turtlesareneat

Now you know how many raises you can get before they fire you for being too old and costing too much. AKA "a career"

I got caught up working on my old house this summer. Doing carpentry and electrical and a half dozen other things. Nothing digital, only hands. Now I can barely force myself to be near a screen, like it's painful. I am sitting at work counting the seconds until I can go home at lunch and pull a couple of nails. But there's no way doing that work would pay what I make for sitting a few hours a day on my ass, so those hours are just gone, to a fog.

How many of these folks have a rack mounted somewhere in there... once you get into this degree of tech, you're looking at folks with PoE systems on battery backup, maybe 5G backup circuits in case the internet is cut. It's really not a crazy level of security, if you live in a high crime downtown area for instance. But I also don't go around whipping my rack out in every conversation, and my house is old, so lots of folks don't know how high tech the house really is. And wouldn't until they saw the doorbell still glowing, Wifi still on during a power outage I suppose (Wifi is how we really see each other during power outages, and the sound of gennies for those rich bastards that can afford them)

When all you have is a hammer, and you've bought all the hammers in the entire world, through the end of next year,

I was for a while. Cut the "cable" in 2003 and was happy to pay a few bucks for a streaming service here or there, more convenient than pirating. But now... well I cancelled them all and am right back to where I was years ago. They are so happy to kill the golden goose.

Getting rid of visible clocks fixed this for me, and all the way to the bathroom and back so I can't get the time when I go pee. I just assume it's 12:30 and go back to bed no matter what. Unless the fucking sun is coming up around the edges, then it's just "your bones are going to hurt today."

I see you found Mr. Floofintooth

"...And my wife won't shut up, anything you can do about that?"

The states have had decades to fix this, they have done nothing. Federal intervention should have happened 10-15 years ago. That said, we live in an age where fixing problems is not rewarded, so it might have to get this bad or worse before people really want a solution despite it being complex and costly.

That shit went so hard in 1981 tho

What is that heavily armed populace doing? They're not resisting a government that has entered the information warfare age, where every police station has SWAT gear and tanks and helicopters. The guns aren't saving you from the government, they're not saving me from the government, they're not saving Cletus on 10 acre compound if Uncle Sam decides to pay a visit with flashbangs and riot gear.

All the guns are doing is terrifying minorities, who actually can be controlled by them.

Guess how I know.

This is true in 2026. I bet at one point, auto workers had the same kind of thoughts about how robots could never build a whole car.