Ive had to start putting ublock origin on cuatomers systems by default. The web has become a far worse cesspool for scams than what it was a few years ago. The ads blend in with real content. The internet is a shit hole now.

You made it to main page.

Scum bags everywhere. Time to go back to private hosted BBS.

Just saying, if I saw you on the street, you would catch my eye. Natural beauty. The smoking is kind of hot too, and I'm not even in to that. Be well.

In this case, yes. NAFTA screws the average American and boosts the stock market which pur government is beholden to. The net effect around the globe is more exploitation for all.

I joined the auto industry around 5 years ago. It blew my mind to some extent to be made aware that some ~25 years later, the effects of NAFTA are still to be fully realized. I had assumed that enough time had passed that any economic rebalancing would have been complete.

The potential is there and ripe for industry to whole cloth make the move to Mexico. My company for one is rumored to have an unwritten rule that they don't do new construction in the US, despite being a US based company.

Only a few crown jewel US locations are really well managed and supported.

So they'll take down the easy targets. The streams will simply pop up elsewhere. Everlasting game of whack-a-mole.

I could seriously eat this every meal every day.

What year is this?

Not sure if there's better things out there now. Last year I tried "This is Windows 11" from github to clean up the defaults I disliked in win 11. Ultimately went back to LTSC as I did not find win 11 to be my flavor.

But anymore, windows 10 pro or win 11 pro both have too much bloat packed in. Windows 8.1 was faster and more streamlined than either of them. Just not as much as in the retail skus. Just not as much as in the retail skus.

I really don't feel like MS offers a true business class OS anymore. Enterprise should come absolutely stripped to the bones. But you'll still get Xbox and a bunch of other nonsense in enterprise.

Bosch 800 series are great. Had one in our last house. New house, couldn't get another within a year. Went with Beko, somewhere near the top of their line. I would say it competes well with the Bosch. Close enough to call it a draw after one year.

That said, check the drain and supply line on the one you have. If you have too much restriction or if the linea are routed higher rather than lower (requiring more pressure to pump) it might be stopping due to flow rate issues. Could be as simple as a line maybe got kinked.

I wish online dialog wasn't so narrow these days.

Indeed, you read me correctly. I'm not trying to dismiss the value of these scientific efforts. But I don't buy the narrative. Not because of my belief that there is some cabal out there with the power to undermine us directly. But because history has shown over and over again how we respond to repeated messaging in the media.

While the end goals are not known precisely, I tend to ask why this particular issue is hoisted up with such frequency in recent times. Global warming and all things adjacent are popular topics at the moment. I understand the angst felt that things need to change fast, and that those with opinions like mine must be dumb rubes trying to stand in the way of science and progress.

My problem is that behind all this chatter, I see an underlying assumption that we have to run society the way we currently do and continue on our path of the demise of the human spirit and our relationship with nature. And if I ask who really benefits from this demise, then I must conclude that much of this messaging is suspect. To chase these goals the way we have will go a long way towards further undermining the individual freedoms and liberty the western world has been built on.

It's clear to me that there is an incentive for power to keep the dialog murky. It ensures you stay in your tent and I stay in mine and that we do our best to dig away at the common ground that stands between us. I used to be in your tent. But the last 12 years have greatly changed my perspective. I don't want to be in this tent. But I feel I must. There are plenty of examples of the technological utopia we've been promised turning into another tool to further devalue us and further reduce our greater human capacity.

Yes. I'm sure this is absolutely a real problem and that eliminating cows will be the best solution. Only the world elite should have access to to ruminant meats so that they can fuel their big brains that work on our behalf 20 hours a day. Our meager toil may be supported by plants, bugs, and lab grown proteins.

This reduction of beef production could then be feasibility made green with the commercialized growth and distribution of red algae which I'm certain will be done entirely with solar energy and not fossil fueled generators and trucks. We will even make the solar panels themselves biodegradable.

Lol. OK.

Won't just be tolerated. It will be widely embraced, just as it has been.

Thanks t shirt guy.

Same for me. My company talks a big game, but is bad at audits or detection for authorized devices / unauthorized access.

I wiped my work pc and ran linux daily for a year. Remina for remote management was far better than the native RDP client in Windows. Web based outlook got the job done. Teams app in Windows is just reskinned chrome anyhow. Works just as good in a browser. Had a remote box set up for any thing that absolutely required Windows.

Never been on anything except for ssri's, over the counter stimulants and alcohol. But I recall one of my first girlfriends was ADHD and on Adderall. She would skip it because she said it made her feel like a zombie.

I seriously was thinking the other day I need to see if newsgroups we're still a thing. It was so cool being able to dial up, refresh the threads and then read offline at any time without having to refresh or navigate multiple 20mb web pages.... That meme the other day about scraping got me jonesing for barbones simplicity.