theturtle

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by theturtle 1y ago
In a couple years when he's dead, they are gonna be seriously fuk't. Yay.
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by theturtle 1y ago
Intel does not have to be eternal. There was a time before Intel.
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by theturtle 1y ago
That doesn't work as well in areas where people can make anonymous reports. Even where callers can't be anonymous, a lawyer would be needed to get the name of the caller; they don't just hand it out to the subject of the comp
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by theturtle 1y ago
That's right up there with "ask your doctor..."
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by theturtle 1y ago
Little kids, or more specifically, having them, is a major way for self-important strangers to get in your shit when they have no legal right to. Plaudits to New York, which no longer accepts anonymous complaints due to their massive abuse
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by theturtle 1y ago
...and for decades in IT, I was pretty firm on the topic of "just because we CAN collect that data doesn't mean we should." I imagine the DOGE bros who took over my old agency are still living with that. "We want to know
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by theturtle 1y ago
"We will never sell your information!" Yeah, but whoever buys you or executes your bankruptcy probably will. Much better for you to never have it in the first place. "You will change your mind, but I won't change mine.&q
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by theturtle 1y ago
Hornell, New York isn't exactly a commerce center and wages in rural western New York are rather depressed these days. The last fast thing that came out of that region was the Hungerford Rocket Car over in Elmira, and that was a hundre
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by theturtle 1y ago
Legally, freight is supposed to yield to passengers nationwide. It's in the legislation that created Amtrak over fifty years ago. It has never been enforced, and trump isn't about to do it. The UP/NS merger will make it worse
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by theturtle 1y ago
Cool! Maybe all the apps and sites intended to let you keep track of what your local kopz are doing will work again!
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by theturtle 1y ago
This is kind of amusing, like editing the owner's manual of your car to read it has 900 horsepower instead of 90, and expecting it to do the quarter-mile in seven seconds. We are gonna have the courts all clogged up for years jailing t
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by theturtle 1y ago
1980 was barely the start of "celebration of the stupid." Reagan and Bush turbocharged it. "Yore stoopid? Well, good fer yew, yer what Murka's all about!!!"
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by theturtle 1y ago
GE is a major offender. And it's meaningless noise... the little jingle that the oven plays when it's done preheating is the same as the one the dishwasher near it plays when the cycle is done. Zero useful information. Oddly, that
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by theturtle 1y ago
As my late grandfather would say, "who is this kid?"
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by theturtle 1y ago
Every one of those jackoffs probably has a VCR at home flashing "12:00."
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by theturtle 1y ago
I have actually had pizza at the Pentagon. True, it was almost 30 years ago, and it tasted like federal-cafeteria pizza, but it was edible and I'm still alive.
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by theturtle 1y ago
It's always limited, if by nothing more than physics and time. But yeah, the UNLIMITED* ads need to go eat a grenade. _________ *here's where we tell you the limits we said we didn't have
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by theturtle 1y ago
...it would also completely fuck any remaining Amtrak traffic that isn't on Amtrak-owned track. Norfolk Southern already routinely ignores the actual on-the-books law that prioritizes passenger traffic over freight, and UP isn't m
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by theturtle 1y ago
The last truly good volvo was manufactured around 1992. There are lots of them around still.
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by theturtle 1y ago
The basic problem with his outlook is, as the US is experiencing now, what happens when someone who is not you decides the information you want or need shouldn't be available or exist at all? Make zillions of copies. Share them around.
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by theturtle 1y ago
My sister-in-law was working for USAID in Mozambique on exactly that. People down there are going to die exactly because of that. She is back in America wondering what she'll do next, as she trained for public health her entire life.
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by theturtle 1y ago
They at least mentioned Mastodon (once). I have a BlooSky account, mostly to claim my usual username, but I don't feel much of a pull. The Mastodon instance I'm on tends to pull a lot of alt people, people who wrestle interesting
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by theturtle 1y ago
Wait, sixty-four MILLION people actually wanted to work there? Are they counting everybody since 1954?
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by theturtle 1y ago
This isn't a great ad for "Rodyne."
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by theturtle 1y ago
I installed this on a four-button iPod years ago but now I can't FIND the thing!!!
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by theturtle 1y ago
All I see with Dyson is shitloads of overpriced plastic. I refuse to use any of the various expensive always-break plastic Dysons and prefer my heavy fifty-year-old Kirby Omega. Actual metal. You can still get almost all parts for it, they
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by theturtle 1y ago
Our stove insists it can't implement several advertised features unless we let it at our wifi and "enable" the features. Fukdat, a stove does not need to be a network citizen, it needs to bake cookies. For me. Then again, may
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by theturtle 1y ago
30 or more years ago I was at a law firm that had some specialized software to pump out the paperwork for residential mortgages. Every so often it would throw an error and refuse to run, which made it really popular with the paralegals who
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by theturtle 1y ago
...and promising to give it to cops. Turn that thing off.
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by theturtle 1y ago
As the late George Carlin put it succinctly years ago, "fuck the children!"

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