FADE IN
INTโMETROCITY METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER-DAY
Peerless, Brute and Margo sit in a meeting room at the newspaper building. Orbit Boy and a few staplers orbit Peerless, Pens and paperclips levitate any time Brute motions.
Narrator (VO)
We now join Gravity Man, in the guise of mild mannered everyday normal newspaper reporter Peerless Paladin, as he is in a news meeting with his everyday normal colleague Brute Malefactor, whose alter-ego is secretly the villainous villain Anti-Gravity Man, and precious girl reporter Margo Mettlesome. Let’s join in…
BRUTE
This is…absurd! It’s un-American! You mean to tell me you think our government, the most rational government on earth, is spending too much!?
PEERLESS
Now, Brute. That’s not what I said, exactly. I merely suggested that perhaps the president’s plan to create a gold paved highway from Washington DC to his summer home may be a bit too much money to spend for such a thing at this moment.
MARGO
But Peerless, just think of all the jobs it will create. And with so many out of work after the failure of the last government jobs program…
BRUTE
Exactly Margo! See Peerless, it’s so simple even a woman can understand it!
PEERLESS
Let’s not devolve into petty retorts here Brute. This is journalism, we’re supposed to bring facts to the public, not…
MARGO
Boys! Lets not fight. We are talking about the American government here, so what they do is always right.
PEERLESS
Well, golly, when you put it that way I suppose your right Margo.
MARGO
How about I go get us all some refreshing lemonade.
PEERLESS
That sounds swell.
BRUTE
None for me, I need to go…America!
BRUTE floats out of the room, everything that he floats past on his way out floats in a kind of wave pattern as he passes.
MARGO
I’ll just turn on the talk box for a while I get your lemonade ready Peerless.
MARGO turns away from PEERLESS and turns on the radio just as a news break occurs.
RADIO ANNOUNCER
We interrupt this broadcast of THE WHITE MAN’S MUSIC TO KEEP THE BLACK MAN DOWN for this special news broadcast. The nefarious villain known as Anti-Gravity man has taken the city hostage. His one demand is that normal every-day reporter Peerless Paladin admit that the American government can do no wrong. This reporter, for one, agrees. I remind you now to buy war bonds. And now back to our regularly scheduled program of THE WHITE MAN’S MUSIC TO KEEP THE BLACK MAN DOWN.
MARGO finishes mixing the lemonade and turns back to pour a glass for Peerless when she realizes he is gone.
MARGO
Where did he get off to?
MARGO shrugs and pours herself a glass of lemonade. She sips it seductively. The white juice escaping the edges of the glass, slowly making its way from the corner of her mouth, down her chin, one single drop lands on her cleavage exposed by her very business-like 1940s skirt-suit. The camera lingers a bit too long.
EXT-CITY-DAY
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN floats effortlessly above the street, using his powers to make the glass waver and then smash windows on small businesses like cobbler shops and vacuum repair shops.
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
I am the savior this city demands! Glaziers of the world unite! I am your savior!
GRAVITY MAN, and ORBIT BOY, come clodding down the street. Struggling with each step.
GRAVITY MAN
Away villainous villain! Gravity Man and Orbit Boy are here to protect this fair city!
MARGO arrives around the corner and readies her notepad, writing as Anti-Gravity Man begins his villainous speech.
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
Protect it from what? From revitalization? From Urban Renewal!? I am destroying this city in order to rebuild it! To make way for jobs! To create a better future for the poor helpless negros!
GRAVITY MAN
But what of the businesses you destroy!? Ha-ha!
GRAVITY MAN moves every so slowly towards ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
They have insurance! It will pay for the revitalization! And bring a new government works program to pull the sorry masses from the malaise they are too pitiful to unburden themselves from!
GRAVITY MAN still moves ever so slowly towards ANTI-GRAVITY MAN. ORBIT BOY has raised fist-a-cuffs.
GRAVITY MAN
What about the businesses…
(SEARCHING FOR WORDS)
that…don’t…have…insurance?
GRAVITY MAN is struggling so hard to counteract the force of ANTI-GRAVITY MAN that he is straining just to speak.
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
If you can’t pay your employees a living wage and afford insurance you shouldn’t start a business!
GRAVITY MAN
(straining, slowly moving towards ANTI-GRAVITY MAN)
How much…do you pay… your henchmen?
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
That is different! They are contract workers!
