which piece first?

i usually go for the ends and work my way to the middle.

i guess they have not ‘contributed’ enough to the new king yet.

it was a $2.04b jackpot. would have paid out that much as an annuity over like 25 years or something. taxes would have been withheld from those payments.

the ‘lump sum’ option was $997.6m, which is what the winner opted for. after taxes the amount received was actually $628.5m.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-04-billion-powerball-winner-200153929.html

whoever pulled the $424m out of their backside took another dose of taxes out of the payment that already had taxes deducted.

random duck results include many sites claiming things like:

Convert your Python Code to Javascript. This exceptional AI-powered tool converts your Python code into Javascript code easily, eliminating the need for manual re-coding. Save your precious time and unlock cross-platform development like never before with our converter tool

what could possibly go wrong?

the same captions could be used for hamburger or hotdog buns.

this ‘new’ and oh so ‘generous’ thing…

comes on the heels of killing-off the totally free, previously already installed on every fucking windows pc since version one point oh, no obligation, no online account required, no cloud forced upon you, and good enough for literally millions and millions of people, wordpad.

so no, microsoft does not get a pass here. absolutely not.

that’s the hook. they are mandating having and using onedrive cloud storage, and having its requisite microsoft account, in order to use this ‘free’ application.

microsoft released a single-player game, “microsoft office”.

it runs offline, but you cannot save games locally at all. can only save games or progress to the ‘cloud’.

the subsidy thing is backwards.

most ev shouldn’t get subsidies. especially not the heavy tanks that do more damage to the infrastructure.

petrol-powered vehicles should be taxed more instead–a lot more. at purchase (or resale), at registration, every year at tag renewal, and at the pump. and be subject to lifetime emissions and safety inspections.

charge double or triple in fees for ownership and push gas prices to ~ $2 per litre like it is in parts of europe, then most everybody but the least-endowed will be buying battery electric vehicles. small, efficient ones.

well, the one that hit the news recently is that bullshit $400m ‘armored tesla’ contract for state department. the one they ‘oopsed’ and went back to remove tesla by name from.

aunt hilda approved.

auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they’ve done to windows. like you don’t even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data… which adds ‘most frightening thing done’ as well.

and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don’t even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they’re re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.

they’re only 49-50 years old.

sir mick, keith and ronnie are 81, 81, and 77. the 'stones tour last year (2024) was sponsored by aarp. (ya, that aarp).

i think the top thing is a lid that opens to a bowl, for chips. the things in the front inside the facemask are trays for chip dips or nuts or other little things.

top panel: 2021

bottom panel: 2025

i’ve only ever used https://old.lemmy.ca/

bernie’s been ‘fighting the good fight’ his entire life. he’s a decent, compassionate, caring human who genuinely just wants what’s best for his country and the planet.

but that’s no good for corporate profits or the continued and unchecked accumulation of wealth, which is why the ‘powers that be’ wouldn’t let him have a real shot at the presidency.

2020-21 winners:

Plowy McPlowFace
Ope, Just Gonna Plow Right Past Ya
Duck Duck Orange Truck
Plow Bunyan
Snowbi Wan Kenobi
F. Salt Fitzgerald
Darth Blader
The Truck Formerly Known As Plow

2021-22 winners:

Betty Whiteout
Ctrl Salt Delete
The Big Leplowski
Plowasaurus Rex
Scoop Dogg
Blizzard of Oz
No More Mr. Ice Guy
Edward Blizzardhands

2022-23 winners:

Yer a Blizzard, Harry
Blizzo
Clearopathtra
Better Call Salt
Han Snowlo
Blader Tot Hotdish
Scoop! There it is
Sleetwood Mac

2023-24 winners:

Taylor Drift
Clark W. Blizzwald
Dolly Plowton
Waipahinte (Dakota word for "snowplow")
Beyonsleigh
You're Killin' Me Squalls
Fast and Flurrious
Barbie's Dream Plow

trade it for sundays, then poop on the boss’s dime on monday.

beep! beep!