Seriously man, it’s a good price, and I have a plan setup with Affirm for payments, you can spread it out over at least a year.

“You better hope I can’t get no bullets on layaway…”

Books

Yeah but at least they don’t have any water.

Grandma and grandpa won’t be able to, they’re not retiring because pensions effectively no longer exist, we’ve had 40 years of declining real wages, and they didn’t know what a 401k was or save in it for much of their careers.

Small government and personal liberties, they said.

First thought I had after read through, how much did that masters cost and you didn’t learn that you can turn off the broadcast name so only people who know it’s there can connect? Probably not even a real degree, freakonomjcs did an episode maybe 10 years ago that said probably 5% of degrees are fake, bet it’s 20% now, lying is culturally through the roof.

Yes, but my spaghetti sky God says that vaccines make marinara taste bad so my reptilian brain is scared. What can I dooooo

All part of the plan; frontier declared bankruptcy, got to restructure, lose a lot of its debt and less profitable arms(that are often essential like renegotiating union contracts, etc.). Now that all the dirty work is done, it helps Verizon’s books look better long term.

Isn’t capitalism without regulation or enforcement grand?

Guys who are here hate this one trick!

It was the cheap fed money that allowed VC to speculate for so long.

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Depending on the thrust of the reader’s aim, that may drive more interest in the source.

Death Is Nothing At All, By Henry Scott Holland

Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away to the next room.

I am I and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other,

That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.

Speak to me in the easy way

which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed

at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word

that it always was.

Let it be spoken without effect.

Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was.

There is absolute unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind

because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.

For an interval.

Somewhere. Very near.

Just around the corner.

All is well.

A modest comparison to offer, for sure. 🙄

Who’s on first?

The golden goose is timeless. Greed is a challenge in the best of times and for those of us living in deregulated capitalist hell, it can seem more like being a goose in a butcher shop. I constantly watch businesses squeeze in the short term to fail in the long term. Every quarter every day, people make the same, predictable greedy decisions and in the current system are often shielded from the consequences.

I have no cable and my TV isn’t hooked to anything except a Chromecast so I can stream to it. Can TVs send stuff out over Chromecast? I feel like it’s no but?

I would like this style for new Firefox logo

Wow had no idea TVs ran on Linux. They should pull the license.

That was the sentence that stuck out to me the most in the whole article as well. Incredible how much is lost for so little. I imagine it’s like drug dealers though, maybe $5 for the first seller, then gets chopped up and cut again and sold for less and chopped up again…

My question is, what are the alternatives? Other than finder older TVs without so much junkware and spyware, Are there open OS ROMs that can be loaded? Cracked firmware or debloated ROMs? I was very into Android’s launch 15 years ago and rode a train of options away from terrible stock ROMs from various OEMs; eventually privacy and simplicity becomes a selling point for OS after companies get through enshittifying it.