GRAVITY MAN summons enough strength to fling Orbit Boy into ANTI-GRAVITY MAN, the force of Gravity colliding with Anti-Gravity makes a big POW appear in the sky. Anti-gravity Man falls from the sky. Orbit Boy smiles, believing he is free. But it is a short lived smile as the force of Gravity reasserts itself and he begins speeding back towards Gravity Man. Orbit Boy shrugs in futility as he hurtles back. Anti-Gravity Man struggles to his feet.
ANTI-GRAVITY MAN
You have not yet beaten me to defeat!
Orbit Boy comes whizzing from behind and knocks Anti-Gravity Man back down. Orbit Boy then buzzes past Gravity Man in an elongated orbit. When he reaches the zenith, Orbit boy is swung back around and again hits a newly standing Anti-Gravity Man. This repeats for far too long until Orbit Boy resumes his natural orbit.
GRAVITY MAN
Good to have you back, old chum!
ORBIT BOY frowns.
GRAVITY MAN
Now to take this fiend to justice!
GRAVITY MAN looks and Anti-Gravity Man is gone.
GRAVITY MAN
Great Scott! He’s escaped! Again!
INT-METRO CITY METROPOLITAN-DAY
MARGO is at PEERLESS’ desk as ORBIT BOY floats around reading the newspaper. The HEADLINE READS ‘GRAVITY MAN OPPOSES URBAN RENEWAL’
MARGO
That Gravity Man sure is a piece of work, the way he is keeping those darkies from getting their piece of the pie. Who does he think is!? If he were around I’d give him a big ol’ smack in the face!
PEERLESS
Well, Margo, he might be closer than you know.
MARGO
Like that retarded copy boy Jeffy Johnson!? That’s a fresh one! A retard being a super hero! You crack me up Peerless!
MARGO Laughs, PEERLESS joins in with a confused look on his face. ORBIT BOY shrugs.
FADE OUT
First!
Four characters. Three are easy: Bro, Hype, and Mike S. But who will be the voice of Margo?
Hayek.
Can haz zooms?
Be there shortly.
Wait, what?
Bethannica could say those lines about the government without her head exploding. But she no longer joins us.
Congratulations on your new role. May I escort you to the casting couch?
We have hundreds, er, scores, er, dozens, er, quite a few Libertarian women to work with!
Binders of them.
That’s just a myth…. (Yeth?)
Looking like the cameraman is going to hope Margo keeps hanging around AntiGravity Man in a few years. The Anti-FLBP effect and all.
A bit OT — but winding down for the evening — this story made me realize I missed the Hair That Thinks It is a Governor setting up a nice little informant line “CA vs. Hate”… I’m sure that won’t be abused at all, and that everyone can agree on what constitutes a “hate crime” and it will never be a political cudgel.
Ack pbbt.
he read โa few versesโ of โthe book of Jews,โ
Hebrews?
(((I))) have no idea what text is being referenced and I would really like to know.
John Zorn’s Book of Angels .
What am I missing?
(((missing)))??
the obvious answer is to call up and complain about the DMV.
Excellent CPRM, though I was hoping the copy boy would be an non English speaking illegal named Jose. Make it more believable.
Derp, if you are reading this, I don’t know you that well. But there’s a time when you need to listen to the people around you. If people who know you are saying you may need to seek some help, swallow your pride and seek help before you do something potentially life altering.
You are a smart guy, but that can make situations like this worse if you are suffering from extreme paranoia.
I’m not sure he’s being paranoid.
As I said – I don’t know him, but weigh the odds of the NSA watching him versus him suffering some sort of mental break from reality.
Even if the NSA is watching him, I’d advise him to seek out some mental health treatment. Find someone he trusts (as hard as that can be when you are in that mental state). If it’s not in his head, he’ll have a better idea after receiving treatment.
Here I will note that I threw my phone in protest through turnstile at the NSA building I used to work at about 6 months after I suspected they were spying on me. This got me banned from Fort Gordon, recently renamed Fort Eisenhower.
They did let me back on a few months later to give my gal pal a ride back from the hospital. According to her, there were a lot of people talking in panicked tones about me and the MPs and NSA police were on high-alert.
NSA has incentives to silence and discredit me. The best way to do that is through things that make you sound crazy if you talk about them.
It’s hard for people who haven’t been through it to know just how real delusions and paranoia and things like voices in your head can seem. You can hallucinate entire interactions with people. Hear them say things that they didn’t say, imagine facial expressions or completely misinterpret them.
