Hunter S. Thompson - Hell’s Angels:

"California, Labor Day weekend … early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur …The Menace is loose again, the Hell’s Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches … Little Jesus, the Gimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hambone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Chuck the Duck, Fat Freddy, Filthy Phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more … tense for the action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on 101 moves over, nervous, to let the formation pass like a burst of dirty thunder …

Weow!

Opioids have been linked to about 800,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999, including more than 80,000 annually in recent years, with most of those involving illicitly produced fentanyl.

Aside from the argument re the appropriate use case to remedy the societal impacts, which are de facto unquantifiable, the ~$44bn settlements the article refers to juxtaposed with deaths caused by opioids equates to a mere $55000 per casualty.

PEANUTS. The figure is below the US national average income in Q3 2023, i.e $59,384.

The debt to the victims, survivors and humanity is unpayable.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Witchcraft!! They’re speaking in tongues, get them!!

Eventually I just went back to buying pre ground.

This sound!! I recognise this sound! Do you hear it? It‘s the doppler effect of pitchforks being dragged over the pavement.

DING DONG

“Hello, who is it?”

“blob. The witch is dead. blop blop.”
[faint fish giggles]

“Every fucking time man.”

800,000 warnings must suffice though, no more. Our warnings stocks are nearly depleted.

Outstanding!

About tree fiddy.

Understandable. Have a good day.

X-Copy! YES! Mate, that’s a solid throwback for me. I had totally forgotten about this gem.

Thanks so much for bringing back that memory!

There’s a power setting akin to “always on” that allows the console to wake up and install updates as they become available. It increases power consumption substantially. If you don’t want this you need to turn it off, I think it is on by default. You can find it in settings.

Cheers mate, I’ll check it out.

Cutting Edge Engineering.

Kurtis is a dry-as-a-rabbit-fart humoured Aussie bloke with absolutely incredible skills on metal working machines like lathes, boring machines, welding equipment. Super interesting how he repairs stuff. The channel has grown so much it’s getting borderline re niche.

He repairs heavy duty equipment and engineers incredible solution for his customers often improving the original parts so it can repaired next time for cheaper.

His partner shoots and edits the videos. They also have a cool shop dog (shoutout to Homeless).

You beautiful scholar of a bot. 🥳

What? You don’t have to trawl through any shit in Paprika. I don’t even wait for the page to load the “accept cookies” dialogue.

Navigate to a recipe of interest, hit the download button in Paprika. Bam! There is the recipe, ingredients and description only, no fluff.

If you don’t want to save the recipe because you don’t like it, just discard and don’t save.

Then you run into a full-blown narcissist and they will mistake your openness for weakness and start to weaponise it against you. Ask me how I know this.

Well, yes it works: https://proton.me/support/creating-aliases

That smell. I recognise that smell. It’s the smell of pants on fire.

I think this is the dude who stole our lawnmower!!