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Nick K

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created October 15, 2023

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Preying Mantis on a sidewalk
2/9/2025, 5:14:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, but if you ask Google AI when 2010 was, it will say 25 years ago...

2/9/2025, 1:24:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But peaches come in a can! They were put there by a man, in a factory downtown....

1/9/2025, 1:04:35 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have read court cases where the damages were significantly reduced or just removed because "there were a large number of institutional investors (mutual funds) that could be impacted by this decision"

26/8/2025, 11:49:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

And here I put my money on the frequencies coming back to TMO.

26/8/2025, 11:32:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

25/8/2025, 10:59:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Well, they are the magical fruit.

21/8/2025, 12:48:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tori Foote (@toriatheisttori.bsky.social) reposted

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17/8/2025, 12:03:48 AM | 10013 2289 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Damnit. We have to wait until 2026? No fast forward on this shit?

16/8/2025, 5:40:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I look forward to the car made by Ford's AI chatbots. share.google/4Ayblon2v7d8...

14/8/2025, 10:21:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

How about a strongly written letter about said faint smell of curdled milk and mothballs?

13/8/2025, 9:41:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I wouldn't say that's a silver bullet either. Most employees can't see beyond their role, but owning a part of the office should instill some pride. But killing stock buy backs and limiting the "share holders are all that matters" mantra would go much further.

13/8/2025, 2:02:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

It's worse than that. For many people in urban areas, getting fresh food is hard. The local grocery stores where I live barely have the veggies to make a salad, and the stuff they do carry wilt in 1-2 days. Farmers markets run during business hours, so people who work regular jobs can't go easily.

9/8/2025, 12:05:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Increasing or decreasing investments into the company, like R&D, depending on what the executives believed was wrong. Since Regan, executives tend to be very invested in the stocks, so they manipulate them rather than use them as an indicator of health. That decouples them from the economy impact.

8/8/2025, 12:34:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are making the grand assumption that the stock market and the economy are connected. They are two very independent things that often show the same trends -- and in this case, they don't. The theory was that if a stock goes down, the company would respond by

8/8/2025, 12:34:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't know.... How much is the rent on that hallowed out tree stump?

8/8/2025, 12:19:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black Labrador Retriever stepping on a hose spraying herself in the face.
6/8/2025, 9:57:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apple showed us that those people were (briefly) celebrated for wearing obnoxious AR crap and running into things.

5/8/2025, 9:17:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They live far out in the country. The two OTA stations they get barely have news. No local paper anymore, and the next closest one was trashed by Garnett. Radio no longer has local DJs and AT&T pulled up stakes for DSL and only offers cellular broadband. It's depressing what they have to rely on.

30/7/2025, 12:27:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My in-laws only get their news from OAN and Fox. They were so convinced in March that they were going to be getting $5k Tarrifs that they were already spending it. Other people in their town have already bought ATVs and upgrades to their RVs anticipating it. Fox keeps saying it's coming soon...

30/7/2025, 11:51:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like the solution is to redefine broadband as 56k/s. Then everybody** can have broadband! ** For limited number of everybody.

29/7/2025, 4:32:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I think there was a very popular show on HBO that was just like this....

28/7/2025, 3:48:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

You missed the part about being available for children's birthday parties, or something like that..

22/7/2025, 12:59:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I'm hoping for the type of bonanza that Coanan had when he was told he was out at the Tonight Show, ripping everyone and everything off the walls on his way out -- but Colbert is too classy for that.

18/7/2025, 12:09:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

It's the only show they've put on the network that has new episodes. Southpark went streaming only for their new programming two years ago and they cancelled everything else. To say CC is maintenance mode is almost an overstatement. They've starved TDS of resources for over a decade.

18/7/2025, 12:06:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/e6LOWKVq5sQ?...

17/7/2025, 9:20:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

iPAWS is the system that is used to send out the WEA alerts (the ones that trigger alerts on people's phones). If folks individually installed weather apps and set them to push notifications, they individually may have got a ding in the middle of the night.

