Gotta share this story of the horror of penis enlargements gone wrong

https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

Well luckily the FTC sued them for being a monopoly and then the Trump administration settled for a slap on the wrist, so they have no reason to change.

I didn’t think it was a real Bible quote. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass.

-Hegseth

Even if that was a vulnerability, they’re never going to steal a million phones at once

Reverse sex trafficking

This is sensationalism. Are people actually getting sick or hurt? One or two deaths is really not worth worrying about in the scheme of things. I’m more worried when over regulation means we can’t have drugs or new drugs are delayed. It’s just harder to point out the deaths from the lack of a drug than from the presence of something bad.

You may have Gilbert Syndrome. Something like 10% of the population has it and it gives you more bilirubin in your sweat which causes this.

My car has “BMW style” turn signals. When you flip them they don’t move to a different position. They always just flick back. And they try to just always reset themselves on both turns and lane changes. I’ve mostly gotten used to them but occasionally you get into this infuriating loop where if you change your mind about a turn or lane change and you go to flick it in the opposite direction to reset it, it thinks you want to turn in that direction. And then you do it again in the original direction trying to fix that.

Anyway it’s hella annoying. After three model years with this feature they reverted it back to the normal way. There’s an aftermarket wiring harness you can buy to retrofit your car with the older stalks.

My point is I have a little sympathy for BMW drivers since they have these stupid turn signals and it’s probably so entrenched in their loyal customers they can’t change it.

Or if you’re like the guy I saw the other day, you can intentionally take the highway during rush hour and split lanes the whole way.

And they’re both bullies

I think using people’s names is an old life hack from “How to win friends and influence people”. Most people respond well to it.

It’s also a nice thing in a group where some people might not know or might have forgotten other people’s names. Then they don’t have to ask.

Why not both? Move to China!

Luckily Amazon has free returns. Just drop it off at Kohl’s or Staples.

Increasing standards is part of the problem. We think we need more space because we buy too much shit.

Also, and a lot of people get this wrong, but the P is silent

Here’s a random use case for this: retirement homes. A laptop is too unergonomic for an old person. But they don’t want to take up the space in their little apartments with a big desktop setup. They’re happy to go to a computer lab. But a shared computer introduces complication. But I have to admit it’s a pretty narrow slice of that population that is sufficiently motivated to use a computer. Also they’d be better served with ChromeOS than Windows. You could have a ChromeBox that runs by plugging in a single USB cable and plug it into a monitor with a built in hub and a normal keyboard.

I’ve thought about this dual desker problem. It always seemed wasteful lugging around a whole laptop and not really needing the battery and carrying around an extra inferior keyboard and screen.

My thought is to run off a live SSD. My idea was also to introduce a layer of virtualization and a copy-on-write filesystem with FS level syncing for backup. Then you’d have a full disk image backup so you could pick up right where you left off in a VDI if you lost the SSD.

dem

Dem’s fightin’ words

The P stands for Portable