Wrong flavor of shit?

This feels like an ad.

The only LUGs I know of meet IRL.

WTF? Is there even one phone that does not have a built-in charge controller? Would a phone survive even one night of continuous charging?

I bet the downvoters don’t get the metaphor.

Humph… I was kind of hoping for something more mysterious or unmentionable.

There was a recent news item about an owner of many francises dropping all their stores, and pulling out of several states… probably an aftershock of that.

Focus-fire forward…

Solitary confinement… “lite” edition?

Well… I was trying to identify the time that the aliens would come, not that of our demise, but… point taken.

(i.e. “it” was supposed to point to the memory crystal)

…but only one million years into it’s life span the human race is gone and aliens are unwittingly melting them down for raw material.

I found the astronaut!

I can’t believe you’re making me upvote this!

Tell me more about I vibe code Brainfuck using Eliza.

Keep in mind that this is far from my area of expertise, and only stood out to me in the news as one of those perverse legal-isms (like bees being fish) that has no notable effect on day-to-day reality.

Suppose you have a teller break a large bill for you… you give 'em a $100, and they give you 10x$10’s. There is no income event that has occurred, because the value exchanged for value is equal.

Likewise, when you purchase a product from a store with a $100, the business deducts the cost of the product (not just the cost of their wholesale purchase of the product, but also the cost of their store, labor, etc) for tax purposes… supposing the sum of those costs to be $99, they are then taxed on only $1 of profit (thus paying only cents in tax).

As I recall, there was a high-profile court case where a tax protestor claimed they owed no taxes because their earnings exactly matched their cost in labor provided to their employer (making it an even exchange), and the IRS won the court case by admitting to the court that the time and effort one provides an employer has no value.

IIRC, the IRS says your skills, time, and labor have no value, and all your wages are basically a gift of pure profit.

I don’t think it would be that far of a stretch to have “consensual sex” include prostitution.