11/7/2025, 3:58:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I honestly thought that just two days ago SCOTUS ruled that lower courts couldn't impact national laws or department edicts outside their districts... But I guess that only applies to stuff that conservatives hate...

9/7/2025, 11:22:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I still think back, sitting in my telecom policy undergrad class in 2003, reading your articles about AT&T's Project Lightspeed and how much they collected in cash and delivered a few miles of fiber to the home service...

8/7/2025, 6:32:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't forget the fine print. They are going to sign you up for a voice line too (don't worry, it's free for the first year. And if you don't keep it, you lose the unlimited service)

1/7/2025, 12:27:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Comcast has been bleeding customers where fiber to the home providers have popped up thanks to to different broadband programs. In my market, it's almost 30% of their customers have jumped ship to the new providers in town.

1/7/2025, 12:24:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In a group I manage, their AI slop bot keeps adding comments to people's posts telling them to kill homeless people.

27/6/2025, 11:12:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I may have used it in an academic paper recently....

25/6/2025, 9:37:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Finnegan has the look of "Um, they did what now?"

24/6/2025, 1:31:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These would be crashes.... not accidents.

23/6/2025, 8:26:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I didn't have bombing Iran on my bingo card. I thought we would nuke Greenland or bomb Toronto or something before we touched that rail.

22/6/2025, 3:07:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

They fired all the reporters who gave a damn. The ones left are soo busy meeting quotas that they are happy to parrot press releases to take it off their plate.

20/6/2025, 9:48:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I bet Fox News smells like Fixodent and gun powder.

20/6/2025, 9:47:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I think 3D-everything is due for a comeback. Plus I'm sure there is going to be a race to 6G with a marketing push a year before the tech is even available.

20/6/2025, 9:40:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He just wanted to as popular as Myspace Tom.

20/6/2025, 4:53:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I very much wouldn't say it's a rebrand of TMO. It's a reseller of the TMO network. Rebrand makes it sound like they have a hand in it...

19/6/2025, 12:46:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Wait. It's not illegal to publish something like that at this point? Is there an IRS assessment if you don't publish on substack or X?

17/6/2025, 5:14:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Did he just unconditionally surrender the United States to some other country? I'm having a hard time following....

17/6/2025, 4:54:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

The worst part is that it was a real problem that needed to be fixed. Congress and the FCC allocated the right amount and setup quick paths to fix it. Then the locals, instead of talking to each other, all knew best and built their own. We ended up with 5,000 different systems instead of 50.

15/6/2025, 5:23:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

They almost abducted our governor, planned to blow up some bridges and murder her. Most in the group that got caught were written off as 'boys will be boys' by the press, while the far right media claimed they were political prisoners for getting caught.

15/6/2025, 3:58:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

There was a ton of money released so all the agencies could get new radio and communications equipment to coordinate. So all the agencies bought new, incompatible radio systems and made the problem worse.

15/6/2025, 12:45:48 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) reposted

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

9/6/2025, 2:53:12 AM | 13505 5360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

They are afraid of being associated with it like they were with BLM. They let the Republicans control the narrative on that one and they stood there flat footed instead of leading the movement. They will feel safe by staying at arm's length, but in reality they will just lose those passionate folks.

10/6/2025, 12:08:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Don't forget the $0.05 IXC termination fee that keeps the competition at bay and still allowed to scrape off the top of all those scam calls.

7/6/2025, 1:02:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Of course, Wired says he's still around and everything is going on : www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

30/5/2025, 7:47:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

The more shifts he works, the more stock buybacks they can do!

23/5/2025, 4:26:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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With the bonus of them deactivating it on you if you say the wrong thing!

23/5/2025, 4:18:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I don't know your grandpa, but don't subject him to that.

21/5/2025, 12:07:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I haven't been on there since they 'lost' my password three times in a year. But all I remember of it was that it was full of the kids who were on student council in HS. And they want to tell you how to run your life.

