Research “value investing.” A lot of the stock market is pure speculation but it is very possible to invest in businesses who run a “good business”, meaning they’re more concerned about long term sustainability than maximizing their share price right now.

I once cut down a dead tree, not knowing that it contained a bees nest. They chased me until I jumped into a nearby creek. That was not fun.

I’m running Shareaza in Crossover Linux on Mint. It actually runs pretty well.

If you’re having fun at your job, you’ll never work a day in your life.

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, “we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it’s a positive impact as much as possible.” tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

After reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt sent government agents to inspect the Chicago slaughterhouses. They conditions they found were worse than the book described and that was after the slaughterhouse owners found out government agents were coming and had their factories cleaned from top to bottom.

Some of the stuff described in the book was just plain nasty so how it could have been worse is beyond me.

As my state declares Traditional Values Month

The best way to keep the peasants in line is by giving them other peasants to look down on. Makes them feel like they’re in charge of something.

That causes a rather severe rash.

No, no, no. What actually happened was, Noah rounded up two of every creature to put on the ark in preparation for the great flood. But the dinosaurs – who were totes alive at the same time as humans – didn’t get the memo. So, Noah shrugged and was like, “Oh well. You guys aren’t going to fit anyways. Sayonara.”

The Blues Brothers

Some of the users definitely like to pontificate a bit much and there’s still gaps in reliable clients for some platforms (e.g. Apple TV). That said, Jellyfin, as a service, is solid.

The many faces of Kristen Stewart

You joke, but some gullible idiot will buy that.

I know people who get their phone service through “PureTalk” to escape the “liberals at AT&T”. I’m still not sure which is the greater irony: the fact that AT&T is an extremely conservative stick in the mud Corpo of the fact that PureTalk is an MVNO whose network is provided by – wait for it – AT&T

More like 12 years ago.

If the characters hadn’t spent practically every night drinking until 2AM, HIMYM could have been compressed into a movie with a shitty ending instead of 9 seasons with a shitty ending.

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