May I introduce you to Colorado?

https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/14/miles-harford-funeral-home-owner-pleads-guilty/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-funeral-home-owners-accused-storing-190-decaying-bodies-are-c-rcna148016

Colorado finally has laws and inspections, but those are still turning up issues like:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/us/colorado-funeral-home-decomposing-bodies

There are also issues with pet cemeteries as well:

https://www.9news.com/article/life/pets/colorado-pet-crematory-lawsuit/73-446c6b3a-100a-4807-bb22-e98cd289d814

https://www.kktv.com/2025/09/06/those-pets-are-their-lives-colorado-springs-veterinarian-former-crematory-owner-shed-light-owner-storage-unit-where-dead-pets-were-found/

Neither list is exhaustive.

Probably only released it now to help ICE disappear people.

There are podcast aggregators out there that aren’t just Apple-ify, although now that I’m doing a cursory search, maybe a use for Google’s silly search engine to waste Google’s servers for good.

Search:

"podcast name" filetype:rss

"podcast name" filetype:xml

And yet, annoyingly, these podcast platforms hide the podcasts’ URLs as hard as they can, even though these providers don’t host the podcast or files, and a “podcast” is just an XML file pointing to mp3 or m4a file URLs. (Not disputing you, just that the increasing non-openness of something they don’t even have to pay storage or bandwidth for is pretty ridiculous. They are nothing but a man-in-the-middle attempting to extract profit.)

Yeah, I agree, but it also makes a weird kind of sense. Properly regulated stock markets exist to ground the crazy people. Without them, they’d be doing things like building slave cities on nuclear waste for profit.

Look at fancy pants Germany over here with more than one brand of banana in a store.

See, to preserve the image for posterity, you have to put it on a thumb drive in a nitrogen-sealed UV-filtered case. Otherwise all is for naught.

Samsung’s emoji/GIF injector is neat, but Futo Keyboard may be a viable alternative. It seems to be progressing little by little. As long as the vendor doesn’t go “evil” in a future release.

Also Samsung’s autocorrect is an abomination. So often it doesn’t correct a wrong word, or over-corrects a real word. There’s no appeasing that drunk algorithm. Sure, you can un-teach wrong words by hitting “…” next to the suggestions and deleting the suggestion, or periodically resetting the learning dictionary, but how is that keyboard such a needy little shit? Love the alt keys and number pad overlay.

Futo seems very promising once you change the UI settings enough to fit your fingers well.

I’m really surprised “shareholders” with any intelligence don’t start calling out their investments as liars during earnings calls. Tech companies have done this shit for years. Force features into the “on” position by default, force it back on frequently, force not having an off switch to disable the feature. Then they can tell shareholders that user adoption of new shiny widget F is so popular, millions of users are “using” it. Even though the tech company just has NewThing turned on by force and users are completely unaware it is even on, if they even ever use it.

Same crap is done with streaming services partnering with cell carriers and cable providers. Falsify user numbers even if the person just gets it for free and never uses it.

These companies only do this to falsify metrics to make their quarters look good… What if they actually made features users wanted and the user numbers became real?

Or, here’s crazy talk: what if it was illegal to use such tactics to falsify numbers? Gasp.

The Senate folded, which forced a vote in the House because that bill changed in the Senate, which brought the House back into session, so she had to be finally sworn in.

It is all, oddly, related.

Extrapolating from there, the Senate Dems decided to gamble American citizens’ health insurance in exchange for some tabloid headline documents. Hoping for…mass sentiment against the Mango presumably? Strike while there is bipartisan support for something in the House. To then what, maybe oust Mango for Couchfucker? Sow distrust? Maybe they just pulled back because they realized the US was inches from doing a general strike? What better time.

Meanwhile, citizens were ready for the long-haul. Effect real change. Get actual attention to being pissed off at this sham of a government. Thrown away for some documents that will be buried in a few disaster news cycles.

This is post-Apple. Apple died roughly around 2008-2011 when they figured out how to capitalize on douche snobbery. Previously they catered to the outliers. The clevil (clever evil) was when they figured out how to market that you are being an outlier if you own their crap. Which, ironically drove away the outliers.

I remember it from classic ones, had never seen it on the Switch one. Pretty hilarious.

How does one piss off that many birds at once in that game?

So thaaat’s the island that SeaQuest DSV traveled to 225 (maybe 218 now) years into the future to find out there were two teens on an island battling it out with video games…

We need to stop letting supervillains pollute the sky with garbage. As well as a moratorium against satellite quantity, and satellites that serve any purpose outside of science and some communication. (Starlink should be deorbited as well, if for no other reason than the atmospheric pollution created by the short life cycle of those satellites.)

Antitrust Google. Fork YouTube as part of it. All existing content must be preserved. Remove YouTube’s ability to sell licensed content (cable TV channels, music, on demand). YouTube can then be purchased or spun off as a “YOU Tube” again - content made by people for people. Brand saved, community focused. Monetization heavily regulated (governance or internal governance, but just make it a requirement.)

Or just let it burn and replace it with something else. Video’s just super-expensive to host and provide, probably by design to keep others out of the market.

LLMs are basically read-only Mr. Meseeks, except rather than being present for the whole conversation like Mr. Meseeks, each new question in the conversation is a new Mr. Meseeks that has to context the previous convo and answer. It’s no surprise they hallucinate.

We will make the most complex convoluted contrivances before laying down steel and locomotives. Funny part I always liked about the I, Robot movie. No, we didn’t have public transport, everyone just has self-driving cars on roads controlled by a centralized AI.

This is in every way superior.