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Triscuit is busy being a little shit like always. She’s a cute cat, but she loves getting into things she shouldn’t be. But then she’ll curl up in my lap and all sins are forgiven.

Would it shock you to hear that they’ve been breaking the law the whole time and getting away with it?

Sure. They’ll print out each application and they’ll fall straight into a shredder. “After careful consideration, we have elected not to accept your application.” emails will be sent immediately upon application submission.

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Flower. I want nothing to do with The Cloud™️.

The entire point of a union and the dues they collect is precisely for this reason, to pay them while they’re striking. Also, by remaining employees of the company, it’s a little more difficult for them to just fire people for doing so. If they quit, the company’ll just hire scabs.

It’s been the case for me my whole life. One time I was in a spot where I was able to save a couple grand, then the transmission in my car died and since then I haven’t been able to save a dime. That was 2019.

Good.

I’ve worked in tech basically all my life. Everything from IT to shuffling wafer around a fab to now working for an aerospace parts supplier as an electrical tech.

The amount of waste is… it’s shocking. A board fails, and half of these companies throw it away. The other half sends it off to be ‘recycled’ as if that’s any better in the long run. Just because one chip is bad or whatever doesn’t mean the rest of the components on the board are bad.

That being said, I understand the massive amount of labor it would take to desolder every component on a board just to add them to stock. That’s why nobody does it. You’d need an army of people to properly remove and test every component on a failed board.

But, like, you don’t have to? All those components are already in a spot where they won’t get lost and can be retrieved when needed: on the failed board. Thankfully the company I work for now understands that buying things to be shipped takes a lot more time than just… taking an hour to steal a chip from a failed board and using that.

I worked for a company before that had at least half of the boards come off the wave solder machines with problems. Excess solder in places it shouldn’t be, failed components everywhere, and basic assembly issues. They’d toss these boards in a corner of the building to be repaired later. The issue is that they just couldn’t quit taking people away from rework and putting them on assembly. The engineers never bothered to come downstairs and actually do their jobs. So the failed boards never got worked on, and they kept generating a mountain of them.

So I guess what I’m saying is that I’m glad people are actually fixing stuff instead of throwing it away. Were that this would become the norm.

How else you do you imagine them being able to track your purchases across platforms?

That was Valve more than it was Sony.

I mean, if they wanna give it back…

Honestly, Sorghum flour has an interesting flavor. Oh, you said floWEr. Sorry.

Poor kitty. I hope you and the vet can figure out whatever’s wrong and get ‘em feeling better.

Great. 🙄

…but her emails!

But hey, cheap hardware when it’s all over. Not like we’ll have any money to buy it, but it’s something.

Even moreso if it was cheap. Not 30k, try 10, 15. Everyone should be able to afford one.

I’d love one, except I live in an apartment, it wouldn’t fit in my garage, it makes no sense to own one in the city, and I’m lucky to pay rent these days much less pay it again for a truck I have nowhere to put and nowhere to use.

All this is why I got a used Fiesta instead.

Got me a pair of AirPods Max. Used, refurbished. Fantastic for what I need them for.

Good. Let the fascists destroy themselves over all the bullshit minutia around their stupid rules while the rest of us continue to love and respect each other.