I noticed that none of the restaurants & bars & such let themselves be seen on PublicSquare (and I know that some of them are run by MAGA-loving POSes.)

That is a good sign that being seen in MAGA circles is a kiss of death for a lot of businesses.

Sounds good to me. About the only way to make it stick is to arrest Trump and hold him in a cage where he belongs, but that has its own complications…

Were you born this fucking stupid or did you have to take classes?

Who am I gonna believe? You or my lying eyes?

I know, right? Wouldn’t it be nice to get just a shot at the doctor’s office like I did, and not have to worry about catching a deadly disease?

I’m glad I’ve been keeping up with my vaccinations… How long until Brainworm finds a way to ban them?

It’s disgusting that people have to have this discussion at all.

Who am I gonna believe? The right-wing choads who are gaslighting us about this, or my lying eyes?

That’s a shame. /Seinfeld

Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

Indeed. We don’t know the conditions of the test. Maybe it was running the engines through a simulated flight. Or they were testing the engine in different failure modes to see if it shuts itself down or takes care of the problem correctly. Or they were doing a deliberate test to failure where a RUD is the expected result.

About all this is doing is making me update my lists in UBO more often.

I haven’t seen any yet either, but I’ve been religiously updating my ublock Origin lists and keeping Revanced up to date.

I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.

In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.

Ah, let me guess, now Google’s gonna get everyone and their sister to move all their content to apps…

And what were the Ewoks & Rebels feasting on at the end of ROTJ?

These days, the only people still using this debunked wolf talk are douchebros, chuds, & incels.

Leopards ate tankies’ faces!

Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)

Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.

Well I got better…

Pixel Buds are the same way. IIRC from a teardown vid, those earbuds (and I’m guessing most of their competitors’ too) are designed to be quasi-disposable in this way. They’re glued together, the only way to open them up destroys them, warranty support consists of replacing defective earbuds.

This business model does create an e-waste issue… More lithium ion batteries ending up in landfills, more gold extracted from components by kids in developing nations burning them and breathing the carcinogens…