Advertising: three things that we should have never allowed to advertise in America.
Lawyers
Doctors
Prescription Drugs
Some truth here: The Anglosphere is saving Ukraine while the EU is saving itself USA, UK, Baltics were able to act decisively to help supply Ukraine before the war started. Truth is EU has no backbone under French and German leadership. EU will not replace NATO any time soon.
Video: Military enlistment (and draft) office in Russia being torched with Molotov cocktails. I’m thinking young males want to destroy draft records so they don’t have to go to Ukraine.
Okay, so today I’m going to take everything oh so seriously.
Seriously.
Except for Giant Land Squids.
Mmm. Morning coffee today is Sumatran dark roast.
An eight layer phone menu tree ending with a voice mail is not a substitute for a real live human answering a phone. Your a professional office during normal business hours, operate your office professionally.
From C-Span: Trevor Noah reminds us about freedoms we too often take for granted. Watch the video.
Read: Good Article. Meet the publisher bringing JRR Tolkien and military manuals to Ukraine’s readers
Also, I’ve read Maj. Hans von Dach’s mid-century guerrilla warfare manual, Total Resistance: mentioned, and highly recommend it.
I’m completely giving up blockchain for the month of May. My blocks can roam on their own. #freerangeblocks
I love this: Dream On - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James (Aerosmith Cover) Of course I love the original but Postmodern Jukebox’s rewrite into jazz is astounding. Also Morgan James is amazing. Worth the watch.
Holy Texas Tea Batman, it just cost over $73 to fill up my medium sized pickup truck!
Putin’s long table looks like cheap Ikea furniture.
I keep getting SMS messages purporting to be from the USPS. Each has a link they want me to click. I smell a rat. No clicky from me.
I’m not quitting Twitter because I have friends on Twitter. I’ll only leave if it becomes untenable.
The first cup of coffee in the morning just might be the best part of my day.
I’m watching the flow of refugees from Twitter go past my window on Mastodon. Just a reminder, there is also Micro(dot)blog which is a great social network to be on.
Looks like there is an exodus underway. People leaving Twitter and signing up at Mastodon.
Early voted today. Primaries. No line, I was the only one there.
I remember this. Old Skool D&D: How to run an old-school open world D&D campaign like Gary Gygax Both videos are worth watching.
I just bought the complete DVD set of the 1960’s Roger Moore series “The Saint”. I waited for years. The previous US set by A&E had all the color episodes but only some of the b&w episodes so was incomplete. I’m told this new set has all the episodes.
In case you missed this: Low Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy This is a great guide. Easy to understand 4 beginners. Won’t leave you out in the weeds. Take it at your own pace. Read it. Bookmark it. Share it.
Good article. Ukraine mobilized its reserve, 3rd Tank Brigade. Taxi drivers, retired teachers, driving captured 2nd hand and 2nd rate tanks into battle.
Enough with making every darn thing a subscription already.
The Voice Australia @TheVoiceAU has gotten pretty lame since the 7Plus TV network took over. Youtube audition clips no longer show interaction between contestants and coaches that turned, just, barely, the performance. Very low rent and not compelling. The show used to be great.
After a couple of weeks of use my new Windows 10 started displaying adverts. It was an app put there by the manufacturer. Sneeky. I had to track it down and uninstall.
No ads at all on my new Linux Ubuntu laptop. Just runs. Linux wins.