Oh, I wasn’t blaming you—I don’t really mind the downvotes, if I made a bad joke I’m happy to take my lumps. Just surprised me, is all.

But I think you’re right. I was going for a sort of absurdist thing (lol, a train participating in a drag race. Lol, Tesla bro thinking he could outrun a high-speed train. Lol, some internet commenter who doesn’t get social cues and tries to inject his special interest/hyper focus into everything even when it doesn’t make sense) but I wasn’t absurd enough to not sound like I was legitimately saying those things.

Definitely a fair point. But for the most part, being in the country that collapses is going to be worse than being in a different country.

This is just me, and I’m no expert. But I kind of think that, if you’re legitimately worried about your country’s currency collapsing, you might want to consider leaving your country. Any sort of collapse that leads to hyperinflation or the large-scale elimination of financial infrastructure is probably going to be difficult if not impossible for the average person to survive, gold or no.

That said, precious metals are a niche enough market that I can’t imagine it not being rife with predatory sellers; companies that aren’t offering scams per se—you’ll probably pay them and receive what you pay for—but companies which are counting on people not knowing anything about the market and accepting a terrible price or poor quality goods.

Again, not an expert. But my end-of-the-world investment would be in shelf-stable food, easily-stored seeds (for planting), medicine, hand tools, high-quality camping gear, books, that sort of thing. If there is a collapse, those sorts of things will be immediately useful and also tradeable.

Man. I did not expect this joke to thud so hard.

I don’t mind people who have one thing as their “entire personality,” so long as they don’t try to make it into everyone else’s personality, too. When every conversation is about your special interest, and every occasion has to be about your special interest, and you refuse to talk about anything else, then you’ve gone from being a person who’s got a special interest to a person who can’t have anything else.

Same. Generally speaking our company is pretty healthy, but we’re still stuck in this really stupid leveling system where advancement is tied to greenfield development and I’ve been doing maintenance and compliance work for the last five years.

Me, in a CR400AF:

(Nothing, I wasn’t stopped by the stop light, so I sped past at 350 mph, only spent about 0.13s in earshot of this conversation, and covered ¼ mile in 2.57 seconds—about three times faster than Tesla Bro’s hoopty. Also I was insulated from the sound of their inane conversation by the sound isolation and also by the sound of the aerodynamic noise that the sound isolation was actually installed to block)

Hero, thank you.

It’s been a fun journey. And he’s on the Fediverse! https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

(not tagging him directly because I feel like he probably gets that enough)

Sign up for an account or have my data shared with 181 third party partners?

I think I’ll pass on this article, thanks.

Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven’t watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.

It’s always super entertaining, in my opinion.

EDIT: I watched it. It is indeed super entertaining! This time, the recap comes after his special Christmas light repacking tip, so it’s a couple of minutes in.

There’s a big difference between something showing up in a public space, where you’re on your guard, and something showing up in your house, where you’re not.

With everything you know about software engineering and corporate malfeasance, you still don’t think it’s at least plausible that Samsung, whether by coding incompetence or intentional tomfoolery, had a bug that accidentally or “accidentally” turned ads on for even just a few people who didn’t opt in?

You’ve got your cause and effect reversed. He says vile things, so we point out that he is a vile person.

It’s his hatred that makes him say hateful things, not ours.

Walking into a meeting at Kohler and keeping a straight face after saying the words “toilet camera”–and then maintaining that straight face throughout the product’s discussion, greenlighting, development, manufacture, and sale–deserves an Oscar.

Oh, yeah. I think if it was a problem I was willing to spend any more money on than I already had, I could’ve potentially ended up there.

The point isn’t confidence, it’s hope.

Nine points. They won a +22 district by nine. Despite active voter suppression.

Yeah, they should be “fretting.”

Yes, yes, yes! But also, it’s particularly notable that she’s white and blond with no accent because they claim to their supporters to be protecting those specific people from “illegals.” Pointing out that they’re not only doing something awful but also defying their own stated principles is always a good thing to do.

The crazy thing is that their margins are super low, and the subscription fee isn’t super onerous (as you mentioned, there are multiple ways to make it back–for instance, we’ve never yet had a year where we didn’t get our Executive membership totally paid for by the rebate check), and yet they still pay substantially more than other employers in pretty much every area, and they’re still one of the most profitable retailers in the country.

Basically, I think every other big box store’s executive team should be fired whenever they say they “can’t” do something like pay their workers or offer benefits or whatever. Obviously you can, because Costco does.