Basically, you are sure of your judgement even though it’s completely fucked and someone like Derpy who is self-reliant and of a high degree of intelligence is perhaps even more susceptible because they just won’t fucking listen to what people around them are telling them.
Yes, I understand about hallucinations and delusions feeling real, but what if it is? We all know the gummint’s not above it.
I’m super worried, but no idea what to say/do.
Getting voluntary treatment isn’t some end of the world scenario. He would still be in control of the situation. If he’s prescribed some pills and he finds they don’t work, maybe there’s something to the thoughts. Maybe something’s going on. Or maybe he regains his judgement.
I don’t know what’s going on in his personal life or why he feels the NSA would really have serious interest in him. Enough interest to apparently send people out to fuck with him in person. And these things aren’t mutually exclusive. He talked about writing some letter to a politician.
Again, voluntary treatment with someone he trusts.
I am with Bro here.
I trust the people here, for what it’s worth.
I ended up spending 6 hours in psychiatric evaluations because my squad leader was a lying sociopath who falsified paperwork in an attempt to cover his tracks. That ghoul once stood over the dead body of soldier who killed himself, and even after that, he still thought it was a good idea to torment people…in a battalion that had 2 suicides in as many years! I emailed the colonel in charge of my unit to complain about that. And the ghoul never denied what I wrote.
Then after I repeatedly denied being suicidal, a dozen lied to my face to trap me in an insane asylum where I spent 3 days on suicide watch. The bright side of that was I basically got a 5-month vacation until my discharge.
Oh yeah, my platoon sergeant admitted that people had been lying to and about me. He brought up the example of Pat Tillman and then told a story from his own experience. The closest gym to me on base was named after a soldier named SPC Nelson. The memorial plaque he was killed by enemy fire. Here’s what really happened: he fell asleep on guard duty and one of our so-called Afghan allies shot him the head, stole his weapon, and ran off to join the Taliban. I don’t like bad-mouthing the military, but they are human, and people tell face-saving and ass-covering lies.
My company commander recommended “honorable”, my battalion commander overruled that to a “general”, so that was another kick in the nuts. “Thanks for not killing yourself, here’s your general discharge.”
Then I found out my clearance went into loss of jurisdiction, which means it’s nearly impossible for me to get another Arabic job. I spent about 3,000 hours training for that.
And then a soldier I thought was my friend dragged me into court and lied about me under oath by saying I had been dishonorably discharged. I proved she was lying with documents, but the judge didn’t care.
People have ganged up on me before to torment me, so I can recognize the patterns. I’m trying to focus on the present so I can pick up the pieces and move on. It’s easier said than done.
Derp, I’m speaking from personal experience on this with a situation that has some similarities to your own. I share very little about myself around here, but I personally made a pretty big mistake. Had never been diagnosed with anything. I laughed when family suggested I was developing or showing signs of schizophrenia. I had very real examples of things people had done to me, and things that maybe didn’t happen that I was sure did happen. I was seeing things that weren’t there, hearing things that weren’t there, and reading messages into everything. I live with the consequences of what I did every single god damn day of my life now years later.
I never would have envisioned a scenario where I fucked up like that with no alcohol or drugs were involved, but it happened because I was too stubborn and too distrustful to seek out help from anyone. I’m lucky at the end of the day that it wasn’t worse.
I’ve had issues with alcohol. I had my own issues with the Army. I know what toxic leadership looks like there, though I didn’t get it as bad as you seem to have.
But all those stressors you are talking about above, as real as they may be (I’m not doubting that people fucked you over)? They can contribute to the onset of schizophrenia or other mental illnesses.
Alls I’m asking is that you seek out help for the paranoia. Find someone you trust, outside the VA if you can or think that’s best, and see what they think is best. You don’t seem like a danger to yourself or others so I don’t see you getting Baker Acted here.
I’m not an expert so I don’t want to say what they’ll do or recommend. But I kind of hint at it above. You may get some meds that could clear your mind and help you reevaluate things.
When I explained my situation to the Army psychiatrist in the insane asylum in 2020, the only meds he prescribed were sleeping pills: trazedone (RX) and meltatonin (OTC).
I remember filling out many questionnaires. It got tiresome. No, I don’t hear voices. No, I don’t hallucinate. No, I don’t think I have special powers, etc.
