I have macro shots of a tiny jumping spider hauling a fly behind a bathroom pic. She is most welcome to stay.

Do tell how that works. Are you imagining herds of cows roaming among the lettuce rows?

SEE! People hate the government because they cut no slack, no matter how dumb the situation. They can’t, gotta follow the law no matter what.

Got a boat out front, lost the paper title before I registered it. Now it’s a $4,000 paperweight. Not nearly as bad as your story!

I called a few times, “Nothing we can do.” FFS, I could file a “lost title” in other states I’ve lived in. Anyway, I’m paying a guy $200 to polish it up, dumping it on FB Marketplace for whatever I can get.

Trying to get a power pole put in at my camp in the boonies. Have to deal with the Health Department. WTF? Been round and round, apparently there’s one woman I have to talk to, no one else has the authority to talk about this normal thing.

I, uh, still have a hard time buying that, and my daughter is light-mode autist, ADHD as well. She often sucks down food or water as an afterthought, and I do to! Not neurodivergent, but I can unconsciously dial out hunger and thirst when on task. LOL, I remember dialing out the need to eat and piss when I was a kid programming my VIC-20!

I think neurodivergent folks do have evolutionary advantages, as members of a larger group. But having a problem remembering to eat or drink would not serve in prehistory. You can get away with that now because a clean water tap or bag of chips isn’t far away.

Ever get out there? Far away from civilization? No hope of aid from other humans? You’d best plan a bit, or know for certain where water and food can be found. People get into places like Death Valley or the Grand Canyon, subconsciously thinking help is available, can’t be that bad. And they die.

Anyway, I’m wondering if the problem isn’t drinking in general but more the issues with drinking coke and other crap. ?

LOL, I get you! But at the day-to-day bureaucrat level, there’s no, “Let me talk to your manager!” The rules are the rules, no matter if they’re insane in your particular case, the bureaucrat cannot make exceptions. Which is my pet theory as to why so many hate the government.

Damn you! I am not an original thinker. :(

These posts blow my fucking mind. Do y’all really needed reminded to drink fluids? Or do you drink so much crap that water is strange? Serious question! This hits me like, “Don’t forget to take a shit when you need to!”

Installing internet and talking to my customer who was a day trader. Told him Google was about to launch their IPO and that I’d go all in if I had any money.

“Their search is the best, but I just don’t see how they’ll ever make any money.”

These AI investors are banking on not being that guy.

And here I am in 2025, saying, “Just don’t see how they’ll make any money.”

The costs are staggering. When the dust settles, who the hell is going to pay those staggering costs to the bubble survivors? At the consumer level, can’t see it. OTOH, people pay for stupid shit like weather apps. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I foresee AI looking toxic to business pretty quickly. It will be a subscription that’s limited to employees and departments that can demonstrate a need. I don’t fault CEOs for their FOMO, but they’ll quickly wise up.

Florida here, did not know that. I had thought “no fault” meant that the cop on the scene could judge an accident to be “no fault”, no one party was liable.

Most insurance companies see very slim margins, it’s just that even slim profits stack when you have millions of customers.

Plus, they have to put fat money in the bank to covers disasters. Problem being, after too many disasters they pull out of your state (America). I don’t know the fix. I don’t want to pay for California wildfires anymore than they want to pay for our hurricanes. I see a global warming future where we won’t be able to get insurance unless it’s a crappy government deal.

Hell, maybe that will be better. At least the government has to follow the rules they set, can’t wiggle out of payments like private enterprise.

It’s like Stephen King stretching the ending because he can’t bear to finish.

Amsterdam (AMS3) is not in America, in case you missed that bit.

My data center is in Amsterdam (AMS3). What are you on about? No, you can’t flip your connection all over the globe, but it’s still outside of America.

Go with a commercial provider then. But don’t bitch about all the issues and risks.

I can see myself doing this. After working outdoors at Lowe’s, I get the idea. Flip valve, pull hose, engage. Not like there’s any security on the water hoses. :)

My store was rather bougie, despite being a redneck suburb. We had staff that was dedicated to stocking, arranging and watering the plants. Which is what I thought would be my job. :( Even if rain was forecast, they watered all of it, twice a day, everyday. We even had a midnight shift 5-days a week, place was tight. After that experience, every other big-box garden center is shite, even other Lowe’s. But the nice, private nurseries cost an arm and a leg.

And remember kids, if they won’t go after you for shoplifting, they sure won’t go after you for proplifting! I got tons of plants from fallen cuttings and a pinch here and there. One flower I have hit me in the face driving the forklift. Mine! I’d toss them in a mostly empty water bottle till I got off work. My favorite score was some creeping jenny, which I forgot to water and killed.

Do yourself a favor. Get a Digital Ocean droplet for $6/mo, Debian version, follow their excellent step-by-step directions to install OpenVPN Server. Done.

You don’t have to know Linux, the instructions are tight. I only got hung on one step where they left a small thing out. Also, I was drunk. Got it going the next evening.

This thing has been running for years and years, can’t even remember how to log in, likely lost my SSH key. 🙄 No worries about logging. It’s yours, they can’t take it away or change the rules. It’s yours.

And BTW, not sure my rate has gone up in the ~7 years I had it. Maybe $1? That might have been because I enabled additional backups.

Have you read the comments on your own post?! These people think that sign is real.

I made a kilo of black powder a couple of years ago for my old-school guns. Sulfer, charcoal and stump killer is not exactly hard to come by. Neither is fertilizer and diesel fuel.

Biggest domestic terror attack in US history used a truck full of the later.

I don’t ever remember seeing a list of PEEKs and POKEs. Guess it never occured to me that there was better documentation to be had. Every pin in the machine was clearly documented though.

It a default change, not mandatory. Money says business users will never see this fuckery.

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When Photoshopping a stock image you mean?