#2 in summer.

#1 in winter I wear boxer briefs, long johns, sweat pants, a t-shirt and a sweatshirt, plus thick socks. I don’t run the heater at night, since I’m going to be in bed under a couple of blankets. The house gets down around 45F to 50F some nights.

In fact, in winter, I wear boxer briefs and long johns, two pairs of socks, one normal and one thick, pretty much 24/7. What changes is what I wear over them.

I spent too much time searching for a video of someone who might have tried C.

No luck, but now I’m hungry for pizza.

Maybe they learned they need to air gap critical infrastructure, and leave the management to on-site humans who are paid well enough not to hold their inventory for ransom.

This isn’t a mistake, he just knows he’s untouchable.

Also, there’s no telling how many of those buildings around there he also owns. Or, who is living there.

Might be staff, for all we know.

He’s a bit more articulate than your average billionaire. That’s all it takes, apparently.

Not much when one has hundreds of billions.

An aging Congress, out of touch with the AI revolution, could find itself out of its depth.

I’ll point out that term limits for Congress would mitigate this issue. And, term limits are better than simple age limits, because a young person voted into office could still have decades to become entrenched and corrupt. Whereas term limits keeps up the churn.

I haven’t logged into my Amazon account in ten years, and this won’t make me do it.

Learn the difference between need and want. Stop buying crap you don’t need. And, never knowingly buy anything off Amazon.

Fuck Amazon, and Jeff Bezos. All excuses people make to willingly buy off that fucking site are bullshit.

For what we pay, every store could be this way, but the billionaires keep demanding more and more of the profits.

They’d only “need” to raise prices to keep their personal profit up. Fuck every single billionaire with a running chainsaw hard in the ass.

I’ve used delivery on a few items when it was free, and felt a little guilty about it. Once, I added some coffee to my online order that was only available to ship, just to get it over the $35 free delivery, because it’s something I buy every week, anyway. They fucking delivered just the coffee, free or not, such a waste. But, I won’t pay a premium for it. I’m not rich.

More crappy subscriptionware. No, thanks.

Also, the last time I went to a cashier, because it was the one time I saw a long line at the self-check lane, I stood in the short line, I was third, while the cashier chatted up the customers, left the line to help another cashier with something and was generally very slow. I suspect they’re not required to be efficient anymore, and perhaps even encouraged not to be. I watched as the guy I would have been behind in the self-check line left the store while I was still second in line at the cashier.

I’m sure they were shown a staged demo of how the camera and “AI” catches people putting items in the bag without scanning and that convinced them the tech was good enough.

But, the scan camera check only catches people who aren’t trying to fool it. There are easy ways around it.

It’s only free until they hook you.

I’m waiting for them to close the stores to customers entirely and go to pick up or delivery only.

I know that would kill impulse buying, but I think they might make it up by not needing to police the isles, and no theft.

Service Merchandise did tag pulls and pick up at the register for everything back in the 70s and 80s. That might come back.

I like self check because there’s never a line when I go. With cashiers, the policy was to only open a new register if the lines got over three deep. So, there was always at least three people in line, no matter what time of day, on average.

I’ve never waited in line since I started using the self check lanes.

The things we’ll do for the promise of sex.

I was raised without religion. Decided I was atheist as soon as I came across the word as a kid.

I’ve read large parts of the Christian Bible, in a “know thy enemy” sort of way.

Also, reading the Bible is one way atheists come to be atheists.

That said, I have zero interest in learning more about astrology. Yes, it’s completely nonsensical, and not worth anyone’s time pursuing. There’s nothing behind it. The “basics of how it works” is that it obviously doesn’t work at all. It’s complete bullshit.