came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]

imagine living in Irvine and not doing drugs.

this could be fixed with two more panels. the second panel shows his wife’s grave, she died 10 years ago, fresh flowers. the third panel is a closeup of his face, with a single tear by his forced smile.

maybe not funny ha ha, but like pbf comics maybe.

my favorite part about shopping for shit on Amazon is the gamble. is it going to be a total piece of shit? are parts going to be missing? is it the completely wrong item?

the stakes are my time spent looking at reviews and customer photos and the purchase price, which is somewhat related to how much of a turd the item is.

it’s so obvious Amazon is all about AWS and has totally hollowed out their fulfillment processes.

I also moved outside of Amazon’s targeted geography this year, and the prime ship times have all gone from 1-3 days to like 1-2 weeks.

I have been looking at ali express a little, but my question is… do you typically find what you’re looking for on it or do you specifically buy certain things from it?

how did he manage to say all that with the microphone in his gob?

I don’t even drink coffee, but I have never once worked for an office employer that didn’t provide it freely. maybe there’s some discussion about the baseline quality of the free stuff and some reserves shit for the fancies. so many office places provide nearly unlimited access to stimulants and sugar, for the most obvious reason on the planet.

what a bunch of jamokes.

love the framing of a worker action “costing” the economy money. ever since a citations ep pointed out how it’s always worker actions that “cost” or “damage” a “fragile” economy, … while just rolling over and accepting declining wages as inflation ramps up is always accompanied with endless editorializing of the economy being “strong”. because it’s obviously fucked, so the mouthpieces must inform us all that it’s great and powerful.

any objective view of fundamental numbers show that any reduction in economic activity during worker action is immediately corrected after the action ends and generally results in remarkable improvement because workers are the economy. the powerful parasitic shitwads at the top diverting value into stock buybacks, policy capture, overshore accounts, and various speculative financial schemes are the fucking blackhole that fucks the economy.

can you imagine if the port was visible while the mouse was being used? that would destroy the visual field. like when there’s a poor person within 18 meters of my Tesla using FSD to take me to Shangy’s Latest talk.

yes, i am a design technospiritual futurist and i experience the world in a heightened state of maximum consciousness and my mind is so powerful that i appreciate this decision unlike you mud eating cretins who spend less on a laptop than i do on a haircut.

I worked at a few places that made these “gestures” to the underpaid/overworked suckers.

one of the key features of this kind of thing was to make absolutely certain the distribution process centered the experience of the HR shitheads that dreamed it up and absolutely prevented any organized, anonymous rejection of it.

the last thing any boss wants to see is a shitload of these overflowing a garbage can and no fucking clue who to retaliate against.

one of my earliest shit jobs they were walking around handing out t-shirts while we were all busy on the phones, hating life, and I told my boss I was just going to hold my trash can aloft and tell them to deposit it there. he said a VP was walking around for the smile parade so if I did, they’d put me on an unrecoverable pip and I’d be gone.

honestly, receiving little shit like this at a shit job is cruel. instead of paying a bunch of higher salary people to dream this up and put it together, just give us a bonus you assholes. even if it’s just a one off of 10 bucks.

cash is king.

I’ve seen all the terminator love action movies and they all have their charms, but there was something special about one of the weakest of the franchise: Terminator 3 with Nick Stahl.

I liked how the reveal/turn at the climax was that Judgement Day truly was inevitable. everything leading up to the very end made it seem like they might stop it or delay it again. but when they got away from the killer robot to where they general told them to go, the protagonists finally saw that the key to their victory over skynet was not to prevent its nuclear assault on humanity, but to survive it and coordinate with all the various civil defense shelters by communicating key information at a time of absolute chaos and destruction. John Connor was no hardened warrior or robot slayer… he was just the guy who could connect the dots from a secure location under a mountain.

there was a lot of dumb robot booba b.s. in that movie, but the way it ended was almost poetic and caught me completely off guard.

my old boss would always insist on a Mac desktop for his work computer, so his computer spend was like 3 times mine and he would upgrade nearly twice as often.

I did video editing, GIS computational analysis, bespoke data processing/management, graphic design for printed resources, and interactive digital interfaces.

he checked his email and struggled to open PDFs. one time I needed him to sign a PDF when no one was around to do it for him. it took him 45 minutes of focused concentration and when he sent it back, it was somehow upside-down, backwards and on the wrong page.

I took a screenshot of it and showed it to people sometimes.

the only people who know how to torrent are the ones that want to learn. the learning curve is gentler than a walk-in shower. I’ve shown people of all ages and all tech backgrounds, though recommending VPN connections and getting that going does throw a few.

anyway, it’s so easy, it’s crazy compared to the old days of usenet, ZIP disks, ftp sites, .is files, and sequenced RAR files. this is the golden age of piracy and I love it.

In addition to the Cybercab, Musk also announced plans to produce an autonomous, electric Robovan that can carry up to 20 people, or be used to transport goods. He said it will “solve for high density,” transporting a sports team, for example.

ah yes, the riddle of the streets being clogged with sports team transportation vehicles.

this guy has a blindspot for busses.

“Are we exploding? I don’t wanna explode.”

totally. people shit on the guy and the show/movie, but it was clever and let its cast shine through their characters. in a world where 80% of media is skullsplittingly dull and stupid, it was a solid ass franchise.

Alan Tudyk is an extremely rare and often underutilized talent. Nathan Fillon can make my eyes watery and put a lump in chest seemingly without any effort, but also plays the “smart mouth / dumb where it counts” sandbagging bushwhacker so well, it’s like he reinvented the archetype.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We are having a little trouble with our re-surface sequence, so we may experience a little turbulence and then, uh, implode.”

this is lentil erasure.

what a limited imagining of a robotic sex partner. not one of them is a shrieking metallic skull on the thorax+abdomen of a 700 lb scorpion with a tail that injects an adrenaline and DMT mix.

which is what we all want to come home to, am I right fellas?

once they automate making homophobic jokes and farting in bed, cishet men are RUINED. men will wish they stayed grinding that WoW gold.

sometimes when I talk IRL about privacy issues online and the impulse to not share my user data, shopping habits, with anyone and everyone etc, I get pushback from otherwise smart people who want to know why I don’t want to be tracked. I’m not even talking like doing Snowden type shit. just like very basic avoidance. like not using advertisers’ browsers or installing all the treat apps for discount treats at the treat shoppe.

it always throws me, because it seems self evident. but these people seem to think receiving highly specific and targeting marketing benefits them by showing them products and services they are interested in.

I can’t really wrap my mind around it, except my guess is they believe they have complete control and agency over their attention and would never be influenced to do something or believe something against their interests.

which is comes across as super naive to me.

I mean, how often does a rural dweller really need a new vehicle, let alone an electric bazinga mobile that only rapidly charges at The Louvre or whatever?

my understanding is that way more European cars are diesels and manual transmission than the states. I made a diesel pick up last 504k miles and I only got rid of it because I took it to a specialty mechanic to have the starter shimmed in tighter and he told me to go fuck myself lol. he only worked on like rich people restorations and, admittedly, my truck looked and sounded like it took an RPG into the front.

as a burgerlander, I wish I had easy access to the European used car market. their trash is my treasure!

imagine living in Europe and buying a new car. genius skewing demographic.