This was a result of election night that is underreported, but hugely telling and frustrating.

All this noise about California being liberal, progressive, and the resistance to Trump. But they kept slavery in prison legal. And I think the people who are predicting prison “labor” will be used to replace migrant labor if mass deportation does happen have it right. And California had a chance to make that impossible and decided not to.

Thankfully it is easy to not connect them. The newest TV I bought I connected it once via Ethernet during setup to get the latest software, then unplugged it. Has been working fine for a year with no issue.

My battery health has degraded over the year or so I’ve had the 15 PM, but it’s in normal range (89% with 272 charge cycles) and the change was noticed pretty immediately after upgrading to iOS 18.

I have been noticing my battery life being lower after the 18 and 18.0.1 update on the 15PM. It feels like I’m ending my day with less than 20% battery when before I was over 30% easily.

It still gets me through the day, but not as comfortably.

Man, that back to back double spread of Loki and Elbaph (got I hate that is official instead of Elbaf) go so hard.

And he is calling himself the sun god too. So those are two giants and a snake that have tried to take that name.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I mean. I don’t think most people understand that, and it will lead to people losing faith in experts when they’re told inflation is back to pre-pandemic levels but prices aren’t.

People don’t understand this about inflation and it will disappoint them very soon once inflation is fully back to rates we saw pre-pandemic.

Grocery prices aren’t coming down. Housing prices aren’t going down. Utility costs aren’t going down. The best we can hope for is for them to not increase as fast as they have the last four years and for the usual fluctuations in things like gas or electricity costs to fluctuate down more than up.

Unless the overall mortage payment goes down or you have a serious need (had a baby and need more room or have a physical challenge and need less), I can’t imagine abandoning a low interest rate.

I bought this year and the interest rate makes my payment so much higher that it is insane. I can’t wait until rates lower and I can refinance.

And the most recent trailer also has a fairly large cameo spoiler too. So if you care, now is a good time to stop looking up info on the movie until you see it.

It’s funny, I think Vegas is perfectly fine as the city of sin so things like this really don’t phase me. It was built on the idea of crime and excess.

What does seem weird to me is how in a desert, why isn’t everything solar? The sun is their only natural resource besides sand. Every rooftop and parking lot and flat surface possible seems like it should be a panel.

That embezzlement conviction of Dalongeville, is both damning and an interesting look at the problem. Liberalism and leftism haven’t solved problems that common people actually experience. The right hasn’t either and has no real plan to, they just bother to talk about it and give common people a boogie man that they can aim their anger at.

It is frustrating to me how these parties on left barely even try to make people’s lifes better. To show them why more leftist or socialist policies are the way to go. It has been proven time and time again throughout history that in times of financial insecurity, normal people are easily swayed by far right strongmen and demonization of a weaker other. Why does the left continue to fail at preventing this?

It also feels like their insistence is doing nothing but hurting them. The average consumer who doesn’t know the difference between a local account and a Microsoft account won’t know or care about MS doing this.

But the users who do have a preference and do want a local account are just going to be irritated at it and give them bad press. They’ll eventually figure out how to make a local account anyway and it may be the push they need to migrate off of Windows.

Oh, I didn’t even think about that. Definitely makes sense.

The fact she didn’t say it was VSJ, but that she keeps her IP makes me think it is a smaller company.

In a Korean car too which is funny.

What does the BODG stand for?

It really feels like drug users’ demand for drugs that don’t kill them would create a market for artisanal drugs, like with the alcohol industry.

If I had any interest in hard drugs, I would be terrified to use them now. I know we’re dealing with addicts who aren’t making good decisions, but aren’t there wealthy coke fiends? How can anyone snort lines at a party if they don’t know if it has all this lethal shit in it?

Ooh, that’s a good point. I forgot that the robot was there without the WG knowing. Which I think also explains why we haven’t seen the Elders say anything about it either. Their reaction to the Giant is going to be interesting.

It may be too early to tell, but after the last two releases coming out on Thursday, we might be back to our normal schedule of scans coming out on Thursday.

Interesting that Vegapunk put the snail in the Iron Giant. I wonder why he thought of that place compared to any other? I guess it’s durable because it is taking canon fire with no damage, but I doubt that will be the same when the Elders attack it.

That picture of Lily in the throne room does seem very suspicious. It feels like Imu maybe had a love/hate relationship with Lily. Maybe some type of failed romantic relationship or something?

I think that is the implication, but time will tell. We may get the Damned One Jika for real.

You can also play with it to try and get closer to correct. I had problems with getting an Excel macro working and getting unattended-updates working on my pihole. GPT was wrong at first, but got me partly there and I could massage the question and Google and get closer to the right answer. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to get any of it, especially with the macro.