If Walmart can't be bothered to pay for a freaking clerk's salary to run a single register, they have no business hyperinflating their prices like this.

I have to admit, I'm really annoyed by how Youtubers I follow are abusing Youtube's collaboration feature. They separated out their channels so they wouldn't drive away people not interested in their other content...and now just merge them back with every-video "collabs" with their second channel.

Finally getting around to some of the anime this season that were further down my list. "Prince Aquasteed"? Are they calling him a hippopotamus?

I'm not a fan of "there oughta be a law" arguments in general, but we really need bans on these expanding realms of advertisements before advertisers try to normalize facial recognition-driven personalized ads in the toilet. "I can see you had Taco Bell today. Why not go back tomorrow and try..."

I'm realizing I get to legitimately use "antediluvian" when talking about how old I am.

Another person being worse is not an excuse for you to be horrible.

Stop the 2-form pseudoauthentication abuse. 2FA is to secure accounts of important things. It's not securing anything when you let someone enter any random email address or phone number they want, but it is limiting your users. The latter seems to be security theater by charity-leeching corporations

Denial of service attack-level "scraping" isn't cool, Anthropic.

On what planet does turning autoplay on by default make sense for text-heavy social media? (This was Reddit, not Bluesky)

What's with the bots on Bluesky today?

Well...I think we've reached the limits of me trying to help a fellow website dev out.

Somehow every time I write a novel, it injects itself into my walking-thoughts. The sort of thoughts that flood in when I get up to walk somewhere. Not in a helpful "this will be useful later" way. Just the "everyone's going to hate this character, why did I make her the MC?" way.

I'm still shocked a tech security company named itself after the creature that killed Tasha Yar. The Enterprise's security officer.

Tip if you work at Amazon: Make your next black Friday promotion Dark Mode for your site. Also, a product complaint: New monitor I just bought can't dim as dark as the dying one it replaced, making me have to face just how obnoxiously white the Amazon site is. :P

Yes, officer, this is the comic that made me cry.

Damnit, @xkcd.com , you made me cry again. Congrats on 15 years, though.

Biggest feature Nebula needs is the ability to completely hide certain videos. Not just "see less often" a channel from one specific slider on the homepage. Especially now that they added MyWildBackyard's phobia-spam thumbnails.

I am quickly being reminded why I hated Samsung. About 40-50% of the notifications are crApps that you can't take away notifications permissions from or uninstall like WIFI calling.

HARD disagree.

There comes a point where you just have to give up and accept that someone isn't listening and was never listening, and will never stop trying to make you into the punching bag for their own awful viewpoints.

It was bad enough when this meme applied to corporations seeking profit through careless use of dangerous tech. Now it's not even profitable. Oh well. Full scream ahead.

Why is everyone's solution to every problem "take things away from people who can't afford a seventh mansion in Miami"?

We should just make this Daylight Savings thing a daily event. Every night, have our clocks give us an extra hour of sleep.

Happy #NationalCatDat

A technology being a bubble does not mean it's not transformative. It means most of the businesses investing in it aren't going to make their money back because they did so carelessly. AI will usher in a new world in the next 20 years, but it will lose people money in the next few years.

"A level 995 Cleric casts Fireball with 1,000D6 damage. No longer supported in 5th Edition."

@bsky.app 1. There is no "No" option. 2. If I was, shouldn't this be asking in Spanish?

Being a not-for-profit organization (or a scammy corporation who conned an NFP to be their donation manager) does not make it okay to create an account for someone without their consent.

First time in a Fazolis since they added digital kiosks. Had to "Skip" entering a phone number to sign up for spam 3x. Definitely doesn't make me want to come back.

I often wonder how much extra work I cause people trying not to make extra work for them.

@extracredits.bsky.social FYI - The link for the Cyberpunk Legacy Kickstarter was not in the description on Nebula. The video said it would be, so I assume it's an oversight.

Finished painting. At least got something done on my sick day.

Alaskan rodents are big on weight lifting

Nothing trips up my polite instincts like "Enjoy your meal" at the drivethru. "You too!" *Drive away fast and hope they didn't notice...*

Attempting to test Schrodinger's thought experiment is generally frowned upon, and scientists expect it to result in the many-claws interpretation of quantum mechanics.

As I've said repeatedly - this is the time to advertise "AI free" products. We're in the backlash phase of this curve where the money is in catering to those who don't want the shiny new turd. The time to advertise in favor of having AI is over. Then wait until it matures enough for good ROI.

@extracredits.bsky.social Regarding the shot heard round the world, I believe we cannot reach a verdict as we did not hear any alibi from Zoe.

Google's AI is well on its way towards its goal of killing them both

"Congratulations on learning the 5 syllable word for what you think is my problem. That definitely entitles you to dismissing it."

Anything you do too doesn't just lose effectiveness, it garners contempt. Usually because people figure out why you're doing it. Having your machine say "hello" has reached the point of being disgusting. We don't always know what you're doing with it, but we will forever believe it's bad.

We have had too many years of tech companies "integrating". Now they have "accounts" forced into nearly every facet of our lives serving no purpose but to steal data from us. It's grown so bad that our only way out is global disintegration. We need to buy an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

When did "being a human being who exists" become probable cause? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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In the news: "Google accounts breached. The best way to secure your Google accounts after this breach is to enable 2FA" Also in the news:

Crunchyroll became slightly less enshittified. They seem to have actually dropped the self-ads for paying customers at the start of videos. Still has the enshittification of ads at the end of the last video in a series, but at least it's no longer blocking the last several seconds of shows.

Just like 1783 and 1815, it looks like we're making Royals leave again. Not as far as I'd like, but Kansas is kind of a dump state for things we forget exist. "Why? I don't remember anything being in Kansas?" Exactly. 😛

This is the US. I say instead of building them another new stadium, we dump the Royals' tea in the Kansas City harbor.

A friend actually knew how to beta read and did so for me and I encountered two very people I don't know who volunteered to beta read last night after I mentioned procrastinating on finding beta readers. I think I'm ready to stop procrastinating and intentionally seek them tomorrow.

I have a lot of respect for what MSF does organizationally, but I have zero respect for whoever they contracted with for marketing that gives no way to opt out of the spam I was illegally "opted" into by them.