Capitalism Deregulation is not working.

That you need to wash your hands after going to the bathroom. I’ve seen too many grown men walk straight out of the restroom after urinating.

Meetup.com and volunteering.

Cutie patootie!

Because so many of them are poorly done.

When your service is really good. It never hurts to let management know when they’ve hired someone who knows what they are doing.

Yes. But usually it doesn’t want to work (try to dial someone and I can’t dial properly or trying to find my car and Siri or maps won’t work).

Same. Those things are amazing.

I didn’t even know these were a thing. Now I’m trying to decide if I should avoid them to avoid getting addicted, or if I should go buy a bag!

Pandora works pretty well for discovery, and has multiple “modes” so you can hear album tracks, not just hits. Just put in a few songs of a genre and/or artists you like to build a station of similar suggestions. Use thumbs up/down to tune it. I will warn you that after a year of doing this, it might get in a rut of playing things you’ve already thumbed up. If that happens, switch modes or create a new station.

YouTube suggestions also has a pretty decent suggestion algorithm if you start thumbing up music you like. It’s also a good place to look at a particular label’s catalog.

Both are free with ads.

Also, if there’s an artist you like, be sure to look up who produced your favorite tracks. Chances are they’ve done similar music with other artists.

I’d pay up if it wasn’t so overpriced. YouTube wants me to pay more than HBO for videos made in people’s basements.

A five minute or longer ad is more likely to have the negative exposure impact. If anyone bothers to watch it at all.

It doesn’t make sense unless people watch it and buy the product. Otherwise the advertiser is just throwing money away.

That’s a lovely desktop picture.

I tried Amtraking from Austin to Dallas. The train was over four hours late. I ended up driving and reached my destination before the train even arrived in Austin.

You didn’t. As a child you got sick a lot with respiratory illnesses and ear infections, and you went to school reeking of cigs. But you didn’t realize it because you were surrounded by it. The quality of what you ate was often not as good either, because your parents couldn’t taste their food. And we’re probably still dealing with the long term health effects without knowing it.

It’s also fun whe you have to scrape the nicotine stains off the windows and scrub the walls when you finally sell your parents home.

Do we survive our current nonsense, or does it just get worse from here?

No organizational hierarchy like Usenet, and no tags or hashtags , so there’s no simple way to block huge swaths of content you’re not interested in — like sports, or politics.

Do what you can to stop feeding the petroleum products industry. They use the money you give them to literally fuel this crisis.

• Choose an EV or hybrid for your next car
• Stop buying plastic storage containers and avoid plastics wherever you can

If you own your home, check into federal, state, and local rebates for these things:

• Replace your HVAC when it’s time with a heat pump
• Replace your water heater when it’s time with an electric or heat pump model
• If you live in a cold climate, look into electric-based heated flooring
• Look into solar panels for your roof

🤷‍♂️ if gaming helps to subsidize news coverage, that’s a good thing.