And I got asked if I was suicidal many, many times. That got really tiresome. The whole thing had kind of a witch trial vibe to it.
I mean, it sure would be convenient for them if I became schizophrenic right at the time that would be a great way for them to discredit me, if they wanted to do that. And my NSA code breaker application is still under consideration even after almost 2 years have passed.
My best friend from NSA and I are still in touch. She said I don’t think like a machine, but I understand how machines think. That’s the best compliment I’ve ever gotten. I suspected she’s in cahoots with NSA, but she denied it when I asked her. She also doubts that they are harassing me or spying on me. When I asked her, she said they might do it to Assange or Snowden but not me.
Can I just ask…what reason does the NSA have to discredit you at this stage?
I know some pretty disturbing things which have been kept secret. Things that would send shockwaves through the world if they were revealed. I can think of at least one thing that would put a serious dent in the military-industrial complex if it became public knowledge.
And I know what codes NSA has and hasn’t broken, which means I also know what codes they can and can’t break. So that probably puts them on edge as well.
Not sure where this came from. Iโm not getting a suicidal vibe from him.
I hope Iโm not wrong. Permanent solution to a temporary problem and all that.
There’s other things someone can do besides suicide when suffering from paranoid thoughts.
You are so right.
Itโs hard to tell what someone is thinking in a chat.
My only point.
In the words of my favorite killer robot, I cannot self-terminate. My blood pressure has improved a lot since moving to Florida. It’s been in the healthy range for a few weeks now.
Interestingly, there have been a few times when I got bombarded with YouTube ads for living with schizophrenia, as well as ads for the veteran crisis hotline. They were odd ads considering what videos I was watching at the time.
I’ve been seeing a counselor at the local VA hospital for alcohol abuse for about a month. It’s been helping. Today marks 3-days of being booze free and the overall trend is down, though I still have some ways to go.
As for paranoia, FBI agents came to my apartment to ask me about the computer I built, and in October of 2021, I was handcuffed and interrogated by NSA special agents. Perhaps the weird glitches I’ve seen are all unrelated. It seems unlikely though. I know for a fact NSA routinely monitors and hijacks electronic devices all over the world. I know because I worked there, watched it happen, and read the reports.
My remaining goals in life are a stable middle-class income, wife, and kids. That’s about it. Marriage and parenthood might be a disappointment, but I’d like to try anyway. I’ve done just about everything else.
Derp, I don’t mean to be all up in your business, but I’ve seen this sort of thing happen. When you start connecting everything and thinking there’s hidden messages in the ads you see, that is a sign of schizophrenia. You are likely a person who is very good at spotting patterns, and that is something that can work against you if you are suffering from a mental illness like that.
I don’t know what interest the NSA would have in a computer you built. Or reasons the FBI would have to cuff and interrogate you. We only get reports from you every few months. But even if that happened, stressors like that can make a sane man start seeing ghosts.
It’s not just ads. Perhaps you missed this post from my blog where I laid out my best photographic evidence.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/07/nsa-zersetzung-gaslighting.html
I am not here to tell you that what you believe is an impossibility. Or even unlikely. What I can say is that when I suffered my own paranoid schizophrenia, I had a number of things related to my computer that I was convinced were evidence of malfeasance. It was shutting on and off, giving me the blue screen of death which it had never done before. I was getting strange spam emails and even real world mail. I was contacted on social media by what I now realize were spam accounts. I was sure people could see what I was doing based on what was being posted online.
These aren’t easy things for me to share, but I’m doing it because I hope it will give you some perspective. If you are wrong, you are in an unstable mental state and your judgement is fucked.
How did you come out of it?
Time and meds. And it’s still a bitch to look back at that time and think that everything I was thinking was fake because I was so damn sure. It’s personally left me with a level of self-doubt I never had before that when it comes to my own judgement.
But I only ended up on the meds because I really didn’t have a choice anymore.
I’m glad you made it through, Bro.
I’m sorry that happened to you.
I haven’t posted screenshots of it, but I got blank text messages with empty attachments apparently from my parents, and when I showed them screenshots, they said they didn’t send them and bought new phones. Spoofing a cell number isn’t that hard. The device that does it costs a few thousand dollars. I worked with similar devices while in training.
I’ve read about 40,000 top secret reports, and I am well-versed in NSA’s tricknology arsenal. Once, I even saw pics from a bad guy’s webcam after his computer got hacked by NSA. They are really, really good at that stuff. Seeing what’s on someone’s screen is easy for them.
