At this point, sure, why not just take Greenland. For the lore.

Mechanic: Your catalytic converter heat shield rusted off. You have to replace the entire assembly, and this state is California emissions standard so the entire assembly is $1000. Me: I found the heat shield on eBay for $50 while we were talking. Mechanic: Yeah we'll install that for you.

A year ago, we resolved that, when my impossibly old dog dies, we were going to do more travel. Since then, it appears the dog has resolved not to die.

The following story is 💯 true: Yesterday, my wife uncovered a BBQR bug in Nunchuk while attempting to transfer funds from a hot wallet to a new cold wallet that she had to create because of a operational security suspicion she had about the cold wallet I set up for her on a Trezor 7 years ago. They don't make these models anymore fellas, sorry. You'll just have e to settle for gold-diggers at the meetup.

Things that AI ruined in the first hour of my day: Pun websites - now just pages and pages of slop that overassociate concepts Answers to simple liquid measurements conversions like "How many tablespoons are in a quarter cup?" - now 1200 word essays that could have been a search result

I think these are the good old days of nostr. It's just best to enjoy it directly instead of through nostalgia.

I swear to god @Marty Bent is either positioning himself or being groomed to be the next Alex Jones. What a fucking credulous fuckstick.

Can something be depressing and refreshing at the same time? Like your country's leaders admitting, for once, that their actions are not humanitarian and motivated entirely by strategic resource control and private interests?

Reading "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a terrifying revelation. You realize that navigating people is nothing more than tiptoeing through a minefield of feelings. Everything you know, everything you can prove, all of your carefully cultivated opinions mean nothing. Nothing in this world moves forward unless you treat everyone that is blocking progress like an emotional atom bomb that has to be defused with compliments, empathy, conceding immaterial points they are nonetheless fucking wrong about; debasing yourself and what you know to be true. And the book simply tells you what you already know is true, because you realize you are just as much an egotistical pissbaby as everyone else, having rarely conceded a point or given ground without having had your need for relevance and validation first served. Chilling.

I can't believe Trump just frog marched us into another cunting regime change on behalf of the oil companies and the CI fucking A.