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I enjoy Apple's Hide My Email, and it would be nice to have a similar Hide My Phone Number.

He said he didn't do political jokes, except this one, from 2016:

"Americans hated Hillary Clinton so much, they voted for someone they hated even more."

Norm would have a funny story about this.

High school class of 1974 here. We loved the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 60s, but we also were keenly aware of the impermanance of the hedonistic lifestyles of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

:-)

Our company offered all programmers $1000 to spend the night in the office. But they sent us home around 4am.

The same time many of the overnight jobs started up :-)

Fortunately we had zero issues.

Like Chuck Norris, chuds don't sleep. They wait.

Special forces training and force vetting seems astoundingly poor for such an "elite" outfit.

"we've shown a pretty significant increase in the number of new housing permits each year, we’re closing in on the 10,000 mark for the last two years"

Does that mean the "surge in supply" is really a surge in permits?

Searching for more DOGE-boy wrecking balls?

I'm in SF where they advertise a lot, and the ads are incredibly niche and nerdy.

But a general sense of paranoia comes through quite strongly.

Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB.

Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP/M.

And the US never revolted against our domestic aristocracy, as they never revolted against our clergy.

Wonder how it would have turned out if the French revolution happened before the American Revolution? What could we have learned from them?