Fringe elements are gonna fringe, I get way more thanks for dealing with nonsense than hate.

Plenty of comments in Politics about how dumb the Democratic campaign was, the bans were for calling them perpetrators of a genocide, which is false.

No… Lemmy is, but Lemmy is not indicative of society at large, hell, the Internet is not indicative of society at large.

Look at the last US election, if we were going to Eat the Rich would we have elected a putative billionaire candidate backed by Elon Musk?

We had been doing lights, can’t afford it this year.

Have a fake wreath to put on the door though!

Ouch on the timing:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/labor-department-investigating-hellofresh-allegedly-employing-migrant-children/story?id=116530077

Get through the day.

Sling for live TV and Max for John Oliver, that’s pretty much it. Oh, and a Disney+ gift subscription for my sister. Comcast gave me a free subscription to Peacock, but frankly I never watched it and I’m not on Comcast anymore so I don’t know if it’s still active or not.

My WIFE might have a problem though… She does Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, AppleTV, Spotify, I think there might be others I’m not aware of.

TikTok without the government spyware.

There’s a lemmy community posting weblinks as well so you don’t need the app.

It’s fine, I wish there was more original content, but it’s fine.

“Sprays on vehicles” is not the same thing as “shits in cars.”

If someone is dumb enough to leave their car open to where animals can get inside, they deserve what they get.

Unaltered animals are going to mark territory whether you feed them or not.

They likely keep track of who has been delivered which devotional to avoid duplicates.

Not even 30 seconds, it’s as much time as it takes to type the new address and click “save”.

Our CEO made a big announcement about how we were going to move from a B2B (Business to Business) environment to a B2C (Business to Consumer) environment. B2C is the future, Internet of Things, yadda yadda.

So, since we have an open door policy, I popped him an email and asked him what the plan was to invest in our infrastructure because, as it stood then, B2C was out of reach and the clients we had attempting it were finding it wasn’t robust enough, citing my example client list and recent failures.

I got immediate heat. Nobody had told him our infrastructure couldn’t do it. “What are your sources? How do you know?” - Sources cited. CEO went to his yes men: “This guy knows what he’s talking about and seems really sure of what he’s saying…”

Oh.

10 years later, we’re on our 3rd CEO, our infrastructure still isn’t updated, and B2C still hasn’t happened.

I think the trick is the daily devotional, they’ll want to know who you are to deliver that.

Bible Gateway is great if you just want the text, multiple translations even.

The Country
Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

Hard to describe the impact he had, even if you didn’t care for his music. On fashion, choreography, design, the 80s were really driven by Jackson.

In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they’ve likely always been around.

“Robber Baron” is the ye olde term.

Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167

The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.

https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/

So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.

In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That’s how wealthy Rockefeller was.

1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.

Meanwhile, inside:

https://gunshowcomic.com/648

“Well no shit…”

Probably a tie between Tremors 1/2, Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai.

Borderline unwatchable with it on.