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I hated Donald Trump in the '80s already. I thought he was a dishonest blowhard and was amazed that anybody believed anything that came out of his mouth.

I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the "darling awkward little geek bro". He always struck me as inauthentic and a little bit stupid. (I was wrong on that last point, mind. He's a lot stupid.)

I've heard rumours that there's places out there that have so many of these they have to sell them!

Rolling Stones. Rolling Stones' Paint It Black.

These:

These are essentially crisp tea biscuits. Flavoured with chive oil.

I'm the only person I ever met who does it, so … it's probably not common?

I grilled 'em on the stove.

Otherwise the same thing.

I can see that working. Swiss has a nutty taste already, after all.

Hot chocolate with chili powder.

I'm with you here on everything except the Marmite. 😛

Yeah, I'm with you here. That sounds like a great combo.

I don't find it physically exhausting but definitely mentally and spiritually draining. ("Hurry up and wait" in particular is a rage-triggering thing for me.) I learned to adapt by always carrying a book with me that I can pull out and start reading while others around me dither and force waiting periods.

The covid lockdowns showed me just how vulnerable the automation industry is to disruptions.

It also showed how valuable the automation industry was to cutting COVID-19 off at its knees if a bunch of pansy right-wingers hadn't started to screech they couldn't breath because of a few grams of paper on their face. (Weird how they can wear masks now when it involves being cruel to non-whites...)

When COVID-19 hit there was a shortage of surgical and N95 masks world-wide. Then a guy invented a machine that could "print" obscene numbers of surgical masks per day, each machine costing only about $50,000. Within weeks surgical masks were available to the point that they cost almost nothing. Then someone else figured out how to make KN95 masks easier to mass produce on the same kind of "printing" machine and now KN95 masks are also cheap like borscht and universally available.

Without automation there'd have been a whole lot more deaths to COVID-19 around the world, not just in snowflake countries.