Stein isn’t in the ballot in enough states to win the electoral college. She literally cannot win.

You might as well vote for Barney the dinosaur for all the good it will do.

A vote for a candidate who cannot win is wasted.

The only person older than Trump to ever run in the general election is Biden.

Carriers will offer better deals on the phones though if you’re planning to stick with them.

I’m looking at a $1000 phone that ATT will give me for 2.99/month for 2 years. That’s over 85% off on the phone. The trick is they give it to you by actually charging like $42/month, but then giving a $39 credit every bill for 2 years, so you have to pay the difference on the $1,000 phone if you jump carriers.

But since they’re the only carrier that works at my office, and this is gonna be a work phone (my company pays me a monthly stipend for it), I can live with that.

That’s also most of what’s on Amazon these days.

Doom 2016 was just about perfect. It blended old-shool FPS fundamentals with modern aiming, collectibles, etc.

We should be able to charge them for ad time. You want to paint an advertisement on my car you have to pay me. Why should it be any different when you want to put ads on my work computer screen when I’m working with clients?

Word perfect in 1990 was better than Word is today.

And it’s gotten much worse since then. The $185 billion number listed as the highest wealth would be around number 5 now, with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Arnault all having more than that now I think.

My favorite statistic household net worth (includes cars, houses, retirement, everything).

Median from 2022 was 192,000 Mean from 2022 was 1,063,000

The ultra-rich are such incredible outliers that the mean is more than 5x the median.

The 10 wealthiest people in 2024 control almost 1.7 trillion dollars. That’s more than the GDP of the pooreat 100 countries combined.

I like the bleep-boo sounds of the command prompt scrolling by on computers.

The sound is higher-quality than the files we’re getting from the streams, so it’s fine.

Hidden manual releases that still require you to push the door through the windows trim. FFS people have already died because of this shit. Why the hell hasn’t there been a mandatory recall on all Teslas over this?

Amen.

Felons can try to make amends. Troy just makes Jager bombs at the office and passes at the 19yo receptionist.

I can’t be racist because that would be hurtful and wrong.

For me it’s cost and having a place to charge since I rent.

Yes. But at the same time I’m actually okay with ads for products that are legitimately good and are relevant to me, so long as I know they’re an advertisement.

Products need marketing. It’s reality. I’d rather get my marketing in the form of a recommendation or review from a trusted source than a random video shoved down my throat.

A easy example of a good source for me is MKBHD. He gets free stuff and sponsorships, but is selective regarding what he’ll accept sponsorships from, is very clear when a segment is sponsored, and will absolutely say a product is bad or overpriced even if he got it for free.

Frankly - it’s a lot harder to quantify. “Time at desk” is easy to track. Response times to tickets are much more variable and difficult to measure.

Some jobs necessarily include idle time when you’re waiting for work to come through even if there’s nothing to do in that specific moment. The flip side of that is that the employer is able to require that the worker be available instantly. If they’re leaving their work area because they’re bored then they’re not “at work.”

My Dad was a career firefighter, and he spent most of his time sitting in the station watching TV, cooking meals, or sleeping. He was paid for every minute of that time because at the drop of a hat he could be called to a wreck, fire, or medical emergency.

The reason he had to be paid is federal law requiring that all workers who are “engaged to wait” are on the clock. If someone is installing mouse-jiggler software so they can leave their workstation and do whatever they want, they’re no longer being engaged to wait.

The jigglers keep you online status from changing to “away.”

Some jobs require you to be at your desk, and using mouse jigglers to fake being at work is the kind of thing that keeps more companies from allowing WFH.

Days drag, but years fly.

Welcome to adulthood.