This isn’t a joke. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/28/cozzie-livs-light-hearted-term-for-cost-of-living-crisis-named-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year

I’ve only been to Australia once but I believe “cost of living” is spelled/pronounced “cozzie livs” there.

Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.

Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.

When I worked in IT, we only let people install every other version of Windows. Our Linux user policy was always “mainstream distro and the LTS version.” Mac users were strongly advised to wait 3 months to upgrade. One guy used FreeBSD and I just never questioned him because he was older and never filed one help desk request. He probably thought I was an idiot. (And I was.)

Anyway, I say all that to say don’t use Windows 11 on anything important. It’s the equivalent of a beta. Windows 12 (or however they brand it) will probably be stable. I don’t use Windows much anymore and maybe things have changed but the concepts in the previous paragraph could be outdated. But it’s a good rule of thumb.

It’s amazing that the billionaires in the new robber baron age who just buy a sports team and ask for subsidies for a new stadium are in the top 10th percentile of billionaire human decency. (There’s a handful of philanthropic ones, obviously, but they seem vanishingly small compared to the ones who just use their money to corrupt everything.)

Like, the last gilded age blew but at least Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc. felt enough guilt and shame that their old man pissing match was to see who could build the most arts venues, esteemed universities, and other similar institutions. Today’s billionaires are just insane and are like, “Let’s wreck all human progress.”

And before you blame drugs, remember that in 1900, there was cocaine or morphine in everything. (7up had lithium in it so maybe that balanced things out.)

Dockworkers are now officially “the elite” according to the media. Congrats! Welcome!

I guess the joke didn’t land if it needs an explanation. I just meant if my dad was a sex pervert and demanded we share cum reports, I’d have pretended to cum on everything to be obnoxious. I don’t actually want to nut on a carousel; it was more of a malicious compliance joke.

I don’t even know if they’re called carousels. Whatever those spinning things are at playgrounds? They probably got rid of them because they were legitimately unsafe or some bullshit.

I’m not a video game executive but I’ve been an executive and every single second you make a person do something is on the clock. If you pay people for their time, sure. Go for it. If it’s on your employees’ time, no pay, then absolutely not.

Work is not family or friends. They will cut you like a bad branch and forget you existed. Work your ass off when you’re getting paid to do so. But don’t work for free.

I put that over my loo. Showers and tubs can be nuanced.

One of the nuclear waste warnings.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

You assume she’s a cave “crawler” but the axolotl is a salamander that evolved to never reach maturity and crawl.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl

I think we should take a nuanced view. Maybe she’s a fully-grown idiot. Maybe she’s just an intermediate step on a mistake of evolution.