6 mos into owning a Samsung TV, I started getting ads.

So I put a pihole on my network which fixed it but I also started seeing the ENORMOUS amount of times ALL my samsung devices were being blocked. I’m talking THOUSANDS per day per device. Like the TV would be blocked 1,200 times in one day, my samsung smartphone would also be blocked 1,000+ times per day while my wife’s iphone that she uses for every and all social media was being blocked maybe 100 times.

Since then I’ve never bought another Samsung device and hooked an apple tv up to my Samsung TV while disconnecting the tv from the internet. It’s fucking disgusting how you buy their product and still get milked for data/money.

If 90% of the country is unemployed they’ll work for us and we increase the UBI they pay us.

Or we have a very abrupt reordering of things.

I ducked into grad school thinking it’d help.

Then it was a single skill I picked up on my undergraduate that landed me a job. From there I just pick up experience where I can and take on responsibilities of higher jobs and then apply to those jobs elsewhere.

It took me 2 years to start making more than 80% of my graduate professors and 7 to make more than all of them.

The key is recognizing your worth. I’m this programmer from this example where I work. In the last 3 years I negotiated two separate times for higher pay, collectively increasing my pay 80% and it was relatively easy. You have to be willing to walk out the door though if it doesn’t work out.

It’s pretty amazing he can have so little come out against him, allegedly, that he was “physically threatening” (I.e. he never was physically abusive) and he had some raunchy texts and people even consider voting for the party of a felon and Epstein child rapists.