Well hello there

I also love word, publisher, and visio.

I grudgingly accept outlook.

I despise PowerPoint

It can be, when it isn’t hamstrug by stupid regulations.

In the US the government tends toward being ineffective because it typically isn’t allowed to do much on its own. For almost everything it hires contractors to execute a function and then serves as oversight for the contractor. The only real exceptions I can think of to this outside of the military are the postal service, the forest service, and the FAA. All of which are pretty notably effective considering the depth and breadth of the service they provide, and provide high quality, long term employment.

I knew GPUs had gotten bigger but then I built an all new PC, upgrading from a 2080 to a 4090.

Holy shit. That thing is fucking huge, man. I was literally stunned pulling it out of the box. Just set it down and stared at it for awhile trying to process technological progress. It’s like 8 times the size of the GPU I had in 2006.

The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.

I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.

This. My phone camera takes ultra high resolution pictures then algorithmically processes them. They look more beautiful and real than reality.

The biggest change when we got new window AC units was how much more quiet they are.

Some asshole had the idea to water a seed and now I have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.

24hr clock supremacy

I actually have a SATA cable and power plug discreetly tucked in a spot in my PC case and have just taken the side off and plugged in a drive on occasion. It’s normal purpose is troubleshooting other hard drives, but it works for that too

When you’re 90% of the market you get away with telling everyone else to suck your dick.

Do acid, it’s cheap as fuck, lasts 12 hours, is generally a great time, and will allow introspection about your life

When you took an elective and it almost made you change majors

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.

Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.

I had never seen one before, and was just settling in after moving into my new apartment when my turn gf just screams and comes running into the kitchen saying, “there’s a horrible monster bug in the sink, ITS HUGE”

And unprepared for the Lovecraftian little horror waiting for me, expecting some kind of beetle or something, I was pretty shook up. Legitimately was scared to go into the kitchen at night after that.

I developed a theory because of these fuckers, which is that the scale of a things creepiness is based on how many legs it has and how fast they are.

I used to get them in my last apartment and when I saw one I literally couldn’t sleep until I knew it was dead

4 doesn’t feel like enough to make the full curve but I bet its starting to get close. 8 is probably what you’d need for to truly encircle yourself

Exactly, there’s a whole bunch of “winter” cowboys in Montana and Wyoming, lol