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byTigerPlish
31, 2026 @08:12AM
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Attached to: Apple Reports Best-Ever Quarter For iPhone Sales
With the projected RAM price increases this year on just about any device that uses it, I bet many buyers bought "out of cycle" to beat the increases.
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byTigerPlish
29, 2026 @09:24PM
(#65957974)
Attached to: Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
I'm trading one asshole for another. AT&T is currently ripping up my neighborhood, laying fiber. Nearly 20 years after they said they would.
They likely won't lose the elderly, inertia and all that. But I'll jump ship the instant it's declared 'stable'
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byTigerPlish
29, 2026 @03:54PM
(#65957486)
Attached to: Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Awash With Zombie Firms
Exactly what happened to my 2nd IT job. Clipboard-bearing suits came and were shown everything. 2 months later I left. 2 months after that the announcement came that the company had been sold off to a PE firm.
That PE took a 50-year old, money-making medical firm (billing, staffing, etc) and promptly ran it into an iceberg. After the carnage, it was sold yet again.. and one more time.
Now they exist in name only, a sub of a sub of a sub of some other company.
Getting bought out is almost universally undesirable. Happened to my 3rd IT job, and now they don't even exist any more, not even as 'just a name.'
The morning we all walked in and all the door signs showed the new owner's name was quite demoralizing.
Left not too long after that.
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byTigerPlish
21, 2026 @05:34PM
(#65940552)
Attached to: HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
Yeah, and we did we found massive fraud from 2020-2024.
Am I a traitor? Am I a spy?
If anything, the people who orchestrated the 2020 election should be shot as traitors, and the spies should be hung from the neck until dead.
They are the traitors. The people who stole our government, installed a puppet president, and again "fundamentally changed' this country.
Fixing it is putting panties in wads because each illegal deportee is one less Democrat vote, one less fraud recipient.
And fuck your incoming downvotes. Fuck them long and hard, with my favorite -- the splintered phonepole.
Fucking traitors. Fuck! Makes me want to throw up!
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byTigerPlish
21, 2026 @02:43PM
(#65940172)
Attached to: The Gold Plating of American Water
Two words that illustrate how badly "but but but what would the neighbors think?" that permeate government: TOXIC EMPATHY
Rule with cold hard facts, not feels.
This is an example of ruling with feels.
So's not clearing your brush and deadwood in California because it may impact some bird.
So's opening the gates at the border and saying 'no one's illegal!'
Downmod me all you want. Genie's out of the bottle. The sense that America jumped the shark is now quickly spreading, when it is readily found in comments in youtube re: current affairs.
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byTigerPlish
21, 2026 @10:03AM
(#65939566)
Attached to: YouTube CEO Acknowledges 'AI Slop' Problem, Says Platform Will Curb Low-Quality AI Content
will "transform the viewer experience."
You mean.. from "I only use you on friday night on a phone call with an old friend, and too look up how to fix my car / washer / dryer whatever" to "Not using you at all?"
Seriously. Slashdot Collective says 'eat the rich?' I say "fuck all the techbros."
Yes, I'm narrowing down the carnage to just the techbros (and tech sisters, like that nutjob that headed Theranos)
They've unleashed a new cancer on society, by amplifying voices that were best left handing out flyers at street intersections. Not everyone deserves to have the biggest bullhorn in the world.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @12:15PM
(#65934908)
Attached to: Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
are taking "wellness breaks" away from these device
all-or-nothing types, which .. I am one of. But I don't take full breaks from my devices. This is rather surprising, and i'm not sure if it's come about due to age and being worn down by time, or if I ran out of fucks to give about what others think.
What I dodo is take a break from the news. All news. From all sources. To me, they're all equally broken and suspect, every single one of them from A to Z an from east to west and north to south.
Once I do that, my "wellness" markedly improves, while I still use my phone as a camera, a texting machine (teletype, if you will?) a phone phone, email, etc. It is my walkman, my 110 camera, my little black book with pencil, and more. It's even a full-on movie camera, editing deck, and music maker. It's a library, with both local and remote books.
But I'll be goddamned if I let the newsman in, or the preacher, or the climate doomers, or any of the riffraff that currently is hell bent on telling me what to do. Fuck your rules. My toy, my rules.
Ultimately you are in control, the phone (at least the iphone) doesn't put tiktok in your hand and doesn't put a gun to your head while whispering "You will watch.. you will watch.. you will watch.."
