If everything is running on renewables, cool. Until then, there’s still the opportunity cost.

My dad worked nights and Mom was a SAHM who also did some freelance stuff from home. They basically had a first come/first served system, and honestly didn’t have many conflicts so the second car (usually the one they’ve had longer) was rarely used. That was perfect when I started driving in high school, because I could usually use that car (even if it was a few years older than I was)

My brother talked them into buying a used Mitsubishi Eclipse back when it was still kinda cool (an '03 model purchased in 2007?). Mom ended up really liking that car and it’s not really practical for the handyman stuff my dad does in his retirement, so now they have assigned cars.

And here we are, not on TikTok or Instagram, and still seeing it

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Yeah, that Franch dipping sauce in Breaking Bad was crazy!

“I couldn’t possibly compete with other businesses who would also be required to do the same thing in the same way that I would! It just wouldn’t be fair!”

Maybe in that one aspect, but I’d imagine the mandatory labor at likely very low wages will make most people resent it more than anything.

I’ll be honest, I’m from Minnesota but haven’t seen TMD. But I love when shows emphasize and feature its location. Even if it wasn’t filmed there, The Mary Tyler Moore Show kept things reasonably Minneapolis-centric. Cheers/Frasier in Boston/Seattle, The Drew Carey Show is proudly in Ohio, Seinfeld in New York, Full House in San Francisco, more recently Breaking Bad in New Mexico… We’ve got a huge country, let’s use its different settings!

Unfortunately so many places are lucky to offhandedly mention where it all takes place, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator IMO.

Not really. There were plenty of random pages, but you really had to seek it out to see it. Now an overwhelming majority of non-ad posts are stuff like this (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they pay to have this stuff seen, basically making it an ad)

Welcome to the Internet. You can swear here.

Or perhaps the leadership of a project involving such complex mechanics as Nuclear Warheads is not expected to be comically inept with a simple projector.

That was my first thought

There is also some oil drilling near the southeast side of the city, generally along Quincy and maybe Jewell Avenues?

I think you helped me figure out where I stand on AI. What is “the thing”? Did AI create “the thing” or was it a tool to help the creation? Part of a YouTube video is a perfect example. If I want music to set a mood, and I didn’t have anything specific in mind, fine. That’s about 5% of “the thing” and I can understand using a new tool for the job. But all the random shitty AI-generated pictures floating around social media where that’s the entirety “the thing”? They can fuck off.

Basically, do things for the human, not the bots or the clicks. Unfortunately I don’t think we’re far off from Dead Internet Theory - we have LLMs creating content for SEO. Basically one bot creating content to please another bot. The human element has become an afterthought.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I live near Aurora. One of those city councilperson’s background is in owning a restaurant of all things. Totes an expert in international gang activity.

President Trump thanks you.

I’m not sure that’s necessarily true. There are plenty of military contractors out there, and a driver is the kind of position you would expect to be likely contracted out. That in no way makes one a soldier.

But the original numbers showed a 90% decline, so something isn’t apples to apples here.

Ahhh yes, the other set of federal criminal charges our former president and current presidential candidate is facing, not to be confused with the felony charges for which he was already found guilty or other charges in another state entirely.

I get that it can be confusing though

I love how new Teams doesn’t even have a contacts list for chat anymore, it’s just your most recent chats. And if you search for someone, any recent group chats with that person show up first so you may still have to scroll to find that person’s chat. Oh, and we store documents on Teams so if I want to switch between looking through the document repository and chat I still have to do a whole bunch of clicks between the two.

I don’t fault them for when my project manager tags @everyone on the group chat with an important message saying “good morning and happy Monday” though. I wish I were kidding.

Depending on what exactly they’re doing, that could be practicing without a license