I always tell people that a bonus is imaginary and should never be considered as part of a job offer.

If you do acheive a partial amount one year the next year the “calculations” to get one will change to fuck you over.

As somebody who grew up with one, root cellars suck.

There is always something rotting in them that you have to throw out. So you get a nasty rotten vegetable and dirt smell going all the time.

Add that in to the brined pickles/cabbage that was fermenting and it was nasty.

Running to get some carrots in the middle of the winter when it’s -25C out is not fun either.

There are assholes in every society.

There is also cultural norms that are in conflict. Tourist commonly fail to adapt or even notice when they are violating them. Which tourist are the worst often depends on which culture clashes the most societal norms.

Memorization of key facts is required for the development of higher reasoning. For example you can not understand global trade if you have not memorized basic geography.

If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.

I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.

A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.

Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.

That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.

That’s why I have it uploaded to a cloud service but I have the entire collection backed up on my phone, 3 computers and a few miscellaneous SD cards.

Having a collection of music in files that I own has been my go-to for years. Currently VLC says I have 701 hours of music in files on my phone. That’s only 29.2 days worth.

As a parent two sons who have moved on from the Lego stage to the driving and girls stage…

Bahahahahahahahahahaha!!!.

No more shuffle walking around the house for me!!

By default I always turn off the location setting on the camera. I disabled it as soon as they introduced it as a “feature”. I thought it was creepy as fuck and dangerous. Without the location most of the rest of the information is pretty benign.

For example her is the full metadata from a picture I took yesterday.

Aperture: 182/100 Date: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Date digitized: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Original date: 2025-07-30 15:40:26 Digital zoom: 1.0 Exposure bias: 0/6 Exposure mode: Auto Exposure program: Normal Exposure time: 4.7824007651841227E-4 sec. Flash: Off Focal length: 5590/1000 35mm focal length: 24 F-number: 1.8 Image width: 2304 Image length: 4096 Lens model: OnePlus 13R back camera >5.59mm f/1.9 Light source: D65 Camera make: OnePlus Camera model: OnePlus 13R Camera maker note: {“PiFlag”:“0”,“nightFlag”:“4”,“nightMode”: “-1”,“asdOut”: [“0”],“apsAsdOut”: [“1”],“apsAsdClsOut”: [“1”, “0”],“iso”: “286”,“expTime”: “0”,“fType”:“50”,“bkMode”:“0”,“aideblur”:“0”,“aisState”:“8”,“algo”: [“65,72,16,19”],“filter”: “:-1”} Lens max aperture: 182/100 Metering mode: Center weight average Orientation: Normal Photographic sensitivity: 80 X dimension: 2304 Y dimension: 4096 Scene capture type: Standard Scene type: Directly photographed User comment: oplus_2097184 White balance: Auto

The only thing they would get is the model of phone I use. Which is essentially public information for every app maker I have installed on my phone anyways.

Very large companies run themselves by inertia alone… until the c-suite fucks it up trying to make more money.

China’s foreign policy is basically “play whatever side makes the most sense for China”.

Their pattern of behavior shows an end goal of economically dominating the planet. Fully replacing the United States and Europe.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative

China is also obviously looking at ways to create a military that can compete against the U.S./NATO dominance. They need some teeth to back up their economic pushes.

Mexican immigration rules from what I am seeing are very reasonable with clear processes and do not require a lawyer for most people. So you rarely hear about immigrants having issues. The entire process is relatively inexpensive as well.

To legally immigrate to the U.S. almost always requires a lawyer, the process is deliberately convoluted, and costs thousands of dollars in fees.

Applying for political asylum outside of the U.S., good luck. The burden of proof is quite high and costly. Most people will not qualify, yet…

https://www.relocate.world/articles/us-citizens-seeking-asylum

If only the dumbfucks with the stupid slogans like “love it or leave it” knew just how difficult and costly it is to legally move to another country. Unless you have money, work in a high demand job or have family connections it’s fucking difficult or close to impossible to do.

Most of the dumbfucks have no way to legally move to any other country legally.

Inflation caused by corporate greed kills people’s ability to take vacations for some reason.

I know several people with dual citizenship Canadian/U.S. who have moved from the U.S. to Canada in the past several months.

I just figured out a path for me to gain Mexican permanent resident and eventually Mexican citizenship if needed. It will take some time but with how this country is going, My wife and I need an escape route.

Hmmm… Did we have the same parents?

Apparently why I haven’t spoken to them or seen them in over a decade is a mystery. The next time I see them will be when they are in their graves. I’ll have my dancing shoes on.

This is why I buy my HVAC filters in bulk 4 or 8 at a time and replace them every 3-4 months (less if there is smoke). The difference it makes in keeping the house clean is very noticable. I get very little dust accumulation except in my teens rooms because they leave their doors closed.

No that never happens /S

I used to work with a supplier that hired a former Monsanto executive as their CEO. When his first agenda came out I told their sales team he was an idiot and to have fun looking for a new job a few months.

The CEO bailed after 2 years to start his own “consulting business.”

1 year later the company lost 75% of their market share and was laying off people left and right. They are still afloat barely.

After a couple years “consulting”, the CEO went to another company in 2023. He didn’t bounce fast enough and got caught on this one. He was fired 2 weeks ago and the company shut their doors except for a handful of staff to facilitate the firesale of the companies assets.