Smartphone's too good of a toy to let go. You need discipline to use it in a way that doesn't rot your brain. Step #1 is stop the feeds, stop the scrolling, stop the news.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @08:27AM
(#65928926)
Attached to: Amazon Is Buying America's First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade
It makes me want to vomit, the way the United States and the United Kingdom have ceded production of raw materials to China and other countries.
We don't make new lead in the US.
We had trouble with copper until this one mine dared start up again.
Our steel mills have been sold off.
England can't even refine iron ore into steel anymore.
All of it for 'environmental' reasons.
Listen up, cupcakes: A country that can't work it's own raw materials will be subjugated by those who do.
Here endeth the lesson on national sovereignty.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @12:36PM
(#65918388)
Attached to: Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
Great, it works on depression. I can vouch for that.
So, how to get motivated to work out when the depression's got you by the yarballs?
Ahahha.... no answer for that one, right?
Now, find me one that works with PTSD.
Sometimes I feel the psychology and psychiatry fields are populated with naught but charlatans.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @09:22PM
(#65914006)
Attached to: AI Is Intensifying a 'Collapse' of Trust Online, Experts Say
Hear, hear!
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byTigerPlish
2026 @05:11PM
(#65913562)
Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
There's a pattern here that people are missing.
The parent of the Pieology Pizzeria chain filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The parent of Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza & Wings and Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizza filed for bankruptcy.
Why'd you anon this? It's prescient.
We're not missing anything. I think most regulars here, whether sane or insane, already know the house of cards is collapsing.
Go walk a mall. Dead dead dead. I had to go to the Galleria in Ft Lauderdale last Saturday PM and got covered parking. Plenty of spaces. 10 years ago it woudl've been jam-packed.
Housing being bought up by a very few companies so they can rent them out instead, at huge markup.
Companies, like you say, buying each other out or outright failing. We're gonna end up with Buy-'N-Large.
I may yet see the total collapse of the US at the hands of the Democrats in my lifetime. And I doubt I have 2 more decades left in me.
My prediction: The economies of the US, UK, GER, FRA collapse, leading to simultaneous Civl Wars in those four countries. The collapse will merely be the trigger. The immigration and race problems that the media is trying to suppress will be the main course of this war. And it's the same in those four countries and maybe others. Unchecked immigration is started to rub the natives wrong. And the natives in all those countries can be a very ornery lot.
mod me down, I don't care. When you have rioters in the street torching houses in the name of "no one is illegal' or whatever rot they're spouting that particular day, you'll "get it.'
- or -
WW III thanks to Putain Putin and Xi.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @04:36PM
(#65913452)
Attached to: Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom
And so does the LGBTQPIA+++ NO CARRIER groups.
And Communists / leftists /Marxists / Palestinian sympathizers
The thing is, many of those can't co-exist with themselves, let alone 'normal' people.
See my sig for my thoughts on the subject.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @03:03PM
(#65913228)
Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
Best one i've had in miami was inside an italian supermarket. Literally in the center of it. It's in North Miami, "Laurenzo's." 50-60 year old place. They have a fantastic brick oven made in Modena, and know how to use it. My shop used to lunch there often.
If the business has a conveyor belt oven, it's shit. and even if it has a real oven, you need skill to operate it and make good pizza.. and most here dont.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @02:40PM
(#65913130)
Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
you mean, the shit franchises are in trouble. Pizza Hut, Little Greasers, Papa John's, Anthony's, etc.
but not the locals. We got 2 new ones in 2 years.
I grew up with Pizza Hut as a sit-down restaurant that also delivered. Now it's all deliveries. Anyone remember 70's - 80's Pizza Hut? checker tablecloths, red soda glasses.. stained glass lamps, and good pizza? All of that ceased to exist near the end of the 90s. Enshittification isn't just a computer thing.
i also worked at a pizzeria in my teen years, a then-brand-new one in my hometown. It's still there. They endured, persevered, grew. tip o' the hat for Faccio Pizza!
No, sir. The good pizzerias are still around, but they don't have the billboards, they don't have the TV ads. They just have word-of-mouth.
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byTigerPlish
2026 @01:03PM
(#65912812)
Attached to: Craigslist at 30: No Algorithms, No Ads, No Problem
Bought a nice yamaha G-60A made-in-japan 1968 classical guitar off craigslist. Cleaned up real nice.
Found a job in it once, too. My worst IT job, and I stayed only a year, but it sure beat the convenience store I was working at, at that time. 2016-2018 was really rough on me.
I'd rather CL than Marketplace or Mercado Libre or whatever.
Not everything requires flash and dash and java and popups and dancing red peppers.
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