You don’t live in a place called Reading Rainbow if you haven’t seen some shit

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.

I live in a city that’s half black, in one of several gayborhoods. I keep wondering when black and pink panthers will form and start patrolling. Probably when we get hit with our first localized stochastic terrorism incident. There’s a rainbow crosswalk that rednecks love to come do burnouts on. Tensions run high with highly conservative MAGA folks dominating the rural areas just miles from our very flammable houses with rainbow flags.

But you know what happens when the panthers start patrolling? Suddenly, gun control.

Our cops wouldn’t arrest them but the feds would probably escalate it. I am not sure how it’d play out today.

My neighbor introduced himself and his wife to me, and he says “Maritza,” very flat, and I say, oh maRITza" with a little flourish and tongue roll and he’s like “no, Maritza.”

They’re both Mexican and her name is pronounced the full way with their extended families, so I think the point was, don’t accent up the word I just told you. And I haven’t since.

The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don’t normally wish dick cancer on people,

Yeah I’ve never had one fail and they last forever. Hours a day for years.

One of my hobbies as a stupid young man was breaking into roof spaces connected to my city’s skywalk system, which I lived in.

You would be surprised how many buildings have these inside them, where you can’t see them at all. If it’s too difficult to get them rooftop or there’s a code against them, or they don’t want residents complaining about 5G in their buttholes, they just go inside the elevator room or somewhere tucked away.