Finally, some good news.

I don’t think those are particularly load-bearing. Well, they can bear one sort of load, but an architect wouldn’t suggest them for an arch.

I think we can leave that to the pigeons. I’m way too out of shape to scale a 250-foot wall.

But then how can I bitch to pundits on Fox News to pretend the election never ended?

Yeah, it’s kinda hard to not see.

It’s astounding to me that the DNC still trots out “well, she lost because she was a woman.”

Slightly different tone than in 2008, when the argument was “a Black man can’t get elected.”

It’s about the fucking policies! If they only work for corporations, it matters little what letter is after the name.

Just as a folo, consider the difference between fast food and a full-service restaurant. People will head to Taco Bell for a known quantity and pay before the food is served. In a restaurant setting, being expected to pay before your meal arrives will make customers leave.

Amazon (and other companies) want you to think of entertainment like going to a movie, where you could waste $30 on a shitty production. I don’t care to do that at home.

To extend the metaphor, it’s not their fault.

It’s all optics at this point. And, more pragmatically, ensuring future access. You can’t cover anything you aren’t there to witness.

Oh, I’ve got more than I know what to do with. Thing is, as with all USB cables, just because it plugs in doesn’t mean it will accomplish the desired goal.

Oh, AI companies still have the budget to take things they don’t like to the Supreme Court. This will be a lot of wasted time and money, which could have been spent on, say, housing the unhoused.

I’m not a betting man, but my guess is it was bullshit from the beginning.

With the right cable! The world has long since moved onto USB-C.

Ebooks are to me like music and movies/TV shows. I pirate first, and if I like it, I go back and pay. But the critical thing to remember is that discovery is the gateway. They want to act like it’s the '90s, and you have to pay $20 for a CD to find out if anything but the one track played on the radio was any good.

Must suck that people know how to try something on for size before making a purchase. That used to be common at things called “shopping malls.”

That’s where we’ve gotten, yes. The bottom line matters more than quality. Not that Indians are terrible coders, it’s just naked offshoring.

National security!

I was once a die-hard Asus fan. Then, well, they kept fucking up. I used to have motherboards and routers from them, without feeling shortchanged.

This latest news is of scarce interest. Of course they priced ahead of the rise in memory and storage costs.

Just be careful … this is bat country.

She won’t appear. The whole junta’s ideal is “delay until perceived irrelevance.” And fully on brand for the GOP is going to say “so, you were conveniently removed just ahead of testimony, but now there’s nothing we can do! Go enjoy some cobbler.”

Hey, tech companies: How about you go back to making shit we actually want instead of circular financing and enshittification? It seemed to work pretty well for decades, and you built goodwill.

I remember thinking Amazon, like Tom, was my friend.