Isn’t that essentially the story of Coca-cola. Early in their history they didn’t think bottling would be successful, so they signed a perpetual contract to sell the bottlers syrup at a fixed price. Then when bottled coke became popular, the only way for coke to profit was on volume, so they launched a massive advertising campaign advertising the drink price of 5 cents.

Decades later, coke ads are classic Americana and it’s popularity is one reason these drugs are needed.

That’s when they turn the farm into a themed hotel that is only open during select holidays.

Yep. Trying to maintain a consistent startmenu for computer labs with Windows 11 is annoying.

The layout is stored in an encrypted file that cannot be editted directly. You have to manually setup the start menu on one profile then copy the file to all the others. This works fine for intial deployments, but is a massive pain if you need to add any other apps later.

The old powershell commandlet for importing layouts does not work in Win11. The old group policy settings don’t work either. The actual DLL calls used by the end user to manually configuring the start menu are deliberatly coded to prevent being called from a script.

It is freaky how much work Microsoft has done to prevent scripting changes to the start menu.

The only officially supported method for an IT department to manage the start menu is intune, but microsoft’s device licensing for intune is a mess out folks have yet to figure out.

They encrypt the damn start menu and they cannot encrypt this?

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5x usage limits (if they last) is the real news here. The current limits make it unusable for any meaningful projects.

I just dropped chatgpt plus because of those limits…

I stopped going to five guys three years ago when a burger, fries, and a drink hit over $20. I’m not sure the local place was ever under $10.

They need to focus back on the base product instead of adding more features. It has been over 1 year and chatgpt using gpt4 is still crippled to the point of being useless.

The last thing I want is a search engine that works 10 times then tells me to come back in 4 hours to resume searching…

Seems like if they really cared about emergencies they would require car radios to support the actual weather band frequencies as well.

Maybe like a subscription where people could pay a fee to avoid ads?

Tik for Tok

Looking at the debt.com article they include past surveys. A similar question in 2018 has around 35% hitting a credit limit.

So lead, plastic, and PFAS are fine but fluoride is where they draw the line…?

If the NCAA really cared about fairness they would do something about the suspect and wildly inconsistent officiating.

If “God created man and woman as biologically different” then who created all the different intersex people? Even if you ignore or dismiss trans people, there are other people whose sexual characteristics at birth were not so easily sorted into male or female, and others whose physical traits either don’t align with the basic understanding of “sex” chromosomes or whose chromosomes are different than XX and XY.

Logically, if God exists, then either their statement is wrong and He does make people whose gender is indeterminate, or there is another god who is also making people. Or perhaps He is not that involved in the process, and “God’s Plan” is more of a loose framework.

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The plungies. Winners receive golden plungers

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Apple managed to capture lightning in a bottle, twice. First by making a better Walkman, and then again by making that device a phone with internet access. They were able to leverage that success to revitalize their computer hardware business and act as a platform for selling accessories, and all of that made them very successful.

But the stock market doesn’t care about past success, it cares about growth, and without a major new, or buzz worthy product, investors might start to turn against Apple. Problem is, they have ridden the iPod horse about as far as it can go. They tried putting wheels on it, but that failed, and the jury is still out on whether tying one to your face will work out or not.

The MAGA led culture wars have exposed many churches and many christian’s as insufferable bigots who are far more obsessed with making sure everyone in their group agrees on who to hate than they are with sharing such concepts as grace or love. The Methodist split has been especially damning. It is insane to me to see so many otherwise normal people frothing at the mouth with hate and anger because the main denomination dared to even consider being more accepting of homosexuality.

I was recently told about a woman who was glad her church disaffiliated from United Methodist because she didn’t want to have to find another church. I thought, but bit my tongue, “woman, had your church stayed it would still be the exact same church it always was, it changed by leaving…” these people have been manipulated into thinking any church that stays somehow becomes a satanic cult… because maybe, one day in the future, the main governing body might allow gay preachers… it’s so stupid…