Haha, that'd be even more awesome than a 4-conductor headset jack, though. I'd take it.

I agree, that's cool. I just will not buy a goddamn phone without a 4-conductor headset jack. They still make them in "high end phones" like ASUS and RedMagic.

You cannot be made to, cannot be cajoled to, and cannot be induced by much of anything to work in Europe. I'm American. I worked in Europe for 14 months. Saw a lot of drunken two-hour lunches, holidays, and reasons to quit or leave early. I didn't see much in the way of hard work except in Eastern Europe by some pretty poor and desperate folks (Serbia & Estonia you get a pass). They don't work very hard nor do their productivity numbers impress anyone. They do work hard at making up rules for others and creating gangster-style extortion rackets over any economic activity. They are pros at the latter. That and censorship.

I'm sure that's very reassuring to those dying "My death from this extreme cold is perfectly normal. I sure hope folks in the heat get some help. Anyhow, off to die, now! Toodles!"

Yeah, I remember the "Do not call" list and it actually worked for like 2-3 years but then they started calling from India, Romania, Russia, and other pleasant countries I love so much. I also notice they have giant scammer camps in the jungles of Cambodia that do nothing but call Americans. My old-lady neighbor lost her house to back-to-back scammers.

My solution is to simply ignore their sovereignty the same way they ignore ours. Start sending spec ops teams in to kill their gangbangers, politicians, and absolutely fuel-air bomb those camps in the jungle. If anyone resists or says boo to a goose about it: kill them. If they don't volunteer to do it themselves next time, kill them again and keep doing the same shit. Just don't stick around (that's always our problem). Just kill and destroy everything in sight and leave. That gets painful and expensive pretty fast. Probably not as expensive as the money they rob from old ladies, but enough to get their attention. No need for precision munitions, either. A 2000 pound JDAM will do just fine. Drop 10 just in case: best to be sure.

Other means that other rich people get paid via. They see it as poaching off their take. This is gangster-government-bonded-with-corporations. They don't like upstarts horning in on their turf and milking their cows, so to speak, Capche' ?

Found the NPR Wine Woman.

Looks to me like they are about to lay off a shitton of their software folks and focus only on making waveguides (the little projector screens that enable AR). I really don't want to like AR and I'm glad it's taking forever because all the headgear of yore has been goofy and stupid looking AF. However, if they get the waveguides really advanced, small, and cheap: this changes things. The compute part is already small enough. This means that likely soon these devices will, in fact, gain social acceptance and of course, the kids already found a "use" for them, right here. I think the other "uses"/applications will continue to shock folks.

Can't someone make me an AR prosecuting for Gold app that works? I promise then I'll stop complaining.

Partisans, lol. OpenSecrets says from January 2023 to March 2024 that Dems used $15M and GOP was $23M in official travel. In 2025 (early data): Republicans @$1.76M vs. Democrats @$986k; 353 trips vs. 234.

So, you're correct! (Yay!, have a cookie!) However, unfortunately, nothing has changed and you're still an idiot partisan fantasist if you think any of this proves that left wing Communists are "better" than right wing Fascists. The Uniparty really appreciates your efforts. "You guys took 353 trips! We only took 234! We're green and you're not NA NA NA NA NA!"

Politicians are scum. Governments are murder factories. Fewer is better.

AI just saved your daughter from the casting couch. Now she can be a live stage actor or a plumber.

I'm ready for the AI jobapolpyse. Lawyers, Hollywood screenwriters, actors, artists, musicians and all the other folks who've been pushing Communism for the last 100 years can fucking EAT IT. Enjoy being replaced by a bot: you were never shit anyway.

They become what they attempt to prevent/regulate or get captured. The FDA seems to think it's main job is to protect Big Pharma. The FCC thinks it's there to prevent you from running a free wifi mesh (can't have that: gotta protect the children and stop the terrorists, ya know). The SEC, the FAA, the EEOC, etc.. they all do the opposite of their actual job. All the big agencies either get captured and turned into apparatchiks for corrupt corporations and/or their "regulation" does way more harm than good to the people they were supposed to protect.

The government is bad at pretty much everything it does. It's also a corrupt murder factory that likes to kill folks for a myriad of reasons. That's why it's better if we keep it small: so it gets fewer opportunities to cause problems.

It's a safety cult. That's a costly choice. I'm sure they can build their own Internet and invent all the things they've been failing to invent since the 1980's, ban the evil US trumper-technology (Trump writes all our software, now), and convert to pure red-armband EU FOSS .... any day now! In the meantime, less than 1% of EU employees actually have a 4-day work week and you can enjoy being raped by a migrant on public transport or have your head cut off in the street while paying sky-high taxes to wasteful authoritarian beurocrats instead. BONUS! Yay! Regulate me harder, daddy! So glad you banned America!

Except that he's totally correct. No wonder you posted this drive-by as an AC.

Reverse the skating direction and all the new skaters will groan. Regular direction is counterclockwise and has been since the 1800's when indoor rinks became a thing.