No one talks about the fact that making products that are too high in quality can kill your future business. If your product lasts 20 years and never has to be serviced or replaced, your customer has no incentive to buy another. At some point, everyone who wants one has one.

Who chopped up all the damn onions? #strangerthings

Another post reminded me a former employer strictly forbade "fraternization" between employees, so my coworker was secretly dating one of the guys in the marketing department. They kept up the ruse for over a year by driving separate vehicles & never being seen together at work or near the building.

It's always interesting to see the mainstream news media catch up to a story that was covered by more niche sources days or weeks ago. Maybe if the MSM didn't give us so many fluff pieces we could get more serious news.

If you've been sick for 3 weeks with flu-like symptoms, have you considered that it might not be the flu? You work from home. You haven't traveled. You get practically everything delivered. Your last houseguest was months ago. Go to the doctor. It's probably not the flu.

If the "suspected shoplifter" was apprehended before they left the store, how do they know with certainty that they intended to shoplift? You can guess, but if they're still in the store you don't know they didn't intend to pay or leave the item(s) in the store.

One good thing about the streaming era is that a niche show can find an audience. As long as it's not expensive to produce, it might survive. It won't need 10 million viewers per episode to get renewed.

Trump vetoed a GOP-sponsored bill for a Colorado water project that passed by unanimous consent. What is he up to?

ICYMI USPS postmark rules have changed. Instead of the postmark date being when the item was put in the mail, it is now the day the item is processed at the nearest regional processing center, which might be a few days later. Plan ahead.

Remember when the GWBush administration thought the transition to democracy would be quick and easy after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq? How did that turn out? Venezuelan civilians are heavily armed. You don't think civil war is possible if Maduro is overthrown?

Using our current technology on Earth, how far away could we be detected as intelligent life? They've done the math.

One of my physics professors told us that memorization is not learning. He said that knowing where to find information quickly is more important than being able to regurgitate it on command. If you use the information frequently, you'll learn it. The lesson stuck with me.

TIL the marriage of Lucille Ball to Desi Arnaz was considered miscegenation and was only legal in the state of Connecticut, where they got married. Seeing them on TV as a married couple was possible because they were married in real life; otherwise, it would have violated the network standards.

If there's one quite consistent thing from the Trump administration, it's bold (typically false) claims without a shred of vetted proof. We are expected to believe it because he says it's true.

A lot of companies thought the internet was a fad, and didn't realize otherwise until it was too late to pivot to provide service online. No one wants to make that mistake with LLMs.

People who live in other countries seem to have a much better grasp on how to protest, both peacefully and otherwise, than we seem to have in the US. We're more concerned about being able to get to work than about social justice.

While Trump’s second term has been defined by gross overreach, incompetence, and chaos, the State Department has largely gone about its business without drawing controversy. But that’s the problem—Rubio’s work this year should be controversial. trib.al/5VzTDFb

I don't understand people who act like December is the only month to be charitable. Charities need your help all year. That annual donation in December might not be enough to sustain them through the entire year.

First, make the USPS utterly unreliable for timely delivery. Next, move the postmark timestamp to the regional processing center instead of the local post office. Finally, remove the grace period for mail-in ballots. Eliminate mail-in voting.

Sometimes I run my eyeglasses through the ultrasonic cleaner just so I can be thoroughly disgusted by how dirty they've become since the last time I ran them through the cleaner. Those nosepads, nooks, and crannies get filthy.

Happy TOSS Birthday to familiar face Frieda Rentie. Background actor on all 3 seasons. Also sister to Marla Gibbs. Definitely see the resemblance. #TOSSatNight

Speaking of cocaine shipments, apparently the price of cocaine has dropped lately, so individual shipments are worth less. Is the US government funneling money to someone to manipulate the market to facilitate the overthrow of Maduro?

Why is a company worth billions asking us to tip their workers. Pay them better.

Reminder, folks, cocaine bound for Europe goes through Venezuela. Fentanyl goes from Mexico and China to the US. US actions in Venezuela are about oil and regime change, not about stopping drug shipments to the US.

