TurtleJoe

Gotta put the trucks somewhere, too.

Yes, and add a little bit of cold war style paranoia in there as well. These companies know that their product doesn’t work very well, but they think their competitor is maybe right on the verge of a breakthrough, so they rush to deploy and capture market share, lest they get left completely behind.

Kinda. These people like hierarchy, partially because then they know exactly where everybody stands. They of course don’t want to be at the very bottom, but understand that they won’t be at the top, either.

Just respond “nice meltdown.”

Yeah, she’s also been a semi-frequent guest on Behind The Bastards.

I care about calling out that dude’s bullshit in front of people he might influence.

I love my “smart” thermostat. Being able to adjust the AC or heat a few degrees when I’m leaving work so my place is the perfect temp when I get home is awesome.

I don’t understand why I would want any of my other appliances to be “smart.”

Thanks, Keith!

The same person’s thread on emo totaling his McLaren while trying to impress Thiel is also pretty damn funny.

My main argument against lawns is the massive amounts of pesticides, weed killers, and fertilizer they require to look like the ones in the picture. Coincidentally, that’s the point this meme is making.

Also, just because lawns aren’t the worst possible use off water that you can think of, doesn’t make them not wastes of water. Just because almond farms in California use more water that lawns on the same state doesn’t change the fact that lawns waste water. Those same California almond farms sissy have nothing to do with the thousands of suburbs in other areas which have HOAs that require grass lawns.

Aside from all that, not all of the 85% of industrial water usage is wasteful. Efficiency needs to be improved, but we do need to grow food to eat.

So don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

I bartend. I was working on Easter, and one of our semi regulars came in with a guy that she was obviously on a drink date with. They’d been at at least one other bar before they came in; they’d had a couple drinks, but weren’t past maybe tipsy.

At one point, she mentioned that the reason the last place they’d been to was slow was likely that it happened to be Easter. At the mention of the word the guy interrupted with,

“I REFUSE TO TALK ABOUT ANY POLITICS OR RELIGION!!”

To me this was a sign that this dude cared very much about religion and politics, but just like how scientologists don’t drop the Xenu shit on you right away, he wanted to wait until any prospective partner was in too deep before revealing how abhorrent his views are.

That regular isn’t my favorite person, but I was proud of her for pretty much ending that date after that.

I’m not going to open a Threads account, but people that I follow on mastodon are saying that Threads is protecting hate groups like libs of tik tok, and moms for liberty by auto-closing reports against those accounts within 2-3 minutes of them being reported.