Ah goddamn it.

The Slate EV is supposed to come in mid-$20k range. Doesn’t even come with a stereo, you get your own that fits in the space, or just zip tie a Bluetooth speaker somewhere. Refreshingly utilitarian, I think things should be modular.

And the pro tech nerds who told everyone to use local-only, non proprietary smart devices so they can still have a secure, ad-free smarthome laugh as we walk through the house without ever touching light switches.

Nest bricked my security system (after magically installing Assistant on it [oh by the way it has an undocumented microphone]), at least they gave you $100… in gift cards to the fucking google store. Logitech isn’t even that smart.

Blaming consumers for the behavior of corporations is a fallacy of capitalism… consumers act in their best interests, not necessary in everyone’s best interests, so we all suffer if everyone does that.

He’s demented.

So I’m getting our nonprofit ready for Pride, which is in October here.

One of my board member’s sister apparently makes the best “cream pies” ever, and they wanted to know if we could fundraise on them.

Of course we can’t sell them without a food handling license, so we’d have to give them away.

Which is how “Queer Men Give Out Free Creampies to The First 50 People” came to be.

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That’s always been their cover. Back 20+ years ago when I was protesting Israel’s actions, I got called antisemitic so often, I finally stopped expressing opinions on it.

Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I’ve never seen a gas station closed for labor day.

Not if the IP is purchased by another company leaving the original saddled with the debt, or spun off so the parent company can rebuy it thusly, or the government bails them out, or buys it to be the State AI too, or a bunch of other scenarios in this dark new world ahead.

I drove Amazon Flex during Covid, having an AI as your boss is deeply and perpetually unsettling but ultimately doable! Just do what the push notification tells you to do. If you want to say something to your boss, use the feedback form on the corporate website. So simple.

People: Billionaires are the problem

Also people: OMG Taylor Swift’s new album just dropped! Let’s go buy 3 different versions of it

It’s fun that instead of figuring our shit out and funding the government together, we just developed regulations around shutdowns.

See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don’t have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don’t have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.

I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor’s mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.

It wasn’t even a serious call to action.

Ding ding ding!

Yep my current account exists because when I got here, I said something that hurt a mod’s feelings, and so they decided to ban me across multiple communities. In the mod log, they even say “I need to cool down now” so it’s obvious it was an emotionally driven decision, but there was no reversing it.

So I couldn’t post in LGBTQ, 196, and several others.

Don’t hurt mod’s feelings.

He’s grabbing as much as he can for leverage, so he can trade back part of it for peace, but not all of it. Thus he still grows his empire despite having an army at its breaking point.

Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers’ homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.