Arbitrary code execution is a hell of a drug. I suspect they often drop hints to people who are skirting the border of what’s kosher to talk about online. They can’t straight up admit to monitoring private online activity without causing a scandal.
A security officer in my battalion told me straight up NSA monitors the social media of people with current or recent access to classified info. They’d be fools not to. And it stands to reason they’d covertly monitor the online activity of anyone perceived to be at risk for leaking classified info.
Derpe is there such a thing as a psychologist/psychiatrist with a security clearance? What you have described could be real. It could also be a delusion. I have no idea which. Maybe it’s worth having someone you can trust give you some feedback.
Yes, there are such people, but for the time being, the VA is the closest thing I have to that.
The VA psychologist I’ve been seeing is a former Army psychologist and I’ve showed him many of things I’ve posted about on my blog. He’s been slightly skeptical, but doesn’t dwell too much on it. I saw therapist in Augusta and mentioned many of the same things. She didn’t have much to say in response.
I’ve written to 2 congress critters about this, and one actually responded with useful action. I finally have a case number for my discharge upgrade application. The practical consequences for the general discharge have been minimal, but I’d like to get it upgraded if I can. Given the timing of my email to them, I suspect they also asked the FBI to send agents to question me. My dad’s theory is they came because some staffer saw the word “boogaloo” in the blog post about my oil-cooled computer and thought it was a bomb.
I completely agree with you. NSAโฆFBIโฆthey are bureaucracies.
They need to get the BIG ONE.
Kicking the booze was the best thing I ever did, besides getting rid of a schizophrenic wife. The two were related, one led to the other. Only good things happened after I quit drinking, I found out my kids were really quite nice, I became more productive at work and I had a few more bucks to waste on fishing tackle.
I don’t think I’m going to kick booze – it’s the one addiction that I manage quite well. I’ve kicked nastier addictions that had positive impacts and I’ll take those wins.
Iโm with you, brother. I can not drink for weeksโฆso I know it is not a physical addiction. I just like to drink and play video games without shakingโฆessential tremor.
I suppose I could do that, but I don’t want to.
I kicked nicotine this year. That was… not easy. But I’m lovin’ it.
I kicked a nasty coke habit some years ago. That was pretty easy but the “win” was huge. That one habit seriously interfering with work and shit.
My only failure as far as vices goes is food. And laziness.
The early death duo.
Warty makes me feel bad.
Stopping smoking is tough. My Dad and Step Dad had emphysema, it really changed their later year lives. My Step Dad was on oxygen, take his mask off, smoke, mask up right away.
At the cost of cigarettes today it makes not starting a lot easier. I never had a smoke or a drink I didn’t want, no one forced me, I was a willing volunteer.
‘Zactly.
I started smoking when I was 20. My mom smoked and I hated it*. I suppose I could blame my college buddy when we both started but he could just as easily blame me.
*But not really until 1986. I was a foreign exchange student that year – non-smoking family. When I got back to the states it was a kick in the teeth hanging out with mom and her ciggies.
Good for you for kicking cigarettes. You’ve done yourself a big favor.
I hope so.
I actually kicked cigs in 2018. The not coughing benefit was immediate.
Kicked vapes in 2023. Which feels like a bigger win because harder and less immediately obvious benefits.
At minimum, you’ve taken control of yourself instead of being, in some way, dependent on a substance.
Mine’s sugar (carbs) and everyone can tell. It is not a hidden vice.
Yup! And I should not discount another big benefit like saving hundreds of dollars a month.
Cha-ching!
My goal is 2 standard drinks or less per day, according to the Surgeon General’s advice. If I can manage to drink less than that, so much the better.
Life should be enjoyed, and I enjoy booze. I just need to enjoy it in smaller amounts. It can be done.
Life can be enjoyed, if you let it.
Thatโs a damn hard thing to do sometimes.
For some of us one is too many and a dozen not enough. I’m not going to give anyone advice but I was lucky enough not to get arrested on a DWI or have an accident that could have been serious. There’s always other people involved, we don’t live in a vacuum.
My brother died with cirrhosis, though he’d been dry for 30 years or so. We don’t really know the long term affects, I haven’t had a smoke for nearly 50 years but I still cough in the morning.
Come to Honey Harvest, meet a bunch of other misfits, enjoy a fall MN day. Family friendly and some good food.
