At least once more.

I’m gonna tell you about the most successful prank I’ve experienced.

My work had nice stereo speakers setup on space near the ceiling (weird layout). There was a back door to a tiny parking lot that we probably paid more to have (windows and stuff not available to all offices in a shared space).

Fucking leaf blowers show up. They’re out there, we can see them. They just won’t stop! About an hour in, my buddy complains that they’re giving him a headache. Someone agrees they should go away. Another of my friends (to this day, that shithead) starts laughing so hard. “I can’t believe nobody noticed!”

He had set the stereo (hooked to a computer) to a youtube video of leaf blowers. The guys with the leaf blowers had been gone for a long time. None of us figured it out. He’s a good friend and I still hate him for that. I think I’ll slap his baby to get back at him, I’m so mad (still!) (not really, I love him).

I still laugh with anger at how he duped us so hard.

Listen, you guys. I was gonna fire half of you no matter what. But it sounds a lot better if I say it’s because a computer does your job now. See ya!

There are lights that work on some cameras. I’m not sure which (infrared, I think prolly others). Search the web. They exist. But how are you gonna have that at all times everywhere? Easier to set the Meta HQ on fire. And that’s prolly not easy.

At one point, he even claimed that his personal intervention has kept the unpopular leader out of prison.

Something that hadn’t occurred to me before, but that would make me happy, is that Trump would attack the shit out of Bebe if he felt the need. Imagine him declaring that prison was necessary. A nice thought. It won’t happen, but it made me happy for a moment.

You choose, mother fucker: Bebe or Epstein. Go!

This is the greatest truth of being a computer person. Our shit is also broken, just in ways you’d never heard of.

In what has been described as one of the worst calls between the two, Trump “steamrolled” Netanyahu, a US official said, and Netanyahu responded with “OK, OK just make sure everything is taken care of”.

It’s the Reagan moment where he figured out that he could tell them to stop for whatever they were doing and they stopped. Trump cares a lot about what people think. I would love it if he finds israel too toxic to support and cuts them off.

Zampolli, meanwhile, told the Daily Beast: “I think it is a disgrace that she dares to say this about our marvelous first lady.”

That’s about the fastest way to make me think your opinion means shit.

I got that. For those not in the know, fanfic on amazon.

A former associate of Melania Trump has sensationally claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Jeffrey Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.

Honestly, we knew this. Even if we didn’t know he was connected. She was a sex worker and she lit his candle. What a surprise.

Trump ran for a return to the Oval Office in 2024 on a promise to bring inflation under control and end “forever war” commitments overseas.

Instead, he has introduced a reciprocal tariffs policy that has seen the increased cost of imports passed onto consumers and attacked Iran, resulting in higher gas prices following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The thing is, they’re fucking stupid and incapable of learning. A lot of this is because of our hollowed-out educational system, but some are just meth-addict fucks. Fuck them. I hope they burn.

On Sunday, my partner works and I stay home effing around on whatever nerd shit cause I’m a computer guy. If she works later in the day, we get brunch first and I drink multiple mimosas so I can come home with a pleasant buzz (she drives so that I can do this). When she gets home, we watch movies or tv together and hang out with our awesome kitties.

I’ve heard that those things can cause people to become dependent on them to climax. Not everyone, I’m sure, but I wouldn’t risk it. I’ve been a hands-on man all my life (except for a couple experiments with assistive devices when I was a teenager).

Btw, congrats! You probably won’t have energy enough to masturbate for a while.

I’ve owned a few devices like Orange Pi but really more as a curiosity that I never did much with. I have, however, seen discussions suggesting that when you move away from the RasPi ecosystem, support for various tooling gets more complicated because you’re in a much smaller pool of hardware and this makes them more effort to setup. I don’t know the validity of that, but it sounded plausible to me.

Just get a Pi. Just because you don’t need wifi doesn’t mean it won’t potentially be useful down the road.

South Park: Randy teaches math

I would like to recommend Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language.

It’s a pretty quick read and it explains exactly how the English language became such a mess. For each thing that doesn’t make sense, it provides a reason that explains it. Short version: the timing of the Great Vowel Shift relative to the invention of the printing press really screwed it over. There’s quite a bit more (Norman invasion in particular), but that was what codified all the badness.

Learning the “why” of so many previously preposterous language and spelling rules was gratifying and enlightening. They’re still preposterous but slightly less maddening now.

There’s also an excellent podcast interview with the author on 99% Invisible. Check it out. It made me buy the book and I definitely recommend it every time a post like this comes up.

Oh, this could be fun. I mean, the entire market is about to collapse when AI companies can’t deliver and this might be the first card to fall.

We should have invaded Israel years ago. The next best time is now. Occupy that colonial, genociding state. Take away their toys (weapons). Put their leaders on trial.

I think there’s a historical precedent for this…

Wait a minute, I hadn’t read it until now.

Ron, who served in the military for 25 years, said the 2008 housing market crash left him “really disillusioned with the Democratic Party.”

Who was in office when this happened, you stupid fuck? Was is a man named George W Bush? Was he a dem? I don’t appreciate the dems (they don’t do anything but perpetuate the status quo; I want socialism), but this man betrays his lack of thought with that quote.

Ron said he supported Trump with donations, bumper stickers and the “whole nine yards” of MAGA.

I always found it funny that stupid people sent money to “a rich guy” for the first campaign. Of course, his many failing businesses don’t matter after the graft of his second term. Whether he was close to insolvency or not, he’s got a lot of money now.

“I bought into the lie about the stolen election and all that, and I thought January 6 insurrectionists were actually patriots,” Ron said.

“I thought stupid, violent criminals were good people. Like the guy wearing the Auschwitz tshirt who was in a lot of media.”

realizing that I was dumb as a roc

Oh my fucking god, he said exactly the thing I said about some other right-wing assholes!

The wife:

I just started drawing up very different conclusions and found out that I was clueless, and most people are today, but now I’m awake and looking at it for what it is

No, most of us aren’t. You’re just a fucking dumbass. Others read and learn and check facts and verify what people say. I’m not clueless. There’s a lot that I don’t know, but I am not someone who just listens to a blowhard and nods my head like you did. Wait, let me put gauze on my ear to show support for some jackass who loots my country because I don’t know what’s real and what’s not. We need a ballroom!!!

Ron said he now votes for Democrats, and Chrissey said she considers herself an Independent but has voted for Democrats three times now, something she “never thought in my entire life” would happen.

Well, I’m sorry to say that the dems will disappoint and these people will return to fringe right-wing bullshit as a result. We need actual leadership and change. I voted for Bernie but he’s retiring and even he wouldn’t call out the genocide in Gaza (fuck israel). Give us people who want to upend the system to take care of people and tax billionaires, I promise they’ll get votes. Instead, Chuck Schumer will blah blah blah blah blah and Nany Pelosi will retire on a pile of money.

“One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement”[0]

0. https://www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi-one-of-the-greatest-wall-street-investors-of-all-time-announces-retirement/

Yo! That’s fucking awesome. I had years where I couldn’t get a job cause I was in a weird limbo that isn’t important to get into here. It’s terrible and I’m really happy for you. Kick some ass at this new job and open some doors.