yet he refused that sort of luck existed. “Should have been born rich like me, blame your parents for being poor”.

That’s the most contradictory statement you can make lol. One of the few things we literally have no control or possible agency under in life is who our parents are.

I had a municipal water bill that sat in collections for years. They came after me for $50.

I understand that since people believe the new system [share cropping] will work out admirably, but I think the theorists are a thousand miles off.

Okay, are you about to get into wage slavery? Are you about to advocate for expropriation of the wealth and status you gained on the backs of the hard labor of generations of slaves?

Those who see it, have no sanguine expectations - negroes are a lazy race, and very improvident.

TELL ME ABOUT ALL THAT HARD LABOR YOU DID TO GET ALL THAT LAND AND SILVER LADY. YOU MUST HAVE BEEN BREAKING YOU BACK ALL DAY HUH?

It’s not luck, it’s the fruits of generational exploitation. I did grow up in a 3 story house though. My dad was a hell of a con man. He killed himself and the bank took everything right after. Owed so much in unpaid taxes that every bit of savings we had was wiped out and we quickly went back to where we belonged lol

Sorry, that’s the hit song for the album you have in your thumbnail lol. Thought you were talking about Justices cross album.

Eh, I don’t mind it. The overhang between the two sides seems to create a nice little covered area between the buildings. It’s a bit goofy looking, but if you strip away the facade it’s got some practical bits.

D.A.N.C.E. is an all time banger

I like playing a game of “real or ai” with Thomas Kincaid cottage paintings.

The chimneys man, they get everyone

Odds are if you stop irrigation for a few weeks you just got a bunch of dead trees.

The only real humanitarian justification I can find for this is that a bunch of dead trees becomes a fire hazard. I’m guessing peach trees aren’t native to the California desert and would likely dry out and become highly flammable within a few months.

I’m sure their reasoning is more along the lines of “my property” though

Is this an AI video?

Honestly, if they join the EU, the Brits would be less likely to try shit.

There’s tons of them. It’s almost impossible for me to use windows without power toys now

Windows has a Power Toys extension that drops a minimap of all your monitors on your primary display and if you click it your mouse jumps to the real position you clicked.

I can see how it’s useful, but the default keybind is way too close to the shift+meta+s clipper shortcut and it always freaks me out when my mouse suddenly jumps when I meant to snip a part of the window.

This is a uniquely predatory loan though. If you miss just a couple months of payments, the compounding interest alone surpasses the original loan amount. Meaning you’re rapidly owing $5-10k/month on a $4k loan.

This is obviously meant to create predatory situations where they can either hustle them for a settlement of $8-10k or sell of that debt to collection agencies in a bundle.

Alternatively, they’re structuring it in a way where people are paying the same $400-500/month indefinitely on that loan.

Even the break your ankles sharks of old weren’t this bad…

There are some that take a week or so, but they usually stop in each destination for a day or so and you aren’t really on the boat unless you’re traveling to the next spot at night.

This is amazing because all of this is entirely useless at best and actively hostile at worst, but it’s all exactly the kinda thing the morons pushing LLMs want. This is 100Xing tech debt generation, all features no maintenance.

I kinda hate my current job, but at least I’m the only dev and the entire codebase is my own handwritten slop. Refusing to use AI at any point has basically allowed me to minimize feature creep and force all our tooling to fit in a decently modular home baked framework that only takes up ~100MB for the whole history and around 60K lines of active code (split I over about 4 or 5 separate open source repos I’m maintaining).

Half of my commits now are deleting huge portions of the codebase since I’ve noticed they aren’t used, or have been replaced over the years by better solutions. All of this runs the entire project management, design and QA suites for a 60 person fiber optic design firm.

I do have a habit of just deciding to delete modules and waiting for tickets to flow in then rewriting them on the fly, but there’s no better way to find out if something is important than deleting it in prod and waiting for complaints lol

This sounds like pure fantasy, I’m in a relatively sane part of the country and even here no one zipper merges lol.

If you go to Atlanta, it’s basically just Dukes of Hazzard on the highways. Absolutely terrifying place.

Maybe a river cruise since, but definitely not an ocean cruise.