Trump just signed an Executive Order to Make Showers Great Again:
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Not shocked. He's brought up before in the past how he hates the restricted flow in modern showers and has advocated for people pulling the restrictors out of their shower heads. I've done it as well - pulling that fucker out with a pair of pliers. This is a personal issue for him. Glad to see he's pursuing it.
I'm of the opinion autism doesn't really exist in a meaning way. The higher end of the spectrum what used to be called aspergers syndrome is poor socialization and the lower end of the spectrum is just mild retardation.
A friend of mine has an autistic kid. The kind that screams all day and bangs on walls. He supposedly had a headache (or that's what the doctors think) and he reacted by tearing his own eyeball out. Now he has to wear a set of plastic protective goggles because the doctors hope he doesn't try to pull out his other eyeball next headache and make himself blind.
While I agree that the umbrella of autism has probably been expanded to an absurd degree to cover things that really don't qualify, I wouldn't refer to tearing your own eyes out as "mild retardation". There's definitely a real form of autism.
That was Dad's first computer I dicked around on as a kid. Had a blast with it. You'd also be surprised how many things in manufacturing still run on it. They set it up once and never upgrade. As long as it does its job, they don't care.
I was at the museum of Aviation in Long Island recently and one of the exhibits had a kiosk with a video screen providing information. Except on this day their information program crashed and instead I was treated to the soothing blues and greens of windows XP with a popup saying the program crashed. I stood at that exhibit longer than I should. Not because I liked the exhibit, but because I was enjoying the nostalgia.
To be fair, that movie was Watership Down levels of fucked. It'll make you feel bad about using plastic forks.
The death scene at the end of Watership Down is both intense yet still beautiful. That's a cartoon that I feel flies under the radar but is "Charlotte's Web" levels of fantastic.
I will give Microsoft this much - their strength has often been in creating an OS / UI that is as aesthetically pleasing or comfortable in contrast to the sterility of Apple. And I'm someone who's old enough that my first exposure to OSes was both a Commodore PET and a Vax Terminal. I've seen a lot of OSes in my time and Microsoft really peaked with XP in terms of making an OS something nice to look at.
Also you want patience? Try installing memory in a PC in the early 90s before plug 'n play. Back when you had to manually select the IRQs for the memory chips you were installing and if you picked one that had a conflict, the computer wouldn't boot and instead you'd get a black screen and a series of beeps you'd count and you'd be poring over the motherboard manual looking for the appendix that listed each beep amount and what it meant so you could troubleshoot which IRQ you fucked up.
Hilarious that it's a million (billion?) dollar multinational company and they can't even get someone to write "Dollhouse" in English correctly for them. Also, the problem isn't with boys building houses out of legos, but rather with the fact that lego is saying specifically "dolls house"
[sic] trying to imply to the consumer that it's OK for boys to do feminine things.
Anyway fuck Legos. When I was a kid in the 70s, I had this building set. It was amazing. It was plastic rust colored "steel" girders and you could snap them together and build an actual 3D building out of girders. And it came with these various plastic cards that were imprinted with either a concrete look, or concrete with windows, etc. You could snap them over the girders to give your building "siding". By the time you were done you had something that resembled an actual skyscraper build with "steel" girders. I used to love that set and played with it endlessly. But that was the 70s and feminising boys was something no one was going for. I remember reading an interview with David Soul about "Starsky and Hutch" and how much abuse they took over that show because everyone saw it as feminising police work because they were sensitive, and wore sweaters and shit. David Soul said how he was called a faggot by other actors lol.
Something definitely went wrong after the 70s.
Also why does the quote later function sometimes just give a fragment of the quote?
I won't go too far into this but this is more of a matter of using the car for the purpose it serves. Historically speaking, pick-up trucks weren't a luxury item, as they were made as an easier form to carry materials and tools for a hard day of physical labor. It wouldn't be until the 2010's when more luxurious options were provided to include all of the things we take for granted in German vehicles today. That's when the trims past the Lariat started to pop up since before then, we had cool limited edition models like the SVT Lightning, what used to be Raptors, and other obscure ones here and there.
It seems rather silly to even come up with a hypothetical to use a BMW to do "truck stuff" since the buyers of that market don't really use them for that purpose. Luxury trucks only reliable audience are old people with too much cash to their names that they can afford to get a Platinum F-150, said trades workers who want a more comfortable ride compared to their XLT-spec work truck, and soccer moms who don't have a Suburban but need to borrow their husband's vehicle to do grocery shopping.
This does come off as being a little mad that people can freely overspend and overthink what car they truly need but my point is that because people are facing a decline in spare income, they should preferably get a cheaper alternative, that's all. Unless the buyers are fine with financing new vehicles, then everything I've said is all in vain. I just wanted to make it clear on where I stand with the auto industry bloating up the options and wasteful spending on the consumers end.
Name checks out.
Quote from company VP where I work, "GOODBYE CHINESE LUBRICANTS".
Name checks out, also.
Based and Kojak pilled. I love listening to this guy bullying journos, the way he slaps down the cry-bullying attempts is absolutely masterful.
It's great how he just leads them off a cliff over and over. "So you agree that he was an illegal alien?" Press: "Yes". "So you agree as an illegal alien we had the right to deport him?" Press: Complete fucking dead silence. I love it. Then for the cherry for him to ask who knows the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order and there's more dead silence so he hits them with, "You couldn't even take 72 hours over the weekend to even learn about what you're here asking questions about today?"
I don't know - I'm starting to think the reporters like the abuse.
