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Get ready, the next administration is going to privatize abso-fucking-lutely everything they possibly can. Because if something doesn’t make someone rich, it’s being done wrong.

Gotta use your finger, Fred.

These are the trucks that carry equipment for restoring power after storms. They can go all over the country if needed. Some of these trucks traveled to Florida after the hurricane, from here in Michigan. The crew gets somewhere, does what needs to be done, and then on to the next stop.

And they’re drinking a lot of water.

I was in Australia recently. I don’t think I got any change smaller than 20¢. I did find a 5¢ coin on the sidewalk. The smallest “paper” money is $5, and it’s plastic.

You know this isn’t a mirror, right?

Utility trucks often have a hose and a funnel in the back, running through a hole in the floor underneath the truck.

Isn’t that what gold is for? Does US still reserve gold? I seem to remember both James Bond and Die-Hard fighting to protect the gold reserve.

Sorry, but that’s awesome.

It’s easier to make money as a conservative.

Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.

Tamponade is what they drink in hell on hot days.

Was that with Willem Dafoe?

And then used Papyrus, because he didn’t feel bad enough.

The Spiderverse movies are (so far) pretty good. Sony could have leveraged that into a franchise universe. Or, they could have run with popular characters (Michael Keaton’s Vulture spinoff?). Instead, we get Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven. 3 back benchers nobody asked for.

I heard Sony is dicking with the last Spiderverse script.

Because they assume he’s guilty.

Does he have a Patreon?

Someone should find that brand of jacket and post it somewhere. I’d buy one and start wearing it around with a gaiter.

So expensive though. But the last time I was there, they just filled the bag with fries instead of using one of those little cardboard boxes. I ended up throwing half a pound of fries away.

Next story:

Company emails were formatted First Initial Last Name @ Companyname . com. I have a common nickname I’m known by. Nobody calls me by my given name, and my nickname had a different first letter. My company email uses my given name. Pretend it’s c[email protected].

I start getting phone calls from customers, suppliers, people outside the company, etc. that any email they send to me is getting bounced back. When I ask what address they’re sending to, they’re using an email created using my nickname. Pretend it’s d[email protected]. So I tell them it’s wrong, give them the right one, and fix it one caller at a time.

This gets old, and it happens while the IT manager is talking to someone else in the department when it happens again. I walk over to her and ask if it’s possible to have a second email address based on my nickname, because I’m getting a lot of calls about people using that instead of my official address.

“Absolutely not. If I give you a second address, pretty soon everyone is going to want one.”

One of the engineering managers is standing there. He says “I don’t want one.” Another engineer speaks out “I don’t want one either.” IT manager is pissed, but stands her ground. I don’t get another address.

Pretty soon, I get a phonecall from a college intern that was planning to come back for the summer. He says my email address doesn’t work. I explain the issue, and give him the right address.

He says “That’s not what’s on the webpage.”

For some stupid reason, the company webpage had everybody’s email address on it. Except mine was wrong. When IT made the page, they put d[email protected] on it. But since that was wrong, all email was returned to sender.

I talked to the IT contractor about it, and he basically said “That’s stupid. It’s a 30 second fix, I’ll take care of it.” And a few minutes later, I had two email addresses and the issue was fixed.