Pocket Ad Machine

Sellfone

Social Distorter

Dynamic Uniform Radio Receiver (DURR)

Container for smaller objects.

IEC C13 socket with C14 locking plugs. Already ubiquitous in data center facilities. Rated for voltages between 110 and 250, so it works for any country’s common household current.

Tools you’re not sure you’ll need. Harbor Freight tools are super cheap and flimsy, but may be the right choice if you’re not using them often.

If you find yourself using a cheap tool all the time and hating the quality of it, then it’s time to buy something better.

Text-based search apps like protocols like gopher, WAIS, and Usenet.

Two main innovations of the web:

• lightweight yet easily understood data transfer protocol, HTTP
• language blending graphical elements with traditional text, HTML

Science exists to figure out what really, actually does work. Smart people were still figuring that out at the turn of the last century.

Most smart people have figured it out now. Dumb people are still not testing their ideas.

Tbh most of the time I’m using my Wintendo, but Linux is better imo for dev. PyCharm is a nice IDE, and all the Linux tools I love like vim are there and fully functional.

Banner ads, not for a long long time, at least not intentionally.

Last week I needed parts for my snowblower, and Amazon was not helpful finding what I needed, so I googled the info I had. A competitor’s ad appeared as the first result. I was skeptical as hell as I clicked on it - my experience has always been similar to yours - but they had a comprehensive, easy-to-use database of parts, with diagrams, part numbers, in-stock notes, and cost all on the same page. No hacky website, just the right information presented well. Wound up giving them the business.

I guess not everyone is a rabid, cheating, lying SOB. Just many people. Lol

The only two risks stopping humans from waging nuclear war is A> the likelihood that the humans who start it would lose power over their people and B> cleanup of affected territory is incredibly expensive.

Anything that maximizes embarrassment or cringe. Can’t watch most Will Ferrell or Borat. Ugh, it makes me so uncomfortable.

President Marshall (Harrison Ford) from Air Force One

“It’s your turn to be afraid.”

Pile Of Gangster Bodies Discovered At Pier 17, Film At 11

John Wick and James Bond and superheroes and supervillains are not realistically possible. Otherwise we would have them.

In Spite Of Our Ramens

Pot is my mind eraser, so I have to be prepared to work twice as hard at staying focused. I find more creativity and fun in coding when I’m sober. There’s a time and place for inebriation, and for me that’s not in front of an IDE.

Because you then have anti-earthwise, which just sounds like a climate disaster, or humanity itself.

I don’t have much insight for you, but thank you for sharing.

“Nice socks!” or “I really, really like your socks, hee hee.”

It’s a variation on the old goth line “Nice boots, wanna fuck?” We don’t so much wear boots anymore, just comfy socks.

I’ve never wanted or needed to go back, if that’s what OP is asking. SNR is higher, less to scroll through.

The plans were filed with the local council ages ago, not our fault if you didn’t see them

• Nick’s Burger from Nick’s Tavern in Lemont, IL. 1/2 lb of deliciousness, built for the industrial workers at the plants along the Des Plaines River.

• Hothead Burger from Lucky Monk in South Barrington, IL. T’was the perfect combo of spicy and fresh cow. Sadly, it is no longer on the menu.

Yeah, you get two best burgers. Complaints to /dev/null.

My dogs, my awesome wife, and lots of video games. Some pot now and then, also, but there’s a limit to how much it helps.

Social anxiety around embarrassment and rejection tends to keep me away from family and friends, so I embarrass myself only around safe people.

Sure, I read the manual all the time. I have a short memory for each tool’s options and syntax.

Have I read it cover to cover? No, and I never will.

Nah. Reddit content is noticeably worse after the API changes. I don’t find myself going back unless I’m searching for something technical for my job. I’m not actively trying to avoid it, but that’s just how it’s working out.

Should they? Yes.

Would they? Ahhhahahaha

Never, because I’m a very stable geenius.

