This makes me SO glad I do not use Amazon.

Oh shit… Mom lays on the burn! LOL!

Oh sweet Jesus! LOL! This is me, though not with Linux, but trying to use Macports to get some damn program running and failing miserably because I couldn’t get the permissions set on the dependencies correctly.

Rake right to the face. FML.

Lol! Jesus fuck, you just made me choke in laughter on my breakfast!!

Nicely done and thanks for the morning laugh.

… they dont want thier back/body to be broken by the time they are 30s or 40s…

Tell me you don’t understand the Trades, w/o telling me you don’t understand the trades.

I’m 60 this year, went through menopause over 15 years ago and have no arthritis or back issues whatsoever. This isn’t 1850.

In 45 years of being in the Trades, the heaviest thing I’ve had to lift has been 5 gallon buckets of paint.

In the Trades, one doesn’t have to worry about lifing a person out of a bed either. I’ve known nurses that have fucked their backs doing just that.

Anyone can be in the Trades, and the risk of AI building a house is far less than it is for AI to design some new molecule… and given that President Stephen Miller is chasing the undocumented construction labor out of the country, it’s a field ripe for women to enter into and make great coin, and have almost limitless work.

Ask me how I know.

I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.

I fear what the results form a survey in the US would find…

Miller isn’t Goebbels

I’d give that moniker to he House Speaker. All he needs is the right haircut. He’s got the propaganda down to a tee.

Oh, that’s delightful!

It’s about time that the heavy Holywood hitters come out - esp. now as the actual people that fought NAZIs in the Second World War are dying.

Generational amnesia is very much a thing and 'boomers like De Niro grew up with fathers that fought fascists, and saw the sacrifices and also the psychological fallout… Schwarzenegger as well, and he spoke about it quite eloquently.

This reality is what cunts like President Miller never had experience with, so for them fascism is just a cool “who could care less” power trip of which they have no idea of how dangerous it really is…

I think most are designed to create a more compliant employee.

Thus is exactly it. The diploma is proof that you’re willing to play the game and become a debtor and can be squeezed - HARD - because of it.

Or, as a friend found out the reality of the situation… often employers don’t give a shit about the degree if you can do what you say you can.

Have an acquaintance that started clerking in the northeast for a small company that maintained it’s own mail server. One Windows update later, the mail server collapsed and no one could sort it. Acquaintance managed to fix it in a handful of hours and became the company IT guy.

A decade later he moves to California and finds a job running a mail server for a company doing battlefield simulations for the DOD during Desert Storm.

No degree needed, just can you keep the mail servers up and secure? Sure. No problem. Used that experience to eventually land even better jobs in IT.

Its the skill sets that matter most often. The people that focus on degrees are focusing on the leveraged nature of the fresh faced kids coming out of schools - they can be run like tops while they’re still paying off the loans. And they are.

You’re not paying for the education, you are paying teachers and university buildings/materials.

Bingo. When my mom went to the University of New Hampshire in 1962, they had one cafeteria in the Student Untion Building and the athletics was run out of a “field house” built in the 40’s and the students in dorms slept on WWII surplus cots in a room with 4 others. The amenities were sparse, to say the least.

60+ years later, it’s all spiffy amenities, a huge arena with the bells and whistles for the athletics department and shared rooms with washer/dryer hookups and a Memorial Union building that contains the restaurant/cafeterias “dining halls” now… and the cost soared once the flashy stuff was added in.

Thing is, it’s been a self-feeding spiral as schools raised prices, parents demanded more luxuries for their little darlings, so the schools went into a upgrade game with each other that took on the tint of a competition and it just furthered the pressure on the price to rise.

The education - the actual purpose of the schools - seems to have gotten lost in the game of chasing after the money.

This is part of why I’ve been telling my friends kids to aim for a trade school with an apprenticeship or journeymen’s program tied to it. Done right, the kids can come out of the school go right into paid training and be debt-free and working by the time they’re 20.

And honestly, given how shit the quality of housing built in the last few decades has been, it’s gong to be a guarantee that repair and maintenance is the wave of the future.

Sause: Have been in the Trades since 1980…

"…in a more careful tech sector, wouldn’t the system have launched with better guardrails, instead of relying on random users and journalists to flag the issue?..

Well, yeah… but Reddit has become such an algorithm-driven, profit-oriented hot mess now that shit like this slips through. The inevitable consequence of growth and hitting the level where an IPO can be launched.

OMG, yes… Poor Roman Brady on Days of Our Lives… He was made and remade - though granted, Drake Hogestyn did a bang-up job as Roman/John Black.

Good. Trump and his administration deserve to be litigated into the dirt.

Roy Cohn the clown show.

Get pictures when they arrive!

Hitler’s prodigal step-children in action. Yup.

Startpage! No shit. Used to be Ixquick, and I used that for years. Great site - thank you for reminding me it’s still there. :)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Urghh. Apparently Tim Cook is stepping down soon and for the love of all that’s holy, I hope the next person in line to run the company is more tech-oriented.

F’ck’n hell, some of the products they’ve released since Jobs died - I swear, they were/are designed solely to sell icloud. Just rubbish.

There’s a reason the newest Mac I own is from 2010. Gotta love Open Core Legacy Patcher. Once I can no longer update - it’s coming soon - I’m on to My Next Adventure - Linux!

Late stage/End stage capitalism is here and we can’t get past it fast enough. It’s gonna be a shitshow until we do.

http://tenbluelinks.org/.

Will cut the AI results out of your google searches by switching the browser’s default to the web api…

I cannot tell you how much I love it.