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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really need a Vegas odds maker and and epigenetics expert to figure the over and under.

  I’m 62 I’m hoping to work to 65-70 to get as much as I can before I kick the bucket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can start at 62 but you get twice as much if you wait until 70.

  What a gamble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and pollute it with fascist content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard they took out a lot of junk. But I’m not going near it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I knew what happened. It still bothers me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, actually this went from funny to tragic.

  The company was called Need to Know, and it was initially in an old Victorian under a freeway overpass in San Francisco.

  So I got the computer Friday and ran into this 23 line fail that evening. I called around 8:00 pm, expecting to get an answering machine. Instead I got, " Hey come on over!"

  So I drive back to SF and get there around 9:00 pm. Somebody immediately puts a drink in my hand. People are just partying in a low key way. There are computer parts all over the place, but people are just partying.

  So one of the guys took my machine apart, diagnosed the CPU failure, and replaced it with parts on hand.

  I’m back in Berkeley by maybe 11:00 pm with a fully functional computer.

  Here’s where it gets ugly. I did business with them into the late 1980s. During that time , some psycho took on a grudge against them and literally burned their place of business down.

  Several places of businesses, burned down sequentially. Fucking tragic.

  I lost track of them by 1990. I don’t know if they went further underground or what.

  But they gave me a really human intro to computing. I can only hope they are well , wherever they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have a funny story about the place I got it in San Francisco, of you care to hear it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just used it for writing papers in college.

  I had no idea how to use COBOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even a wolverine giving me prostrate exam would get this info from me .⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Prostate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Around 1983 I got a Morrow Microdecision with two floppies.

  No hard drive or mouse. It did come with COBOL.

  It failed after 23 lines of text entry. Turned out the CPU was defective.

  People kept asking me, “Dude, what do you need a computer for?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does someone with no experience learn to make food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Try one of these five ingredient recipe cookbooks. It will get you going with the basics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like $25 million is laundry change for them. They will probably pay it in quarters.