I wish I could, sir. You remind me of my grandfather. You are somewhat younger than him.
Iโve never been north of St. Louis. Iโm sure it is very pretty up there.
I need to get my car fixed first. I quit caffeine in March and am better off for it. I don’t miss it either. I started drinking beer every day in Africa, but because I had a job in the morning and was trying to be respectable, I didn’t get too crazy- 2 or 3 pints a day.
I started killing multiple 6-packs a week in Chicago after I got fired from my first engineering job. By the time I moved to Texas 2 years later, I was drinking a 6 pack or more almost every day. It went down a bit during my weight loss odyssey to about 4 beers per day, and in my first 2 years in the Army, it was pretty close to 0 per day unless I was on leave or it was a weekend at DLI.
Heh, my relationship with alcohol is more like, one is not enough and four or five is too many. Or something.
Basically, I like a buzz. I hate, hate, hate being drunk – enough to naturally avoid it.
I drink far less frequently than you but I totally get that.
Itโs good to be alcohol free for a bit. Stay cool. Maybe itโs real, right now, maybe it isnโt. Bro is giving you solid advice.
We’re watching Evan as well and hoping for a good outcome.
I agree with the Bro. Having watched my best friend since the age of ten go through schizophrenia. Not saying you have that, nor even that you havenโt had any government agency spying on you. But he is right that it wouldnโt hurt to get some mental health help.
I am homebound for the near future. My car’s transmission went full Corn Pop.
The author and other miscreants are on Zoom now
https://www.glibertarians.com/humpdayzoom
If Brooks is still out there, this is everything you ever wanted to know about the new Land Cruiser.
https://www.theautopian.com/we-sent-a-toyota-land-cruiser-superfan-to-the-reveal-and-my-god-he-went-nuts-with-this-photo-heavy-writeup/
Que?
Yeah. I feel like getting an old Jeep with square headlights and avoiding all that stuff.
Current Jeep speaks all the tech, for good or bad.
I just mean, USB C is in no way more ‘modern’ than USB A, it’s just different plugs. Even if your phone uses USB C, cords can have different plugs on different ends. USB 1, 2 and 3 are different technologies, but only for interface, which I’m guessing these plugs don’t do, just power is my guess. For that purpose one end could be shaped like a penis as long as it can be pushed into the hole. hehe
Talk about missing the point.
Tundra owners donโt care about what portโฆoh, crap. I canโt go on.
Tundra’s wife cares a great deal about what port he uses.
Good one. Didnโt even see it.
I don’t have any USB-C devices except my switch, which you shouldn’t plug into a car.
USB-C charges more quickly. That is the one thing I like about it.
I’m irritated AF that the new laptop that work sent me this week has replaced the USB-A where I used to plug my headset with a USB-C that is… completely useless to me.
There are no USB-C headsets – I looked.
Really?
https://www.jabra.com/business/office-headsets/jabra-evolve/jabra-evolve2-30/buy?gclid=CjwKCAjw_aemBhBLEiwAT98FMvHdYV1ewQ4Qwjl_Brxa9xwSnxk3V33HAtGS73KehuirMaQA1XqrTBoCB2MQAvD_BwE##23089-999-879
I’ll just assume you are between 1 and 4 drinks in.
Holy crap. 90$ for some headphones and a mike?
There are cheaper ones.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/audio/headsets/4xd1h02420?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&cid=us:sem|se|google|pmax_1po|||4XD1H02420|18333294919|||shopping|mix|consumer&gclid=CjwKCAjw_aemBhBLEiwAT98FMkEKeB4OMkzZ7dQFBQwHlkyJ_c0zp_WGiK_nvXbYIxp5kp4CYADcpxoCIMMQAvD_BwE
My search was on Amazon. And was conducted only this morning while “at work”. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
https://www.amazon.com/Syntech-Adapter-Thunderbolt-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B07CVX3516/
$10 fix.
๐
At work they ordered these devices that have to be inserted into the computer and have a person touch them to login (like an electrical resistance touch sensor.) that were USB C after we got hacked. Thing is, we don’t have USB C on our computers.
*headdesk*
The one thing I like about my new laptop is the fingerprint login. Man, I get tired of typing in my password every time after fucking around on Glibs for 10 or 15 minutes.
You can’t change the the timeout on the log-in instead?
Group policy says no?
No.
Lots of things I can’t change.
