I recently saw somewhere that gasoline can help. Might be total bullshit, or depend on the exact material. Might be worth trying on a very small area of the rubber surface. Outside in the shade. Gas fumes are bad.

Giving my pets scritches.

Love is fleeting. Doors are forever.

Some of my friends are into anime and live play TTRPG shows like Critical Role. I have no idea what they're talking about when they discuss those.

"This will go on your permanent record".

Outrageous lie back in the 80s.

Unfortunately true today with the internet and the surveillance state.

For me it's probably Minnesota, because of MST3K.

There are apps that do this, or try to. But I think they need root, and success varies a lot by phone manufacturer and country of origin.

For one example, there's an old Android app called Telman real answering machine. I doubt it works on modern phones. Might work on an older model.

Corpos lock shit down tight, because they think they need to own all of it.

I find it frustrating that in the US at least, people can't do the simple math. Unless it's a very long trip, speeding doesn't save you very much time at all. A couple of minutes at the most for a typical commute.

On countless occasions I've seen some some reckless moron nearly take other vehicles' bumpers off to 'get around' traffic. And then you're right behind that same moron at the next red light.

They are risking everything for little to no time savings.

Yeah this one bothers me. My spouse is clueless about technology and our online accounts. When I did estate planning with my lawyer, they said the paperwork would grant access to everything. My spouse's grown kids (previous marriage) are tech savvy, which helps.

I've thought about leaving instructions and passwords on a USB thumb drive, but that idea has a number of flaws.

• Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager
• Fear of Girls
• The Steven Segal Show (Ken McIntyre)

In the early days of Windows, it was semi-common for people to customize their cursors. You'd see some pretty weird and fun stuff sometimes.

I think Windows becoming the standard locked-down for work platform contributed to stifling that creative impulse in users.

https://www.thedissident.news/the-last/

It's a sobering article. Predicting the economic future is always going to depend on numerous variables. Hopefully it won't be this bad.

In addition, some couples will even divorce when one of them gets a terminal diagnosis, just to avoid screwing the survivor.

In the US: a big gotcha is medical debt.

Surviving spouses are often stuck with the debt after the patient dies.

It's one of the many reasons that when you check into a hospital they make you and your spouse sign all kinds of paperwork.

It's usually the first thing they make you do, and why they roll out that stupid computer cart. Making sure you can and will pay (even after death) is all they really care about. Doing it right when you come in (scared and seeking help) is when they love to pounce.

Providing actual healthcare is way down the list of priorities. I'm talking about owners and admins, not providers.

Yes, it's very predatory. Murica.

Reminds me of all those "tech magazine" articles years ago saying "akshually Edge is a really good browser" after the entire Windows user base only used it to download some other browser instead.

https://www.democracyatwork.info/