This is literally the underwear index. If people are opting to steal men’s underwear instead of purchase, we are in some deep, DEEP shit already.

It’s always fun being given a philosophic dilemma, at random, in public. AM I a terrorist? I collect my basic needs by inflicting karmic violence onto others, by acting on behalf of my employers. Attempting to limit my own karmic violence by withdrawing from the system of violence is treated as violence on its own, and is, or will be, reacted to with yet more violence. I am an unwilling participant in the cycle of violence that MUST eat, and MUST sleep, while the powers that be demand MORE violence, which is then passed down through me unto others again. If I try to reject the violence, or limit how much violence I must commit, then I will be forced to endure the violence personally.

Inflicting karmic violence is my only choice to continue existing, and every phase of violence before me, through me, and after me, is the result of a political environment that has eliminated any choice I might have had.

The poll needs a third answer, “Yes, but unwillingly.”

I find it amusing that the ultra wealthy believe pornographic images would replace an entire human relationship. Really shows how deeply warped they are, projecting they’re own callous insanity onto the masses. What a small, sad existence.

Every now and then, the worm gets tired, and must take a nap.

Kinda upset that no one makes a big deal about connecting the rail strikes with the East Palestine incident. Like, the president interferes with a union negotiation, revokes their right to strike in order to “save Christmas,” then a major incident occurs three months later because the boss ordered the workers to ignore safety issues while transferring hazardous chemicals. To me, this seems like low hanging fruit to rile up voters and start pushing for change, but it all just… faded away.

If we pushed to fully automate everything that possibly can be automated, there wouldn’t be much work left. Jobs right now are just busywork.

The news drones on and on about labor shortages, but I’ve never seen a desperate employer. The trades say there’s shortages, but all the trades are flooded with apprentices, and then there’s pre-apprentices flooded in behind them. Office jobs have to sort through hundreds of applications for a single opening. Hell, even low wage jobs have huge labor pools ready to work, but the owners still find a way to nitpick. Things are horrifically upside down.

Topographically speaking, bowls, plates, forks, spoons, and knives are all spheres.

Double top chart pattern

NASDAQ 5 Year Chart – Yahoo Finance

Half-joking. The technical data suggests there is a possible change in trend coming up. No guarantees. This is not trading advice.

I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says “hello?”, then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.

Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?

Was this… made with AI? I thought it was a signature above the last ellipses, but it looks like another word was half-generated, and some letters have the same generative effects around them.

There was a video I watched several years ago, no idea how to find it again, where this guy fucked up a motherboard / CPU with thermal paste to see if you actually can add ‘too much paste.’ Directly underneath the pins, wayyy too much on top, extra around the socket for good measure, smashed it all together, and the thing just… boots normally…

Kinda makes sense tho, every tube of paste I’ve used was marked as nonconductive, and the CPU socket should be designed such that carbon buildup is scraped from the pins when reseating, which would clear away the paste and allow good contact.

All businesses would fail if they don’t evolve from the current structure.

A new ecosystem would arise, and if it’s held stable long enough, it would become the new norm.

It’s kinda like how news stations report on minimum wages in the US, “if we increase minimum wages, X% of small businesses will fail.” I try to single out and avoid businesses that operate that way, because the workers are miserable from the low pay, me as the consumer is miserable from the poor customer service, and the owner is miserable because he isn’t taking home ‘enough’ money, even though the business is net positive cash flow.

Propping up the inefficient practices is holding everything back, if they’re pruned then new growth can take hold, and form new standards.