Trump talking about bleach for COVID was dumber than it was made out to be.

Never found it again, but if you see him walk up to the podium, he stops and reads a CDC infographic on sterilizing surfaces. The poster highlighted bleach and UV as effective solutions.

Like a child who skipped the reading assignment, Trump confidently steps onstage and starts talking about injecting bleach and UV. Seriously. It was even dumber than we make fun of.

Self-tapping points look like little drill bit points.

Second video made some sense. Still, it’s really a niche application thing.

I have to disagree with To Say Nothing Of The Dog. Time travel is organized by, and exactly like they would, university historians.

half-drunk and sleep deprived.

I don’t remember that?

But that one and Blackout/All Clear are a great pair. And having looked her up, I see I’ve missed quite a few!

The Domesday Book is pretty tight. Our time-traveling student is trying to get back before the black plague hits her village.

She also has one about the Titanic sinking. Great books, wild rides.

She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer.

I’m not paying a dime for Google or YouTube. (I know, I’m the product.) So how am I to vote with my wallet? Happy to stay on YouTube until they block my ad-blocker, then I’ll look around.

Same. Money says that people bitching are on phones. Fair enough I guess, but I’m not fucking around watching video on a palm screen. I’ll wait till I get home and have a 40" TV to view.

LOL, nailed it.

I’m still bitter about browsers removing backspace for previous page. How was that hard to maintain?!

How do you use it? I’ve never found an application.

OP has a solid point about costs sunk into R&D. A second unit is an order of magnitude cheaper to launch. OTOH, Russia broke as fuck.

Close to the edge of believable. Pretty sure I hit 106F as a kid once. 107F is bordering on dain bramage.

Not to mention us Americans who would fight and sabotage for Canadian forces.

The seam side goes down. The enemy’s gate is always down. You’re welcome.

The trick with selling Linux is not telling the user it’s not Windows. I used to refurb old laptops for old ladies. Throw a light version of Linux on there, show 'em the internet, maybe setup email, done. And I never got pestered to come back and fix shit.

I often forget that while young people aren’t usually too wise to the ways of the world, that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking smart!

Woke to this reading a senior (high school) paper of mine 35-years later. Figured it would be childish. Holy shit! I wrote that at 17?!

Now if I could get the brain plasticity back and tack on the wisdom, I’d be a beast brain. :(

The Supreme Court has often stood against him and is now. He thought he could buy them, you thought he could buy them, they don’t agree with either of you.

I’m not a picky man.

The waste, while unnecessary, is negligible. Go buy a drink, any plastic drink from anywhere, and you wasted more plastic than a K-cup.

Pro tip: Rip the top off, rinse it out, fill with dirt, perfect seed starter pod. Even has a drain hole pre-drilled. Also, chunk the coffee in your yard, garden, compost, whatever.

Partly! Some women explode out the gate with a little age on them. My ex-gf was pretty in her 30s, but in her late 40s would turn heads when she walked in the room. And then there are the plain Janes in high school that turn out OMFG years later.

Same, but to be clear, we’re talking about panic attacks, right? That is exactly what the meme is talking about, or should be.

OTOH, there are these people: “Gosh! Sometimes I’m nervous in social situations and don’t know how to act! I have an anxiety disorder!”

No you don’t buttercup, you have “being a typical human disorder”. And most likely, no one even notices your discomfort. One time I was on LSD at a party and talking to a guy, freaking out internally. “Man, I’m sorry, but I’m tripping balls right now.” He had no idea!

If I see a comparison matrix, I’m a happy camper. OTOH, you have to be extraordinarily careful with words or lose sales. Because people are stupid.

Case in point; Employee needed a new laptop and we leaned mostly towards Lenovos. Found a sweet deal on one labelled as a gaming rig. Boss wouldn’t sign off because, “A dev doesn’t need a gaming rig with a high-end video card.” Of course not, but still showed him the specs, compared against what we were currently purchasing and paying, no go. We ended up paying more for a laptop with lower specs because it didn’t have a “gaming” label.

What if you call a product line “prosumer”? It may be perfectly acceptable for a small business, but the owner might feel he needs “enterprise”. He looks at the enterprise line, flinches at the price, goes to another brand selling the same damned thing with a label that makes him happy.

Another one I had just posted; Shooting the shit with a customer who was unhappy he couldn’t buy straight grass seed and the label only showed the filler content in small print. What a ripoff! Another customer chimed in that filler is necessary for the seed spreader to work as expected. Oh.

X line prioritizes speed - Nah, not paying extra for speed, don’t need it.

Y line is backwards compatible with legacy gadgets - Sounds like it’ll be outdated soon.

R line is meant for business use - They just slap that on there to sucker people into paying more. (Yes they do!)

F line is experimental form factors - I need a tried and true product, sounds like a clusterfuck.

Having worked in various fields for 40 years, and now at my first retail job, I see that a lot of the fuckery we blame on capitalism is actually sellers trying to navigate ignorant and fickle consumers. Also, sometimes the weird shit we see, or don’t see where we expect it, is due to laws and regulations, but that’s another story.