After a year of sleeping on one, I wanted to introduce it to an air-to-surface missile. Mattress is the only way to go.

Laser Blast and Pitfall 2 on the 2600

The time before, I got laughed out of the room.

Sudden? That’s been declining for years my dude.

I’m lucky if people understand the first bullet point in my emails. I’m luckier still if they keep reading, never mind understand my next point.

In terms of upcharges and fees, anything is possible with telecom billing. It’s so bad that many telecoms have full-time staff to audit the bills from other telecoms.

You’ve got your work cut out for you. Sounds like your town has a reputation for being a great place to visit. Correcting that impression should be your main goal.

• Review bombing. Tell the world the cloud cover is 100% at all times, and there is no chance of seeing auroras.

• Expand that into a an anti-PR campaign. “Wouldn’t you be much happier at $NEXT_TOWN_OVER?”

• Put up warning signs for the fish, warning them quite clearly in large block letters against the German scourge. There is quite a large language barrier, but I’m optimistic that octopi could help bridge the gap.

• A chain link fence might work even better. A ring situated in a 7-10km radius from your town coast ought to keep the big fish away and safe.

• Leaflets dropped in the ocean are another idea, describing common lures and tactics used. However, keeping those waterproof in a eco-conscious way might be challenging, and the above mentioned language barrier would need overcoming.

• Open a tavern at $NEXT_TOWN_OVER. Free beer for folk staying there, charge double for tourists from your town.

The above items are tongue-in-cheek, of course. This one isn’t:

• Become an advocate against over-tourism in your town. Overfishing and property value are real concerns. Propose limits on Airbnb listings. Tell your story about your struggle to find a place to live in your hometown. Amsterdam’s recent actions against overtourism might be a helpful guide on how to do this effectively.

Best of luck to you.

What do tourists come to see in your town?

Hold on for just a couple more years. I know it will seem like an eternity, and I know the damage that has been done. But you will be moving to a much better place.

As my steezy took pains to point out, general anesthesia is not sedation. General means you cannot breathe on your own. Sedation (like with propofol) means you can still breathe, but you have no working memory of what happens.

I’ve had sedation administered a few times in the past few years, two colonoscopies and a bone spur shave on my big toe.

Colonoscopies are fairly quick, maybe 30-45 minutes for the full procedure. There was a burn in my vein in as the injection was administered via IV, followed shortly by a dizziness that wasn’t altogether unpleasant. Next thing I know, I’m waking up in recovery. The dizziness lasted for about 7-10 minutes. Felt about 90% good for the rest of the day, 100% the next.

For the bone spur, I was out for about 2 hours. Experience was similar, except it took quite a bit longer for the propofol dizziness to wear off, maybe 4-5 hours. Not that I was going to drive anywhere with a recently operated toe, but there’s no way I would have tried. After a good night’s sleep, I felt 100% next day.

Buy a house. There isn’t any more land being made. (Except in Hawaii, what with the volcanos out there)

Lend some to Uncle Sam by buying Treasury bills. He’s been good for the interest payments. They tend to earn a bit more than bank CDs anyway.

If you’re really risk-averse, go for those bank CDs. Brokerage houses like Schwab can buy those on your behalf, and track which banks hold them, so you don’t exceed the deposit threshold at any one institution. Good luck finding 400 banks through a brokerage’s finder, though.

Buy stock in publicly traded companies. Or buy mutual funds. It’s good to get some growth in the portfolio, which fixed income alone can’t do.

Donate some to a nonprofit when you need a tax write-off.

Start your own company. Go back to school. Invest in yourself.

Sleeping

Bobdolio

I found PF and WCGW to be not at all funny and more rage-inducing. They certainly deepened my misanthropy. I never subbed to those, but crossposts made it to r/facepalm now and then. I don’t miss having my outrage muscle exercised like that.

The best can be found at Clybourn and Webster, a block south of Fullerton.