LOOK AT HER BOOOOONES!

I use Qobuz, as I understand it pays the most to the artists. It’s $11/month CAD, which is still doable for me. Not sure if it’s “worth it” in the long term scope of things, but monthly I listen to music from a hundred or so albums (not every track from every album, so it’s hard to estimate what it would otherwise cost to buy).

I wouldn’t pay that much to Spotify or Google, though. Fuck them.

Most mobile games. They follow one of a few basic formulae, they rarely have anything original, and they’re full of bloated ads and other garbage. But they know how to give that dopamine hit.

I already know I’m bad at taming alligators.

I’m using VoIP.ms and yeah, they do SMS and MMS ($0.0075 per SMS, $0.02 per MMS). They have both an online portal and an Android app. There are a few limitations, but it seems to work pretty well overall.

Sounds like I’ll be using a “phone” with Ubuntu Touch or similar with a VoIP SIP app running. As long as I have 4G/5G data, that’ll probably work as well as anything I’m willing to use.

For me, this has the added bonus of being able to configure my VoIP service however I want. Mine lets me do custom menus and such, easier to filter out robots that way.

Let’s see if I have an old Pixel 3a around…

You can delete your LinkedIn account. This has the side benefit of improved mental health.

Scrambling To Fix It

I’d hardly call their negotiation offers “fixing” it. “Scrambling” is accurate enough though.

I would donate to a gofundme so fast

We know all about blocked paths

“Anyone who calls me out on my shit is undermining the revolution” and other dumb shit you can yell into the void

Is that… legal?

We have evolved beyond merely human.

Gotta boost the casket industry somehow.

Infidelity is hilarious!

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
– Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I’m an engineer in R&D and have briefly worked on an exoskeleton project. The reason we don’t have mech suits is that the capitalist market doesn’t demand them much, at least with our current technology.

There are two primary markets for them: medical, and manufacturing. I worked on the medical side–the big challenge there is making devices that are light enough that the mech helps more than it hinders. The biggest challenge is power: batteries are heavy. As we continue to figure out more efficient power storage and efficiency techniques, you could see more of these devices out in the wild.

The manufacturing market is growing, though most applications there are less “mech suit” and more “assistive arm” type of things.