Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!

Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.

The OS desktop environment has stagnated over the past 15 years.

Many businesses have transitioned from a 3-4 year rotation on desktops/laptops to every 5-6 years today. Hell my work laptop is 6 years old and I don’t forsee replacing it for another 3-4 years. For work functions there is no significant improvement to upgrading more frequently today.

So if they launched W12 next year, widespread adoption will likely not occur until 2032-2033 or at the Win11 EOL whichever comes first.

The developers today are working on a system that will not become mainstream for 8+ years. They want to launch in the next 2 years knowing it will not be adopted for years.

They ignoring the reality of today’s market and building to meet the latest fads. It’s Windows 8 all over again.

Didn’t the orange moron fire the guy who gave mediocre job numbers last time.

Let’s revise those numbers for reality.

-1,810,000 jobs

Its a U.S. medical bill.

The hospital asks for whatever the fuck it wants after it does the treatment.

Then insurance says “we only pay a negotiate rate” and pays $25-$30K."

I had intern from France a year back when I worked in research. He went skiing and broke his leg around 6 months in. The French healthcare system sent him a check for how much the medical treatment would cost in France. It was around 10% of the bill. He paid the 10% to the hospital.

The hospital kept billing him and sent some of the bills to collections. He asked me what to do about it. “Tell them they have been fully paid by the French health system and to take it up with them. Then go back to France in 2 months and forget about it.”

He laugh and said they immediately stopped bothering him after that.

Two major things that are hurting Vegas today

International visitors are down due to the orange moron.

Attendance at conventions and corporate meetings are down due to the above stupid decisions. It was a cheap place to hold a large meeting: flights, transit, hotels, meeting hall rental and food were all 30%+ less than anywhere else.

Potatos are very destructive to the soil.

They have to be dug up (lots of cultivation). This breaks up the soil structure causing all sorts of issues with porosity, nutrient and organic material loss.

Because of the diseases and pest that attack the growing tubers, growers use fumigants/biofumigants. These are indescriminate killers that wipe out all sorts of insects, fungi, nematodes, and bacteria.

Potatoes leave very little organic residue behind when the tubers are harvested.

Any crop that follows potatoes suffers from a “yield drag” for 2-3 years as the soil recovers.

Out of the all starchy foods we eat, potatoes and sweet potatoes are the worst for the soil.

I find that a string of swear words works wonders for many sites when they want to be all picky. Add in a random symbol/number and presto a “Secure” password.

YouMotherFuckingA$$hole1ShitBag.

CutePDF was the best.

https://cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp

Started out with it in XP.

There is two things going on there.

First if you look closely you can see holes in the spud. This is insect damage, likely caused by a wireworm (larval form of a clickbeetle species.)

Second is a physiological damage in storage/shipping causing the black color. This is not blight or another fungus, but the tubers reaction to suboptimal storage condition (not enough O2).

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/333609

Windows 11 UI is a downgrade from XP.

Windows 11 is also deeply unstable. I haven’t had this many program crashes, errors, and other bullshit since Vista and ME. Windows 10 had it’s annoying quirks but it was at least relatively stable.

I have saved myself the headaches with UI changes since the Win8 clusterfuck when installed a 3rd party taskbar/menu.

Its a fucking stupid and manipulative question for the employer to ask. No employer should give a fuck if somebody took a couple years to travel, take care of family, or just couldn’t find a job.

What they are really asking "Are any of the time gaps in your job history, a job that you got fired from with cause? "

Instead of being little shits about it just ask the actual question straight out. The shock value of asking a real non-bullshit questions in an interview has paid off many times for me when hiring.

The local shops in my area are making a huge comeback. Starbucks killed most of the local little independents around 15 years ago. They did it by providing consistent quality and reasonable pay to their employees.

Recently local chains/independents have made a resurgence. Their secret, heavily recruiting the experienced trained Starbucks employees full-time at better pay and benefits.

Starbucks traffic is plummetting while local companies are expanding rapidly.

This morning I went to the bank and gas station right next to a Starbucks that has been there for 20 years and a 4 month old local chain. Starbucks had one person in the drive-through and maybe half a dozen people in the store. The local chain had a 10 car line and a full parking lot.

In my area the local shops are completely destroying Starbucks. This morning I went to 8

Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.

Tomorrow,

“Hey boss, after unloading that truck yesterday with the pallet jack, my back is really sore. If it doesn’t ease up I might need to go to the doctor today.”

Next safety meeting/safety suggestion box in a week or two.

“I really think the company should invest in electric pallet jacks. They are not that expensive and will cut down on potential lower back injuries.”

Van driver shows up.

“Hey do you guys have a dock or a ramp?”

The pallet jack is offered as a sacrificial lamb.

The van driver curses and groans and sadly takes the offered pallet jack.

I have a 15GB plan shared among 5 phones for 4 people. We usually use around 8-10GB. It brings my total bill for all 5 phones to $150/month.

I pay $80/month for high speed cable Internet for the house and I regularly update the wifi router. At work/school the wife and kids have wifi.

I even pay $225 per year for unlimited Wi-Fi in my work truck.

… Takes cover and starts reloading, only to have a medic jumping like a bunny appear from the smoke and headshot you 3 times from the hip.

They are also totally not using cheats as they go 95:8 in the round.

I’ll stop by and talk to David Marriott next chance I see him. I haven’t seen him in almost 30 years when he gave me a ride from the Manchester UK Airport

He was an asshat driver through. 1 star.

Marriott isn’t owned by the Mormon church. The owners are Mormon who follow the church leaders.

See it’s different.

I vote for squash/pumpkins. I have a bunch of those as well as corn.