NutWrench

The end of real representative democracy began when the courts allowed the “corporations are people / money is speech” arguments. Once that happened, government began to represent only the interests of billionaires and their lobbyists.

It’s taking decades to play out, but it’s going to end badly.

The Yamaha YM3812 sound chip was the backbone of computer sound & music generation for almost a decade.

Republicans and Democrats have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s: boring, middle of the road corporatists, friends of banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. And the right has moved all the way into an insane asylum. We haven’t had a real progressive president since Jimmy Carter and that was 50 years ago.

I also recommend NewPipe for Android. It lets you download in multiple formats and shows comments in a mobile format (you can get it through the F-Droid store or from github.)

Youtube isn’t some one of a kind miracle. There’s at least a dozen already-established streaming platforms that would take its place. There are thousands of websites that have no problems hosting gigs and gigs of porn, so it’s not as difficult as people think.

Well, that’s not embarrassing at all . . .

“Early Stages?” You’ve got AI mining your data. The Lions have already come and gone. The hyenas and other scavengers are picking over the scraps, now.

The scam involving the fake CFO was only discovered when the employee later checked with the corporation’s head office.

A surprise teleconference resulting in the transfer of $25 million dollars? You can bet your ass I’m going to verify that transaction by calling the CFO on his direct line before any money is sent.

Does anyone understand the point of advertising a game doing something that, after downloading, it does not do?

They’re called “lies.”

Techtonica is early access and looks like it’s going to be amazing.

The real problem is old companies like EA and Bethesda releasing crap on Launch Day and expecting its customers to be its beta testers for the next couple of years while they slowly patch the game into a playable state. (Or not. Why should they care? They got your money.)

The purpose of language is to reveal and convey meaning and thought. Euphemisms and euphemistic language are designed to control how you talk about certain subjects and consequently, how you think about them. People who try to control how you think NEVER have anyone’s “best interests” in mind but their own.

Don’t let other people tell you how to manage your own head.

LibreOffice is an an amazing replacement for the MS-Office suite.

LibreOffice Irfanview

And the “liberal news media” controls all the information. You know, that media that is all owned by about six corporations.

Look up “news consolidation” sometime. In the 1980s, all the news outlets were ultimately owned by about 30-40 companies.

If YouTube stops working, it won’t be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube’s place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.

Some people utterly lack an instinct for self-preservation, like cave divers and base jumpers.

Another vote for Brother . I have a black & white laser printer (mfc-L2675). And I can get a 3-pack of toner off Amazon for around $20.

I heard the number 6 is a lucky number in Chinese culture and that explains why there are so many Chinese companies with 6 letter names, like “Dingbo” and “moofoo” It seems to me like they just used a random letter generator.

Yeah, but think of all the money Amazon saved by not hiring customer service reps. Lol.

21st century Windows developer: “Hey! You know what people REALLY want in a text-based Office Suite? VERY very light gray text on a white background!”