blog 2, old joke about electric something

In case you were wondering why wages have stagnated and not kept up with inflation and cost of living, why houses, groceries, and pretty much everything is so expensive. Millennials, Gen Z and Gen A are competing with the rest of the world. Many come carrying fake certifications and degrees slaving for an upper caste while giving kickbacks to the other burning manager. All of this is keeping jobs scarcer and salaries low for the middle class.

Copy/paste for pretty much every major company.

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

I said young man. you picked it up off the ground.

I said young man. you should put that thing down.

Apologizing to his tenant for circumstances that were beyond his control, local landlord Eddie Turley was reportedly forced Monday to raise the rent due to thinking of a bigger number. “You can re-sign your lease, but I have to raise it by $250 a month because I realized there was a bigger number your rent could be,” Turley informed his tenant of six years, attributing the rent increase to a need to keep up with the rising numbers he could envision.

In an effort to diversify its holdings in the highly competitive militarized surveillance space, data analytics firm Palantir announced Thursday that it had acquired the Pentagon for $800 billion. “After months of negotiating, I am thrilled to announce that the U.S. government has accepted our terms and agreed to sell us the Department of War,” said Palantir CEO Alex Karp, emphasizing that the landmark deal—which included the transfer of the agency’s classified intelligence data, top secret weapons programs, and over 2.9 million military and civilian employees—would serve as a significant driver of death and destruction for the company’s customers and shareholders alike.