JWBananas

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Preposterous. You need only install the iCloud client, and they (along with everything else in your iCloud drive) sync just fine.

LibreOffice opens my old WordPerfect documents just fine. What didn’t last was the compact diskettes that some of them were lost to.

That has certainly been my impression as well. I usually end up asking ChatGPT to attempt a summary of what they’re trying to communicate.

You don’t need to narrate the creative process behind your commentary.

*searches*

Ah, yes. That is indeed very odd behavior.

Oh.

No surprise that it aligns with the proliferation of smartphones.

What’s going on right now is unprecedented, but Im still of the belief that our safety nets are gonna catch this one.

The Republicans will look at what they have done and institute broad limitations on executive power on their way out the door (assuming we don’t just end up with martial law). This will prevent Democrats from ever attempting anything even remotely similar. But there is always the ever-so-slight chance that it nerfs Republicans down the road too.

Maybe.

Yes, given that this is Walmart (GV = “Great Value”) I would assume the supply side prices are fixed. These are also not the “cage free” eggs that many states now require (several of which only began doing so in January 2025).

Same store, the retail price for a dozen large non-organic cage-free brown eggs is a few pennies higher than a dozen large white Eggland’s Best (the latter usually being at least 2x the cost of the former). Those cage-free mandates are driving the supply of battery-cage eggs up (and thus the cost down, relatively speaking).

Given that Walmart runs its curbside/delivery department at a loss, they’ve shied away from running merchandise as loss leaders.

loss leaders

Hardly.

Literally

Normies don’t tend to perform OS installs from slipstreamed update media.

Do you know what the signal bar on a phone actually represents?

Thoughts and prayers. It will even lie about the technology in use (e.g. it may display “5G” while connected to a “4G LTE” cell if that cell supports 5G EN-DC, regardless of if the feature is actually in use).

My friend, most base stations got fiber backhaul before 5G even existed. We are well beyond that problem.

In fact, it is not uncommon in 2025 to have fiber fronthaul from the remote radio (at the mast) back to the “cloud” where the actual base station is virtualized and/or software-defined (at the data center).

The usable signal issue is a whole other complex can of electromagnetic worms and in contemporary times is a side effect of how 5G NR is sort of “bolted on” to 4G LTE. It is not dissimilar to the growing pains that mixed 3G/4G networks had.

Meanwhile… UnitedHealth Hires Defamation Firm Over Social Media Posts

They have the #1 (USAF), #2 (US Army Aviation), #4 (US Navy), and #7 (USMC) largest air forces in the world, plus nukes. What do you expect Billy Bob and his AR-15 to accomplish?

logistics

This. You want to really have an impact? Bypass the US long-haul, rail, and shipping networks. Send it all through the coasts.

But why is that? Is this one of those tar sands vs sweet crude situations

Over a dozen states have so-called “cage free” laws now, with some states like Colorado only recently having them go into effect as of January 2025.

https://www.ciwf.com/media-and-news/news/2025/01/us-companies-lead-in-cage-free-egg-transition-as-canada-falls-behind

So I am sorry you don’t want people to talk about an impending genocide

Quite the contrary. Say it loud and say it proud.

how pissed off I am to have that thrown at me every fucking day.

This part. This is the part that makes me think “He needs a break.” And again, I say that as someone who also needs a break.

Maybe that’s projection. I don’t know. All I know is this is the first week that has left me seriously thinking about just deleting all my accounts, taking a break from the doom scrolling, and waiting for the dust to settle. The unproductive, bad faith, aggressive discourse on top of what is actually happening is mentally and physically exhausting.

You’re still putting your time and energy into emigrating, right? That’s got to be an exhausting process for a whole family to handle as it is.

I implore you, seriously. Take a few days away from being terminally online. “Flood the zone” is in full effect right now. This is the part where they’re purposefully wearing us down. Save some of that energy for later.

Maybe it’s not my place to offer that advice. I certainly don’t know you personally. But you remind me a lot of me when I’m overwhelmed. Sorry about the bad-taste post before.