jimt1234

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by jimt1234 4d ago
A few months ago, my Roku TV started displaying these weird popups, saying something like, "Looks like you're watching college basketball. Did you know Roku-TV also has college basketball?" - something like that. Well, for th
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by jimt1234 5d ago
Trump is the undisputed champion of creating/influencing the narrative. The mainstream news these days (left and right-leaning) is really nothing more than an amplifier for his various social media accounts. There's so much scanda
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by jimt1234 7d ago
Can you access this: https://www.jalopnik.com/2253119/police-issue-insurance-tick... ? ... It's basically the same story.
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Student's new car gets erroneously flagged by Flock twice in 2 days(wsbtv.com)
8 points by jimt1234 7d ago|4 comments
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by jimt1234 7d ago
Not available in US: https://consumer.huawei.com/my/phones/mate-xt-ultimate-desig...
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by jimt1234 8d ago
That makes me wonder: If someone's ACR-enabled TV shows a lot of CSAM, are the cops gonna come kick down their door?
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by jimt1234 8d ago
I just recently learned about ACR. My first thought was to set up an LG TV in the basement and stream non-stop p0rn for 3 months or so. Then see what ads start showing up for me. Like, I wonder if there's a target group called "Cr
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by jimt1234 8d ago
I'm increasingly finding businesses that simply don't accept cash. Want a beer at the Clippers game? Can't pay with cash. Even a local bar near my house stopped accepting cash about a year ago - a bar!
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by jimt1234 8d ago
Every time I've interacted with the police while wearing sunglasses (when I was younger and lived near the beach) they've instructed me to remove them. I was told they need to see my pupils to get an idea if I'm under the inf
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by jimt1234 12d ago
Citizens United. Nothing else to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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by jimt1234 14d ago
I never ran up a phone bill, but I did get the cops sent to my house. I was into war dialing with my C64. Every night I would input the parameters, start the war dialer, go to sleep, then wake up the next morning hoping I got something. Wel
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by jimt1234 14d ago
Yes, thank you C64 and all the brilliant people that made it happen. I also want to thank my mother for giving me a C64 for Christmas in 1983. My single mother worked 2 jobs most of my childhood (corporate gig by day, waitress in the evenin
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by jimt1234 17d ago
> ...then it would also helpfully play a sound on the doorbell...which we could not hear. Sounds like a feature more than a bug.
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by jimt1234 18d ago
Yep. Las Vegas used to have a soul. Not anymore.
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by jimt1234 19d ago
I think the reverse is true. Anthropic gave a generous donation to the 'Trump fund' to make it go away, and so the government intentionally fumbled the case. Now Anthropic can continue to do business without this stench following
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by jimt1234 19d ago
The most ironic part of this is that data center pollution will impact Trump supporters the most. In 5-to-10 years, after swimming in the same river their parents and grandparents swam in, kids will start develop breathing complications or
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by jimt1234 19d ago
> Sounds like the beginning of the end for the EPA The beginning of the end of the EPA started the day Trump was sworn in. In the last few years several cases have been decided by this Supreme Court that have effectively reduced the EPA
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by jimt1234 22d ago
I had a friend in the mid-90s that was in a mildly successful band. They did a few national tours as opener for bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I met up with him once while he was out on tour. I was thinking he was living his best lif
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by jimt1234 22d ago
I remember in the early-80s, maybe 5th grade, being taught fractions, specifically the "Dolly Parton fraction", where the numerator is larger than the denominator. I've got a feeling they don't teach that anymore.
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by jimt1234 22d ago
One minor fact about Dolly I've always found fascinating is that she was married to the same dude for almost 60 years, until he passed away recently. I mean, being as famous as she was as an entertainer - that just seems like an extrem
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by jimt1234 22d ago
I remember feeling like I was becoming obsolete by Windows 95. I had built up a skillset getting Windows 3.1 configured properly and connected to this new thing called "the internet" (Trumpet Winsock!). Then Windows 95 came out wi
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by jimt1234 23d ago
> Of course MAGA people will probably only notice once the shelves aren't being restocked. And then they'll blame Obama.
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by jimt1234 23d ago
This is exactly what I hear from my MAGA relatives: Why should I care if the ocean rises a few inches? I don't own beachfront property in Florida.
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by jimt1234 27d ago
Whoa. This is weird. My friend's dad was an FBI agent for over 20 years. I remember him telling us a story about a case he worked in the early-90s where a Coca Cola exec was embezzling millions from the company. The exec was caught, ba
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by jimt1234 27d ago
I helped a friend-of-a-friend around 2010 with a 'computer issue'. She ran the original version of QuickBooks on an old-ass PC, connected only to a dot-matrix printer (no internet). Everything worked fine, except the printer was t
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by jimt1234 28d ago
Piling on. My friend worked for a Midwestern city, maintaining the water and sewer systems. Once, while in the field, 2 dudes ran across the street, one chasing the other, both in plain clothes. The chaser had a gun and was shooting indiscr
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by jimt1234 28d ago
But cutting down is anti-American! Why do we even have the 2nd Amendment? LOL
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by jimt1234 28d ago
My F500 employer has on-site requirements. Colleagues and I sad-laugh because we all commute into the office, and spend most of the day on Zoom meetings with colleagues from other locations - you know, exactly the same thing we would do fro
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by jimt1234 29d ago
Is it just me or is this thing just a poor man's version of GitHub?
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Conspiracy theory: Cops are worried about essentially being replaced by Flock cameras (if Flock cameras do, in fact, reduce crime rates, it's only a matter of time before the city council starts looking for ways to reduce the budget, a

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