Ah, that explains why the article smells like an LLM wrote it.

I feel ya. Pass the ibuprofen.

How in the world could someone find the energy to…

inhaling cocaine

Ah, okay. Why is the answer always drugs?

On a related note: every search engine under the sun now has AI built in EXCEPT the one called “Ask Jeeves”. If any of them should have been 100% AI, it was this one. And instead, it fucking died in the middle of all this.

I see you. Not enough people are going to get this one.

Right here. I love my wired headphones.

There’s kind of a catch here that explains why wireless has taken off. A lot of people do not, for whatever reason, respect the integrity of the cable and the strain relief at either end. Wires are this artificial abomination, a means to an end, and something to be contended with rather than cared for. They’re stored as a tangled mess, and recovered and un-tangled in a stream of stressed movements and much swearing. The result is broken, bent, crimped, strained, and ultimately broken wires.

Instead, wires must be cared for in specific ways and that is a skill that just isn’t taught to everyone. It hurts my soul every time I notice this.

Of course they’re not using them: have you seen what Telsa charges for their solar tiles? Tesla can’t afford that.

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I can’t tell. Is this a Jonathan Swift reference?

IDK, but it does make sense?

For business that were in on the grift, and/or just gouging customers “because tariffs”, it absolutely made sense.

What good would giving 250 million people each $640 do?

You say that, but something a lot like that already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008

Most taxpayers below the income limit received a rebate of at least $300 per person ($600 for married couples filing jointly). Eligible taxpayers received, along with their individual payment, $300 per dependent child under the age of 17. The payment was equal to the payer’s net income tax liability, but could not exceed $600 (for a single person) or $1200 (married couple filing jointly)

Most everyone I knew spent it on HDTVs. Economic stimulus indeed.

Did you have fun this weekend?

Naw. I took too much of the good stuff and I wound up seeing god again. Ruined a perfectly good trip. It was awful.

As far as I can tell, this may be accurate. I’ve observed that we (USA) have a taboo around discussing what happens in the bathroom. I’ve pushed back on this and, anecdotally, have uncovered that this is all too common an experience. I wound up testing myself for food allergies and sensitivities and learned that there’s a whole range of foods that my body can’t handle. As I share my situation, I find more and more people that are waking up to a similar situation.

Obligatory: https://bigbeaverenergy.com/

Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.

That’s my understanding too. It’s like empathy just ends at one’s own line of sight. If I can’t see it or touch it, there may be something wrong with it. It’s infuriating.

I fucking love these.

My favorite is the Waffle House: https://wandering-nobunaga.com/stories/a-waffle-house-at-three-in

Yes, but Manga reading order aside: isn’t this particular woman also a yokai, and a rather malevolent kidnapping one at that?

https://en.tocana.jp/2025/09/japanese-legend-hachishakusama_entry.html

She exclusively preys on children and young adults, tapping into a primal fear of child abduction.

There’s something about watching a luxury import brand fast-track enshitification faster than everyone else, including economy options.

I misread that as:

The most profitable thing you can do is seize someone readily available […]

… and realized that also tracks.