My mom saw a TV reporter wearing a top that had what I would call a "Power Girl boob window" and she thought it was too much and said she should cover up. Another reporter was wearing a dress that exposed as much cleavage or more, but Mom thought that was fine. I'm mystified.

In my town, in the last mayoral election, there was an "independent" candidate who had no chance of winning but was guaranteed to siphon off enough Democratic votes to make sure the Republican won, which is precisely what happened. I still suspect someone paid him to run as a spoiler.

Have you ever noticed how the third-party candidates who siphon away votes always disappear from media coverage when there's no election to sabotage? They could be out there getting headlines and a following, but no.

A study conducted by researchers at Dartmouth College found that individuals who obtain their news from social media tend to interact more with posts that are partisan and from low-quality sources. This doesn't surprise me, somehow.

Your grandma might have been known as the handjob queen of Henderson County in her prime, but everyone will pretend the only thing she ever clutched was her Bible.

It's funny how people get so used to platforms that censor certain words that they start to censor themselves everywhere.

It seems DEI is back in the news again (Epstein distraction), but let's not forget the biggest beneficiaries of DEI programs have been White women. Whether college admissions or jobs, slots that used to be exclusive to White men were filled by White women. It wasn't merit. Never forget.

The problem with privatizing many government services is that the privatization incentivizes bad behavior in the interests of making money. No one cares if an individual is abused by the system as long as shareholders make more this quarter than last. Money over accountability.

At some point, you realize that "I can't, because I have to work tomorrow," is a perfectly valid reason to not do that thing they want you to do.

Many years ago, I loaned money to someone who promised to repay me. Several months later, they got a significant promotion at work that more than doubled their take-home pay, but they never paid me back. That's why I don't lend money to friends. I either gift it to them or they get nothing.

I saw there was a deadly shooting at a nightclub within 2 weeks of it opening for business. The idea of being caught in someone else's crossfire doesn't strike me as a good time.

I finally finished my rewatch of the SyFy series "Alphas" (2 seasons, 2011-2012), currently available on the Roku Channel. Aside from ending on an unresolved cliffhanger, it remains a great show. #scifi

Be sure you thanked the family member who provided tech support to you over this holiday season. For some of us, it's a busman's holiday.

This intro still makes me feel a way. Rewatching Raised by Wolves season one and it just hits so good youtu.be/7WVDcxrRJ_M?...

‘Netflix Users Have Just Days Left To Stream a Fan-Favorite Star Trek Series’ comicbook.com/tv-shows/new...

Another post reminded me that the current time used to be announced or displayed on local radio and TV stations frequently. You never had to watch or listen for long before you'd know the current time. Today, they barely give the current time during the local news broadcast.

We're going to end up having a tidal wave of immigrants from Venezuela over the next decade after their economy is utterly ruined when oil revenue is choked off, but it will be blamed on the Democrats.

The form is asking for the date the change should take effect, and specifies that it can't be more than a week in the past, or 2 weeks in the future from today. It's not rocket science. Pick a day.

Every new technology scares folks. The availability of cheap books for the masses was going to disrupt society and bring about the moral decay of women and children. Why would anyone want to read instead of being told what to think?

I find that I don't do well when the main character is a horrible person I wouldn't want to associate with in real life.

I've seen a lot of negative posts about "Pluribus" today. As someone who bailed on it after the first 2 episodes, I feel somewhat vindicated that I made the correct decision.

Walmart has been closing early on Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember, certainly dating back to the 1980s, yet folks seem surprised that Walmart closes early for Christmas Eve.

I'm amused by how often my mom throws my dad under the bus for things she doesn't want to do. "I can't participate because my husband has a doctor's appointment that day." No, he doesn't. He's going to be sitting at home watching TV.

If spelling is not your thing, perhaps you should have someone check the titles in your videos before you publish them. Spellcheck won't catch everything, especially when context matters.

We also made mistakes. "In the closing weeks of 1945, months after the Second World War had ended, the Canadian cabinet enacted executive orders to banish more than 10k Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan, stripping many of them of Canadian citizenship in the process." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Shouldn't someone be interviewing Maureen Comey? If anyone knows what's in the Epstein files, she would.