technocurmudgeon
TechnoCurmudgeon
technocurmudgeon

How about stop buying all Apple devices, full stop. Since the EU mandates the USB-C connection, Apple must make a worldwide change and get rid of its proprietary Lightning connection.  Every Apple device with its proprietary connection is now dead in the water.

We have a very large box of reusable paper tote bags and tissue paper.  Christmas, birthdays, whatever.  We reuse them again, and again, and again, ...

There needs to be a bad cop website similar to the sexual predator websites owned by law enforcement. A bad cop website just needs two categories:

The Fed raised interest rates to slow inflation. That included inflated prices for homes.  All deliberate.  A no brainer.

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Beans, beans, the magical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot,
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let’s have beans for every meal!

The Twitter module needed adjusting. Musk kept changing his mind.

ROTFLMO!!!

Nice gesture, but Facebook long ago placed all your data into offline databases and sells the info to advertisers and others. So while active FB users will soon no longer be able to dig into your personal details, the personalized ads will not stop.

My phone is *always* locked when I’m not actively using it.

This article is akin to the network morning TV shows and local TV stations that offer holiday cooking recipes and tips just a day or two before the holiday. Really? Like people will go out on a Tuesday before Thanksgiving to buy their Thanksgiving food supplies? Really?

You are missing failed Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley. She tried to oust Senator Patty Murry (D) representing Washington state. Smiley lost bigly.

Painting over a ceiling stain doesn’t get rid of it. It will keep coming back, and causing more and more damage to the ceiling itself, until you stop the leak causing the stain in the first place.  Well, duh!

“The future of our nation”

If this lab grown process is successful, we should expect it to be unavailable in America.

For the majority of “investors” mutual funds are the way to go.  Read up on the BogleHeads Three-Funds-Rule and you will be fine without the need for a financial planner.

Declawing a cat is equivalent to removing the first bone from all of your fingers and thumbs. It is violent animal abuse.  It should be a crime, as it already is in Maryland and New York.

Not supportive of year-round DST. I’m in the Lower 48, and year-round DST means the sun sets in winter around 3pm local time and would show up again until 9am the following day.

You never connect two space heaters to one circuit breaker. A typical home normally has one circuit breaker for all the outlets in one room. If you’re still cold with a space heater in the room, put on socks, wear a hat, and put on a sweater/sweatshirt.

He forgets three four Justices lied during their confirmation hearings.