Fun fact. The property line runs through the middle of this building, so King Charles III in right of Canada owns the left side. I, as 77th Earl of Burnt Bridge Road, own the right side.
"Charles", I said.
"We should round up a posse of Land Rover Defenders and fix up this hunting hodge."
"Would love too", he said. "But I can't seem to find the time. Too many doctors appointments!"
A relationship that begins with mutual annoyance, insults, and an unwillingness to respect each-others' choice of career and place to live isn't likely to end well. At best, the two people can part with civility and seek out more respectful and sympathetic partners.
On an unrelated note, I can't figure out why #Hallmark keeps rejecting my scripts.
Today, Yahoo announces doing exactly that to Engadget: "...the changes paint a picture of an outlet cutting staff to focus on things like Google traffic, SEO, commerce, and affiliate revenue" 😔
…like Popular Science, which began as a magazine in 1872 and became a shambling zombie in 2023, after its PE owners North Equity LLC decided its googlejuice was worth more than its integrity and turned it into a metastatic chumbox of shitty affiliate-link SEO-bait.
A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google - which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic - suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
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I had no idea Popular Science had been PE'd to zombification. I wondered why I had started seeing them appear in search results again and just assumed they'd invested in their web presence, when the truth is much worse. A shame, because they were once a great publication.
Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....
11 years ago, my kid's daycare surprised us by announcing that they were closing for Christmas break a day before everyone else, so I ended up with our then-four-year-old daughter, Poesy, at my office for the day.
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Zwei Tage suchen um herauszufinden, dass der "minify"-Teil beim Javascript-zusammenbauen bootstrap so kaputt macht, dass die Dropdowns nicht mehr funktionieren. Frontend-Development und ich werden keine Freunde... #freu#not#Javascript#CSS
Forget Twitter: Amazon search is the poster-child for enshittification, in which Amazon locks you in (for example, with a year's shipping prepaid through Prime) and then you get recommended worse products while sellers make less money and Amazon pockets the difference. https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/29/aethelred-the-unready/#not-one-penny-for-tribute
Vengo de un evento familiar: hubo dos horas y media (tal vez más) de controversia ininterrumpida de política. Me siento pletórico. #Not. Nomás quiero ver mi novela y fugarme del cansancio mental tamaño jumbo que me cargo.
"(Editor's note: A YouTube video of Dadgar and Hashimoto talking about HashiCorp's commitment to open-source software was mysteriously taken private after it was published right here.)"
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Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available.
Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....