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NABDad ,

Something tells me if the students, staff, and faculty stop buying coffee from Starbucks, it will have more impact.

Or am I misunderstanding? Where I am you can choose not to buy Starbucks coffee. Does their university require it for some reason?

NABDad ,

Actually, you can. I did it.

Also, I drink coffee now every day, and I never go to Starbucks. It’s cheaper and better to just make it myself.

NABDad ,

No, of course I’m not real. I’m being facetious.

NABDad ,

Excellent! Maybe they can actually have good coffee!

NABDad ,

“Ooo… This is neat. I want it.”

“Ooo… That one is neat too. I want it.”

Bam! Now you’re a collector.

NABDad ,

What about them is girly?

NABDad ,

Way back in the olde tymes, I was having trouble with the NIC driver in my Linux install. I posted a question about it on USENET, and got a reply from the guy who wrote the drivers. He asked for some info about the card, then updated the driver to support it.

NABDad ,

Fuck, that’s so low.

NABDad ,

There’s a lot in British Cuisine that I would skip, but I could really go for some fish and chips.

NABDad ,

I’ve been living in my house for 26 years and we still occasionally get mail for previous residents.

NABDad ,

That can be said about many people who get out of prison. Health conditions that get diagnosed and treated in the outside tend to get ignored inside.

NABDad ,

I took a look. It’s all train stations, schools, and farms.

You’d think I lived in the middle of nowhere.

NABDad ,

I was under the impression that you prick the skin to make it easier for the moisture to exit the potato so it gets drier and therefore fluffier.

But my wife just said she had a potato explode when she didn’t poke it enough.

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off (animals.howstuffworks.com)

A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear’s liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU...

NABDad ,

Luckily, if you try to eat a polar bear liver, the polar bear will stop you.

But don’t worry, human liver is safe for polar bears to consume.

NABDad ,

Someone sell this asshole a polar bear liver.

3 migrants, including 2 kids, drowned in Eagle Pass days after Texas blocked Border Patrol from area, congressman says (www.cnn.com)

Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar....

NABDad ,

Your point holds true, as long as you’re a sociopath.

NABDad ,

I am also aware of a manager at my job who got fired for playing those games. Fired and security-escorted out.

Knowing the department director and how she felt about the employees, she was probably enraged when she found out what the manager under her was doing.

Here it’s very difficult to fire an employee after the probationary period, but managers are relatively easy to fire. There’s a three strikes rule for managers. Whenever a PIA manager starts being extra nice to everyone, you know they just got reported to HR for a second time.

Screwing with time cards in the U.S. is extra double bad because of federal law.

If the employee can prove the manager has done it, they’ve proven that their employer is both guilty of wage theft, and also that they’ve destroyed the records showing how much time you actually worked. So usually the employees get to say how much they are owed, and the employer has no way to argue against it.

If I recall correctly, if it was an honest mistake, the employer has to pay back two times what was owed. If it was intentional, then they have to pay back three times what was owed.

There aren’t many worker protections in the U.S., but that particular set of laws is ok. Of course, there could be additional protections in state or local laws.

Edit: clarification and typo.

NABDad ,

More like a club than a stick. A deadly weapon, but it generally wouldn’t be as bloody as a complete axe.

NABDad ,

If I had to guess, I’d say the objection is because sometimes bombs explode.

NABDad ,

I’m just a dickhead on the Internet, but what you’re describing doesn’t sound normal or healthy to me. Have you tried therapy?

NABDad ,

Internet jerks unite!!!

‘Incompetent dumpster fire’: Michigan GOP rocked by financial turmoil and infighting (www.cnn.com)

The Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference often lures a who’s who of GOP power players to Michigan. Wealthy donors shake hands with presidential candidates, who give rousing speeches to packed audiences in hopes of winning the conference’s straw poll....

NABDad ,

I just listened to the This American Life podcast episode about this.

I enjoyed the schadenfreude, particularly listening to different people talk about how the new leader must be a deep-state plant put in place by the Democrats to destroy the GOP in Michigan. No, you dipshits, you voted for her to be your leader. You wanted someone who fully bought into Trump’s lies about the last election, and (big shock) the person you chose is a complete moron.

There were also two Muslim dudes complaining that despite being elected to leadership positions in the Michigan GOP (they ran unopposed), they were cut out of involvement and planning. They claim it is because they are Muslim. The leader says it’s not true, but they have screenshots of communications with her that back up their story. Got real “sheep desperately trying to support the wolf party” vibes from them.

We need more GOP organizations like this. Once the GOP has completely self-destructed, we can go to work on the Democrats, and maybe end up with a government that actually cares about people instead of billionaires.

I don’t think it will ever happen, but it’s still nice to see the GOP unwittingly destroying themselves.

NABDad ,

“I was just resting my eyes!”

NABDad ,

So, of course, the only way that could be constitutional is if they banned absolutely all celebrations.

Sounds like a fun place.

NABDad ,

That look that says:

I could kill you, but I really like you, so I won’t…

…but I could.

I miss having cats in my life.

Trump is putting every racial, ethnic and religious minority at risk at a time of angry political polarization (www.cnn.com)

Donald Trump’s extreme rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi propaganda and his penchant for siding with America’s adversaries and autocrats pose a unique challenge to his Republican opponents and, ultimately, US voters....

