… are there any women here today?

It’s not something I obsess about, but when it’s mentioned, then yeah, I think I am still upset.

The book is about children with dyslexia.

It is not. It’s not all caps, and it makes sense.

Under the Biden administration, the IRS made a concerted effort to target the wealthy, aiming to double audit rates for those making more than $10 million a year and launching a campaign to investigate private-jet owners. Now, especially with the potential dismantling of the Department of Justice Tax Division, the tax enforcement ranks are rapidly dwindling.

“The agency is like a zombie right now,” said Kathleen Pakenham, partner at Vinson & Elkins, who handles corporate and high-net-worth tax cases. “There is no brain in charge of what’s happening on the ground.” -NBC News

This whole thread feels like that food court argument from Mall Rats, and I’m here for it.

Easy, but then people will throw up their hands and say,“That’s not easy, how the fuck am I supposed to know that?”

pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endeast output output.pdf

You know that through man pages, tdlr or whatever. Then if you find yourself doing it a lot, you make a tiny script that makes the process something like

pdfr <input> <optional output>

Sell sooner than later, I guess.

But hummingbirds are fucking dickheads.

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real Nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth Reich, you'll be the first to go

 --  *Nazi Punks Fuck Off* by The Dead Kennedys

The exact phrasing varies, but in most states, the details of the law are the same: Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”

Sure seems like that would cover a lot of websites, including most news sites.

I used to love going to the theater. I would go almost every weekend, and often during the week. I watched almost everything. Then cell phones came along. At one point, many, many years ago, I swore if some mother fucker took out their fucking phone during the movie I was seeing, I would never set foot in a theater again. Some piece of shit mother fucker did, and I haven’t. It’s been all the open seas for me since. It also helped that affordable larger screens became available for home. I haven’t been to a movie in a theater in probably a decade, and I doubt I’ll ever go again.

Slow Horses is so freaking good.

It just downloads the audio file for the video, so if there is that crap, you get it. I haven’t had many issues with extra stuff though. I send it a link like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbNzvRx9lF_Tw6oi-I8iYbhBWNf775kwR and I get a good-enough-for-me bunch of mp3s.

Just a little FYI for anyone wanting to download a playlist to listen to offline. Use yt-dlp. Load up the playlist, copy the URL, and then just run

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list<the playlist>

Modern fruit isn’t especially healthy:

At the Melbourne Zoo, the monkeys are no longer allowed to eat bananas. And the pandas are getting pellets instead of plums. In fact, fruit has been phased out completely. That’s because the fruit that humans have selectively bred over the years has become so full of sugar the zoo’s fruitarian animals were becoming obese and losing teeth. -source

My dad wouldn’t let me get one with 2 speakers. Only one speaker. I still don’t understand that reasoning.

Like this:

Isn’t that a Dodge?

We already have the 14th amendment, but Republicans don’t seem to like The Constitution.