I need a “+” after billionaires. Can’t let Elon escape on a technicality.

You can see how Dave, Lars, and James would have been besties when they were teens.

Trans women should be flattered by how they are treated by conservative men. Conservative men treat transwomen with the same disregard, disrespect, and disdain they have for cis women. They are the truest allies.

(do I really need to tag the “s” here?)

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had it done too, and more power to him for being open about it (still don’t like him though).

https://www.drsukkar.com/blog/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-gynecomastia-chest-surgery/

smh

Horrible.

EDIT: I did a search. The number of mass shootings (4+ shot, not killed) between 2018 and 2023 was 3000-3500! Major mass shootings (8+ shot) was ~12/year, 55-60 events. <this_is_fine.jpg>

Absolutely beautiful. Does it play fretless or is it mean to be played with tied frets like a saz?

<boomer humor>
Hahahah. No way he’d notice her hair.
</boomer humor>

2826?

We’re told he died by suicide.

Check in on those you care about. No need to wait for a reason to call. Just say hi.

It still blows my mind that in the 80’s being 53 (Blanche) qualified you as geriatric, “golden years”, age. 53 year old ladies today would absolutely scandalize 80’s Blanche and 90’s Samantha (even though she was in her 40’s).

I borrow many ebooks from the library.

First things I do is disable hyphenation and switch to left alignment.

I just found the opendyslexic font. I am not dyslexic, but I am getting older and that font is so easy to read. It’s crazy.

Off topic as it is not gaming related:

I figured this was coming so I bought four System76 Meerkats with AMD processors, 4TB nvmes and 96GB of RAM. Each actively runs six to seven Win 11 VMs on ProxmoxVE, with many more on standby (each VM takes 128gb of disk space). Each VM runs large chunks of the client workloads that caused us to have to constantly upgrade our laptops. Now, by offloading the majority of the workload to these self-hosted virtual desktops (VDIs), we can extended the life of our “daily drivers” by years. My main PC is a 2019 Thinkpad andnat this rate, I might easily get another five years out of it (barring hardware failure). When we do need to replace, we no longer have to buy laptops with top tier specs.

I get it. I became a reader later in life. I now realize that what held me back from reading the most was holding the book. I know it sounds dumb but hard covers are too heavy, and keeping a paperback open at the page was annoying. I read magazines, newspapers and comics without issue, but hard covers and paperbacks I could not handle. Now, with ebooks and a slim e-reader, I read about two to three books a week when I have spare time.

Also, I don’t have the bookshelf space for the amount of books I consume.

Tech uses greek.

K = thousands
M = millions
G = billions. So KB, MB, GB.

Financials use Roman.

M = thousand
MM = a thousand thousand (million)
MMM = a thousand thousand thousand (billion)

Required listening for this post.

“When The Family Flies In” by Julia Jacklin

I’m in this picture, and I like it.

EDIT: Although, I am told that I’m “omni”(?). I’m not good with labels.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income/mm-millions/

That’s common. The $180MM is the production cost to which you need to add marketing etc… I watched Matt Damon and Bem Affleck talk about this when explaining why big studios are so risk averse when making movies. Basically the rule of thumb is that a movie needs to gross double it’s production cost just to break even, and that’s still considered a relative failure.