I've definitely been fucked by a few landlords, but it's not a service I'd recommend to anyone else.

Particals so big you could eat them like a hand fruit.

It's one of the better Star Trek films.

I was gonna say, go to an outlet mall, there's usually a Levi's store that'll have them.

Not talking down, not trying to demean you, but that's a doom spiral. If you can, go to a therapist. There's tons of resources if you cannot afford it or don't have insurance. Check with your local health service. Chances are good there's low or no-cost options. Life is worth living, you are worth being here, humanity is worth saving.

So... zero consideration for the crew. Not a chance they did some malicious actions under duress of say, I don't know, a government's intelligence service? No shot anyone from the FSB or MSS could have been holding someone's family if certain actions weren't taken or failed.

No, we should just immediately kill the people we suspect of doing wrong.

Take your pick.

• The brother who was fired from his job as a prison guard for being too racist. He's told me on more than one occasion that he's smarter than any black person he's ever met... he's dropped out of college multiple times and now works for a convenience store along with "being his own boss" for MLM, selling shit door-to-door (yes, he will be trying to sell stuff at holiday gatherings).
• The aunt who's sure that Obama was, in fact, the antichrist mentioned in the Book of Revelations. She believes that queer people are all pedophiles who can convert children and others to "their ways." Oddly though... not a Trump supporter, because DJT "let that beautiful daughter of his marry a Jew."
• The cousin who is a flat earther and won't shut up about how the Jews run everything with their power tied (somehow) directly to convincing everyone that the planet isn't flat. His wife tried to get him to cut ties with the family because we don't go to their church which is all of about 100 people and based out of a partially abandoned strip mall.

They've all been ostracized by family in the past, but keep getting invited to stuff.

Yeah. On my work desktop, our IT people have told us to not use the Outlook program but rather to just go to the website. On my phone, I run it in Vivaldi instead of the app (which is a little jankie, but not as bad as it was running in Chrome or Firefox).

Oh my goodness... my job requires me to work with a team on some fairly industry specialized software (steaming and broadcast television); the way my coworkers have their shit set up is so weird. It's like we are all speaking the same language, but with wildly different dialects.

That's what happened in his first term (and apparently within his business for years). Trump's management style appears to be: gather sycophants and yes men, orchestrate drama to pit everyone against each other, stay in power due to the instability caused by the infighting. No one considers challenging the king if the court is too chaotic.

This happened throughout his first term as well as within the Trump Organization before he sought public office. His management style seems to be one where the boss pits everyone against each other to keep all would-be dethroners at bay. It's not the best way to distribute the keys of power, but it is a good way to keep anyone from challenging the leader even in the slightest.

Every time I see stuff like this it makes me slightly glad they got laughed out of the smart phone game. Can you imagine if a Microsoft mobile OS became a serious third between Android and iOS? I mean, those two aren't great by any stretch of the imagination (and are probably doing or planning similar shit), but Microsoft is just going gloves off at this point.

Foundationally antisemitic... "let's gather all the Jews into one country, tell them that's where they belong and only where they belong; the only place they could actually be safe. Anyone opposing this is clearly a racist/xenophobic and/or genocidal. Anyone standing in the way of this project must be destroyed, even if (perhaps especially if) they are themselves Jewish."

The SA is so fucking rampant. Years back, we had a bar owner drug a bartender and try to have his way with them after hours. Barback came back in to get some water and stopped it, but SA is SA. Cops called and, while a nightmare scenario, thankfully the owner was arrested and eventually convicted... his ex-wife got the bar in the divorce, but closed and sold the space due to it having been a widely known incident.

I mean,800k seems low actually... it was up and running for like six or seven years. Maybe the prices were too steep?

Devices were getting cheaper, not quite to mass adoption but getting there, however service wasn't nearly universal like it is today. There were whole towns and even some suburbs that didn't have coverage yet. It wasn't until the introduction of 3G (around like 2006, if memory serves) that phones got cheap and service became blanket for most people.

No problem! I work in television/live streaming production. Finding and buying "dumb" monitors when we build out new sets and presentation spaces is literally part of my job.

It is still possible to buy "dumb" TV's. Tons of businesses need them for display purposes (like at fast food restaurants and corporate expos, etc, etc), but you need to search for commercial displays. Like this one.

Rich assholes who believe they are smart as a side effect of being rich assholes.

The only reason the DNC couldn't get Kissinger for this election is that he couldn't get a weekend pass from hell.