The โ€˜Jury Dutyโ€™ Scam That Cost This Family $25,000. Damn these people are stupid.

If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Wonโ€™t Pay.

Memory capacity for all of 2027 has reportedly been booked and sold, with no more DRAM or HBM available.

Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers.

Progressives hate real progress. They hate when people build things. They hate new inventions. They hate achievement. Because every time someone achieves something, he rises above the rest.

Americaโ€™s Military Is Dangerously Exposed.

Data-Center Backlash Leads to New Land Rush in Texas Oil Patch.

Delivery drivers take over as top SNAP recipients as taxpayers help gig workers make ends meet.

Private Equity Is Stuck With 33,575 Unsold Businesses.

'AI Is Destroying Jobs Faster Than It Is Visibly Creating Them': Tech Layoffs Hit Record Highs.

US workers' share of GDP skids to fresh record low.

Mocket

Why do idiot leftists care so much about some derelict rocket crashing into the Moon?

It’s a sterile world. There is literally nothing there. No ecosystem to disrupt. Nothing to disturb. No permanent harm will be done in any way that matters.

By the way, in March ’22 the Chang’e 5-T1’s third stage booster impacted the Moon near the Hertzsprung crater and no one cared, least of all aforementioned idiot leftists.

Hmmm.

Just the usual nonsense from the very worst people in the world, so vile that they are content to let “refugees” rape and assault as long they are brown while doing so. We should crash them all into the Moon.

โ€˜Stop the slopโ€™ efforts gain traction as platforms draw lines around AI content.

Falling long-term unemployment isnโ€™t good news, economists say โ€” what it means for jobseekers.

Amid cost of living stress, many parents are supporting children well into adulthood.

Foreigners are buying fewer U.S. properties, but luxury homebuilders still draw them in.

How Colorado became the unlikely epicenter of American yak ranching.

Mount Toba eruption doesnโ€™t seem like it could nearly kill our species.

The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets.

In a First, Astronomers May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole That Wandered to the Edge of Its Galaxy.

Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks.

A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue.

'It's apocalyptic.' A look at the aftermath of catastrophic fires in Spokane.

The Westโ€™s Demographic Math No Longer Adds Up.

Germany battling โ€œdailyโ€ hybrid warfare attacks, minister warns.

Somn

I don’t care about how much I sleep, when I sleep, tracking my sleep, doing anything else about sleep than I already do, having a sleep schedule or even really giving much of a crap about sleep.

I just do not care. It’s mostly irrelevant to how I live my life. Why are people so obsessed with this? Sleep when you need to, don’t when you don’t. Simple.

Taste This

I don’t think I have good taste in music, but just like what the fuck I like and don’t give a flying fuck who knows it.

That radio station that’s showing the tracks in the sidebar? That’s the music I actually listen to. It’s not curated (for the station). It’s just whatever semi-randomly1 pulls from the 11,000+ tracks I have in my main music directory. I don’t edit or block or even pick anything.

Simple as that. Woo-Hah!

  1. There is an AI DJ.

Americaโ€™s small businesses are giving up on health insurance.

Data Centers Didnโ€™t Jack Up Your Billโ€”Utility Greed Did.

A rising number of S&P 500 companies are spelling out exactly how artificial intelligence tools are boosting their margins โ€” and the improvements are getting larger.

DeepMindโ€™s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists.

Indiaโ€™s Climate Stress and the Solar Power Paradox.

The fundamental problem academia has today is that since the mid 2010s, much of it–at the administrative and departmental levels–reconfigured itself away from being a somewhat autonomous body with its own autonomous intellectual goals and standards, to being a subservient epistemic support layer for a vertically integrated emergent politics whose primary goal has been reversing political developments like Trumpism, Brexit, and nationalist populism in general.

Incentives are for losers.

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age.

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an authorโ€™s style. Moronic.

Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles.

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Reboot Insult

Anyone else dealing with users who think rebooting is a personal insult?

There are tons of users like this.

I understand that you want your problem examined in minute detail by a team of experts and fixed. But computers are extremely complicated devices. Often, they get into a state that is not and never will be capable of being solved in any reasonable timeframe. Many DLLs and EXEs (etc.) do unpredictable, undocumented things that no one except the vendor can solve when they go wrong. And often, not even then.

Fucking reboot. Just reboot. Shut the fuck up and reboot. Fuck.

A few weeks ago, I had a user complain to my manager — all without putting in a ticket or contacting anyone on my team — that their machine was extremely slow and not working correctly. Why do people do that, contact a manager when they’ve made no effort to follow any process1? It just means I put them at the very bottom of every queue forevermore.

Looked at the logs. They had not rebooted in 184 days. Windows 11 needs a reboot about once a week to be functional.

I do not understand users.

  1. I actually know the answer to this. It’s because they are not getting their work done and want to use IT problems as an excuse. Seen it hundreds of times.

Actual Prizes

Bobby (@Bobbythirdway) / X

Many women: I am the prize!

Men: But you offer nothing. You can’t cook. You can’t do anything adult. You’re dumb as a rock because you spend 16 hours a day scrolling on your phone. You don’t even like sex. What are you even here for?

Many women: The prize! The prize! The prize!

Men: *Goes off and does something away from the crazy*

We have really failed women.