I just looked up a 2TB M.2 SSD I bought in November of 2024 for $179.99.

It’s $419.99 now… Only 1 left when I checked.

Luckily I don’t need it. However, I’m wondering when I’ll run out of storage on my media server.

I’m assuming that the reason he shared state secrets with Epstein is because Epstein had something on him.

The supremacy clause of the Constitution means that the federal government is not required to obey local zoning laws.

Well, it certainly wasn’t because he couldn’t implicate the billionaires.

https://youtu.be/HMIyDf3gBoY

Perhaps that’s the state secret he’s being punished for revealing: all the child rape among the rich and powerful.

There is no question that I’m definitely one of the luckiest wage slaves you’ll ever find.

Everything I’ve read about this says that the misconduct in question was sharing state secrets with Epstein.

The child raping doesn’t appear to be concerning them.

Well, I probably won’t. My employer has been around longer than the United States. Unless the bubble takes out civilization as we know it, we will probably ride it out.

They went through a pretty devastating financial loss about a quarter century ago. That was their existential crisis. It refocused management pretty forcefully on making sure they never have to have layoffs again. They may forget the lessons eventually, but I see no signs of it so far. They were still paying bonuses through the pandemic.

We also don’t have shareholders to appease which makes it easier.

I’m hoping the bubble bursts soon so I can get some cheap drives.

I don’t speak Portuguese, but sometimes I get in a mood to listen to bassa nova. I like the rhythm.

Mas Que Nada - probably my go to. I listen to that enough to annoy people around me.

I also like Águas de Março, particularly Elis Regina’s duet with Jobim.

We have a standard poodle. He’s being trained as a service dog, but he’s not there yet.

He’s getting better, but when he first arrived, he would bark like a maniac anytime someone new entered the house.

We had a painter come in to do some work in our bathroom. He got upset when he heard Leo start barking because he had a traumatic experience with a dog.

Then he saw Leo was a poodle and he was suddenly ok.

I know Leo is all talk, but he’s still a dog. Under all that fluff, he’s basically a Doberman Pinscher.

She suffers from severe depression and ADHD, but I don’t think she has bipolar disorder. Her sister died due to bipolar disorder, which might be what you’re thinking of.

She is, apparently, still on Reddit occasionally. I saw a post from a few days ago in which someone was saying that she’s working on a new book (no idea if that is true or not).

Unfortunately, Humanity lacks an enforcement mechanism.

You should have hung in there.

Song of the South. Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, etc.

A Disney movie that Disney doesn’t want anyone to remember because of the inherent racism. Using stories that originated during slavery, but setting the movie after the war to try to take the curse off.

It’s damn near impossible to get in the U.S., but easy to access via the high seas, and Disney uncharacteristically won’t go after you for it, because they don’t want to draw attention to it.

It incorporated some innovative techniques for blending live action with animation and has some value in terms of history of cinema. I don’t think it should disappear completely, but I do think it’s important to view it critically.

Personally, I found that apart from the racism, a lot of the writing and acting in the live action sequences was so absolutely terrible it was painful to watch.

I think it’s mostly for the dad joke:

You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.

I had a very simple script. All it does is trigger an action on a monthly schedule.

I passed the script to Copilot to review.

It caught some typos. It also said the logic of the script was flawed and it wouldn’t work as intended.

I didn’t need it to check the logic of the script. I knew the logic was sound because it was a port of a script I was already using. I asked because I was curious about what it would say.

After restating the prompt several times, I was able to get it to confirm that the logic was not flawed, but the process did not inspire any confidence in Copilot’s abilities.

Well, duh.

Not enough.