"yea, i know brandy. she lives two trailers over"

these are export terminals.. which are used by the industry to sell the product for more profit than they can get selling it domestically. it also eliminates the ocean-crossing trips made by those pollution-spouting tankers to deliver the product overseas.

an inspector, hell-bent on finding violations... will 'find' them.

i got rent increase notices immediately after every 'covid check' was announced.

the sad bit is, wireline internet providers could sell $30 per month high-speed internet and still make money at that lower rate and without subsidies.

yup. wikipedia's salaries aren't 'too low'--the others (mostly-publicly traded or dreaming-of-an-ipo) pay their top executives way too fucking much.

"different and better" and "lowest possible price" can only mean one thing: single-payer, tax-funded "medicare for all".

that's what he means, right?

"have you tried turning it off and on again"

already used the line once today and it's only 10am.

(yes. of course. it worked)

buying a 'dumb' tv is getting harder and harder to do...

how long until you are forced to hook a new 'smart' one up to the internet, just to "set it up"--even if you have no plans on ever using the 'smart' features or embedded apps?

majority of the users who left were probably tech-inclined or left-leaning, then add to that the loss of moderators and what remains is piles of shit.

inflation-adusted, the federal minimum wage peaked way tf back in february 1968 at $1.60 an hour (equal to $13.46 in '2022 dollars').

these new rules have nothing to do with how the bad guys obtain targets' phone numbers, they're about how they get assigned phone numbers.