I got a new iPad Air a few months ago. The fingerprint sensor is a slim button on the top. It worksโฆmost of the time.
Wash your hands. Nope.
I liked it better when it was a big home button. Surface area makes a difference.
I have the currently cheapest version of an iPhone where the fingerprint thingie is the big home button and it works great.
The newer models put me off.
Agreed, I have one of those Airs and the finger sensor is iffy to the point of occasional frustration.
Sorry about the bad photography, but I’ve got my latest nonsense done.
Are those red watermelons or large elongated apples?
According to GT, they’re Methanemelons.
Menthol flavored melons?
No, gassy fruit.
What is that vegetable they are fighting over – carrots? Some sort of pepper?
Melons.
I think this will be my last comment for tonight. I need to wake-up early to get my car to the shop.
So here is a brand-new keyboard where the caps lock turned on and off by itself.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kXpraBtdi6M
It started doing that after I made a slideshow about my tale of woe and sent it to a few people. It caused quite a stir with them, and no doubt with anyone who was spying on me. The last pic of the slideshow was of me holding an RPK machine gun with a blank look on my face. It was a souvenir from my trip to the Vegas Machine Gun Experience in 2017.
Watch for the blinking in the lower right of the screen. On the same computer, the volume started changing on its own. I do not have a good video of that. To clarify, the volume meter would appear on its own and increase by various amounts without me touching the volume controls.
Got a Bonus
Holepaid day off from work that doesn’t count against PTO. First 3 day ‘weekend’ since I took my vacation in May. Hopefully it will be fun.Fun….or, “fun”?
/No, I don’t know what I meant by that, either–I just want to engage in insinuations.
Talked with RJ tonight on the zooms, your information was exchanged, hopefully you have a new friend and not a stalker…
Maybe I have enough friends, and need a stalker….ever thought of that???
/’Sall good, man
Everyone wants someone to breathe heavily into their ears waiting for you to wake-up while you sleep, right?
“Ears”?
Yeah, I suppose that’d work, too…..
Like so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELaRmDnpJxk
It’s pretty much what I had in mind.
wink, wink; nudge, nudge.
Did this make the rounds here?
It took her 18 years to realize she married an absolute sack of shit but better late than never.
Some wedding photo, huh? She looks OK, he does not.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/justin-trudeau-says-he-and-his-wife-sophie-are-separating/
He looks like he took a detour from a middle school photo session his mother dressed him for to get married. What a pic.
Good morning, Stinky, TO’G, and lurkers!
It’s hair appointment day! ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ My favorite day of…every approximately six-week interval!
Also, the Dayton Dragons beat the Beloit Sky Carp (don’t ask me – it’s a recent change from the Snappers,) while the Fort Wayne TinCaps lost to the Great Lakes Loons, leaving the Mythical Fire-Breathing Reptiles in sole possession of first place in the Midwest League East division. And that’s sports.
So, which town is the Salmanders?
You jest, but…
(._.)
Ermagerd! I just found what should be the Glibs’ favorite team!!! ๐โพ
No.
“Due to construction, Bodenheimer Drive road head leading to Beaver Field is temporarily closed.”
STEVE SMITH PLAY BALL IN BEAVER FIELD!
See? The Smith family even sponsors the stadium!
Mornin, Red. Every six weeks? I could never keep up with schedule.
It’s my excuse to leave work early, plus I get pampered, (That scalp massage during the shampoo is divine!)
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you & yours today?
Mornin’. Today is Medical Appointment Day. Dentist in the AM, Dermatologist in the PM. In between I shall prepare an impact analysis on the ramifications of a bug I uncovered last week. Afterwards I shall prepare dinner for myself and the spawn since Mrs. Patzer will be cavorting with some friends.
I’d rather get my hair done.
What’s on the bill of fare?
Health food. Quarter pound tube steaks and fries.
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Since we’re talkin’ baseball, rookie chalks up his first strikeout with an assist from his catcher and Foulproof Taylor.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/slade-cecconis-first-strikeout-hits-diamondbacks-catchers-groin/
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Huh. I posted in the dead thread this morning. Apparently I need to up my coffee dosage.
Bringing forward a link I posted:
Morning all. Working in my PJs this morning. No desire to get formal.
Now I’ll have to be extra-formal to counteract your casualness
I do have slippers.
Fuzzy bunnies?
Seal pups.
Tuxedo shoes made into slippers.