Just change your number. You wrote this for yourself, and we've read it, heard it, and believe it. Nothing you do will change them, so just change your number

I used to provide tech support for the family, and tried to move them to Linux to make them easier to support (similar simple use cases)

Thry weren't interested so now requests for help get a genuine "Sorry, I don't use Windows so I can't help"

"Did you hear about that crash in Washington?" "Yeah, the Republicans took $3.8m in bribes from Delta to let them cram in an unsafe number of flights, and now 70 people are dead"

That's it, that's the response. No Republican will read this if you send them a link. Just give them true sound bites.

If they say DEI, just ask them about the bribes. If they say terrorism ask them about the bribes. If they blame Biden ask them about the bribes. Don't engage with any sentence that doesn't include the word bribe.

Tech people presume that normal people think about how technology works

They don't even try to conceptualise how something on their phone gets there from the internet or 'the cloud' - when things stop working they don't think about the fact that their an app on their phone is using a network connection to a router, which distributes an internet service that connects them to a server, that is running a program, on which they have an authenticated account...

They wouldn't even know where to begin with troubleshooting, it's just 'broken' and they get frustrated

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)

Top Marx

This one?

With ending

"Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records."

"It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?"

The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there

The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance begins with a discussion on this very theme, before it gets weird (weird and good)

I think you're gunna have a hard time getting things out of that bottom chest

Why every x looks the same

City

Car

Advertisement

Interface

Influencers

etc.

HL3: Professor Freeman

A summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):

The digital world is the real world - It's where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)

But it's shit. It wasn't always shit, but it is. Platforms don't do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow's enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people

This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority

Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By the time you fight the kludge of Windows with its integrations and bloatware and updates, then try and use a browser on this underpowered machine, you've already been bludgeoned into accepting that everything digital is just terrible, with no way of knowing or understanding that this is not your fault

This is not a trap you can easily escape, and any suggestion that these users are to blame because they bought cheap technology is just another example of the lack of economic awareness and empathy that lead to recent US election results. Similarly, blaming users for a lack of digital literacy when the technology is actively thwarting them would be inappropriate

So what's the answer? I don't know. At the very least we need to be empathetic, be aware, and raise awareness that this is happening. Why is this important? Because the digital world is the real world, and it's being stolen from us

The next post explains that agriculture is so important, it should be controlled by the government, with quotas, and rations...

/s

Only 90s cats will get this

Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires...

Bet you $100 he is breaking the law almost every time

They link out to this which imo is the real story

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/01/16/solar-fences-stand-out-in-australian-market-simulation/

TLDR solar fences work pretty well

"Microsoft's Gabe Newell"

Lol