Talaraine

I dunno why but I felt like he hit all the things that lurk in my head just beneath the awful headlines. Gotta give props to this episode... trauma bond in a diff way xD

I think there ARE other ways to combat this, and the main one is ending activist investors that empower the Jack Welch pump and dump doctrine.

If someone wants to invest in something because they like it, they should be able to do that. What they should NOT be able to do is overwhelm a company they may or may not even like with dollars and then tell the company how to run its own business. If you don't like what a company is doing, you SELL YOUR STOCK.

It's this incessant worshiping of the shareholder that is step # 1 of enshittifcation.

Cancelled two weeks ago, and while it's too early for me to have a fully informed opinion, so far I've noticed that if you just hold items in your cart until you reach some kind of threshold (and I admittedly don't know what that is) you can get free shipping anyway.

It's almost like I was paying all that money just so I could one off order anything on a whim. I'm an adult, I can exercise impulse control and stick it to Amazon in some small way by doing it. Win/Win.

rofl fair enough

Hahah yeah water glassing is kind of a throwback that helps keep them even through temp variations. We did an experiment back when we had a homestead a few years ago, where we cleaned any nasties if there were any and then dipped the eggs in oil and kept them in a cool room.

We came back every three months to try an egg. We ended the experiment at 2 years after which 25% of them began to float. The rest were still edible but the yolk wouldn't stay together when cracked.

I think if you're kissing the asshole that qualifies as 'eating' ass, not kissing it

That's just about how small I like mushrooms cut in anything I eat.

Henceforth I will refer to OpenAI as ClosedAI.

Cry more.

This. Plus I genuinely think he doesn't want the spot, which makes him singularly qualified to have it.

I am embarrassed how long it took me to get this xD

Like I'd fully disengaged from my computer to eat dinner then came running back up the stairs

Case closed.