Valentine Angell

Private Equity is fucking evil, and sadly, 100% legal. This is one of the many awful bits of late-stage capitalism. This will be our “downfall” and end.

This is Super-Villian levels of crazy. It doesn’t matter if it’s been a “thing” or not. It just ain’t right.

Any that can’t be owned by those with money to burn. That is the best, for now…

Ms. Day will get my money and more. Just tell me where and when.

Nope. Not at all.

Whelp, fuck Google. I’ve been slowly transitioning to being Google Free. Google = EVIL.

That’s pretty cool. And I’m a carnivore.

A real Photoshop replacement. GIMP is cool, but ain’t it. I have yet to find ANY software that can replace PS. I’ve even tried using multiple programs to replace PS, and it just doesn’t work. I fucking HATE Adobe.

Ceramic is the only way to go.

I’m an 80’s boy, and a documentary was made about my rock stars and their drinking habits (among other things).

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

As an extra aside, I can’t imagine that Lemmy spent any day sober since leaving Hawkwind until the day he died. When he was told he was sick and needed to stop drinking, he gave up whiskey and started drinking a case or more of wine every day. God, I miss Lemmy. 😁

I’ve been WFH/Remote since 2018. I will never go back to an office/cube farm.

So much time is wasted working “in office.” I get more done as a remote worker, as I don’t have to be distracted by people walking by and making “polite conversation.” I also don’t have to deal with “meetings-that-could-be-an-email,” because they will really be an email now.

Cities are going to hurt a lot with the loss of “the office,” but remote work will win in the long run. It’s way more economical and will grow profits in the long run, if the bean counters do REAL math.

I came here to say this. It is the most elegant reply.

In the GNU/Linux world there are two major text editing programs: the minimalist vi (known in some implementations as elvis) and the maximalist emacs. I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by RichardStallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. – Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1998)

Wow, a very, very, very (XL very) way of saying the obvious that Mozilla is fucking the users. But of course, if you’ve been following Mozilla development for the past few years (nearly a decade), this is not a surprise or anything new.

It’s sad people think this is a new development, which shows why it is able to happen. Users aren’t paying enough attention. But isn’t that always the problem?

If “Everbody Wants to Return” why has it been ten years since its “finale”?

I’d love more Hannibal, but also, why more Hannibal? It was a great series. Why dilute it? The conflict is real.

Sounds like Google kinda sorta, almost, maybe, might get why users are upset that sideloaded apps need to be developer-verified. But at the same time, it seems they are still in a self-built echo chamber.

Users need to keep putting pressure on Google to stop their nonsense.

Hate him, like him, it’s irrelevant. He did an excellent job educating and training Liz.

I’m in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.

The first time I encountered “ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce,” I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is “too much”.

I live in a very weird state.

That isn’t terrifying at all.