Sarcasm is lost on the internet. Today people on BlueSky felt the need to try to explain this 12 year old joke to me. Yes, I understand the original joke was that people spend too much on candles. Thus, my sarcastic comment.
If people would like to dispense the enlightenment, I have actual questions
They are coming for our libraries.
A friend of mine just got a job at Google. His job is to work with libraries to borrow their books, scan the books and return them, undamaged. My question: What do you think they are going to do once they have scanned all of the books? Continued…
I believe the corporate oligarchs will move to dismantle our libraries. They don’t want you to have free access to books. They want to put them, history and knowledge behind a paywall. We will have to pay a subscription fee for access to information.
I think this Straights of Hormuz stuff is meant to open our eyes to the fact that if we want to continue to use cars and heat our homes we can’t depend on fossil fuels.
I need to invest in some solar panels and an electric car. Any recommendations?
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
I had to call about an order today and explain to the sales person “I’m gonna need to give you a different credit card for this order.
The other credit card company refuses to increase my limit.
They don’t understand me.”
Sales person “Go ahead with that new number…”
The government is closing the National Archives in Chicago with no announced plan for what will happen to millions of pages of history. Everyone should be concerned about this.
Could this be happening because Trump is tired of dealing with the National Trust for Historic Preservation every time he wants to deface our public monuments and buildings?🤔
savingplaces.org/section106
I predict that the AI companies will be coming for our public libraries next.
Quote from a bookseller in the article: “I don't like that uncommon books are being pulped."
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
I want to remind people who let their cats out of the house to “roam free”, they’re still going to the bathroom. It’s just not in a litter box in your house. They are pooping in your neighbor’s flower beds.😡
If TSA wants to go through my phone before they’ll let me back into the country they’re welcome to search through my thousands of pictures of the house from “Practical Magic.”
The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.
Honestly I said that when I erased all my content and deleted the app. Frankly I would sooner China steal my data than Trump. #BarronTrump taking a place on #TikTok board was the step too far. Someone explain to me like I'm 5 how that is not the same as #HunterBiden on the board of #Burisma?
Where is the outrage from the right about the criminal Tate brothers and Trump’s buddy Paulo Zampoli who helped bring these law breakers to our shores?
I guess the right is ok with vile criminals who hold dual citizenship with the U.S. and another country?
Let me summarize Wuthering Heights for you, terrible people doing terrible things to each other for a little more than 2 hours.
Happy to save you the time and misery.
What is DTE trying to tell me here? I’m using less electricity than most other homes with the same square footage, but that’s not enough?
And why am I paying them to use paper, ink, time and postage to send me this unachievable goal?
We don’t have the electricity needed for data centers.☀️
I’m no longer angry at trumps flunkies who spew lies all day everyday, I’m angry at American citizens that refuse to change the channel and educate themselves about how rotten this administration actually is.
I don’t know if anyone else is having their medical providers ask for payment for procedures up front? 😡
But if you live in the State of Michigan, you are not required to pay before your doctor visit.
Ask for it to be run through your insurance, bill you, AND THEN you get 30 days to pay.
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I now have doctors’ offices calling me asking me to pay outrageous sums BEFORE my visits, $400-$500. And I tell them “Run it by my insurance.” Then when the bill comes it’s more like $75.😡
Once you are sent a bill, you get 30 days to pay. It’s the law! You are not required to pay upfront!
Please stop using Sticker Mule. There are so many other web sites that can make cute stickers for you.
The owner of Sticker Mule is the new My Pillow Guy: youtu.be/DQK8YqgbEsY?...
Call 2 Action:
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United States: Holds roughly 90% of its federal immigration detainees in private facilities operated by corporations like The GEO Group & CoreCivic.
Post 2: Contact info for both of them. (1)
Sam Altman has said that in the future intelligence will be a utility “like electricity”. They want to own all information and everyone will have to pay them for access.
My prediction: they are coming for our libraries.
I’ve noticed that the Google AI summary that appears at the top of the page is not always correct. I have thought “well of course it’s not, it’s produced from things people post. But those people haven’t checked their sources.”
Then I began to wonder…
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How many subjects that I Google, that I don’t know much about the topic, how many of those topics is AI also not getting correct, but I don’t know it?
Why am I believing something that I know gets things wrong?
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And then last night I thought about how the oligarchs are taking over mainstream news outlets and the thought occurred to me:
With AI, they will feed it only what they want us to know or their version of events/facts/public policy/court rulings/laws/elections.
There will be no way to fact check.
Are we compensating the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? Are we compensating the descendents of the enslaved?
Fully f*ck the J6 slush fund & anyone that supports it. It is a transparent bribe for treasonists.
The vast majority of the world's countries now have a more favourable view of China than of the United States. Data from the Democracy Perception Index 2026.