Been reading a lot of Tales from Tech Support, as well as other videos about Reddit posts.

I've noticed a ubiquitous problem that I first noted in second or third grade. People can't read something out loud.

Oh, they can "read" it. But what they say is *not* what the text says. They change words. Usually to some other word that they *think* is the ( Read more... )

Ok, this is ridiculous.

I got something like 16 calls in a 48 hour period. They were rather obvious too.

My number is (AAA)BBB-xyzt

The spam calls were all supposedly from numbers of the form (AAA)BBB-xxxx where the xxxx was different every call.

I'm told this is common pattern for these sorts of calls. The dumbest part is that since these were made ( Read more... )

The population of the Us is about 330 million. The number of Covid-19 death, is more than 330 thousand.

That means that more than one out of every thousand people in the Us has died from Covid-19.

Yet we still have folks trying to say it isn't serious or that sensible precautions are "government overreach" This entry was originally posted at https ( Read more... )

(to give you and idea how messed up I'm feeling, I origianly had the subject line backwards. Oy)

Any, the new SSD arrived today, about the time I'd beaten the computer into submission with its temporary drive C:. In the process, I'd found that I actually *had* an image backup of the system that was only 2 days old. I hadn't realized that the Windows ( Read more... )

In Union county, Oregon, they went from 22 Covid-19 cases last week to 224 this week. this in a rural, low population area.

It appears that the increase is mostly due to *one* church there. Even though the county was in phase 1, which means no large gatherings they had a service with several hundred people in attendance. There was a video of it up ( Read more... )

I came across this in a news article (they are referring the *country* Georgia, not the state)

In Georgia, while the church has told worshippers not to spend long periods of time in churches and not to come if ill, it has rejected calls to abandon the reusing of spoons, claiming that as communion is a holy ceremony it is not possible to get ill ( Read more... )

How Panic-Buying Revealed the Problem With the Modern WorldThe false "efficiency" they talk about is due to misuse of statics. they are planning for "average" usage ( Read more... )

If you are on Twitter check out
#AbledsAreWeird

My friend Fayanora has posted a bunch of links from there that are *so* educational.

https://t.co/4q3N4KtP69http://twitter.com/A_Silent_Child/status/1108166798858469377Read more... )

https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-official-tells-black-woman-hes-member-master-race-dont-ever-forget-1216506?fbclid= ( Read more... )

The Multnomah County Republican Party is claiming that the local school district is "brainwashing" kids against the second amendment ( Read more... )