On the other side of this, you have company’s that are in tangential fields looking to grab up a piece of that pie. Electricians, low voltage companies, fucking furniture companies (oh, we totally do audiovisual, that’s similar enough), the C-suite is trying to force their way into this new golden goose and expecting their staff to be able to handle this without training, time, or real hands on experience. And, no, a 2 day workshop from a manufacturer isn’t really “training”, at least not the only training needed…

Or free… If you waste an extra hour and change.

I tried to get a job at LCBO, but apparently “taste tester” isn’t an actual job there, but they were incredibly apologetic that it didn’t exist, and said they would call me if anything changed.

I can sing all the lyrics to Dicke Titten. Does that count?

So if I turn the car battery upside down, a 12v DC battery should run a 120v AC appliance?? Brilliant! I have an idea for how we can use this with two fans to create infinite energy!

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• Prince - Batdance.
• OPM - Heaven is a halfpipe
• NWA - Fuck the Police (radio edit)
• Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
• The Mandalorian Theme song
• Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Boubcing Ball
• Dre - Next Episode
• The Broadside Band -Gathering Peascods
• The Gourds - Gin and Juice
• Steely Dan - Rikki don’t lose that number
• Slipknot - before I forget (or slayer raining blood - take your pick)
• Lingus - Snarky Puppy
• Nonpoint - in the air tonight
• Cunninlynguists - the Light
• Rush - la villa strangiato
• Jethro Tull - cross-eyed mary
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All are on Spotify, which you can link to Touch tunes. Load it up as a playlist, then select “smart shuffle”.

Find a booth. Grab a pint. Enjoy the clusterfuck.

Also a dishrag that belongs in a kitchen: 28th Virginia Battle Flag

In the past, rainbow flags were used as a sign to students that you as a teacher were available for anyone to come talk if they needed support, and that your classroom was a safe space. This was especially important for some of the most stigmatized and marginalized groups in the US.

So there is a bit of history behind it.

This may only be anecdotal, and I can’t quote statistics on how effective or important pride flags are to that type of support now, but a close friend of mine who came out in high school first came out to a trusted teacher. They ONLY did this because the pride flag to them meant someone who might understand. It was a year or so later when this person came out to our friend group, and only because of the guidance of that individual who help them through some serious shit, and got them the support infrastructure they needed.

Do you know what BSOD is?

It isn’t. It would most likely be windows IoT. it’s an embedded windows OS that allows for a single app instance to be running.

You’d be surprised how many things run windows IoT right now…

It would first have to pass the “dangerous and unusual weapons” test before even getting to the bearable test… At least according to ScaliaLaw.

So… Literally the same voice input, but now with more time overhead waiting for responses so that it can be a bit more human sounding?

I mean… It’s a lot of metal… And it’s strong enough to survive the job site for a decade.

As someone who frequents construction sites for my job, and also as someone who has owned a Stanley travel mug and water bottle before whatever the fuck this fad is ( over 10 years… ), they are nigh indestructible, and they keep temperature for longer than either my wife’s Hydro flask or my yeti. So far in that sams period only my, Yeti coffee mug has survived as long. My wife has replaced her hyroflasj twice.

Just anecdotal, but I tend to be hard on things, and it’s stayed with me this long… It’s like $4/year for a coffee mug.

Awkward conversation at the urinal is a male dominated sport?

Because now manufacturers are tying the last year of their warranty to having the devices connected to their stupid information harvesting apps.

My conservative mother in Minnesota keeps talking about “our southern border”, and I silently am laughing about how it sounds like she is arguing about Iowans crossing illegally into Minnesota…

Point being, the rage baiting works around the entire country for xenophobic conservatives.

Correct. Trump hasn’t been found guilty of sedition. He has been found guilty of insurrection by the Colorado supreme Court. He also hasn’t been criminally convicted of insurrection, because this isn’t a criminal case.

Sedition and insurrection are different, and parts of different laws. Criminal and civil guilt are also different mechanisms of our laws, but the 14th amendment doesn’t state someone needs to have a criminal conviction to be considered ineligible for office.

Don’t you dare say that. Then Wisconsin will start feeling like they have to become the Alabama of the Midwest and everything will go to hell.

Do basic math. If we are talking about $5/mo per person, that means you got $60/yr per person. 60*160M=$9.6B.

When taking taxes, 1 $10B isn’t a ton of money, let alone half that. And that’s just taking total tax payers at a flat rate. If you graduate it according to income, you could easily make this manageable for all persons. $5.89B is .13% of the total US tax revenue. So an additional .13% of tax revenue to help out .17% of the US population.

Keep up.

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