20/5/2025, 12:33:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

The current iteration of AI bots are trying to hide behind user agents that are identical to Edge and Chrome. They also pound you from thousands of IPa across wide ranges. They are acting poorly on purpose to make it hard to block them. I've seen them try to login with compromised accounts too.

10/5/2025, 6:59:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Is that a Star Trek reference?

6/5/2025, 3:42:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Better than loosing a black hole machine. You'd never come back from that one.

30/4/2025, 2:41:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Hobie's Squash Soup. Nothing better on a cold day. Also from East Lansing, Flat's chicken quesadilla....

25/4/2025, 12:44:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I should write a horror book about how insecure most critical industrial systems are. Ch 1 - You can't really telnet into your building's HVAC system, can you? Ch 2 - There is a 1 in 10,000 chance your muni water system and your ATM PIN are the same. Ch 3 - $9 Xbee controller for streetlight fun

17/4/2025, 1:59:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I mean, lowest common denominator for critical infrastructure still works pretty well. We just have to rely on our workers to implement the vanier of security that exists on these devices. You do remember the Target hack, right?

16/4/2025, 9:44:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Every streetlight? The PIC controller is programmed with a DB9 cable and a bunch of DIP switches to control modules. All those emergency phones with the blue lights you see everywhere.. Programmed with a DB9 cable. Most of those road hazard signs? Programmed via IR or cellular (with a default pw)

16/4/2025, 8:45:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Yes. Some very large cities have smart lights networks which dynamically adjust the timings, but bluetooth is how they get programmed and the audio recorded. It used to be via a serial connector (before the audio was normal).

16/4/2025, 8:38:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

It's really the municipalities that install them (or in many cases, the power companies) that should be changing the passwords. But the guy who's making $15/hr digging a ditch wasn't sent to netsec classes, so they don't know the difference, other than it will make their job harder later.

16/4/2025, 8:26:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Those Takis have some bite to them

16/4/2025, 11:57:16 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

".... But when the bill came to my desk, I ran a poll on BirdSite and TS and they said that [bots] didn't use it. So we don't need it anyway!"

11/4/2025, 4:28:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Karl was right, again. Please stop being right... It's hurting us all

11/4/2025, 2:40:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Also, anybody who started their career during the financial crisis in 08 had depressed salaries for at least a decade and still didn't track to people who stated 10 years earlier or later.

8/4/2025, 4:13:34 PM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I'm pretty sure it's sell the responsibilities of those former fed jobs to the company that gives him the largest kick back.

4/4/2025, 3:01:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

The banks downgraded the valuation of Twitter to under $5B from the $45B he paid for it. All of Musk's stock in it was worthless, so the only way he could bump up the value was to have it sold.. So it sold it to himself, so his stock had value again. And xAI had free cash because of large investors.

29/3/2025, 12:12:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

But can't we all get jobs at Starlink? Seems like the logical solution.

28/3/2025, 4:05:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

... store where they need to pick up some lumber. They want an EV that can go 600 miles on a single charge that goes from 0% to 100% in 5 minutes because they will do a road trip once every 5 years. We should be buying for our daily drive and renting/sharing for the edge cases.

22/3/2025, 1:45:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

The problem is that people buy their vehicles to cover every possible use case they might possibly run into instead of what they normally need. People buy massive SUVs for that once a year they drive their friends to the restaurant or the massive truck for the every two year trip to the hardware...

22/3/2025, 1:45:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

He will get so angry, he will instruct his staffers to write a strongly worded letter.

21/3/2025, 3:32:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

At least John Steward starting dragging that knife in a bit to his guests about the lack of messaging and asking -- what the hell are they doing... lots of dancing around the core issues from them though.

20/3/2025, 8:25:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

According to their 3x daily fundraising emails, it is life or death.

20/3/2025, 8:24:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

But Schumer wrote a strongly written letter! How much more do you want from them? They can't break decorum, because..... Decorum?

