Still waiting for healthcare to be “fixed”. Definitely going to be any day now…

I had to come back here specifically to thank you.

We have a “rainfall” showerhead that has been a huge disappointment since we installed it. Your comment popped into my head today as I was about to jump in the shower. All I had to do was remove a little o-ring and now it works fantastic! It also cut my shower time in half.

No one in the recording industry has ever considered how stupid their plans are. If they did, they would stop constantly giving piracy free advertising.

When LBJ was Vice President, his personal chef – a black woman – had a family emergency and had to return home to Texas. He let her borrow his car for the long drive from Washington D.C. There were still a lot of businesses in the south that would refuse to accommodate blacks in the early 1960’s.

After telling him about her trip on return, LBJ angrily remarked on what a disgrace it was the “the Vice President’s chef, driving the Vice President’s car had to stop and shit along the side of the road” because no gas station would accommodate her.

Personally, I cannot wrap my brain around seeing another person as inferior to myself, much less to the point where I would deny them the ability to use the bathroom and force them to go outside like an animal.

And yet, that and much worse have been the lived experience of many people in this country from day one. “Freedom” and “Equality” have always been lies for many Americans. If we had any moral fiber as a country, we would have shipped the Statue of Liberty back because it was an undeserved gift that did not and has never truly reflected our national values.

That’s not to say that things haven’t improved. They definitely have in some ways. But the same attitudes that denied the VP’s chef the ability to use the bathroom because she was black still exist in people today. They haven’t magically vanished. And those people are working overtime to make life difficult for anyone they see as inferior to themselves.

Those people need to fuck off. But they won’t until either something changes their minds or they are forced to.

Cook’s Venture (an Arkansas poultry processor) went bankrupt practically overnight. Then the state came in and killed all the chickens at each farm, leaving the farmers to deal with all the dead and rotting corpses.

What did our wonderful governor do? Well, as I recall, her administration refused to declare a state of emergency and pretty much told all the poultry farmers to go fuck themselves because it’s “not the government’s job to bail out private businesses” or some bullshit like that.

Doesn’t feel so good when you’re the one getting told to fuck off. I hope all the people who voted for Trump and Sarah Sanders are happy since this is exactly what they voted for.

You know what’s funnier? I mean, it’s not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it’s less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they’ll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they’ve been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

Personally, I would be ok with J.B. Pritzker. Don’t love that he’s a billionaire. On the other hand, he’s the best governor Illinois has had in ages and seems to be trying to do right by his constituents.

“Y U mad? I’m totally on your side!” – Guy who is definitely not on your side

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

And the President of the United States is a steaming pile of shit.

“Why is that Bible like four feet tall?”

“Oh, that’s our family Bible. Big letter edition.”

Moronica for Morons!

And in about 15 years, Harry’s family will be forced to move to California when the soil they’re working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

“Gorilla Ladder step stools. Now at your local Home Depot!”

The Art of the Deal is fiction according to the author.

Does the new ISP require use of their router or just offer it as an option?

AT&T used to require using their router, which was a pile of hot garbage. I have a Mikrotik Router and managed to mostly cut the AT&T router out but I had to configure my router to use the AT&T router for authentication, at which point the Mikrotik would take over. It was complicated to configure but it worked.

I was listening to Terry Gross interview some broadband experts about broadband legislation the other day and they mentioned that the White House added a Starlink connection to “boost the WiFi signal.” The White House. Probably the single most well connected building on the planet, added a shitty Starlink connection. It was not lost on Terry or the panelists that the whole charade was nothing more than the President of the United States abusing his position to effectively advertise one of his cronies’ products.

And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

It doesn’t happen that often but it does happen. Poor management, taking on excessive debt, and poor location (cough Tunica cough) are usually contributing factors.