He made this announcement to give media something other than the “Big Beautiful Bill” to worry about this weekend.

US taxes all forms of income. Wages, investments, gambling winnings, gifts (after fairly generous exemptions). If money goes in your pocket, Uncle Sam gets a cut.

The UPS needs some power to keep its batteries full. Could be that it’s triggering off some threshold to do a charge cycle instead of just running a constant trickle. I’ve noticed that my laptop and phone charge that way, for example.

They’re also using self-reported loneliness, which I would guess that people who’ve been alone for decades accommodate and feel less lonely.

…hanging from their cables…

It really depends on what your data is and how hard it would be to recreate. I keep a spare HD in a $40/year bank box & rotate it every 3 months. Most of the content is media - pictures, movies, music. Financial records would be annoying to recreate, but if there’s a big enough disaster to force me to go to the off-site backups, I think that’ll be the least of my troubles. Some data logging has a replica database on a VPS.

My upload speed is terrible, so I don’t want to put a media library in the cloud. If I did any important daily content creation, I’d probably keep that mirrored offsite with rsync, but I feel like the spirit of an offsite backup is offline and asynchronous, so things like ransomware don’t destroy your backups, too.

With only 15U, assuming devices don’t stick out the back, I’d move it face-up, so devices are more hanging from their ears than cantilevered. A full, 42/48U rack is extremely top-heavy and tipping during move is a serious risk, but 15U is fine. It’s still very dense, and OP should try to ratchet-strap it to hard points in the trailer.

I do 150g with a light sauce, like aglio e olio or chili oil. Maybe 75g if it’s going with a bunch of veg and meat.

Mass media has devolved to gossip, so of course it’s going to focus on the people with recognizable names. Katy Perry, because she’s a big star. “Jeff Bezos’ fiancee” - not even her actual name - because Bezos is a well known monster.

If you’re doing a celebrity gossip/puff piece, you don’t bother to research any farther than the corporate press release, and that press release was there to coddle and stroke Blue Origin’s high-paying customers. Someone pays $10M to ride your rocket into space, you tell them they’re awesome, that they’ve joined an exclusive community, that they’re special, important, and pretty.

I feel kind of bad for these women. I mean, how fucking cool would it be to go to space? I imagine I’d return awed by the experience however brief, and ready to tell anyone who would listen how cool it was. I doubt I would be very coherent about it, probably a bit self-centered. This group comes back, gets ambushed by Blue Origin public relations massively over-inflating the event, and become the internet’s hate-target for the day. Or the week. Just had this incredible, personal experience, and they’re made into pariahs for it.

I don’t spend any time, awake, in my bedroom. TV is in the living room, where I spend my idle time. I can hear through the walls, though, that my neighbors spend a lot of time just hanging out in their bedroom, and that there’s a TV there. So, I suspect, if you’re in a home with multiple people, that having a TV or entertainment in each bedroom is more common. Essentially treating the bedroom as a private apartment within the larger space.

I think OP is talking about a single building with single-family occupancy and commercial storefront. At least in the US, a lot of single-family residential zones exclude commercial use.

Average spending is not a good metric for addictive behaviors - spending/consumption tends to be extremely concentrated in a small fraction. My go-to example for this is alcohol where, in the US, 10 drinks/week is the population average, but also enough to get you into the “top 10%” or “heavy drinker” bin, where the average consumption of that bin is 74 drinks/week. In both alcohol and gacha, a huge fraction of the population don’t pay anything.

I mean, even if the article’s $30/month average spend is entirely within their 20% “problem” spenders, it would only be $150, but it’s a little easier (for me) to see where $150/month gacha habit could be a problem for young people already on the financial edge. Not the fundamental problem that skyrocketing rent and stagnant wages are, but more in the last-straw sense.

There are still “favors” to be done.

My thought exactly. OTOH, I feel like the anti-Musk ball only really got rolling in March, and this report can’t possibly cover March - it’s got to be Dec24-Feb25, so probably just a hint of things to come.

It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn’t put on a postcard…how did this happen?

Wonder if there’s an opportunity there. Some way to archive one’s self-hosted, public-facing content, either as a static VM or, like archive.org, just the static content of URLs. I’m imagining a service one’s heirs could contract to crawl the site, save it all somewhere, and take care of permanent maintenance, renewing domains, etc. Ought to be cheap enough to maintain the content; presumably low traffic in most cases. Set up an endowment-type fee structure to pay for perpetual domain reg.

At least my descendants will own all my comments and posts.

If you self-host, how much of that content disappear when your descendants shut down your instance?

I used to host a bunch of academic data, but when I stopped working, there was no institutional support. Turned off the server and it all went away (still Wayback Machine archives). I mean, I don’t really care whether my social media presence outlives me, the experience just made me aware that personal pet projects are pretty sensitive to that person.

As a long-term non-exerciser, routine and coupling it with a reward was definitely key. I started out just walking, and walking to get lunch was a key motivator. Upgraded to a rowing machine, and it doesn’t even feel like a chore to sit on the machine and watch a movie in parts or a show, going on 5 years.

Still have to figure out how to get some strength work in there. Just can’t seem to find a system to consistently do a few push ups, pull ups, and stand ups.

For me, the effort of going somewhere to exercise is a big impediment, and I’m self-conscious exercising in front of people. The low barrier to start a daily workout wins, hands down.

Others find camaraderie just having other people involved in the same process, or really enjoy the variety of machines and options of a well-equipped facility.

You have to figure out which type of person you are. The most important thing is just to do something. (Unless you have specific, Jason Momoa-type goals in mind)

Trouble is defining “The Rich.” Like, definitely billionaires, but there’s only a thousand of them, and you can do a lot of damage with half that. 1% are people with something around $10-15M, and that doesn’t really feel like buy-your-way-out-of-murder money. But even millionaires are probably pretty well insulated from concerns of rent and the price of eggs.

If it were up to me, “Rich” would be somewhere in the 8-figures region, but I’m one of those privileged, ‘comfortable,’ oldere people.