When working in Best Buy's Geek Squad many years ago, we usually did our preliminary scans of customer computers out in the open at the Geek Squad horseshoe-shaped counter. Well one day one of said computers

"Full blown cultural appropriation... Natasha Romanoff is Russian and not a spider at all." I'll take 'Things that will somehow upset the Karens though they will not be able to precisely explain

Yup, I remember a female driver who would take off her engagement ring at work too. I also suspect she tended to pick deliveries based on whether a guy ordered it or a woman did. I have to imagine it tended

I seem to remember there was one (maybe two?) container ships going from China to the West Coast that hit bad seas last month and lost a lot of containers in the ocean. Combine that with the general disruption

Yeah, I've been really struggling to power through strips lately too (different reasons though). But just like going to the gym or working out, half of the battle is just starting. Once you pick up the

I do not miss corporate IT work. Even after getting my engineering degree and being hired as an "engineer", 70-90% of my work STILL ended up being some facet of IT. And inevitably, too often

The original definition is something like "being aware of and striving to fight racism, sexism, discrimination against LGBTQ peoples, oppression of the disadvantaged, etc." A great goal, and

If you have a good sense of humor, you CAN'T be truly "woke". 😁 By my definition, there is a big difference between being "woke", and working against racism, sexism, & other kinds

Sweet! Thanks for the referral!

My prediction (and unfortunately it's not a happy one) is that without the shared enemy of Trump, the Democratic Party will turn on itself and tear itself apart much as the Republican party has. Not that

Eh, don't be TOO jealous. Instead of your royal family, we Americans unfortunately have the Bush and Clinton dynasties. Wanna trade? 😁

I know, right? But to be honest, I'm so backed up on my podcasts it'd probably be a week until I could get around to listening to a new one!

For hardware, I now use a Gaomon PD1560 Drawing Tablet (before then it was pen & paper scanned into the computer). For software, most of the time I use the free paint.net software. I have the Corel

Cool! Let me know when you start posting them to Hive so I can vote on them...

I agree, and I'm certainly not saying everyone (or even the majority) who ascribes to the "woke" mindset is in it for selfish reasons. In fact I think many or most who are drawn towards it do

If you look carefully, you'll notice they tend to say "The Science" instead of "science". A subtle but telling indicator that their opinions are largely based on belief & faith,

"Woke" is a term that is supposed to be positive, in the sense that the stated goals are to end racism, sexism, & oppression in the culture. Good goals to work towards. Unfortunately, in

Yet more control of the market & consumers leads to greater profits (at least in the short-to-medium term), does it not? Why else do most large companies pay off politicians & lobbying groups to

Fractional reserve banking... an idea so far-out that most people have no clue about it. Or how much it influences their lives. It works well for some things (i.e. an environment capable of sustaining

We can agree to disagree. But regardless whether you think there's a case for it or not, I am 99.9% confident that the motivation behind the current push for suppression of speech has nothing to do with