When I was in college, I found a hand-bound report from the Department of the Treasury, written in 1939, about the financial situation in Nanking during the Japanese occupation. I was writing a report about the Rape of Nanking for a history class, and I stumbled upon it while searching the university library.

I was shocked that it wasn’t in their archives, and even more shocked that they let me check it out.

I feel like there is a difference between voting for someone and voting against someone.

I don’t like how noted war criminal amd possible lizard person Dick Cheney endorsed Harris, but Cheney has never said, “I like what Harris is going to do”; instead, he tried to frame it as a vote against Trump because…well, it’s Trump.

And of course, right-wingers don’t have any capability for self-reflection, because the proper response to fucking Dick Cheney calling you evil is to look in the mirror and ask yourself some hard questions.

Only stupid people try the medicine drug. You are stupid.

Journeys (the shoe chain) and Hollister Co. both use Linux distros on their point of sale machines. Hollister’s machines are pretty locked down and can basically only run the RPoS software, but a lot of Journeys’ software is browser-based, so they have to be a bit more capable.

Pretty sure they’re both custom distros, though.

Someone has never had to deal with DHL.

You’d think the Germans would be fantastic at logistics, but in this case, you’d be very wrong.

That’s my line of thinking.

Given the image Jack Black cultivated for himself, being around anyone who wished for a political figure’s death will work against that image, no matter how much Black may agree or disagree with Kyle. It’s a perfectly understandable decision and I doubt it’s permanent.

I’m thinking someone went nuts with the Photoshop. It’s what Elon Musk thinks he looks like, and I don’t think AI would be able to get that look just the way Elon wants it.

Super famous singer “offers” to be featured on your track

“Sure! I had my lawyer write up a contract; let me send it to your people and we can go from there.”

If they’re cool, they’ll negotiate and sign a contract. “Just trust me, bro!” is never an acceptable answer. Protect yourself; have a contract before collaborating with anyone.

Thank you, sir; I’d saved that a while back for a comment and couldn’t find the original.

That is a pretty good explanation of money laundering, actually.

They’re far from perfect, I’d be the first person to tell you.

But they’re still light-years ahead of anyone else, because they’re perfectly happy just making tons of money instead of trying to squeeze every last cent out of the storefront at our expense.

Man, I just think about the opening for “Would?” by Alice in Chains. People who underappreciate the bass haven’t heard that song.

People in the know understand how shitty Facebook is, but at the very least, they’re a private company. ByteDance is Chinese, and there’s very little separation between Chinese companies and the Chinese government.

So, for all intents and purposes, it comes down to a company spying on you vs. a foreign government spying on you. They’re both invading your privacy, but for different nefarious reasons.

I had a hard time getting on the site formerly known as Twitter last night.

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Have you tried Trepang2? It’s very much a spiritual successor to FEAR, and there’s a free demo for it, too.

Honestly, I don’t know what Jack Dorsey is waiting for. The instant Bluesky leaves its closed beta, basically everyone on Twitter is gonna jump ship, and Twitter’s transformation into Truth Social 2.0 will be complete.

The iron has been hot for a long while. What’s he waiting for?

They serve it that hot so that it’s less obvious when the coffee isn’t fresh. That way, you can save money by making fewer batches, and the people who are served old coffee won’t realize it until long after they left the drive-thru.

190 degrees Fahrenheit. They served it that hot to make it less obvious that they (usually) weren’t selling fresh coffee.