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A good example of this is their insistence on using the comma, to mean “the”, “of” or “and”, leading to some bizarre headlines.

Midland, Baker, Roz, Mazda, convicted, fraud

Which despite the fact it just sounds like a list of random words, is in fact a valid sentence. Or at least it represents one.

It totally ruined a lot of people’s lives. They had plans to go work somewhere in Europe maybe even live there. Now they can’t do that.

The whole point of the European Union was it was supposed to be a bit like the United States without having to actually form a single nation. All of the countries would effectively act like States in one nation - they even setup Interpol to act like state troopers. Imagine if you suddenly couldn’t move between states. Utterly stupid outcome, and 100% predicted.

Just like any government the EU council did do some brain dead things, but that wasn’t a good reason to leave.

Trump won’t bring about the apocalypse he’ll just bring about economic ruin. Which is a lot less fun than the apocalypse.

There’s a program called “Everything” which is basically just a functional version of Windows search. It’s one of those programs that really should be integrated into the OS but isn’t. The other one being Fences.

I want to be able to label chats. I don’t know who Sammy Gupta is, I know we must have spoken to them at some point but it was 2 years ago and I don’t remember who they are, what their role or responsibility is, or anything about them.

Your laptop caught fire while running vs code it had nothing to do with it, it doesn’t have a “burn my laptop” function.

Doesn’t the electric F-150 meet all those demands?

I can’t get one as they are not sold here but from the specs they look like exactly what you’d want. I assume since you mentioned it you can buy them where you are.

I’m pretty sure the EU banned them on the basis that they are death traps for their drivers, other road uses, and pedestrians alike.

Why don’t they just fix it and then release it rather than releasing it for 15 minutes and then recalling it again?

It’s missing basic features. The stuff that any normal human would assume it can do it just can’t do. It’s absolutely terrible if you use it in a large organization where you have to speak to multiple different people.

For one-on-one conversations I guess it’s okay but the moment you try and get anything more complicated than that going on it becomes a nightmare.

VS Code. That’s it though.

Slack

I do not believe anyone at Microsoft actually uses it because if they did there’s no way in hell that they would have let it be that bad.

It literally keeps every single conversation you’ve ever had in a big long list on the left, with absolutely no way to organize it, categorize it, order it, or in any way manage it other than deleting history, that’s it you can delete history.

It literally doesn’t even function half the time.

There is absolutely no way in hell that the components inside a router can possibly add up to $500. Beyond a certain point things that are more expensive are just more expensive because they are, not because they represent better quality.

Routers are commodity items, there is absolutely no way that a router costing $500 is demonstrably better than a router costing $100

Well that’s not how the law works, you don’t get to violate it just because you don’t like it.

That’s sovereign citizen BS, and that never ends well for them either.

I kind of feel like maybe they will do that pretty soon.

I’m beginning to see why he is a former construction worker.

This guy was fired for being obviously mentally unstable.

There’s no way that’s going to cost less than $500. With a mount that costs $300

The problem with listening to things like that is that they are self-selecting for the absolute worst things that have ever happened. It’s not like they go on today’s podcast nothing really happened so we’re going to talk about a case of minor vandalism instead.

Nah they will dig back to the 1960s in order to find something to talk about. Seriously look up how many podcasts are still going on about Jack The Ripper despite the fact it was about 150 years ago.