Barbecue Cowboy

Mastercard is living the corporate dream. They’ve colluded their way to a near monopoly and don’t have to care about the value of their brand. They just have to be invisible enough that they don’t pull heat for something or other from various governments.

In a neighborhood like that, you’d probably end up with a fine and they’d charge you to ‘fix’ it for you.

Fuck, yeah, I mean 7 friends seems like a lot to manage.

Could be just poop, but combining old man smell, body odor and mold will make some gnarly stench. Still someone needs to get out the cleaning supplies.

New warning label unlocked: Do not eat the Batteries.

If you’re basing your value judgement on the price of similar games on the market right now then no, it’s very very unlikely to be worth 70. There are critically acclaimed open world games that will likely beat this on content and potential enjoyment / play time for $5-10 right now.

Realistically, we’re paying for the novelty though, if you’re desperate for something new it might work. I told myself my price point was $60, but there will probably be some sort of discount on the way to or shortly after launch day for the PC version.

It’s fun and I recommend it, but I’m hesitant to say you can ‘replace’ your existing systems with it. You’ll probably mostly be able do what you want to do, but we’re still in the enthusiast stage and there’s going to be annoyances and frustrations. Home assistant is also one of the easier things to setup as far as self hosting goes, but you’re going to pick up some skills on the path to getting it working.

The people who would typically be expected to push back against collective shout also typically wouldn’t be expected to do anything effective whereas the people involved with collective shout are the type of people who give politicians money.

It doesn’t, Japanese homes don’t have that by default. Sometimes there are special options for grounding specific items.

Also like, have we all forgotten about the possibility of someone having two phones.

I’d love to see a whole series dedicated entirely to finding these people who have dedicated their entire life to some esoteric craft.

People have tried to setup a federated alternative to Tinder/etc and other things, but population is still real low and we’re still kind of weird. The sparse demographic info we have is also more than a bit skewed, it’s rough.

Don’t even have to make it symmetrical my friend, I am still down.

Good is relative, you forget all coffee you’ve had previously and keep access to your current coffee. All other coffee is permanently worse than this one going forward.

If it lets me breathe properly and consistently living in the south, I don’t even care, throw another one on the other side of my face too as a backup just in case.

There’s an idea in marketing that if you create a solution, you also need to create new problems that you can market. For example, you buy a printer to allow you to print at home but now you need to buy overpriced proprietary ink. Or maybe you buy a phone, but now what can we do to make sure you come back to buy a new phone in 2 years? Truly solving a problem sells something once and that will not satisfy the infinite growth mindset.

It’s a concept up there with Edward Bernays work in popularizing applying propaganda techniques to modern advertising as the idea that may have done the most to really push capitalism to its worst possible end.

Jimmy Carter did only serve one term…

Is there anything on paper that requires someone to be alive to run for president? Would the 25th amendment even come into play if his passing was before he took office?

THAT MAN ATE MY SON.

I’m just saying, it’s hard to prove that he’s not the Zodiac Killer.

Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius…