with the letter of the law, and they did it exactly right.
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Total victory for UAW
They’ve beaten Ford, Chrysler and GM, with similarly massive improvements in wages and pensions and “tiers”. The analog method succeeds. Breaking the enemy’s unity succeeds. SAG needs to learn.
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National Savings Day is real now.
National Savings Day is an obviously commercial “day”, founded by Capital One in 2017 during the 15 years when “savings” was a cruel myth. I guess Capital One hoped to bring in more deposit money without paying for it. This year, for the first time since 2008, Savings Day is NOT a cruel joke. Banks…
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Landline is better than ever
A couple weeks ago I was bitching as usual about the tech suckers who insist on using NSA’s web for their “decentralized” and “private” bitcoin systems. I said The common carriers are STILL THERE. The wired landline system is still strong and still maintained by Bell Tel. In fact it’s stronger than before. A few…
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Doing what GUILDS are meant to do
The Writers Guild has published their new contract. The section on AI is exemplary. = = = = = START QUOTE: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.…
