Yeah. Enron’s scheme was trading money back and forth with itself to inflate its value until it all came crashing down, tanking Enron.

Nvidia is at the center of a scheme involving the entire economy trading money back and forth between a few companies to inflate value, so when the scheme tanks it’ll crush everybody.

I use Rankine to confuse everyone.

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Yeah. A lot of people get degrees that don’t end up being super-applicable to their eventual career.

What a degree tells me about a candidate is that they can complete a long-term project that requires balancing multiple milestones (semesters), multitasking (multiple courses per semester), while being self-directed, working with others, and navigating bureaucracy.

For lots of jobs, the specific degree may not matter that much. They’re usually educated enough they know how to learn and adapt to new tasks relatively quickly. For things like engineering, medicine, and science the specifics of the coursework are essential, but for most jobs the specific degree basically tells me what they may be more prepared for fresh out of college and maybe something about how they look at the world (a geography major’s holistic big-picture view of the world versus a psychology major’s more focused, individualized view).

The one good use of Monster cables I saw was a buddy who played guitar and was pretty energetic in his sets and not disciplined enough to take proper care of his cables.

Monster cables really were pretty tough compared to the cheap stuff, but the bigger deal was the lifetime free replacements. He bought 2 Monster cables for 1/4 cable to his amp, and when one broke he’d swap to the backup while waiting on the replacement in the mail.

That’s another reason the manufacturers are increasingly locking vehicle features behind the touchscreen. If you buy a 3rd party replacement, you can’t control the AC.

It’s really frustrating that everyone is shitty.

I want that too, but I’ll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.

I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.

Woo loo loo

It’s flared, so it must be safe.

I brought God into an argument. Your rational questions have no power here!

42 years old, and I still thank onions should be left in the dirt. God buried them for a reason.

I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.

I am indeed a very boring person.

There’s also electric air blowers now that are prett6 great. My wolfbox blower is shockingly powerful.

The way it should be handled is to just let me rotate a single fucking page. It’s 2025 and there is zero excuse for that bullshit.

Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?

Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.

Not who you were replying to, but I’ve worked in the industry…

Kinda, yeah. They want them set up super early in the mornings on site so they can get to work.

Also, lots of them move from site to site directly without returning to the yard. Some of the bigger tower cranes are booked years in advance, so there’s really only down time if a job finishes early.

Probably. And you could definitely kill others.