I still write thank you cards. People really like getting them. In my mind, it’s worth the [small] investment of my time and effort to show my appreciation for something.

sex tape

It’s just 24 hours of caulk drying.

I use Tom’s of Maine because I’m allergic to HAWK SHARK deodorant.

Fraternal orders. Elks, Moose, etc. The internal vibe is exactly like church but with beer instead of sermons. You do not have to be religious to join but some of them do require a belief in God.

I’m still a member of the Elks, although I haven’t been active in a number of years since I moved too far away from any local lodges. I made a lot of good friends when I was active. One thing that was always nice, back when I had to travel for work I could stop by a lodge, if there was one near by, and they would usually treat me like I belonged there. I always appreciated that.

Automotive cigarette lighters eventually developed a secondary use as an auxiliary power port. The modern ones don’t actually function as a cigarette lighter though. They don’t have the clips needed to hold the lighter coil in the socket.

“Hey good looking. Can you help me install Microsoft Office in this thing?”

Worst pickup line ever.

What other things would be a big difference with the people today?

The lack of cigarette smoke everywhere, at least in the US and probably most other developed nations. In 1965, around 43% of American adults smoked. Today, just over 11% do. You no longer have to sit in the “non-smoking” section of a restaurant that still smells strongly of stale cigarettes. They no longer put ash trays or cigarette lighters in vehicles, which were a standard feature up to at least the late 90’s.

Eventually, we’re all the morning DJ at W.O.L.D.

Altman, a regular user of X since 2008, has been forthright about his frustration with the bots on it. In September, he posted to X that “somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.” A few days earlier, he made a similar point, citing dead internet theory, which posits that since 2016, the internet has been overrun with non-human activity. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM [AI]-run twitter accounts now,” he wrote.

CEO of glorified bot farm complains about effects of bot farming.

I’m just browsing. We don’t have the money for that.

There’s nothing I want more than to be a mid-level cog in the corporate state political machine.

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You look to me like a plant that would fuck a person in the sinuses and not even have the goddamned common courtesy to give them a reach around smell nice. I’ll be watching you!

The people who sign the paychecks don’t like having to admit that one of the peons was right.

Many moons ago, I lived about 20 feet from a Union Pacific railroad track. Gotta give credit to the engineers. They really tried to quietly sneak by every morning at 2:00 AM. As quietly as you can sneak a freight train anyways.

I kind of wonder if that’s a better or worse experience than living right next to a major highway.

Mommy wants to be hurt. She specifically requested it.

Beast with two backs forgot to stretch.

Rock salt is great for dispersing ice from streets and sidewalks.

On one hand, I’m genuinely curious to see how the JP Morgan suit pans out. They have vast financial resources, an army of lawyers, and unlike some of the other defendents in Trump’s recent lawsuits, a potentially dangerous precedent to be set by settling.

On the other hand, they’re both scum and they deserve each other.