My wife bought one of these pieces of shit before we got together. A few months back I finally got to the point where I had the “honey we need to throw out your printer and get a new one.”
“OK - should we give it to my sister or see if any of our friends want this?”
“I’m not sure I dislike any of your friends or family enough to inflict this much frustration on them.”
I hear you. One of those ‘you shouldn’t have to pay for a service like this’ moments.
In a moment of weakness, I signed up for Incogni. I was getting 3/4 phone calls a day that weren’t leaving messages and it was getting overwhelming.
I will say, somewhat anecdotally because I’m too busy to crunch the numbers, but it doesn’t seem like the spam email, phone calls and text messages I get have dropped dramatically. My wife too.
Is there a service out there that’s the opposite of Incogni?
Yup. The whole thing is a ruse to get rid of Income Tax in favor of Tariffs, which will essentially act as a national sales tax.
And this, my friends, are why tariffs are dumb.
And let’s not forget they can now spend $5 million of that on a “golden visa” to become legal US residents on the path to citizenship.
Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.
This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.
Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.
Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.
This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.
Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.
Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.
This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.
Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.
He knows. They can smell their own.
Good.
Much like the appeasers that enabled Hitler, history is going to look back on Pelosi, Schumer, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Jefferies, and other democrats who stood by and let all this happen on their watch without so much as a wimper.
Unconvinced, Linda and Kayla Nordquist asked New York State Police Troop E to file a missing person’s report. They said a state trooper declined.
“She said I need to stop watching so much TV, something about it not being a true crime episode,” Kayla said. “I need to stop watching so much TV and that they don’t pass out missing people flyers.”
To Serve, Protect and Defend the People of New York?
I feel like “later rescinded” makes it sound like all the other aid that just got cancelled.
This case is more egregious and frankly scary.
The funds were in the city’s bank account, and the Trump administration went into that bank account and took the money back without telling the city.
Which shines a light on the real problem.
In most elections we have a shitty option. And a shittier option.
It’s almost like Trump when to a seminar on the incredible healing power of tariffs, and believed every word he heard.
“Mistakenly”
Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.
“Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”
The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”
I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.
Delete.
I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.
Delete.
I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.
Delete.
So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.
After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.
It’s interesting that the Project 2025 text spells out diversity, equity and inclusion, while the executive order just says DEI.
I 100 percent thing folks need to push back on the blanket use of ‘DEI’ because they’re trying to make it mean the same as ‘woke.’
I’m sure there’s a number of mouthbreathers out there who’ll say they’re against DEI, but if you ask “you mean diversity, equity and inclusion?” they’ll back pedal.
Just another example of how the Democratic party is only slightly less fucked than the Republicans.