NABDad ,

There’s no need to say “if he cheats” because there’s no doubt that he will.

NABDad ,

Is there no one in his life that can tell Elon to shave that shit off?

NABDad ,

Free will is a lie we tell ourselves.

NABDad ,

I was only commenting on the concept of free will. Doesn’t matter where you apply it, we’re all just following our programming.

Obviously, the program is incredibly complex, otherwise the illusion of free will wouldn’t be so easy to believe.

However, there are many examples where the programming becomes apparent.

The best example of this is a radio lab episode about a woman with transient global amnesia. Her memory reset every 90 seconds, and she kept repeating the same conversation over and over for hours. Like a program stuck in a loop.

Radiolab, Transient Global Amnesia - SoundCloud m.soundcloud.com/…/radiolab-transient-global-amne…

She couldn’t choose to say something else. Given the same input, she would repeat the same response every time. She didn’t have the ability to realize she had already said it, so she just kept looping.

NABDad ,

I don’t wear tinfoil hats. What about not believing in free will means I’d wear a tinfoil hat?

NABDad ,

Wait… Why not wear tinfoil hats or why not believe in free will?

NABDad ,

I mentioned my reasoning in another post in the thread

Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign (www.propublica.org)

After almost a decade on the court, Thomas had grown frustrated with his financial situation, according to friends. He had recently started raising his young grandnephew, and Thomas’ wife was soliciting advice on how to handle the new expenses. The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end...

NABDad ,

That was the salary back when he was complaining which it appears would have been sometime in or around 2000.

It’s $253,361 now.

As the excerpt from the article states, the 173,600 would be over $300,000 today. So, you should really feel bad for the Supreme Court justices. Their salary raises haven’t kept up with inflation.

NABDad ,

According to The CPI Inflation Calculator, $200,000 in December 1969 would be the equivalent of $1.628 million today.

Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado (apnews.com)

A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward in the coming days by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the predators’ release....

NABDad ,

No, but I bet someone along the supply chain will use it as the reason they had to jack up profits prices.

NABDad ,

My theory is that they’re missing out on the taxes I would normally pay if I bought gas and need to recoup their losses.

I don’t think you need to refer to that as a theory. Taxes on fuel for motor vehicles go towards road maintenance. Vehicles that drive on the roads but don’t burn gas or diesel, don’t pay their share of the road maintenance costs. That’s why states want to tax EVs.

NABDad ,

If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyway.

NABDad ,

That just shows you, when they post the sign-up sheet to bring things to the insurrection, you want to respond early so you can get something like zip-ties. If you put if off too long, you’ll end up having to bring the hatchet.

Ideally, you want to be first so you can just bring the kool-aid. I understand they drink a lot of it.

NABDad ,

Just in case you don’t realize: the “dildo of consequences” is a metaphor. There isn’t a literal dildo involved.

Unless that’s your thing. I don’t judge.

NABDad ,

Yeah. Dude has to earn a living somehow.

NABDad ,

I’ve often thought that this is a perfect situation in which to invoke Eminent Domain.

If the government can decide what my home is worth, and force me to sell it at that price so that they can sell it to a developer to tear down and build something else to sell to someone else, then why can’t they decide what a patent is worth and force the patent holder to sell it at that price.

The patent holder should be compensated for whatever they paid to develop the technology. Obviously, if the patent is based on government funded research, then whatever the government already paid would be deducted from the value of the patent.

NABDad ,

They are kind of stuck. They have to find companions who don’t have children or responsibilities. The best majority of the people who land in those categories are younger folks.

NABDad ,

Morally or financially?

Both, right?

NABDad ,

“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome democracy?”

NABDad ,

The place where I work has an emergency alert public address system. I heard them test it once. It sounded a bit like the first part of the tripod sound from War of the Worlds:

youtu.be/jzY099ihULs

I think it wouldn’t take more than a couple blasts from that before I’d evacuate something.

NABDad ,

They don’t want the focused gaze to slip off him and see them.

NABDad ,

Me and the wife will probably see if there’s something on TV.

Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions?

After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s— about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with?...

NABDad ,

This is not advice.

I hated spam calls. Got them constantly.

I decided to just fuck with them mercilessly. I’d answer almost every time. Even if I had to drop whatever I was doing. My single overriding goal was to keep them on the line as long as possible and then, once discovered, piss them off as much as possible.

I’ve been doing this for years. No YouTube channel or anything. I didn’t record the calls. Just a personal hobby of mine.

If I was at work, I’d try to keep them talking while I ignored them and kept working. If I wasn’t busy, I’d interact more.

Initially, it seemed to cause a massive increase in spam calls. Like, it seemed fairly obvious to me that I was getting more calls because I was responding. Since I enjoyed fucking with them, I didn’t mind getting them any more.

I always figured I was at least tying up one scammer for as long as possible.

After awhile all my calls were hangups. I’d answer, and then they would immediately disconnect. I know that happens sometimes because the robo caller calls multiple lines at once and drops all but the first one that answers, but it started happening every time for me.

A few months ago I read about some scam call networks getting busted. I wondered if it would have any effect.

Seems like it has. I don’t even get one call or week anymore.

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