12/3/2025, 11:23:20 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

I went to an inner-city high school. On occasion you'd hear about a kid who had weed, but most were too poor to buy drugs or large amounts of alcohol. My sister went to a HS in a rich suburb... A good 3/4 of the kids were on cocaine or non prescribed Adderall. And parties every other night.

11/3/2025, 1:55:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

All of their seasons are just intense. Just don't ask when they use the bathroom or try to count how many times leadership changes over in a 24 hour period ;-)

10/3/2025, 2:44:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Slotkin had to be one of the softest wins last year. Her opponent was declared the winner until two days after the election, and the recount barely put her over the edge. Most of her moves since she was borders on caucusing with the Rs, turning her back on the people who did elect her.

7/3/2025, 5:48:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

A PO box, by definition is a Postal Office Box. What you are thinking of is a mail center, which still has residential service, just to a cluster of mailboxes at the end of the street. A PO box requires a person to travel to the post office in their town, often several miles away.

6/3/2025, 12:54:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Yup. It closed a few weeks back.

5/3/2025, 2:22:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

You brought the Spartans some good birthday luck!

5/3/2025, 1:42:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

And I'm sure Schumer will write a strongly written letter to the president about it. Double spaced. With maybe a word or two bolded.

1/3/2025, 5:09:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Remember that Skype was purchased by Silverlake partners and was put in a position that they had to be purchased by Microsoft to survive. If it weren't for that, it would still be around in full force.

1/3/2025, 2:30:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

It's always worse than people remember....

28/2/2025, 11:12:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social) reposted

Effective therapy is so much more than saying the right words in the right order. Chatbots posing as therapists are dangerous. Some products "claim to have advanced degrees from specific universities, like Stanford" Glad the APA is speaking out about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

24/2/2025, 3:56:04 PM | 65 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Wonder how much our enemies will pay for that AI dataset once they are done. A list of every government employees and their typical duties? Mitnick would own the entire state department in 45 seconds.

25/2/2025, 3:48:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

What you project outward most likely isn't what they are projecting inward. The fire in the interview will still be there.

23/2/2025, 6:13:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

It's a coping mechanism. If you convince yourself that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, you have a reason to get up in the morning. If you don't, some people spiral out of control.

23/2/2025, 3:47:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Sure they do! It loads JavaScript modules into the webpage DOM ;-)

14/2/2025, 5:27:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Oh, but they wrote a strongly worded letter. They even had their staffers sign it! deadline.com/2025/02/sena...

13/2/2025, 11:19:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com)

I'm excited and frankly, kinda scared that I've had to do OpSec 101 sessions for a few groups of friends recently. Know who you are talking to. Know how you are communicating with them (know the medium). Know your message, and that it is received. Know when to distrust, and when its ok.

6/2/2025, 2:56:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

Dammit Karl. Stop being right for once. Sheesh.

3/2/2025, 10:26:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture merritt (@merrittk.com) reposted

headline: Elon Musk has constructed the Howling Engine, which converts the anguished cries of children into cancer democrats: in these dark times, the american people need us to reach across the aisle

1/2/2025, 2:15:27 PM | 3494 646 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

A ton of trains are already at capacity. I know the regional trains in the Midwest regularly sell out about 3 weeks out.

1/2/2025, 2:24:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com)

I feel that @karlbode.com would certainly call this innovative: www.techspot.com/news/106585-...

1/2/2025, 3:31:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

How can he not get everything he wants? Such a good boy.

31/1/2025, 11:59:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Points vaguely to the wall.... "That's not how this works.... That's not how any of this works..."

31/1/2025, 1:27:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve in Chicago (@spsnomad.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

* That's giving Gates a little more credit than he deserves for landing a joke -- the original quote was "Well, Steve, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set, but I found out that you had already stolen it."

29/1/2025, 3:13:27 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent

That's not really how it works. Most grants either give small bits of money at a time, or pay a receipt for something rendered. Unless you have money in the bank to float it, you can't do the operation.

29/1/2025, 12:39:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view