It’s a shame I’m not out in Westlake. Running into Louis Rossman at HEB would be fun.

We can’t all be Avis. (Orville references welcome.)

I’d counter that I trust my data going through Sweden ahead of letting an American conglomerate gain access.

Bypass Paywalls Clean

It’s this damn Firefox extension … I pretty much don’t see paywalls anymore.

I would counter that I’m saving $1,500 a month by living in a van. As a cost, the VPN is a rounding error.

I mean, I’m using Mullvad. I don’t have the hardware to host my own VPN in a van, so this is my best approach. Could I host Wireguard locally? Sure. With access to alternating-current power.

I’m fine, thanks. It was just weird for her to revert to … whatever this was.

The dek gives the game away. The “future of the workforce” is all that matters. Why had we been doing all this gaining of knowledge in college all this time?

You know what the main difference between a girlfriend and a wife is? You remember the precise day you met your wife with the sizzling sear of a brand.

(I’d not brand my wife until later.)

Are you sure you can’t? Because when my phone was stolen last month, I came to terms with how much the modern world needs one to have one.

It appears I’m getting a new fridge. Which is helpful when trying not to spend $15 per day on food. Look at me, squandering my inheritance on dentures and avoiding paying for prepared food.

I’m still working on this idea that I can directly bite into things with my front teeth. You never forget how to ride a bicycle, but you can forget how to chew because of pain. And then, once I was bedentured, I hung out with a friend who took three bags of trash away. And that was just Monday.

Damn. Well, thus ends this excursion. At least I didn’t end up in Iran first.

Google allows you to save passwords across apps, whereas a password manager remains in the browser.

I’m fine with that timeline. The rollout in Austin hasn’t been the smoothest – though in faiirness, we now have so many Waymos in town that they keep having issues like knowing what to do when encountering an emergency vehicle. They aren’t going around killing people, but that’s a pretty low bar.

If swiping were effective, dating apps would have no business model, because people would pair off and cancel. This “revolutionary” change is being instituted solely for Bumble’s bottom line and can’t possibly be more effective because that would kill revenue.

Remember: The current crop of dating apps do not exist to help you find love. They’re extraction machines running off of FOMO.

Solar on a van has been my life for couple of years. Of course, now diesel’s expensive enough in Texas that fleeing will run $1/mile.

I was talking with a friend a couple of days ago whose life is basically putting out brush fires for others and had hit her limit. She pointed out the flight-safety boilerplate of “remember to secure your own mask before helping others.”

So, $5 per litigant after legal fees, assuming the DOJ doesn’t step in and claim to be the defendant.