$4/gal today.

Here we go again acting like rich people don’t get paid. It’s not the poor CEO’s fault, we don’t actually give them much money ~just millions in stock options~ . It’s all the fault of the people that do the actual work.

Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it to be used against the average consumer.

Gotta love everything being “stock-market-ized”. Where did it start at the consumer level? I wanna say solidly with entertainment industry. The one that simultaneously sells tickets to events and also operates the resale business. Sell a shitload of tickets to scalpers, then people have to pay extra to buy the “market” price for the ticket. Uber and Lyft certainly had to contribute with their “surge” pricing methods. PC parts were a big one with the shortages of everything from GPUs to HDDs over the last decade plus, but those didn’t affect the general public.

About one week on:

$3.65

Up $1. Just over a week ago it was ~$2.70.

Alpha Centauri was the shit. I played the heck out of that.

Ouch

Nope. Raspbian, Arch, Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE (sorta samesies, I guess), Manjaro…I think that’s it.

If you converted that to eMPG it would actually contribute to the conversation, particularly with the increasing costs of electricity.

Your electricity costs are awful.

Gotta go your own way. Trump is trying to take the world down with him. We only have a few weeks before the oil restriction will cause international concern and militaries will start moving to open up Hormuz. Shit can go bad there.

Ouch. Thanks for the conversion.

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Ouch. Hate to say it but it’s gonna get a lot worse. One crude price just broke $100/barrel. It was $90 3 days ago.

Thanks to trump;

Northeast US, ~$2.70 3 days ago, ~$3.10 today and I expect it to continue to rise.

#winning

Edit: $3.19. Up 9¢ in 4 hours.

More indicators they want to lock you into their walled gardens and stop dealing with normal PCs, they want to push everything into subscription based cloud services.

This is the way.

FWIW maybe an office job isn’t for everyone. Some people need different challenges and changes of scenery. Some of those jobs may be a bit more blue collar. Things like survey teams, equipment operators, trades, etc. Probably union gigs, too. I couldn’t handle office politics or being trapped either.

It would proceed with the pacing of people brushing a curling stone to its inevitable stop.

The level of drama over this is fit for a Fargo-like movie.