The way government build contracts work, that addition probably cost tax payers millions. Meanwhile, you or I could contract the work of a inground pool with mushroom for $150k ($125k pool, $25k mushroom/fountain) if Google is to be believed.

This is how Narcissistic Personality Disorder works. It’s typically more focused though, as in the pic, because the mentally ill aren’t often elected to be President of the United States.

You’re wrong about flock, data centers, and mass surveillance being left wing. I have a sizeable swath of family in varying states, many of which vote conservative no matter who it is. They’re pissed about profiling, data centers, and flock.

These appear to be unifying issues amongst non-billionaires, not party issues.

Talk to people. These are topics that are cracking the social barrier Trump put up between parties.

Tanks property value, quiet enjoyment of said property, raises utility bills, feeds the water crisis, fucks our ability to build our own computers on a budget. All under NDAs with local government. Whats not to love?

ETA: and provides the means for flocking.

Work is whatever. Their computers are theirs. It’s the home PCs that require better quality.

Why consent to watching ads? It does damage to your brain.

Ads are anti-dopamine, for starters.

It’s weird to me, anyone using Edge or Chrome over Mozilla. It makes no sense. It’s not 1998 anymore. Surely people have had time to absorb the progression of things.

I do not understand. Scrabble or Words with Friends, ok, if and only if there’s an ad blocker, but the rest, how? It’s like painting a house wall with a half inch art paintbrush.

Algorithm selects for copypasta behavior and presentations among creators. Algorithm also demonetizes creators for copypasta behavior and presentations.

Or the music drowns everything out. I want toggles like on my games. Music down to 10% or less, well, probably 50% for movies since it’s not typically repeat loops there, and then slide the sound effects and atmosphere vs voices where I like. Surely this tech can exist for movies and TV.

Small towns want every scrap of income they can get and tickets are part of it. There’s also a motivated synergy there between cop and a small town with no other crime really happening because it justifies the small town even having a cop on payroll.

The front view needs to be 1 plastic school ruler wide with no curves. And no arms.

A new roof on a basic straight shotgun house used to be $5-6k, in 2019. 2023: $15k. And it needs to be total paid on completion. This is why people don’t do repairs.

Licenses and bonds are public info at the state level. Like with most licensed professions, any issues are public too. Found this while looking up potential electricians. Most of the time, it appeared to be not enough higher level electricians per journeymen. One guy had a lapsed license.

You need to watch Deric Cahill’s “Fuck This House” series.

Up until about 2022 it was living the dream. Now, you’ll need the cash for a down payment on another house to repair anything of significance. That’s not hyperbole. Repair has gone double or triple in 5 years, depending. And most repair is pay it all right now. For something like a roof, it’s like paying cash for a new vehicle. And property taxes went off the rails, most locales eager to reassess and cash in on those high sales prices. Remember, a mortgage is your minimum monthly payment.

I suspect the next couple years is going to see a severe rise in derelict level undisclosed problems in newly purchased homes. Repair used to be affordable. It isn’t, now.

My partner is doing this. He’s telling me what bird each set of chirps belongs to and where they nest in the yard. And the next moment he’s face palming himself on the topic. Even as his dad sends him pics of the bird house he built and wired with a live feed. (Yes, there was a bird building a nest in that live feed.)

It’s good to see into your future, or so I tell him.

They have it set up so the people who will lose the insurance will do it the month the new legislators are sworn in. Stupid exists on the level of blaming those new legislators instead of the current admin.

I don’t understand this. Do something else.

I’ve worked both shifts. Night is definitely less tightly wound, on average. Both are caffeinated, so that’s not it. Career night shift usually day sleep 8hrs so that’s not it either.

Driving isn’t a right, it’s a privilege.