BRB, headed to Sunbelt to rent some cones and a road painting kit.

I’ll finally get that bike lane!

It doesn’t matter what they say because I know they’re not gonna do it and make excuses.

But it’s not like I have anyone else I can vote for.

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

How about you make it something people have to turn on, and make it useful enough that they will enable it?

Same, but I do feel a bit conflicted because I’m not sure if I actually like the person or I’m just in Sales Mode

Stay inside from 11-3? More like stay inside from May-September.

I never stop sweating for like four months of the year and hate it.

That frog’s name? Michigan J. Frog

Most people are idiots and the bell curve isn’t as wide as you’d like to think.

When they said in The Matrix that the late 90s was peak human civilization they weren’t lying

My wife is West Indian and trying to convince restaurants she wants actually spicy food is a constant struggle

I have dreamed of this life since before I was in tech.

I was born in a passive-solar, earth-sheltered house that my dad designed and built himself. Instead of a stack of Playboys he had Mother Earth News in the back of the closet. My parents owned one of the first Priuseseses in the US.

For a wonderful few years I had this life. I raised pigs and chickens and managed my property. I got into the best shape of my life, physically and mentally, and just stepping out of my front door made me feel more alive than I’ve felt since I had to move back to the burbs. (I don’t think people realize how little oxygen they get in urban and suburban environments.)

Though I am stuck in the suburbs for now I am determined to get back to that. I would rather wake up to a hungry pig tearing apart its enclosure than to another fucking meeting.

I have a business plan ready for raising heirloom breeds of pigs and expensive ingredients and selling them to fancy restaurants. If I can get the right connections I can make it a pretty profitable business. Damn near broke even on four hogs last time, even with setup costs.

The longer I work in tech the less I’m impressed by new tech. I don’t want the latest and greatest phone. I don’t need a crazy gaming PC. I don’t need or want a bunch of smart devices. I want a few useful things that I can manage myself, and the freedom to wake up to no alarm except the livestock.

Same and I graduated high school in the year 2000.

Still working on that.

If we got rid of private property rights it would be a lot easier to build infrastructure.

Just sayin’

In my city they didn’t make overpasses. They built massive earthworks around the minority sections of town with highways on top of them.

It’s better than buying antibiotics at Tractor Supply instead of going to the doctor

That just sounds like digging a hole with extra steps

Humans are incredibly good at justifying behavior they did on impulse

The US spent trillions of dollars over decades to do what the Ukrainians have done with some fancy remote controlled toys