I think one of his worst pieces of advice is to pay off debts before saving for an emergency fund (if I remember correctly)

Saving some kind of emergency fund first is more important than not having any debts. Having money on hand is worldly power in your hand basically. If you’re debt free but broke, then you can’t deal with an emergency that requires money.

No bathroom breaks, piss at your desk in a jug!

The 2nd Amendment will likely be in place long after all of us are dead, because it is a right that the majority of Americans support, and because amending the Constitution is required to change it, and because amending the Constitution is very difficult.

Constitutional amendments require a 2/3 majority vote of both houses of Congress to pass (initially) then must also pass ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. Only takes 13 red states to vote NO to block it. All of the red states are going to vote against it, every time, because the right to bear arms is an inherent right that we will never give up.

It is a valid line of inquiry if you consider that not taking care of basic personal hygiene is a symptom of mental incompetence. We do not want to elect a mentally incompetent leader. By all visible evidence, the man has working arms and hands that should presumably be able to reach to wash himself. So if he goes around smelling like a toilet dumpster then something is mentally wrong there.

Of course there have been numerous other indications of such issues beyond the reports of stench.

The deep South actually has the highest percentage of the USA’s black population.

Here’s a website about those kinds of fake shows

https://nestflix.fun/

He can’t do any of that, as he is not in charge of any of that.

They finally invented the face-storage device seen in the John Woo masterpiece Face/Off

Yeah the wristband is some bullshit. When I was a kid and on the free lunch for poor kids program, all they needed was a fucking list at the checkout. I took my lunch tray to the checkout lunch-lady and said my name, and she’d check it on the list and we were done.

Capitalism also solves the phone jack problem, with the retail availability of USB-C to 3.5mm stereo adapters. Here’s a Pixel OEM one for $8 on ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/276001290580

I never got rid of my wired headphones, all I had to do was plug their jack into the USB-C dongle and plug that into the phone.

I also have bluetooth earbuds but they don’t sound as good as my wired ones, and I also use them less because of 3 other minor hassles: battery charging, my wife steals them, and my wife loses them. Wired ones have none of those issues.

Well they must want more women to vote for Harris.

Protecting everyone’s privacy should be the default, and we need federal legislation to set that default.

Have you read the source code for the programming for those chips? Do you know exactly how they work?

Voice recognition is highly subjective, and some of you actually trust billionaire’s companies enough to take their word that their devices will only listen for certain special words? Ridiculous.

No politics in this post, only business

I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with “inappropriate” material. It resulted in improved reading skills.

I bought a cylinder head pressure gauge from HF and took it home, didn’t work at all. When I looked at it closely I could see that it was completely missing the core valve that is supposed to be in the bottom. It was just a hole instead of a valve. Took it back for a refund next day.

No it was quite a lot more than “a marketing guy” - there were pages and pages of details about their Active Listening program on their website, investor presentations etc. They went far into detail about how much they could listen to and what they could do with all that audio data.

Here’s the Internet Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231116115055/https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg-active-listening

That’s a BS reason. I have 2 members of the Baby Boomer generation in my Signal contacts, they use it all the time with no problems. It’s no harder than iMessage to use. They would like it better when they see that Signal doesn’t gimp the image quality between Android and iOS phones unlike iMessage

The problem with closed source apps is you don’t know what else is going on in the background and what else it might have installed or connected to, unless you have debug logs for everything it did and know how to interpret all of that. I wouldn’t install any app from the facebook company on any device I use

I wouldn’t even call Ryobi the cheap one, they are good quality and cost more than many others. Harbor Freight is what I’d call cheap - my rule of thumb is that very simple hand tools from HF are OK but anything complex is probably not

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, they on marijuana rapin’ everybody out here