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The way the laws are being written, it applies to literally any computing device.

They just say “operating system” there’s no carve out for servers or iot or anything. Technically you will have to provide a date of birth to use a smart fridge now. Hell, there’s at least one toaster I know of that has a full android install on it, that will need age verification too.

Which Adult? Can we stop them from doing that?

I mean, I fix my own fridges and appliances and do small appliance work for my friends and neighbors, but I already own the required tools so I’m really just charging for some time and the refrigerant.

134a is still cheap, and no company worth their salt should be charging a fee to customers so that specialized tools can be purchased. If you don’t own the tools of the trade, that’s a company problem, not a customer problem.

3000 dollars was a “I don’t want to do it price”

For people I don’t know, I do charge about 300 bucks to just show up, because that covers operating costs and an hour of my time. But unless the system was pulling into a vacuum, it shouldn’t take longer than an hour or so to recover the refrigerant, patch the leak, pull a vacuum, and recharge. So yeah, if your fridge is only worth 500 bucks, it’s not worth it. But if it’s an expensive fridge it might be worth it to find an appliance technician that will charge you a fair rate to repair the damage.

We’ll hold our own elections, with blackjack and hookers

You think vibe coders don’t love the smell of their own shit enough to show it to the world?

Answer is probably the same as before AI: build a portfolio on GitHub. These days maybe try to find repos that have vibe code in them and make commits that fix the AI garbage.

Well, Mississippi is also one of the worst ranked in education.

You can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.

All MBAs and CEOs are like puppies chasing their own tails.

They want the growth because number go up good. They’ll do anything for number go up. And when number go up, they get the good and then they need to focus on next number go up.

They have no long term plan other than number go up. For the next few quarters, they can slap AI on anything and number go up. What happens if AI takes all the non manual labor jobs? Or if it turns out AI is useless and they wasted billions on snake oil? They don’t know, cause they were thinking about number go up right now, not number go up later.

Our economy is a farce.

My favorite to poke at is treating anything with a blade on it like it’s a deadly weapon with no other purpose.

Can’t have a locking pocket knife.

There was a group that wanted to ban pointed kitchen knives.

Had a dude tell me he doesn’t carry an axe or saw when camping because it “might scare passersby”

Photos of police “hauls” that show screw drivers and hammers as “deadly weapons that don’t belong on the streets”

So it’s at least 4 jokes.

As long as you make it past immigration and customs at the airport.

Accessibility to a service is just as important as continuity of service.

I’m sure the Philippines disagrees

And Taiwan