i buy my maple syrup directly from a proud american retailer in vermont. you’ve never had pancakes as good as what my wife makes on a autumn morning.

the only thing that canada exported to the USA that was worth a shit was episodes of riverdale. and that was only for madelaine petschs’s knockers.

the drama wasn’t really any better than a typical episode of as the world turns and that was cancelled.

i love duplicitous redheads though. it’s a weakness.

this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.

absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.

maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.

can journalism please stop digging deep into the cambridge to pull out words like ‘wheedles?’

i’ve been on this earth for almost 50 years, and i’ve read thousands of texts and never seen that word fucking ever.

you should NOT have to look in the dictionary to read pop culture drivel. these dipshits are just trying to justify their privileged educations, and the ironic thing is that none of them can write for shit despite needing a private school/ivy league pedigree to churn out vacuous thinkpieces for teen vogue and futurism (whatever the hell that is).

there’s currently a retired T420 in my home and a stalwart E15 assisting me with my everyday computing needs.

make sure you say ‘thank you for your service’ every morning.

i dated a woman who worked at one of those companies in a prestigious position, and she worked from home. she had two separate computers; on one of these she ‘worked,’ which meant doing 2 hours of actual labor a week and then waiting for zoom meetings. on the other computer she’d be playing an MMORPG.

i lost respect for any office working yuppie at that point. she was dumb as a box of rocks on top of taking a huge dump on the traditional american ethics we have shoved down our throats.

i don’t know how people like that even live with themselves but they somehow twist all the self-whatever into arrogance.

need 500 rooms just to do nothing lol.

i just think it’s funny a castle costs 10% of a superyacht.

shows you how much these people matter on a historical scale. he’s flexing on us but pretty fucking lame compared to billionaires in 2346 who’d have megaships travelling through the cosmos.

take a moment to laugh at this loser. have fun in your castle while you check your smartphone on the toilet, asshole. i can do that in pissant suburbia.

the memory of china spans 3k years. think about that. we dwell hard and long about the history of america and that only goes back a few hundred. and that was a time full of witch hunts, slavery and other controversial topics that’d make a great movie but come off as embarrassing in reality.

we came up with the television and the atom bomb–i say big deal. the chinese were there through thousands of years of advancements and follies, enduring and enduring and keeping their national strength through the unbearable weight of millennia. this is when americans can’t go without their smartphone for 60 seconds and believe in nothing other than legal tender.

industrial capitalism is 200 years old, the chinese are as old as mars in comparison. put that in your pipe and smoke it.

shoulda already been a song like that. trucks cost 100k and the repo man casually blends into the sun-kissed darkness of suburbia at 6:30 am without a worry. those legal desperados are usually riding off into the light of day before you can pull your legal carry out of the nightstand.

if country music wasn’t fake as hell it would have already addressed this.

why is this a controversy though?

this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry but we expect computer techs to be scrupulous? the entire business model likely depends on scamming people.

with cars there’s at least an excuse to put up with it in most cases. it can be labor intensive and require real tools to replace a component like an alternator on many models. even a bold and confident novice is going to feel anxiety when a bolt won’t come off and think to themselves ‘this isn’t worth dealing with.’

but if you can’t figure out how to ‘wipe windows’ or replace a ram stick with the power of the internet at your disposal you deserve to be scammed. do you have a philips head from dollar general, a usb stick and did you play with legos as a child? then you can do 100% of computer repair work.

on top of that, the entire IT methodology is to run a few basic windows commands in the console like ‘sfc /scannow’ and then reinstall windows if it doesn’t work.

old man anecdote: my first car was a toyota celica, 10 years old, this was back in 99’. it cost $500, bought in the classified ads, and the deal was sealed with a firm handshake and a passing of legal tender in unwashed hands.

that same car nowadays would run me 8k.

it’s in texas though.

now all of a sudden we care about texas? what goes on in texas is as important to me as the affairs of a random tiktok influencer.

we’re fucked no matter if this data center is built or not.

nintendo used to mean games like castlevania, metroid, earthbound, final fantasy, shadowrun, goldeneye. now it means ‘games for little kids featuring goofy characters with too-big heads.’

you shouldn’t have this system to begin with.

we’re all adults, right?

imagine doing web development for a living and calling yourself a ‘coder.’

you’re writing instructions for a web browser, not a computer, pal. you fear the computer and it’s language the same way you fear a black man from the islands when you venture through a bad neighborhood.

there isn’t even a proper analogy for vibe coding because it’s so lame. imagine showing up to a jazz club and wanting to sit with a band but all you brought was your laptop with suno but everyone else is playing a real instrument.

are you a musician?

i issued a strong warning to my son about leaving the toilet seat up last night.

why was there so much fuss about gaming journalism when regular journalism is such a shitshow? tell me more about these strong warnings and that so and so ‘slammed’ another so and so and how this recent iteration of ai-produced pop music is the second coming of jesus.

hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.

if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.

the craziest thing is how you’ll be prowling around wikipedia and find some entry about an unknown 14th century ruler who was physically deformed and couldn’t string a coherent sentence together.

and you laugh: look at those uneducated, slobby 14th century citizens who went with the flow of things.

then you see an interview with RFK jr. and you wave it away, because even if you notice how much he fits the profile, you think to yourself: “there’s someone in charge who would prevent this in 2026,” and get back to your tiktok feed of blonde influencers in nondescript luxury apartments showing off their morning routine.

"things are normal’, you keep telling yourself. there’s someone in charge who knows what they’re doing–some higher power to guide us.

nah, it’s only _______. but we’re not allowed to say that word.

"opens up about childhood trauma that came an inch short of being locked in a closet for 20 years or sold into sexual slavery.’

‘i’m sure your parents tried their best.’

what’s the difference?

people need to stop holding individuals on a pedestal because of wealth/status.

if i came up with the idea for the first internet payment processor, it doesn’t mean i know jack fucking shit about anything else in life–it just means i had a good idea; it means i was in the right place at the right time; i was there with the right amount of cash to take advantage of the situation.

i don’t care about your opinions on the environment or history or the future of mankind any more than i do the ones coming from the fingers of every know-nothing on social media.

the biggest question is: who the fuck made these people god, or at least the architects of the future, of humanity? did we have a vote on it?

doubt many ‘of the most valuable’ books haven’t been digitized or aren’t available on amazon or ebay for a pittance. when i need to find something on anna’s archive, it’s usually because it’s some bullshit, tween pulp romance novel from the late 70’s.